May 2008
Desert Bus Crash Debacle
I write this message to all those who think that SABIS, as I once have thought, was their dream come true. Today, I believe, as I count the minutes and the hours to enclose a day, that it is a nightmare and a catastrophe that has been plagued unto each one that has worked or has been accepted to work with such a filthy, low, pathetic unfortunately international school.
It is such a pity to see that these people, with their nasty propaganda about SABIS, treat people from their own country worse than they treat westerners. Maybe this is the way it works in UAE; but I mean we come from the same country; don't you even have the decency to treat me like a human being? Be honest with me and tell me that I was going to live in hell for 11 months and I might have considered it! Anyways I am passed beyond their sleazy, brutal, inhuman incidents of which I got used to; and now, changing to a normal school, people see that I was truly affected by their vicious treatments!!
Please consider the following a warning story that might not happen everyday, but the way they dealt with the situation was merely to protect their company's reputation.
Of the many stories that I now want to delete from my life-experience here in the gulf with this shitty school, is a very tragic and devastating experience that has affected the lives of many teachers as well as administrators working for them. Here is how it goes:
On a clear Wednesday morning, a bus driving to the deserted desert area where we work, was at a regular speed when one of the trucks on the highway trying to overlap in lanes, crashed into it. The truck hit the SABIS bus on the side and left all the bus crashed with only a few that was not severely injured! As another bus, also for SABIS drove up on the same high way, they met with the crashed bus. Because the ambulance was late, the injured people were taken up to the other bus. The people on the other bus were shouting, I mean seeing all their co-workers covered with blood and crying out of shock and pain, I wouldn't envy them on the sight of their life!!!
The ambulance arrived to the worst hospital ever; I mean if you went there alive, you would come out surely dead! The project manager along with his Miss assistant arrived to the hospital after 8 hours, although the road takes only 2 hours. They showed concern and help to all, as if they really care! Putting on the fake caring faces with their fake caring smiles, they displayed a very hospitable play in the middle of the horrible cases!
One of the most severely injured people was the lady sitting next to the driver in the passenger's seat. Her whole body was covered with blood. She was under surgery for 5 hours to try to fix her disfigured face. Another teacher had her leg cut and her face and hand bruised. The lady sitting behind the passenger's seat had her shoulder dislocated, her head cut, along with the many deep cuts in her body! Supposedly her arm needed immediate surgery. Two days later, she went back to her country to undergo surgery for it. The woman sitting behind the driver suffered from a broken nose and a bruised chest. One teacher broke her nose, another had her face cut. The least injured had bruises all over their body. So, you can imagine the intensity of the accident!
This left behind people who were affected mentally, physically, emotionally and of course, people who started to refuse the idea of taking the bus to school everyday!
Now, moving some of the patient to a hospital in Abou Dhabi, the project manager and his Miss assistant were so nice, caring enough to visit everyday, and helpful in every single way! I mean they sent the patients to the hospital without the clearance papers or any police reports! So, the patients had to stay somewhere until the papers were sent the next day. Westerners, frightened that they would complain about SABIS, had a room booked for them in the finest hotels. While the other patients had to find a place to sleep for the night!
"Get well soon" cards and Chocolate boxes were sent to everyone involved in that accident, as if that would cover up the mess they were in, or even fake smiles they had on to ensure everything was going smoothly. But in fact, it wasn't!
The bus that the staff was riding was in a bad condition; considering the wheels and the breaks, that accident was bound to happen! So, I donât think the cleavage short dresses that bring your breasts out, or even the tender loving look in your eyes, not even your sweet caring voice, or your fake assuring smiles would get you out of this shit, and God please answer my prayers!
I just wonder about these innocent people, my colleagues, that have lived this accident, that have suffered from nightmares to severe physical pain the middle of the nights, do they also have to pay for this company's indifference? Already living in a desert and not getting any desert allowances, do they really have to call the next day of the accident and check for attendance? I mean, give these people a break! Even those who were not in the accident still experience nightmares of blood and accidents. Wouldn't they at least consider giving these people a break from work? I guess not. The show must go on!
I do understand that there was nothing else to do, but I mean wouldnât you even consider the numerous emails that were sent about the buses and how dangerous their trips were? Wouldn't you even take into account the condition of the bus that holds the lives of these people everyday coming and going to school? I donât blame them, because if they werenât like that, they wouldnât have pulled off this scam on the government claiming their highly standardized system that would educate the emirates' childrenâ..it is true that they are Lebanese, but I assure you that they are the scum of the Lebanese society, the people with no ethical values, no morals, and no sense of honor, of which we call "bastards" in Lebanon!
The never-ending lies, the on-going deceptions, the covering up for their shit, and much much more! You would just get sick of all this, that you would feel numb at the end. Again, I write this message out of concern and advice to anyone who wants to join this school, which they would take my word as a person who has suffered from all of the above, and all this still goes on until the last day! They would try their best to ruin your privacy, your own opinion, your own creativity, your potentials and your will to go on!
So, if you're there, try your best to get out, and if you're not, then donât make the mistake of your life! I personally thank God I worked for this company for they have opened my eyes to the brutal world out there, the worst people you can ever deal with. I would personally thank SABIS, and their staff, and all the people that work with them in a committed way, for they have showed me what deception means, how people can be filthy monsters, sleazy scumbags, dishonest savages, duplicitous and negative in their work to even make u think that you're the one who is abnormal and dishonored, where in fact, they are!!