feeling a bit patriotic
In a city where seeing a Ferrari being stuck in traffic is a common thing, it is surprising that in some aspects, Dubai still lacks the maturity expected of a global hotspot. This may sound too demanding but living in the city for roughly 9 months, i still can’t help but notice that there are times when Manila can be lots more sophisticated than this rich city.
It is not actually the city itself, because the way the government run the place is plausible. The laws are pretty firm, the development of the city is enviable and jobs are aplenty. It’s the people–what I noticed is that people are way more relaxed in this fast paced city as if things are not really taken seriously. This is surprising because people from all over the world go here to work and earn loads of money so you would actually expect a level of talent, skill and professionalism that would match the sky high salaries. But at the end of the day, that is not the case. What you see is good looking , fast talking westerners way up there ruling the corporate ‘desert’ while the much more adept asians earning much lower do all the dirty work and most often than not, dumb themselves up a little because they know that even if they fight hard enough, they can never win in this racist game 99 percent of the time. so why waste the effort right?
Maybe this is why we see mediocrity being pushed to reality. i am not talking about the Burj or the Dubai Mall because those projects are of course exceptional. What i am talking about are the small things we see everyday in our work, in our home and wherever we go. I am talking about the crappy real estate ads we see everyday in Gulf News (like a building comparing itself to a fresh scent of a flower, whattha!?*&%#$%^) or maybe the bad service we get from clueless blondies in 5 star hotels, or that very rude customer service agent who’s supposed to help you do your phonebanking, or that totally unforgivable fuckup by the supposedly very good music company in a big public do, irritating things like taxi shortage and taxi discrimination or the traffic in the International City entrance because there is a single Uturn available for everyone in all 387 buildings! … the list can go on and on.All of this is a reflection of the quality of work people in Dubai are actually delivering. Is it because since the money is available and more or less disposable, company owners take for granted that they can get better work force than what they currently have? Or maybe it’s because the talented people don’t really exert effort because no one really expects them to?
It saddens me sometimes because here you can compare and see that Filipinos have a lot of potential. I can’t help but think what would happen if the philippines would have the resources to make something out of our little country…just imagine what we can all do. What if we take away all the graft and political bullshit? Maybe our claim to fame would not be charice pempengco but something bigger. But that is of course wishful what ifs. So maybe we can do the next best thing. take over. thanks to Aga Muhlach, and Claudine Baretto- Dubai has actually become one of the top destinations for Filipino professionals . Dubai is fast becoming the overseas solution for people like us who were not that gifted to manage a nursing degree but still dream of getting a better job out of the Philippines.Hmmm, as more and more Filipinos flock to Dubai, excuse the patriotism, but maybe we can actually help make this place a better one.
It is not actually the city itself, because the way the government run the place is plausible. The laws are pretty firm, the development of the city is enviable and jobs are aplenty. It’s the people–what I noticed is that people are way more relaxed in this fast paced city as if things are not really taken seriously. This is surprising because people from all over the world go here to work and earn loads of money so you would actually expect a level of talent, skill and professionalism that would match the sky high salaries. But at the end of the day, that is not the case. What you see is good looking , fast talking westerners way up there ruling the corporate ‘desert’ while the much more adept asians earning much lower do all the dirty work and most often than not, dumb themselves up a little because they know that even if they fight hard enough, they can never win in this racist game 99 percent of the time. so why waste the effort right?
Maybe this is why we see mediocrity being pushed to reality. i am not talking about the Burj or the Dubai Mall because those projects are of course exceptional. What i am talking about are the small things we see everyday in our work, in our home and wherever we go. I am talking about the crappy real estate ads we see everyday in Gulf News (like a building comparing itself to a fresh scent of a flower, whattha!?*&%#$%^) or maybe the bad service we get from clueless blondies in 5 star hotels, or that very rude customer service agent who’s supposed to help you do your phonebanking, or that totally unforgivable fuckup by the supposedly very good music company in a big public do, irritating things like taxi shortage and taxi discrimination or the traffic in the International City entrance because there is a single Uturn available for everyone in all 387 buildings! … the list can go on and on.All of this is a reflection of the quality of work people in Dubai are actually delivering. Is it because since the money is available and more or less disposable, company owners take for granted that they can get better work force than what they currently have? Or maybe it’s because the talented people don’t really exert effort because no one really expects them to?
It saddens me sometimes because here you can compare and see that Filipinos have a lot of potential. I can’t help but think what would happen if the philippines would have the resources to make something out of our little country…just imagine what we can all do. What if we take away all the graft and political bullshit? Maybe our claim to fame would not be charice pempengco but something bigger. But that is of course wishful what ifs. So maybe we can do the next best thing. take over. thanks to Aga Muhlach, and Claudine Baretto- Dubai has actually become one of the top destinations for Filipino professionals . Dubai is fast becoming the overseas solution for people like us who were not that gifted to manage a nursing degree but still dream of getting a better job out of the Philippines.Hmmm, as more and more Filipinos flock to Dubai, excuse the patriotism, but maybe we can actually help make this place a better one.
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