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Exclusive | The World’s Biggest Construction Project Is a Magnet for Executives Behaving Badly

Saudi Arabia’s Neom project is contending with corruption, worker deaths, racism and misogyny.

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Hasnain says:

The intro is somehow the least surprising and least scandalizing part of the article.

“Neom executives were summoned to the office to manage a crisis: Three workers had recently died toiling on the world’s biggest construction project.

Wayne Borg, a former Hollywood executive hired to run Neom’s media division, expressed frustration over the interruption to his evening.

“A whole bunch of people die so we’ve got to have a meeting on a Sunday night,” he said on a phone call, according to a recording heard by The Wall Street Journal. He said the project’s blue-collar workers from the Indian subcontinent had been “f—ing morons” and “that is why white people are at the top of the pecking order.” “

Posted on 2024-09-16T02:51:01+0000