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Immigration Officer Hard at Work

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Even though there were huge lines at passport control, this officer at the Kuwait Airport still found time for Farmville. Seriously you can’t make this shit up.

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If you had a picture with a name then the person in the photo will be in deep shit.

MOI is responding quite well to pictures and videos on social media these past few years

Oh, common… It will takes max 2 hours to identify her if anyone cares.

There is always CCTV at the passport control and really good quality ones. Exclude all male officers, fast forward all records with +-2 hours from jazeera airways flights and you can easily spot female playing game on her iphone.

Kuwait Airport isn’t JFK or something like that. There is only 4 or 5 passport control desks and 2 or 3 of them is usually empty… If someone is interested, they will get all details they want.

You can’t lump Kuwaitis in as one group. At work (Private sector) the hardest working and often best employees are Kuwaiti, although you also get the worst ones being Kuwaiti. At the end of the day Kuwaitis just have more options and will not put up with a lot of what private companies ask of them (I’m saying this as a Kuwaiti working in the private sector for years).

If you take the kind of job where you just press a stamp all day you’re not exactly the most ambitious person soooo

ok. Why take this out on them alone. I see expats at banks with high-paid jobs (privileged class) doing this. Just playing the devils advocate. Enough bashing and get back to work guys. Live and let live.

This has become common in every office. I used to work in a consulting firm and saw many people sitting around in office checking facebook, playing games on fb, checking youtube etc.

When the IT dept switches it off on the network, this happens – everyone starts accessing it on their personal phones.

In a private company it’s the management’s responsibility to make sure this doesn’t happen. If they don’t care then ok sure, it’s their money they pay as wasted salary in the end.

In government offices nobody checks and they’re wasting public funds doing it

I disagree. I’m paying for services and they’re wasting my money in the private sector. Public funds? Its not tax payers money unlike in the UK and US. Its just oil from the ground for everyone! The point is that they’re being paid to do a job and they need to do it – private or public.

That kind of thinking is exactly why public funds are wasted here. “It’s not taxed!” Oh I didn’t realize oil from the ground couldn’t be used to build new roads, hospitals, better schools… totally useless argument.

In the private sector you have the choice to take your money elsewhere.

You’re making an argument 25 years late (that’s when the last useful road that had scale and mass use was built ) Stop preaching to the preachers and zombies. Complain about what you can change (I’m a realist) and that would be wastage in the pvt sector 🙂

I had a mini melt-down at the airport yesterday when in arrivals the security/police at the X-ray machines actually took off a Kuwaiti’s bag before it went through the conveyor belt and shooed him through to the arrivals hall.
I know they don’t really look at the X-ray machines- but that makes a joke of it all.

When the airport was busy this week, I noticed loads of new workers from two specific countries. Half of the passport checking windows were closed. I didn’t want to ne trapped the huge number of male workers- so I asked a guy who assists in organizing lines if I can go through GC citiizens opening- which was almost empty and I saw non-Kuwatis passing there. He said yes it’s not a problem. When I got there, the female officer gave me ‘that look’ that many Kuwaiti women give expat women and said it’s not allowed. So I had to go back to the long lines- despite of which no one tried to do something to organize the out of control long lines.

Yes Giselle- that’s the same as when GCC citizens pass through passport control in the UK…. They can’t simply skip the queue and go through EU citizens.
Tough but no wasta/ cigar.

I saw non-kuwaitis passing by. I am sure they are not kuwaitis. She just didn’t like me I guess!I am sure if it was the guy next ge would let me lol

Kuwait airport is a joke and will be until they build a new one. If it was a few months back she would have long fake nails and tons of make up… As if she just left the party.

i disagree.

kuwaits airport will still be a joke if the new one is built but the attitudes of the people working in the current one carry over to the new one. kuwaits airport employees need an attitude makeover and some serious training.

personally, i dont give a fuck if the person attending to me has a lot of make up and long nails as long as they do their fucking jobs (and do it efficiently).

Well I assume the staff will be changed. I don’t think long nails and make up is appropriate for a immigration officer. What if she has to constrain someone? Ohhhh god my nail…

It’s not like Mark wrote something about Kuwait itself. He probably loves this country more than you ever will, hence why he is trying to do something about it. You also need to check up the definition of a mistake, mate. This not a mistake, this is incompetency

actually.. if she is doing her work and not delaying the line and just playing a little bit.. i guess then it is ok.. give her a benefit of doubt.. we all have some apps running on our phone while working

Better than many other offices in kuwait.
Have you been to the Farwaniya Muroor?
THey treat you as if you have come to beg for money. Such as@h@les.

and the irony most of us are reading this blog in our work timings. we all do something or other we are not suppose to do at work.

Well, most of us haven’t responsibility to check passports against forgery and avoid potential terrorist crossing country border, have we?

I am a hypocrite, I’m reading about someone playing Farmville at work meanwhile I’m also at work reading it. Lol.

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