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LiB @ Work #1: Why Females are the Worst Managers

Since we've been away for a long time, we think it's time to come up with new series of articles that will talk about the shit-ass situations we face from time to time. We are working on a number of mini series that will talk about situations at work for example, an official LiB food guide, etc… So please excuse the long absence and be prepared for more regular updates... On with the show!

Now before all of you fucking feminists and female defenders jump to conclusions and start bashing at me, I know that NOT ALL female workers or managers are like that. But approximately 98.142394% of female managers ARE indeed the worst anyone can work with due to the following reasons:

1. PMS

It's that time of the month, AGAIN. You are doing your job when suddenly your manager turns into a she-demon and starts screaming at you for no apparent reason. She keeps shouting that you screwed up this and that when you have spent a lot of your time and energy towards achieving that tight deadline. Suddenly your morale goes down and you feel like you wanna torch the office with EVERY single person in it so that you get it over with and stop her fucking whining and unbearable ear-piercing sharp voice.

2. Mood-Swings

Now those can be related to the above point, but in general, females are moody the whole fucking time and have no time of month to be moody. They will switch their mood just like that and will treat you the way they want whenever they fucking want to. One day she will be all smiles with you praising you for being that great employee! 14 seconds later she will start obliterating at you telling you to go fuck yourself because you are nothing but a screw-up and you should be fired or even shot. Gimme a fucking break!
When she doesn't like something that’s going on in the office she will act like a hero and start talking about how she is going to change that. The next day, she will deny that she had said anything about what's going on and will refuse to acknowledge it! Fucking moody people…

3. Procreation & Reproduction

Okay, now this is a minor point compared to the first two, very minor but still could cause disruption to the business by those few months of maternity leaves and then the feeding hours. And with the law changed to TWO hours instead of one, as if one hour of any female working not being there to provide support to her internal and external clients wasn't enough, they go ahead and double that. Hey it's ok. But SOME female workers aren't worthy of that because as soon as that time to leave comes, she will leave even if she needed to stay just 5 extra minutes to get that thing over with which means your transaction would get delayed for another day because of this. Now imagine someone in a managerial position had to leave two hours early for two years. What if an approval or signature is needed? Go figure…

4. Trying to Act Like Their Male Counterparts

Some female managers will try to act like their male peers and will act to be tough with their employees whereas they are doing nothing but fucking the poor employee up THINKING they are being tough on them. Being a bitch at work isn't tough. Tough is when someone actually does a mistake and penalize him/her for it. Being a bitch on the other hand is just making life miserable for a hardworking employee.

5. Their Love for Spying Employees

Women in their nature are gossipers. They love spreading news, rumors and whatnots around. So having said that, they love to have a person who spies on other employees and bring her any updates that she can use against them. Of course there are male managers who do the same but it's more evident in the case of she-demons, errr, female managers.

6. Insecurity

With that feeling of insecurity she will consider any hardworking employee be them male or female as a threat to her career and that's why she will wage war against this type of employees. She will surround herself with idiots so that she will look the best and smartest amongst them. She would never delegate important tasks to those high-flyers so that they don't steal the lights from her and expose her stupidity.

Now, there are more reasons but these are the major ones. Please note that again... I am not saying that ALL female managers are like that but the majority of them are actually good rising up the ranks and do very well until they hit that high chair and the sudden shift in attitude happens.

Additionally, I wanna say that I have worked with some great bosses during my career; two of them were actually females. One of them was truly the best. The second one was good as a junior manager until she hit a higher management role when a slight change in attitude occurred. But one of my ex-bosses captures the she-demon with a lot of points mentioned above. And two, actually three of my friends had to quit their jobs because of facing similar situations. So statistically, the percentage mentioned above is actually correct! I could go into more details and mention names to you but that's not the point of this article!

Screw this shit. I'll go open a consultancy firm urging companies not to promote a lot of females...

"Daddy's House is Awesome!"

After spending a few months out of the country focusing on my new job and furnishing my new apartment and organizing my shit out there, I decided to come home for a short break since my employer gives me two return tickets every year which is great news!

I come home, only to find frustration creeping back to me a few minutes after landing, starting with the arrogant passport control fuckers to the idiots that are blocking the road outside the airport to the maniacs driving cars on the streets. My mind was clear for a few months and was never stressed out even though my job is overloaded and I am busy all the time. It's the shitty environment of Bahrain I guess but hey, it's home after all and I was more than glad to be back.

