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We are group of Khaleej Times employees, having worked in the company for last 15 years and more. The new management under Rahul Sharma and Ovais Subhani are getting rid of the old staff without any due consideration, just giving them termination letters without any warning, claiming that it is recession period, yet they keep employing new people at very high and unjustifiable salary.
The slogan "Keeping track of change" is really changing the entire hardworking manpower of the organisation. The paper is run very unprofessionally, without any ethics of journalism being followed, people are being victimised, the old staff are demoted from senior position to nothing, and on demotion some of them are told that they are no longer productive to the organisation, a good example is suchitra steven samuel, of weekend magazine, who recently won an award for journalism, she was shown the door 2 weeks ago, reasons that she is not a professional journalist, rumours have it that more employees are due to be sacked in a couple of days from every section.
Those who have been reshuffled in the organisation are: Mehre Alam, former Senior Chief Sub Editor, now junior sub editor, Patrick Michael former Weekend Editor, now Chief Reporter, Meraj Rizvi former UAE Editor, now Reporter, Neville Parker former Managing Editor (dismissed before due retirement),
Mark Townsend former Business Editor (sacked) others either demoted or sacked are senior staff from Circulation, Marketing, Supplements, Drivers, Time office, HR department, Advertisement etc the list is endless. Last week, more staff, engaged during the previous management were given their termination letters for no apparent reasons. More people to be terminated is going on by HR Manager Servine Ghandour who also sits with the duo to prepare the list, so that the old staff can be wiped out from the organisation.
Now for us, the long time employees who are still working dedicately with the organisation want the UAE government through the Labour Ministry to put an end to these uncalled terminations, we also appeal to the Board members, chairman of Khaleej Times, the Indian Embassy, Pakistan Embassy, Phillipines Embassy, Sudanese Embassy and all other embassies whose nationality work in Khaleej Times, to intervene and investigate our complains. We also call on the relevant authorities to suspend Mr. Rahul Sharma and Mr. Subhani and their associates, to pave way for further investigations.
Some unsuccessful female job seekers recently claimed that the duo are also womanizers, they demand sex in exchange of employment, if the candidate refuses, she is told that she has been unsuccessful at the interviews, all these complains must be investigated immediately, by both the board of Khaleej Times and the Government, before it is too late and freeze all termination until investigations are finalised.
Why should old employees who have been performing so well in the organisation for the last 2 decades and more, be sacrificed at the expense of these sex/monetary hungry hooligans drawing fat salaries for nothing? why not sack the newly engaged staff who are earning AED 20, 000 per month and above, yet they are unproductive and are only surviving there, either because they are friends to the duo (from the previous employment) or offer sexual favours, PLEASE UAE GOVERNMENT HELP US, WE ARE SUFFERING ON THE QUIET, PLEASE INVESTIGATE THIS ISSUE IMMEDIATELY, faithfully yours, expatriates and a group of long time employees of Khaleej Times
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Khaleej Times Marketing department never wanted any hardworking and professional person at work. Haroon Qureshi used to protect the couple Ivan and Rekha who were in relation, they both never come to the office but got promotion and increments like nobody's business. Even that Nafeesa was given a telesales executive position from classifieds to ROP because they wanted to remove a person who was hardworking and sincere but at the same time with a good moral character. She did not agree to Haroon's intentions, but nafeesa did so that position and later promotion.
Khaleej TImes since then was nothing but a brothel and prostitution. I will not blame any of these haroon or other staff, the whole mistake lies with the management. Everybody has been trying to protect their chair at the cost of others but no one looked and even thought of reciprocating to KT with their dedication and sincerity in developing the product.
The root cause was the big Burjor Patel, who was not only a theatre actor but a great politician who used to always divide and rule between the staff. I still remember his usual statement "that I am not going to be here in KT for too long, i will quit soon, with this statement he continued in KT for 20 years. His interest was to protect his son's agency mediascope and whoever protects mediascope will be having his next increment due, sampath dorairajan was the biggest polisher to burjor patel, in a day ten times he will go in and out of his room, just to show his face and rub his ego, and most important being the ad controller no page loading charges for all mediascope clients, but mediascope used to charge their clients the actual page loading which will be credited to the bank account of mediascope but kt will never get only sampath will get the share. due to his continuous polishing, he got a break in mediaedge, the largest media buying network. millions and millions outsanding amount from mediascope saved patel's job and also he used to threaten if anything happens to his chair, he will shift the entire india business to GUlf news. Poor management, they had to keep quite, this ungrateful used to use kt as a platform to organize his play shows, and all expenses to KT.
Then and now, KT has been a "KEEP" to these buggers who destroyed the hardoworking people's life either by terminating them or harassed to the extent, that the people left on their own. In one of the weekly meetings, patel used to call Nafeesa, the government ad specialist who used to only book tender committee adverts which comes on its own not through anybody's effort, to process this you dont need a sales person, an office boy with slight english knowledge will do. But she was given Area Manager's position. Rekha and Ivan for their merry go round outings, used to pay money to Haroon. He used to write the booking form or order form for the clients of Rekha and Ivan as they never had any time to do the work as busy messing their life.
This is the actual KT and still continuing under the misguidance of Rahul SHARAMNAK and ASHUBANI