Kuwait Inside Edition - Part 1

Now that I have a cold, I've been forced to be at home and what else to do but to blog the latest gossip that I have...if you read my last post and are interested in the outcome...the chick resigned which was just as well....her family thought the working hours were too long and that it's "7arram" to spend such a long time in the office rather than be home and pray...I'm not kidding...the Mom actually said that to me...."We are Moslimeen...and this is 7arram"....granted she doesn't know about her daughter's drinking problem but according to most of the answers I received in my last post...hey...a mot7ajba drinking chick is no big deal...well...excuse the hell out of me...why the hell her Mom wanted to talk to me is beyond me...but...I've come to accept that this year is full of the darnest, weirdest things!

The fact that the chick had a black eye and was bruised up, didn't make my life any easier...apparently her brother wasn't too happy that she resigned without telling him...or was it 'coz he caught her drunk? I couldn't tell you but I really did feel sorry for her...Granted if we were in the States, I'd recommend she'd go to a Women's Shelter...or maybe to the police...but I scratched that idea when my friend told me that if she went to the police, they'd throw him in jail for a month and then he'd come out and go kill her....Ok..I did say this year is turning out to be weird but I sure as hell don't want to be part of a murder thank you very much! Sad thing, my friend mentioned that this happens all the time...a rude awakening indeed...

So my fellow readers, would you say she drank because she came from a screwed up family...or was her drinking problem causing her family to be screwed up?

Oh...and for the record...for those of you who asked if I was "religious" because of my last post, please define the word religious...if the question is....do I pray...yes....do I party...yes....do I fast...yes...do I drink...No...do I smoke...yes...do I talk to guys....all the time.....am I met7ajba....No...do I wear tight jeans...can't live without'em...so....label me as you wish....be it religious...open minded....mo3aqada....hypocrite...whatever...I couldn't tell you...all I know is this....when a 20 year old girl can't come to work 'coz she's called in drunk...I'd say that was a BIG deal! Even if she was a blonde girl from California and works at McDonalds...notice..I didn't even mention the fact that she's mit7ajba....So there!

Case closed!

To Fire or Not To Fire....

I'm not one to dwell on the past nor be pessimistic...but so far this two day year hasn't all shown me any kind of promise...

It took me forever to get to post anything...I haven't posted in ages so I've missed out on all this upgrade mumbo jumbo...

I'm not happy with it being freezing outside...

I'm about to fire one of my employees and I'm depressed that I gotta do that....maybe I'm naive..but if i tell you the story..I don't know if you'd believe me....and if you did...then...hell...where the hell have I been that shit like this happens in Kuwait!

It all started one morning when my little mit7ajba employee called me to tell me that she won't be coming in to work this morning....when I asked her why...this...my dear blogger friends is what she told me....in bloody broad daylight....

"I'm drunk!"

I was walking to my office when I stopped in my track...."Excuse Me??" I said.

"Yeah...I'm drunk...I know that you hate to be lied to so I'm telling you the truth..I mean I could tell you that I'm not feeling well...but...I won't lie to you...I'm drunk!"

Dumbfounded, I replied "You know...we're not in America here..and even if we were....I have a right to fire you for telling me this!"...

The word "Fire you" was all she heard and she then went into the pathetic whining that twenty year old do when they're in trouble...you know the kind...."laaa.....Allah ye7'aleech....la etsaween feeneee chithi....Wallaaa....wallaaa.....a7'er marra....blah...blah...blah...."

Part of me says...it's none of my business in the end....the girl does a good job in the office...granted she's not as experienced as I would've liked her to do...and granted if she was another poor other nationality...she'll probably wouldn't come in late all the time....or have her mobile stuck to her ear all the time when she's pretending to be talking to her Mom and you know very well she wouldn't talk to her Mom with that husky voice trying to sound sexy and all.....but then when I ask her to do something...she does.....

Having said all that...Damn it...why do I still have her in the office!!! Worst still...I heard her discussing with some other employee who was planning a trip to Dubai "yeeblee min eleee 7'obrak....and I swear...walla....ma ra7 ashraba ella ma3ak!!!"...

Is it just me...but do twenty year old mit7ajbas do this often????? WTF....have I been living in la la land...pretending that shit like this doesn't happen....or is this perfectly normal in my little innocent Kuwait when twenty somethings in my head are pretty little girls wearing the national dress on TV and dancing on some nice famous traditional song to the Ameer on some masra7...

All I remember saying to her was "6i7tee min 3ainee...which apparently upset her so much that she got into her car and actually came to work to beg for forgiveness!"

Dumb ass.....

I so want to go back to my innocent thoughts and believe shit like this isn't normal....and I'm so pissed she ruined the picture....but in the end...I still feel like shit thinking that I'm gonna have to fire that chick.....and this is not the way I wanted to start my new year....the idiot actually thought I was gonna call her Mom and tell her....yeah...like I have time!

I tell you....if you were in my shoe....what would you do?