hey gang
in a couple of days time, i'm flying out to dubai to live and work there, with my role originally commencing thursday, 1st september.
i;ve just been copied in on an all staff email saying that from tuesday, August 30 to Thursday September 1st on account of Eid Al Fitr the offices will be closed.
now this means that i'll have to hang around a whole week in a hotel in dubai until my role starts with nothing much i can sort out in the meantime like opening a bank account.
can i just ask, does eid el fitr come up totally randomly? if not, could they not have known and informed me earlier that i am not going to start work until the 4th of september. i would then have decided to fly out later.
i find that whole situation hard to grasp and make sense of. i mean they know i'm coming and can probably figure out for themselves that i have other things to do than hang around dubai for a whole week waiting for my job to start.
thank you very much as always.
