Fugro / rovtech, Good idea??????

You guys will be fighting amongst yourselves for another few years, just like UDI/Thales.

actually quite a few fugro guys have left….

but anyway on the cynical side is it good, well yes it is fugro survey is exactly that and fugro rovtech is exactly that the 2 are split into lovely camps (easy for selling off in the future!… maybe).

did AB sell us up the river i dont think so there were rumours every year about a sell etc i for one rather the fugro deal to the oceaneering one (wether that was ever real and not just a ploy to get us happy about fugro).
again we forget we work for companies that are quite frankly in the game to make money for themselves and for their investors , noone set up a company thinking ‘you know i feel sorry for my fellow man/woman i think i will start a company for them’ yet again we hear all the time how poor we are , how unfair we are treated.

generally we are well paid would i accept more money if possible of course i would , do i think AB should have kept the company till he was 80 and handed over GC nah…. he and nearly all worked to make rovtech a viable and worthwhile company and that showed in the final deal they made , to get bought out and keep the name lovely .

from what i read about the harmonisation the fugro side realise the problems that they had to deal with from previous take overs and they are trying to accomodate , it will be better all round.
people will come and go as is the norm then it will all level out or there will be another crash and our cars will be worth more than our houses….

anyway this is 100th post!

the asia take over is slightly different. and yes edmond is in loyang martin has space there as does stanley.

i would say that the asia market has been strengthened by it, but it is still called fugro survey and as a recent memo said ‘it is a seperate entity to fugro rovtech uk’.

pay is different etc etc etc etc

ok my learned friend but as the forum question was :

fugro rovtech a good idea?

not the location of the personnel in singapore or the workshop or the office.
as i said the asia and uk merger is a totally different thing. that would be a whole different forum, in my humble opinion.

actually quite a few fugro guys have left….

…generally we are well paid …

There have only been about 5 Fugro left since the merger and some of them were nothing to do with it. How many Rovtech have left so far, about the same?

You obviously weren’t well paid or all of Rovtech wouldnt be whinging about how poorly paid they are and they are all leaving. 😆

It is quite possible to have a company called ABC Limited in the UK and ABC Pte or whatever they call them in Singapore and they are still seperate. No matter what they are called, they are all seperate companies who all report back to Holland.

Its been a good idea to AB and the other Rovtech shareholders, in a few years time once his tie in finishes he wil go away and set up another company and do it all over again.

Fugro Rovtech a good idea? its one less ROV company in existance, less places to move to, less competition so less reason for them to keep the wages up. Bigger, non personal company, people become a number not a name. How often will you actually speak to/meet your new manager Mr McKay?

Maybe the hardest part to accept for the Rovtech guys in Fugro is the fact that they now are employed by a company where ROV’s are not the core business any longer.

They are now part of a larger and very impersonal company where ROV’s and the operation of is just a little bit of the pie. It now gets harder to raise standards and pay because instead of asking for more and comparing the rates/conditions between ROV companies. The comparisons are now going to be made with what survey employees are being paid within the company and be assured they wont want to see ROV rates get ahead. Instead you will find parity between surveyors and pilot techs and supervisor and party chief positions plus all the other in between grades.

But whether or not you like the idea of a merger at the end of the day there are still jobs elsewhere if you don’t like what’s on offer with the new company.

Truered

Heard a rumour that none of the Rovtech management can do anything for 2 years or they forfeit there well earned dosh,if they want to continue in ROV line of work.
Anybody who knows anything aout the company will tell you who they are and roughly what they got.
AB being top dog of course.