tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21258644.post250030025366069479..comments2024-03-27T15:45:49.926+04:00Comments on Life in Dubai: Another emergency evacuationSeabeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06939892206726271433noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21258644.post-40765237184263377832009-10-26T16:50:03.322+04:002009-10-26T16:50:03.322+04:00"To care about doing a good job, or to care a..."To care about doing a good job, or to care about actually serving people (security or otherwise) someone has to be vested in the society, culture or even company."<br />Exactly and agreed. Let's let our minds wander back to the Wafi jewellery robbery - remember the CCtv footage? The 2 cars come crashing into the Wafi, and the security guards? They run in the opposite direction as fast as they can... and who can blame them? Unarmed, poorly trained and hardly paid: why should they risk their lives?ZeTallGermannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21258644.post-41346908728096418992009-10-18T13:39:46.631+04:002009-10-18T13:39:46.631+04:00R&R, very true - a guest worker society in whi...<b>R&R</b>, very true - a guest worker society in which the guest workers have no stake in anything has unique problems.Seabeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06939892206726271433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21258644.post-25351257553374112642009-10-18T11:51:22.984+04:002009-10-18T11:51:22.984+04:00Yup... i live in a year-old 38 story bldg in JLT, ...Yup... i live in a year-old 38 story bldg in JLT, same thing kept on happening here as Rania's buildng until we put a rule that as soon as the alarm is tripped it is silenced and one of the security would physically check the alarm location to make sure whether it was fake or real... probably adds potentially harmful delay in the real alarm going off (God forbid) - but the problem is that the systems are sold, installed and managed by basically incompetent people all the way from the supplier on down, who more than likely took an agency or dealership of the product line just to sell it as much as he can.<br /><br />Even if the company selling/managing their products is top notch in their field in any other country here, as Anon said, they will cut costs and get away with poor installation, training and support simply because liability laws and the legal system is so cumbersome<br /><br />And, another reason is basically at the end of the day, especially people at the low-wage end of the spectrum don't really care or have any incentive to care about the quality of thier work - they are not vested in either the country, organization, or society - it similarly boils down to why customer service is so poor here. <br /><br />To care about doing a good job, or to care about actually serving people (security or otherwise) someone has to be vested in the society, culture or even company. That will never happen for most workers here, and that is why you could have the best of systems or technology but not get the same result or quality of execution. <br /><br />That's just my opinion, and i say it not to advocate Emiratis change thier laws or country etc. They have a rght to structure thier country as they want... But when you have a society built up mostly of guest workers (cheap or not) that's what you'll get...Reluctant and Reclusehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12171441624248379112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21258644.post-25700040898862919662009-10-18T09:22:24.533+04:002009-10-18T09:22:24.533+04:00Rania, I'm sure that's a not unusual situa...<b>Rania</b>, I'm sure that's a not unusual situation but that there are disasters waiting to happen all over Dubai.Seabeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06939892206726271433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21258644.post-91354727360155097852009-10-17T22:08:52.646+04:002009-10-17T22:08:52.646+04:00we have emergency evacuation anouncements about on...we have emergency evacuation anouncements about once a week in our 45 floor residential building. till now there were fake i.e. sombody activated the alarm by "accident". however, by now people stopped getting out of their appartments and walking towards the ground floor because they got used to the false alarm. and since there was never an anouncement by any of the security staff that it IS only a false alarm we will continue not reacting to the fire alarm any more. until we have a fire... <br />i live in 44 with three kids - i suppose the best i could do in a real case of emergency is getting up to 45 and sit in the pool until somebody might rescue us...ranianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21258644.post-14910845566950167802009-10-17T19:19:18.264+04:002009-10-17T19:19:18.264+04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Site Adminhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17012634586915398592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21258644.post-83694931635152059112009-10-17T14:36:56.851+04:002009-10-17T14:36:56.851+04:00What do I expect?
I expect major, government-rela...What do I expect?<br /><br />I expect major, government-related organisations to have adequate emergency safety plans and staff, regardless of where they're from or what they're paid, to be trained in the necessary emergency procedures.Seabeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06939892206726271433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21258644.post-68304284630495249762009-10-17T14:22:25.198+04:002009-10-17T14:22:25.198+04:00They get people to "pose" as security fr...They get people to "pose" as security from nepal or bangladesh or some other 3rd world country and pay them 900 dhs a month. What do you expect?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com