On one of the many jammed streets, this caught my attention which I decided to analyze and share with you my observations and conclusions...

The idiot kid who doesn't know the value of money (which I don't expect him to at this stage of his life, but will probably will continue not to know based on how his parents will keep on spoiling him and giving him what he needs), the kid keeps wondering how beautiful his dad's house is. Oh you have no idea that your dad has to go through and pay with his blood for the next 25 years. That means until you grow up and get married and have a family of your own, your dad would still be paying for the house and still wouldn't be able to call it his own.

Now to the second point, which is the house itself, there is no way even if hell freezes over that you will find an isolated house like that in Bahrain. It would look more like this:

And of course the houses are stuck wall-to-wall so even in your "own" house you can't properly listen to some music on a moderately loud volume or enjoy full boom 5.1 near-cinema sound effects on an action movie without having the dickwad next door wanting to come over and kick the living shit out of you.

And for such shitty houses, they would set you back around 90-100 thousand dinars which you would have to get 20% of first as downpayment then the rest would be broken down to 300 equal installments @ BD 822 a month (I asked Bahrain Credit for a BD 100,000 house and how much it would cost and that's the figures they provided). So I have to pay 822 Dinars a month for 300 fucking months then the house will be mine. Oh and the Bahrain Central Bank have that shit-ass rule that you cannot have more than half your salary in deductions. That means with those figures I would be paying 82.2% of my salary which they won't allow due to that rule. So my salary would have to be around 1650 Dinars a month provided I have NO deductions NO bank loans and even NO GOSI deductions, which would take the total salary if I only had GOSI deductions to 1700 Dinars a month. So even some people on management jobs wouldn't be able to afford such tin can-sized houses.

You want a fucking solution? Stop foreigners and other GCC fuckers from owning land and restrict them to only commercial lands, not let them own residential plots as well. They do the same for us so why should we be the kind species and allow them to despite our island being small?

The ministry of housing are also shit with regards to this case. They consider me rich and the guy on the other end of the phone told me in these exact words "You have NO RIGHT applying to a ministry of housing loan of ANY type with us". Can you fucking imagine? I have no rights in my own fucking country. I am already enjoying my work abroad and being respected for the value I am adding. Unlike the fuckers in Bahrain who drove me out. It wasn't just the housing, even at work I was being treated like shit so that the whore bitch who used to be my manager could bring one of her "own people" in. With such mentalities, nothing will ever be solved in Bahrain.

If there are no REAL solutions to tackle those problems, I will never think of coming back and not only that, these issues are driving more and more frustrated youth to leave the country in search of better lives for themselves and their families. And yet the part of community who think that all is well and life is rosy in Bahrain have the Audacity to question those poor youths' loyalty. If they had a good life, do you think they would have even thought of leaving?

One final thought. The current situation tells me that only bulshitters and asskissers and those with strong was6as, not any was6as but strong ones, in addition to some expats are the ones who will continue to enjoy the best of Bahrain while the rest will struggle to make ends meet in light of the ever-increasing prices of consumer goods while salaries remain the same. Government gives some handouts or salary increases? No problem! Merchants are ready to increase the prices even further. When the government "thinks" to give any increases through announcing in the newspapers that they will study the feasibility of increasing wages, the merchants bump up the prices and when those increases are physically given after months of torture and degrading the dignity of people by announcing their names in the newspapers like some paupers, the merchants add more increases, they have to make a living too, right? Bite me, motherfuckers.

Fucking mongrels are shitting all over the country and the good ones are leaving. One day it will turn into a big turd dumpster unless we change it.

Fuck this shit, I'll go set up my own business to exploit others too...

Thank You Very Much, My Country!

I came across this in today's Akhbar Al-Khaleej:



And all I have for words is : Wayed 3ala Omkom.

Now my absence for such a long time was that I was looking around for another job, preferrably abroad and, well, I got one and moving there soon! I won't tell you where or when but I will still be talking about all the bullshit that goes on in Bahrain, such as the one above.

