Another expat I know arrived and left within 2 months. Seems to be more and more common these days if stories here and to be believed and from I hear on the ground.
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Management no longer cares if employees (Saudi or Expat) stay. As long as the oil keeps coming out of the ground and they say "Yes Sir" to Riyadh, they keep their jobs and give themselves promotions. Nothing else matters. One of the things Riyadh wants is to kick Expats out or at least pay them as little as possible. No thought is given to whether Aramco can actually function. Meanwhile, management has and will continue to sell off pieces of the company to whoever wants them to raise cash for dividends and to do stupid deals outside KSA. When they don't have anymore infrastructure to sell, they will start offering drilling concessions, because Aramco will no longer be able to explore or develop on its own. When its over, Aramco will be a much smaller company, probably based in Riyadh, whose only job is cashing checks from IOC operators inside KSA. The whole thing will have gone full circle.