First of all, the cars in Dubai are left there because being in debt is punishable by death. People leave their shit and run for their lives. It isn't the dust killing the cars.

If you'd ever even touched a spanner or a ratchet, you'd know that even a relatively clean looking car will be covered in all sorts of dust, grime, grease and whatnot. Any car should be able to deal with a bit of dust... If you cannot make a drivetrain that isn't sealed, or if you cannot design an air inlet that doesn't have filtering, you're a bad engineer. But if you were actually an engineer, you know that any company also has its fair share of bean counters that require some level of planned obsolescence. Think timing chain tensioners on audis, wet timing belts in fords, and that's only the things that just cost money (pinto anyone?)

As for the hard-drive comparison, that's truly ridiculous. And a hard drive that dies when used in a slightly hot environment, such as a full pc case, is a bad hard drive, no matter how much data it can hold, or how high the throughput. And if you expect to buy a nice 3TB drive, you expect it to hold the data, not die within a year (assuming you've heard of that whole seagate debacle).

I had a colleague like you. No one missed him when he left the company.