JEDDAH, 9 September 2007 — A Saudi employee is livid after retuning from vacation to discover his foreign employer didn’t have the guts to fire him face-to-face, instead sending the worker an SMS message informing him of the bad news, the daily Al-Madinah reported yesterday. The worker, who was involved in customer relations for an unnamed company, is outraged because he was not only fired through the magic of text messaging, but because he had spent a good deal of time and money relocating his family to Riyadh for the position. The ex-worker is filing a lawsuit against his former employer on the ground that firing a worker by text message doesn’t follow legal protocol. Let’s see the employer try to text message his defense to the judge.
Shut Out, Scorned Man Calls Cops
JEDDAH, 9 September 2007 — Angry that his acquaintances were letting him in on action with a prostitute, a Bangladeshi man decided to inflict a little vengeance by ratting the men and the woman out to the cops, the daily Okaz reported yesterday. Police arrested five men and one woman, who was moonlighting as a hooker while working as a maid, after the Bangladeshi man was told he could not be the sixth “trick” of the prostitute in this illegal arrangement.
