Comments on: One-Eight: The Aramco Effect http://saudijeans.org/2006/06/17/one-eight-the-aramco-effect/ Rants and Raves from Saudi Arabia Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:23:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Chiara http://saudijeans.org/2006/06/17/one-eight-the-aramco-effect/#comment-19838 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:25:10 +0000 http://saudijeans.wordpress.com/2006/06/17/one-eight-the-aramco-effect/#comment-19838 Sarfraz Khan–I’m sorry but I didn’t understand. Do you mean that you are a caterer (you prepared food for banquets, parties, conventions etc) and you would like a job at Aramco as a caterer? Or is a catter a wildcatter, ie someone who drills oil wells?

]]> By: Muhmmad inayat khan http://saudijeans.org/2006/06/17/one-eight-the-aramco-effect/#comment-19836 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:12:58 +0000 http://saudijeans.wordpress.com/2006/06/17/one-eight-the-aramco-effect/#comment-19836 I was a driver at geophysical Service Inc Saudi arabia Ltd.
from 2-09-19976 to 7-09-1990 Having # 99728
Driving License 9849\M
Nationality Pakistani, if any body in aramco company personly know me plz forword my requiest that i need a job in aramco again at any position for the reward of my 14 long years in aramco.

]]> By: sarfraz khan http://saudijeans.org/2006/06/17/one-eight-the-aramco-effect/#comment-19835 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:00:47 +0000 http://saudijeans.wordpress.com/2006/06/17/one-eight-the-aramco-effect/#comment-19835 hey aramco peoples listn very very carefully i am a catter and i love to catter aramco peoples becouse my father served that company for 14 long years as a heavy duty driver.and never got any accident..tata tata

]]> By: daifuku http://saudijeans.org/2006/06/17/one-eight-the-aramco-effect/#comment-17874 Tue, 12 May 2009 05:16:30 +0000 http://saudijeans.wordpress.com/2006/06/17/one-eight-the-aramco-effect/#comment-17874 it* the oil

]]> By: daifuku http://saudijeans.org/2006/06/17/one-eight-the-aramco-effect/#comment-17873 Tue, 12 May 2009 05:15:41 +0000 http://saudijeans.wordpress.com/2006/06/17/one-eight-the-aramco-effect/#comment-17873 I asked my dad that question once. That was the answer he gave me. I didn’t believe him.:p I’m always suspicious like that, don’t ask why. Thank you for confirming its source.

” Some people say Aramco has changed very much since its management moved from the Americans to Saudis, and by this they mean it has been plagued by corruption and racism.”

I don’tbelieve this is true. Before, Americans were given the upper hand because they discovered it, they acted as if it were theirs. Of course, that is all in teh past. Now, most people are treated fairly in the company…Other than the occasional problems here & there, which I agree should be dealt with. Glad I came across this.

]]> By: ilaila http://saudijeans.org/2006/06/17/one-eight-the-aramco-effect/#comment-17140 Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:31:36 +0000 http://saudijeans.wordpress.com/2006/06/17/one-eight-the-aramco-effect/#comment-17140 That’s great! Now! It is clear that ‘waneet’ is ‘one-eight’ transliterated, an enigma clarified. what is the explanation for ‘six’: why the big dump trucks are called ‘six’ locally in ksa?

]]> By: Sara T http://saudijeans.org/2006/06/17/one-eight-the-aramco-effect/#comment-16286 Fri, 26 Dec 2008 09:44:44 +0000 http://saudijeans.wordpress.com/2006/06/17/one-eight-the-aramco-effect/#comment-16286 I know this is a little outdated, and it’s almost been a year since the last comment was posted, but I think it’s useful to note that in one of Saudi Aramco’s 75th anniversary publications (I think this one was a supplement to their weekly publication, the Qafilah and the Arabian Sun), they published a story about the ‘waneet’ and, effectively, confirmed the story.

]]> By: Majnoon Amerikia http://saudijeans.org/2006/06/17/one-eight-the-aramco-effect/#comment-12664 Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:10:53 +0000 http://saudijeans.wordpress.com/2006/06/17/one-eight-the-aramco-effect/#comment-12664 Waneet… mumtazz! I lived and worked in the Eastern Province from 1975 to 1980 and my Aramco Sccottsdale Waneet had 1420 on the doors. It was a wonderful time! Out east of Abqaiq (Bucca), in the middle of nowhere I ran across a Dodge Powerwagon from the 1950′s. It was in Aramco red and white colors and had the hood up. I looked like someone had engine trouble and just left it there to become a small museum. I have a photo of it sitting alone on the subkah. I have always wondered if quit in the summer and if the driver got back ok. I spent a good deal of time in helicopters and many times early in the morning and late at night I would see the faint tracery of what were ancient walls, or streets or irrigation chanels that the low light angle would expose. There is so much history in the country, I hope that all the old things are revered and not traded for the chrome-and-glass of modernity. Does anyone know if the Turkish fort at Hafer Al Batin is still there? I look regularly on Google Earth to find it, but the town has grown beyond any thing I can recognise. Very best to you all.

]]> By: Tracer min Jubail http://saudijeans.org/2006/06/17/one-eight-the-aramco-effect/#comment-10754 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:13:01 +0000 http://saudijeans.wordpress.com/2006/06/17/one-eight-the-aramco-effect/#comment-10754 The word in arabic “Late” or in english light is also from aramco. Another one is “Lamba” or in english Lamp. Actualy 1-8 was the number of the garage the truck was parked in, The superintendant would tell the Saudi driver in aramco to bring the truck but the saudi drivers were limited in thier english language skills at that time. So the superintendent in aramco would tell the saudi driver to bring 1-8 refering to the garage number the truck was parked in. Also “Tendan” or in english Superentendant.

]]> By: Tim min Dhahran http://saudijeans.org/2006/06/17/one-eight-the-aramco-effect/#comment-6664 Sat, 22 Sep 2007 16:48:46 +0000 http://saudijeans.wordpress.com/2006/06/17/one-eight-the-aramco-effect/#comment-6664 Throughout the kingdom water trucks are known as “whitaat” The first water trucks imported into Arabia were made by the White Motor Company in Cleveland, Ohio and the name stuck.

Similarly, I’m told that the license issued for a heavy or semi-truck operator in KSA is officially called a Kenworth license after the giant trucks that Aramco used to build the company.

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