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From Editor-in-Chief downwards

http://wikileaks.de/leak/national-salaries-2009.pdf

Wow, is this for real? How embarrassing.

Edit: The Editor in Chief gets 130,000 a month! holy sh!t, that's serious money.

Captain Australia wrote:Wow, is this for real? How embarrassing.

Edit: The Editor in Chief gets 130,000 a month! holy sh!t, that's serious money.

See a few vacancies there. I think I'll start from the top (95,000) and work my way down.

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wow.. it seems someone is pissed from the HR department at the National..

I know a guy who isn't a local, and is not 'western-educated' but is earning 100K/mo. Take that!

yujinn wrote:I know a guy who isn't a local, and is not 'western-educated' but is earning 100K/mo. Take that!

Well just go down the list and take a look at the names. In top management you may find the "token" Arab. You will definitely see more of them of the lower pay scale.

yujinn wrote:I know a guy who isn't a local, and is not 'western-educated' but is earning 100K/mo. Take that!

In the company I work at.. we have to arab directors earning that much and they are not western educated!!! what is exactly your point?

I'm changing profession guys. Look at those salaries.

I had to study my @ss off before I got my degree. Did something wrong I think...Should have become a business editor.

Can I cry now? Thnx.

perhaps we need to send an email to the national about their salaries

quatroporte wrote:

yujinn wrote:I know a guy who isn't a local, and is not 'western-educated' but is earning 100K/mo. Take that!

In the company I work at.. we have to arab directors earning that much and they are not western educated!!! what is exactly your point?

Obviously my point it that it is possible to earn that much even if you're not 'western-educated'. It is a common notion that that qualification is very crucial here to even land a decent job in the first place.

Could you imagine how much bitching is going on in that office right now?

"OMG I can't believe John is earning more than me, he does nothing around here" etc etc.

Especially everyone bitching at the business section for earning the big bucks. ha!

Remember kids, if you're going to do journalism, make sure you specialise in Business and not Fashion ok?

And you lot believe it?

sage & onion wrote:And you lot believe it?

That list has been around for a week or so. I read somewhere that The National admitted at least part of it is correct.

sage & onion wrote:And you lot believe it?

Show me otherwise, and I believe you

People, did you guys fail to notice a couple of vacant spots ! Good time to apply I think. A good buddy of mine has just started to work freelance with them. Never bothered to ask how much they pay him.

Right about now I wish I was a journalist

desertdudeshj wrote:People, did you guys fail to notice a couple of vacant spots ! Good time to apply I think. A good buddy of mine has just started to work freelance with them. Never bothered to ask how much they pay him.

Right about now I wish I was a journalist

I think you better fit with your own company supplying desert bashing trips for tourists. Don't you think you should do something with your passion?

Get a few offroaders and a bit of advertising on a website and your off.
Or is competition fierce nowadays?

NO ! I want to get paid a 100k a month for not doing much. Or send in a few pages worth of articles and get paid 50k. Both suit me fine

As for your question, mafi tourist here this season, all my ex colleges are sitting and swatting flies !

So the economic downfall is noticeable in that sector too.
Can you give an estimate in the decline of tourists compared to last year?

Thnx.

Laymans terms : Massive

During this time we guys didn't have time to breathe. Now most are being asked to take long voluntary vacations. Mostly its local market now. Not the huge multimillion incentive trips we used to do before where a very expensive 5 star property would be booked for a couple of days and have huge concerts and massive fireworks in the deserts with international stars.
( good chance to get to know celebrities on a one to one basis ) Best thing would be there would be 0 media coverage and they wanted it all hush hush.

A few companies would however liked these events to flash their logo to the maximum. Would be awesome sight to have 100 plus Land cruisers all decked in corporate colours traveling in a convoy. Oops sorry got carried away.

If your asking for figures I really can't give you any. But as you know big tour operators rely on tourist, hook up with overseas tour operators and big corporate comapines. Vacationing is done when one has disposable income ( unless its Germans, they rather starve then not go on vacation ). Also big bussiness is trying to cut down extra expenses so this for sure has had an impact. Due to this even hotel and resort occupany is severly down.

Thanks for this piece of reality.

desertdudeshj wrote:Laymans terms : Massive

During this time we guys didn't have time to breathe. Now most are being asked to take long voluntary vacations. Mostly its local market now. Not the huge multimillion incentive trips we used to do before where a very expensive 5 star property would be booked for a couple of days and have huge concerts and massive fireworks in the deserts with international stars.
( good chance to get to know celebrities on a one to one basis ) Best thing would be there would be 0 media coverage and they wanted it all hush hush.