Yes 60k is better than 40, but is still nowhere near, with the cheapest lands (lands only) costing around 55k for a 55x60ft plot. Oh and with their shit-ass rule that families earning more than 1,200 Dinars a month "have no right to apply for ANY Ministry of Housing services" as was said to me by one of their esteemed employees. I have NO rights can you imagine because to the government, I am a millionaire despite the constitution stating that EVERY national has the right to a proper house with decent lving conditions or a certain someone promising EVERY Bahraini a land and a house. I guess he can't keep that promise now with the sudden jump of population from 721,394 to 1,002,345. Don't worry man, you got one less now so you have 1,002,344 lands to give out. Well thank God Almighty for finding an opportunity abroad. Until things change in this shithole, it will always be a shithole. Can you believe that I can own and build a house abroad and live in it a decent life while in my own country I can't and am forced to either rent or live with my parents although I have a family of my own to cater for? And the government and people are well aware of such issues but they want the good people to leave the country. You know why? I'll tell you why.. Because they want to look the smartest. See, government officials are nothing but dumbshits. So they always promote people and give incentives to people with less IQs than them so that they ALWAYS look good and smarter than the rest. That's why a lot of Bahraini youth are thinking of migrating. Then those officials themselves have the fucking nerves to question those exasperated people's loyalty. Loyalty will always be there but if living conditions are shit then don't expect the good people to stay and watch their lives go to waste. Just look at the immmigrants abroad, even though a lot of them became citizens of the countries they moved to, they still can proudly say where they are originally from. Here, no, you have to shut the fuck up.

It's like Imam Ali (RAA) said:"Poverty in the homeland is an alienation, while richness in a foreign land is a home". No matter how much we love our land, if there are other opportunities abroad, we shouldn't let them pass by and then regret it years later.

My head is clearer now, the anger is lesser and can't wait till I finish my notice period with my shitass company that caused me to leave in the first place because my pig of a boss turned me into a slave so that she can bring one of her own "people" in. I guess she will get what she wants now, but I will be on the greener other side by then. Until then, I shouldn't use any baseball bats or fire extinguishers to smash someone's head so that I don't delay my plans of moving out.

Life in Bahrain is One Big Endurance Test...

Scanning through yesterday’s newspaper when a few interesting subjects ‎caught my attention which I would like to share with the rest of you people, it has ‎been a while since we’ve been here so let the slaughter begin...‎

All the things that you read about nowadays in the newspapers is a test for us to endure different kinds of nerve-wrecking tests and makes you wonder: "How on Earth is this country running?"

First thing that I noticed of course was the main headline on the front page:‎

All I can say is HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH WHAT A BUNCH OF ‎BULLCRAP AND HORSESHIT.‎

Moving on next to this column which reflects a personal experience:‎

To our non-Arabic readers, basically this guy is talking about a letter he received ‎from an exasperated customer to an “Islamic” bank where they charged him 1 ‎Dinar for every month his bank account was below 20 BD. Now, I understand that ‎banks do charge service charges for maintaining accounts which have no cash ‎in them, I have endured that during my student years abroad and I know it’s a ‎common practice internationally. The point, though, is that the bank in this case ‎did NOT make it clear to the customer that they were going to charge them 1 BD ‎for every month their balances are below 20 Dinars. The customer went to the ‎Bahrain Central Bank and told them about this. The BCB told the customer to ‎fuck off as it had nothing to do with them and it’s not a rule that they enforced. ‎We all thought that you motherfucking mongrels did. It became common ‎practice for banks around this country to charge this 1 Dinar. Now let me get this, ‎so you don’t care if banks do that? Okay it’s their right to pretend that they are ‎‎“losing” money from such accounts while on the other hand announce ‎humongous profits at the end of the year and they pay their arrogant employees ‎some 20-40 salaries bonuses. Gimme a fucking break you motherfucking thieves. ‎Hey I am not against whatever policies you decide to enforce. Just don’t fucking ‎rip me off by NOT telling me that you are going to start enforcing some charges ‎and keep charging me whilst not knowing about them. The Bahrainis are broke ‎enough to start worrying about their accounts going in the minus balance.

