Reply To: Do any ROV companies really care about ‘their’ teams ?

It never ceases to amaze me how many people winge about money on these forums.

If I compare my wages, time off, quality of life and the amount of top sunshine I get a year I would take the pay I am on and the job I do over just about any of my "landlubber" mates any day of the week.

We do not get a bad deal with money and to honest if I go on a job with two trainees that is a challenge not a problem. If they are crap then it is a hard trip if they are good then it is a pleasure to work with them and try and answer the questions.

We can all sit there and complain or we could just get on with the job in hand which we by our own free will choose to do without being put any duress.

We have all either chose to accept a contract or have accepted an agency day rate and neither of these things are totally binding us into a life long commitment.

I personally feel that there are some elements of the uni0n movement which are positive and a lot that are negative.

Do offices care about the teams.. of course not. Do they do there best to ensure the staff offshore are capable of making the company as much money as possible..probably.

The world seems to be on the brink of recession and our industry will probably not even notice it so I think we are all pretty lucky to be where we are doing what we are doing.

That is of course only my opinion.

Oh and whilst I am here the company I do most of my work for I think does care about the standard of teams it sends out and on many occassions I have conversations with the project manager/ops manager about the guys coming out to make sure we could cope with higher levels of trainees on a job.

I cannot agree more with what James said, If we all treat each other as human beings with a little respect then the jobs would be easier.

I am sick and tired of seeing trainees who are struggling being put under more pressure by supervisors who do not have the patience to train them and assist them in getting up to speed.

I have said this before, it is our interests to encourage and work with the trainees to get them up to speed otherwise as a supervisor or even a sub eng you end up running yourself into the ground doing everything.