I was so excited to begin my first job in Oman. The recruiter would meet me at the airport for which I was very glad since I had never been in an ARabic country and my flight arrived at midnight.

Three hours after arriving in Muscat, 10 phone calls to the recruiter I was alone at the airport not sure what to do. I had borrowed other foreigners phones I had seen passing by to call the recruiter.

Each time I called a woman answered and said, "she cannot come, she is sleeping"

Finally I got a taxi and found a local hotel to stay in. The man at the counter was mad that I had awoke him was asking for a room so late at night and for a few minutes I thought I wouldn't even get one.

He did come up with one and the next morning a new clerk was on who was quite nice.

They let me use their phone (I was charged for that upon leaving) and I finally spoke with the recruiter, a man showed up about 2 hours later to take me to their office.
My heart sank even more when they told me they needed me to stay in the city for a few more days. We did my blood testing and xray which I had to pay for but most of the time I just waited. When they said to be ready at 8 am they arrived at 2 p..m consistently. I could not go anyplace because I was always waiting.

Ah then it came, they wanted my passport, I refused as I had already heard the stories of these recruiters keeping them. I told them they could have it for a week when they were ready to get my work visa but they could not have it indefinitely Anyway I was in the backseat of this man's car and there were passports and visas on the floor, seat and one even fell out the door, which I retrieved.

Nope they were not getting my passport to be thrown amongst these others on the floor. ONce I got settled at the school I thought things would be better, but every interaction that I had with this globnet recruiter was horrible. They lied, they overcharged me for costs, and then threatened that if I did not give them my passport to get the work visa I would have to pay a fine of $40 US a day.

It is illegal for anyone to hold a passport of another.

I stayed for the end of my probationary period and then got out of there. As long as working in Oman requires working through a recruiter company who by the way are not Omanis, I'm out. Jazzy