The word corruption, as used by the Saudi government, does not mean what it means here. It is a euphemism for, out-of-favor and subject to arrest and disappearance. There is nothing in Saudi Arabia resembling a justice system. Arrest for most people means they go directly to prison. While there may be a brief stay someplace else, there is generally not anything we would view as a justice system, with lawyers and trials. (This varies on a case by case basis, usually because of who the arrestee is.)It is important to let somebody know you are in prison as the government does not provide your food and medical care, your family does. The game the Saudi’s play with foreign companies is to spread their employees out among prisons. That way if you want your employee to be fed, you have to supply enough food for the entire prison or he starves.
I was training for a job in Saudi Arabia. But when one came available, I started contingency planning on how to leave the country if I had to. I came up with a plan, based on my company’s location. It was straight out of a spy novel and I decided that, because I was quite serious in the need for the plan, that no job was worth that much risk. Besides, I am over the hill when it comes to climbing over fences and stealing boats.
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A company in England reached out to me about a one year assignment in Dohar doing PM work for the government. They explained how I would live in a compound off site, with guards and how we would be bused to the business every day. I could leave the compound to go shopping, get meals or for entertainment. He said it would be safe.
I asked the recruiter to pull my resume because I wanted to point something out to him. I told him to look at my name. He said, “yeah, so?” I told him to look closer. Again, “yeah, so?” I asked him if he noticed anything odd about my last name. There was silence on the phone for about a minute, when he said, “so sorry to bother you” and he hung up.
You would think that the name EQAndyBuzz”stein” would have sent up some red flags.
“It is important to let somebody know you are in prison as the government does not provide your food and medical care, your family does.”
I kind of like that idea.