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Royally Embarrassing

Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, ruler of Dubai, paid an unannounced call on some senior civil servants at their offices at 7:30 a.m. on a Sunday morning. (In a standard Dubai work week, Sunday is the equivalent of Monday.) Nine were not there. In the future, they will not be there: they’ve been ordered to retire. “Timeliness starts at the top,” the director general of the Dubai Media Office said. The sheikh has done early-morning inspections before. (AC/BBC) ...With a warning like that, they can’t claim they didn’t get a fair sheikh..
Original Publication Date: 11 September 2016
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 23.

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