This ‎also happened to me but not by an “Islamic” bank but our very own “national” ‎NBB. Now these thieves are so good at it that they don’t give a flying fuck about ‎anyone or anything. I went the other day to the branch with a friend so I ‎remembered “Hey I had an account a LONG time ago. If it’s still open why not ‎deposit some money and forget about it? But hey no I am sure that it has been ‎closed down by now”. So I go up to the teller and give him my CPR Number ‎asking him whether an account in my name exists or not. To my surprise and joy it ‎did! Great! No need to reopen an account, just deposit some cash there and ‎forget about it again. All that went down the drain faster than a dumped piece ‎of crap travelling down the flush when the guy told me that the account existed ‎but it has MINUS 47 Dinars in it. WHAT? WHAT THE FUCK? And I asked the donkey ‎why was I in the minus, and not by a small amount but 47 fucking Dinars. He told ‎me that was because I was being charged 1 Dinar every month since they ‎started enforcing that rule. I asked him but my account was inactive for a LONG ‎time why wasn’t it closed? He said that they don’t close the accounts. ‎Elsewhere, now correct me if I’m wrong but an idle account gets closed down ‎after a few months or years of inactivity if it had ZERO balance. But no, these ‎asswipes kept the account open and kept charging me a Dinar a month until it ‎reached this silly number. I asked the fucker why I wasn’t told about this before ‎they started charging me, to which he didn’t have any answers, and I didn’t ‎expect such a low level creature to do. Thanks a bunch, fucking NBB, I already ‎hate you enough but this made me swear not to deal with you or let a member ‎of my family do, EVER. Fucking thieves just like the rest of the thieves in the ‎country.‎

And what's with "Islamic" banking anyways? They just found the right tool to lure religious extremists who think interest is forbidden in Islam to make them take loans using words like "Moraba7a" and "Ajara". This -In my humble opinion- is also interest and daylight robbery but they are more appealing to the bushy bearded and their ninja wives. "Ooooh looky I have a loan from an Islamic Bank. I will not pay Ribba. All you dealing with commercial banks are doomed to eternity of hellfire and endless anguish". Islamic banking my ass.

Okay so we are done with the appetizer, moved on to entrée and now onto the ‎dessert...‎

The situation on this damned causeway is getting from bad to worse. In the days ‎long ago, the Bahraini side was much more competent than that of the Saudi. ‎Nowadays it’s the exact opposite. Saudis have become much more efficient ‎and speedy while Bahrainis are deteriorating and getting worse and worse. The ‎reasons? One main reason is that the employed a whole new generation of ‎morons. Shitty kids with such a shitty attitude that you just wanna hold a giant ‎chainsaw and go through that artificial border island and cut it in half. They are ‎careless, slow and dumb. And God forbid should you say anything that ‎displeases them. They will make you wait even longer and make you wish you ‎hadn’t been born.‎

What’s with all the bureaucratic bullshit? Why don’t you allow people use their ‎personal ID cards (an ID card is different from the dumb smart card)? Now that’s ‎one document which was useful when I last went to Dubai, no passport, no ‎hassle, plus, in the GCC all they do is enter the passport number and they do not ‎stamp any exit or entry stamps in the passport so why bother carrying one when ‎you can use the useful card to go and come as you please?‎

Furthermore, why not eliminate that border island and keep everything on the ‎mainland? At least traffic will be eliminated on the causeway itself. Let the fee ‎collection booth, the customs and immigration part on the Saudi side and once ‎you reach the Bahraini side in mainland Bahrain, you go through the other ‎process of immigration, customs and inspection and vice-versa, use the toll ‎booth, customs and immigration on the Bahraini side and once you cross the ‎bridge, you arrive at mainland Saudi and go through immigration, customs and ‎inspection. You can use the artificial island as a service island containing petrol ‎stations and it already has restaurants. Sort of a last minute errand running place ‎in case you forget to complete them before leaving your country. Check out the ‎crappy illustration as a reference.‎

Get rid of those shitty kids or properly train them and actually punish them if they ‎screw up instead of giving them a power trip. Such people will shit on other ‎people’s heads thinking they are the highest of the high. You are high alright, ‎crack-high, that is.‎

I have another experience with the traffic police of the causeway but I’ll leave ‎that to another post when I bash at those pieces of chalk. Fucking mongrels.‎

Screw this shit, I’ll go shop for Ramadhan before prices get bumped up again. ‎Then they say all prices are under close control and observation, yaah riiight.‎

Smart Card... Dumb Issuer?‎

Okay first of all let me tell all of you what a refreshing vacation that was! After a couple ‎of years of no proper full vacation, only a day or two every couple of months and that’s ‎it. Boy this was refreshing.‎

Despite the heat in Bahrain, I didn’t travel this year and stayed here the whole time but ‎decided to take a full time off computers, relax and do absolutely nothing except for a ‎few dinners out here ‘n’ there, a couple of shopping/food trips to Saudi and that was it. I ‎just wanted to relax and think nothing of work or anything else for that matter.‎

One of my experiences during this vacation was that my CPR card has expired and that ‎they only replace it with the new “smart” ID card. So I said what the heck, whether we ‎like it or not we have to go with the flow. Thanks to the advice on Ammar’s blog... I went ‎there well prepared with all the documentation required. I booked an appointment on ‎their retarded website and finally was set for the day of reckoning!‎

