Why do you even bother replying to soompak, is it worth it?
We hear these spinning idioms about dubai everyday wherever you go, the biggest, the best, the bestest and the best of the bestest of the best.
Nothing will slow this down, there are some living elswhere who only see the bright lights and the posters and maybe step out to visit once or twice and are mesmerised by what they see.
Some of us here for some time, know the other side of the coin and wonder how long we still have to endure it.
A free city would not allow such managment to carry on the way it has, a free city would not give some of the managers we have the positions they have and in a free city these managers would not last a day in thier position.
Humiliation is a way of life in this part of the world and no matter what your position is in the food chain as an expat you are unlikely to escape it.
Everyone reading this forum would agree that Dubai has not become what we thought it would be when we first arrived.