the layover allowance will only cover room service
puff, are you getting secret extra payments? I would have said "won't" where you've said "will only" in that sentence.
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On another point mentioned above about the pecking order of expats in the Sandpit, as I sit in airconditioned comfort in my car, I sometimes find myself behind a truck (admittedly, more often a bus these days) packed to the gunnels with Pakistani or Bangla Deshi workers, (or in the middle of the night, drive past a gaggle of the poor buggers standing on the side of the road waiting for the bus to arrive to take them back to 'rest' during the day in their 'looxuries-filled' barracks).
I've often wondered how much I'll squirm should one day one of those men get himself an education and write a story on what life in Dubai was like for him and his fellow workers as they built the Dubai I'm very comfortably living in.