The day arrived and I went to the CIO in Isa Town and was actually 20 minutes earlier ‎than my appointment. So I decided to go to the information desk anyways and told the ‎guy I had an appointment 20 mins later and he asked for my CPR, he entered the data and ‎gave me a waiting number. Once I took the number I saw it flashing at one of the many ‎counters open. I thought “well hey, they have improved a lot, many counters, huge ‎waiting areas, you know what? Maybe these government entities aren’t that retarded after ‎all and that they are changing for the better”. That was going on in my mind as I was ‎walking towards that counter. All was well and I suddenly got that fresh breeze of ‎optimism inside me as I was excited to get the card. The counter was empty but my ‎number was there so I sat down and waited for the person to attend to me. Suddenly that ‎breeze of optimism flew away like a tornado faster than the hurricanes you hear about in ‎the Caribbean. There you go, typical government entity, no one is there! I waited for a ‎couple of minutes until a lady showed up who looked like “Um Hilal*”; she was an exact ‎replica of her. So I gave her all my documents and told her that my CPR was expired and ‎that I need to have it replaced. She typed in my details and this happened:‎

Um Hilal Wannabe: “Are you still studying in the University of Bahrain?”‎
Me: “Huh? No! I work and here’s the letter from my employer”‎
UHW: “But you are listed here as a UoB student”‎
Me: “Yeah but now I work, and for the record, I completed my studies abroad and just ‎was in the registration phase at UoB, anyways, isn’t it your job to replace my details with ‎my work details?”‎
UHW: “No I can’t remove it from the system unless you bring me a letter from the UoB ‎that you are no longer studying there”‎
Me: “But I didn’t study there, I only registered and went abroad”‎
UHW: “In that case bring a copy of your degree from abroad”‎
Me: “But now I have to go back to work and get the copy and this will take even longer ‎to process instead of finishing the whole thing today”‎
UHW: “I can’t do anything else, I can’t remove the details without either a statement ‎from the UoB or your certificate”‎
Me: “But I work now and it is not relevant anyways whether I study in the UoB or not. It ‎doesn’t matter cuz I work and that should be listed as my occupation. You guys just love ‎to make our time harder don’t you? You just love to see us beg like dogs to get ‎permission to leave our job to come here and take it from you? (Which of course I was on ‎leave and it didn’t matter!)”‎
UHW: “Sorry I can’t do anything else... NEXT!”‎

I sat and waited for my friend who was there too, and I went to vent some steam out ‎when I talked about what happened to me loudly in front of the other lady who was ‎serving my friend. That proved to be good because she heard my case and asked me if I ‎had stopped studying with UoB before 2004 to which I answered that I didn’t go there at ‎all but yeah to answer her question yes it was way before 2004, much before that! So she ‎went to UHW and told her that she could change my occupation details without any ‎paperwork.‎

Everything else went smoothly afterwards and a few minutes later, I walked out with a ‎shiny new smart card but also with a few burnt brain cells because of getting angry at ‎UHW. Smart card, dumb dumb dumb employees issuing it.‎

And what the fuck is up with these stupid cards anyways? I mean they don’t have the ‎address printed on them unlike the old CPR card and the Identity (Personal) Card which ‎can also be used as a travel document to some GCC States like Qatar, UAE and Oman, ‎but not KSA which is closer to us, what dumbfucks, instead of introducing electronic ‎passport/ID card scanners on the causeway, they make it more difficult to get through.‎

They say that with card readers you can get the address and other details about the ‎cardholder, but not everyone has the reader yet. So how can I prove my address to anyone ‎requiring it? Smart card my ass, yes smart on paper but dumb in reality.‎

Overall, my view still hasn’t changed about how laid back most of the government ‎workers are, there ARE some who are hard workers but the majority isn’t. Don’t pretend ‎they are and that all life is perfect in these workplaces.‎

Fuck this shit, I’ll go sort all the pics I took during the holiday and articles I dug out the ‎newspapers to prepare them to be grilled here on LiB...

*Um Hilal: A popular fat black Bahraini actress who had popular series in the 80s during Ramadhan.
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Oh...My...God !!

Okay before everyone starts bashing at us, please note that this is not against females, but then again there are a lot of females who don't know jack shit about driving. And this is the perfect example on PURE IDIOCY...



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