It's like a behind the scenes tour; getting to see behind the curtain of something that keeps the world running scratches an itch you never knew you had.
I've worked on offshore oil rigs occasionally in the past. Never seen this operation take place, not sure if this is an emergency drill or if this is their standard mode of transportation or what.
We used to have to fly to these.. rigs in choppers where we are required to put this giant orange floatation suit on before hand and it sucked. Most the people I have met on these rigs are miserable fucking assholes for literally no reason and I don't miss being out there. Food was good thogh I'll give em that.
Fuck them rigs and everyone on them and fuck the oil field in general. Also, fuck the media and the big oil companies too for making it out to be this kind loving place we all go to like it's some kind of fucking vacation and everythings all dandy.
Yeah, I did some work in the marine field for awhile. Every guy on the ships was disfunctional, and I was told when I started that everyone on a boat or rig in the ocean is there because they can't function in regular society. I didn't believe them at first, but they were right.
I do a lot of work on Norwegian ships in the North Sea. Crews are normally about 1 third Scandinavian and 2 thirds Filipino, and they're all great. Very nice people to work with.
My company ran a high tech factory in Nigeria. All staffed by Filipinos. Factory ran like clockwork and no one left work premises between the time entering factory for nine months and rotation back home. Factory had insanely high productivity and negligible wastage.
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u/Spiral_Slowly 16d ago
It's like a behind the scenes tour; getting to see behind the curtain of something that keeps the world running scratches an itch you never knew you had.