A few companies would however liked these events to flash their logo to the maximum. Would be awesome sight to have 100 plus Land cruisers all decked in corporate colours traveling in a convoy. Oops sorry got carried away.

If your asking for figures I really can't give you any. But as you know big tour operators rely on tourist, hook up with overseas tour operators and big corporate comapines. Vacationing is done when one has disposable income ( unless its Germans, they rather starve then not go on vacation ). Also big bussiness is trying to cut down extra expenses so this for sure has had an impact. Due to this even hotel and resort occupany is severly down.

thnx desertdude..
good to get the insight from an industry insider..
rather than listening to the same s*** tht the flights from europe are full of tourists n we do not have a problem..

btw, i heard tht emirates recently cancelled their flight from US along with two other airlines.. n they all shifted their passengers to UA flight..
better to shift rather than flying with 30% capacity..
thts called cooperation..

A river in Egypt

Captain Australia wrote:Edit: The Editor in Chief gets 130,000 a month!

Oh. I thought those salaries were per year ...

Double those salaries amount and you will get the figure of AD government employees.

xdude wrote:

desertdudeshj wrote:Laymans terms : Massive

During this time we guys didn't have time to breathe. Now most are being asked to take long voluntary vacations. Mostly its local market now. Not the huge multimillion incentive trips we used to do before where a very expensive 5 star property would be booked for a couple of days and have huge concerts and massive fireworks in the deserts with international stars.
( good chance to get to know celebrities on a one to one basis ) Best thing would be there would be 0 media coverage and they wanted it all hush hush.

A few companies would however liked these events to flash their logo to the maximum. Would be awesome sight to have 100 plus Land cruisers all decked in corporate colours traveling in a convoy. Oops sorry got carried away.

If your asking for figures I really can't give you any. But as you know big tour operators rely on tourist, hook up with overseas tour operators and big corporate comapines. Vacationing is done when one has disposable income ( unless its Germans, they rather starve then not go on vacation ). Also big bussiness is trying to cut down extra expenses so this for sure has had an impact. Due to this even hotel and resort occupany is severly down.

thnx desertdude..
good to get the insight from an industry insider..
rather than listening to the same s*** tht the flights from europe are full of tourists n we do not have a problem..

btw, i heard tht emirates recently cancelled their flight from US along with two other airlines.. n they all shifted their passengers to UA flight..
better to shift rather than flying with 30% capacity..
thts called cooperation..

Actually Emirates has suspended using the 380 Airbus for Dubai/NY/Dubai. Passengers are not being shifted to UA. If anything, UA will porbably shut down its operation as it did going back several years ago.

Bora Bora wrote:

xdude wrote:

desertdudeshj wrote:Laymans terms : Massive

During this time we guys didn't have time to breathe. Now most are being asked to take long voluntary vacations. Mostly its local market now. Not the huge multimillion incentive trips we used to do before where a very expensive 5 star property would be booked for a couple of days and have huge concerts and massive fireworks in the deserts with international stars.
( good chance to get to know celebrities on a one to one basis ) Best thing would be there would be 0 media coverage and they wanted it all hush hush.

A few companies would however liked these events to flash their logo to the maximum. Would be awesome sight to have 100 plus Land cruisers all decked in corporate colours traveling in a convoy. Oops sorry got carried away.

If your asking for figures I really can't give you any. But as you know big tour operators rely on tourist, hook up with overseas tour operators and big corporate comapines. Vacationing is done when one has disposable income ( unless its Germans, they rather starve then not go on vacation ). Also big bussiness is trying to cut down extra expenses so this for sure has had an impact. Due to this even hotel and resort occupany is severly down.

thnx desertdude..
good to get the insight from an industry insider..
rather than listening to the same s*** tht the flights from europe are full of tourists n we do not have a problem..

btw, i heard tht emirates recently cancelled their flight from US along with two other airlines.. n they all shifted their passengers to UA flight..
better to shift rather than flying with 30% capacity..
thts called cooperation..

Actually Emirates has suspended using the 380 Airbus for Dubai/NY/Dubai. Passengers are not being shifted to UA. If anything, UA will porbably shut down its operation as it did going back several years ago.

I don't think many would miss any of the US Airlines, they are really yhe pits compared with what we have here.