The really sad part is that Aramco's competence could have been maintained by spending just a fraction of this amount. Current low salaries bring in a tiny fraction of good people along with a huge fraction of bad, for both locals and expats. Of course most of the good people don't stay long. All of this leaves out the fact that good people tend to attract more good people while bad people attract more bad people. Combine this with the fact that Aramco is really being run people in the government who thought Neom was a good idea in the first place. It look the Americans 30 years to build Aramco's culture, and the current regime has managed to tear it down in less than 10 years. Its only a matter of time before this bleeds through into something terrible that management can't cover up.
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@1w2 I actually went to the actual "largely unfinished planned city in the desert"
I worked at Aramco from 2008 to 2017. Whenever I want to refresh my Aramco memories, I used to watch Tom Hanks "A Hologram for the King" movie.
‘It look the Americans 30 years to build Aramco's culture, and the current regime has managed to tear it down in less than 10 years’ 👍🏻💯
@OP You are not wrong, but what can one say? Over time, Riyadh has increasingly called the shots where Aramco was concerned. And the citizenry is very compliant with the dictates for obvious reasons. I am trying to be charitable here...took a while but the goose that layed the golden eggs is not feeling very well.