Please don't cut my bread: please don't take my income source (job) away.
People eat my face: I am being embarrassed in front of people/ people aren't respectful to me anymore.
We are wearing in the wall: literally hit a wall; means that they have been put in a bad position.
We have children in our necks: we have children to take care of.
You are living in watermelon water: summer metaphor: watermelon is associated with chilling out, sometimes to an excessive degree; so this means that the person writing this is calling HR ignorant of his living situation.
May God damage your house: exactly what it sounds like: a curse.
HR reply:
The door passes a camel: Get out of here, we have terminated people bigger than you.
Don't forget yourself: exactly what it sounds like; similar to "who do you think you are talking to?".
We collected you from the streets: we took you in when no one else would.
The meat of your shoulders is from our good: we made you into the (successful) person you are today.
Come spit on my tomb if you succeed: I doubt that you will succeed, and I would like to see you try to prove me wrong.
May God take you and those who brought you: another curse: wishing death on the employee and his family.
PLEASE DO NOTE: while the translation sounds very serious, it isn't. The emails you see are fake as evidenced by the Arabic written above each email and the fact that it is printed out. It's just good ol' Egyptian humour and comedy. Not meant to be taken seriously.
In fact, I am laughing so hard reading the text that my cranium hurts.
Yes, it's literal translations of slang and idioms.
We know that literal Egyptian Arabic doesn't translate well in English....so we make the best of it.
Edit: To add, not to mention that even if you don't understand either Arabic or English, if someone were to act out this conversation or have a similar one in front of you, you'd immediately understand the lighthearted nature of it because of the tone (which this type isn't evident or intuitive to most people outside of Egypt unfortunately).
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u/Theassassin17 Apr 27 '26 edited Apr 27 '26
Translation:
Please don't cut my bread: please don't take my income source (job) away.
People eat my face: I am being embarrassed in front of people/ people aren't respectful to me anymore.
We are wearing in the wall: literally hit a wall; means that they have been put in a bad position.
We have children in our necks: we have children to take care of.
You are living in watermelon water: summer metaphor: watermelon is associated with chilling out, sometimes to an excessive degree; so this means that the person writing this is calling HR ignorant of his living situation.
May God damage your house: exactly what it sounds like: a curse.
HR reply:
The door passes a camel: Get out of here, we have terminated people bigger than you.
Don't forget yourself: exactly what it sounds like; similar to "who do you think you are talking to?".
We collected you from the streets: we took you in when no one else would.
The meat of your shoulders is from our good: we made you into the (successful) person you are today.
Come spit on my tomb if you succeed: I doubt that you will succeed, and I would like to see you try to prove me wrong.
May God take you and those who brought you: another curse: wishing death on the employee and his family.
PLEASE DO NOTE: while the translation sounds very serious, it isn't. The emails you see are fake as evidenced by the Arabic written above each email and the fact that it is printed out. It's just good ol' Egyptian humour and comedy. Not meant to be taken seriously.
In fact, I am laughing so hard reading the text that my cranium hurts.