The Labour Office
I would like to report the occurrence of an unusual event at Sohar’s Labour Office today. A group of Omani individuals have broken all forms of traditions and tore away culture shamelessly, they have committed the greatest sin of all, they have queued. It was revolutionary, groundbreaking, breath-taking, this group of anonymous unconnected Omani youth and elderly ‘invented’ a systematic way of collecting their labour cards using a new alien concept that could be illustrated using the phrase ‘wait for your turn’. To accomplish this goal they took advantage of the two rows of seats perpendicular to the collection window and made a seating path in a ‘U’ shape with an entrance tip and a leaving tip. This way individuals had to move along the path one seat at a time so that each does not only gets to access the window at his turn, but he does not even have to wait for it standing. The system works seamlessly perfect regardless of the various attempts to intervene by the individuals that were not introduced to the outrageous regime, those attempts were stopped by the yelling and shouting of the ‘users already seated’ that used phrases like “DOAR DOAR YAL 7AG”.
One old man REFUSED to move one seat at a time claiming that he KNOWS when his turn comes and insisted on staying at the system entry seat till his turn comes, the revolutionists tried persuading the 50-something lazy old man by explaining how the system works but the stubborn Omani refused to move. Unbelievably the men did not stop, new comers were asked to enter the queue in available seats further in the chain ignoring the position of old man to guarantee the functionality of the system. After the completion of the queue by 10 individuals and the fact that the position of the old man reached now the end of the first row the old man finally decided to become a believer of the new religion and moved. An exclusive photo of the event in progress could be seen here at Law & Music:
Although light has finally reached the window of Labour Card collection, other windows such as the cashier and the application submission points were both engulfed in the darkness:
