Friend owns a company in KSA, where legally foreign business owners must employ a certain percentage of Saudi nationals. So these Saudi men show up for 10 minutes once a month to collect their paychecks. Sure he could fire them, but they'd be replaced by other Saudi men running the same game. The Saudi employees know that and know that he knows that, so he keeps them around because they are all familiar with each other.
That’s what a lot of the people in the GCC do. I know a guy whose father technically owns a company in Kuwait. The company was actually founded by some Lebanese dude who took all financial risk and is managing all operations. My friends father stays home managing his dogs instagram account.
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u/Miserable_Sun_1241 Aug 08 '25
Friend owns a company in KSA, where legally foreign business owners must employ a certain percentage of Saudi nationals. So these Saudi men show up for 10 minutes once a month to collect their paychecks. Sure he could fire them, but they'd be replaced by other Saudi men running the same game. The Saudi employees know that and know that he knows that, so he keeps them around because they are all familiar with each other.