I hate working offshore!!

[herbie]

I was due to be home on dry land 21st Dec for Xmas and NewYear.

Just got a phone call today - my 'back to back' has thrown a sickie and wont be out! To say im pissed off is an understatement. I'll have to bend over and take it up the butt and work another week

[fraser_allan]

thats a pain in the "ASS"

[WUZ]

I LOVE IT

32 degrees Celcius, Drilling for 12 hours, Music on, Air-con on.........It doesn't get much better!

Russell

[wilky]

If you hate working off shore.........................................

And it doesnt take the brains of an archbishop......

Then dont do it!

[craig mac]

Herbie

Been there too m8

Its is not really a shock that peeps are throwing sickies always the same this time of year offshore

Sorry to hear that bud

Craig

[ian_finlayson]

I do 10on/off and we all know if you are due home mid to late december then you have had it!

Don't put down working offshore, it has it's perks. 6 months off a year, tax free earnings and in my case lots of sunshine. Oh and my ships hardly ever leave port. Did I mention I am in Bermuda right now. Yup away for christmas but no kids so not so bad. Single too though, sniff sniff

[Fonzy]

Nae Luck

Nothing worse than having to stay on an extra week!

Am due home on the 21st aswell, hope that dosen't happen to me.

[ScoobyAndy]

<< If you hate working off shore.........................................

And it doesnt take the brains of an archbishop......

Then dont do it! >>

Funny thats what i was thinking!

[sharon_mccall]

Aw come on the guy is merely stating that some tosser is off sick and therefore stopping him being home for x-mas.

It's a tad unfair that he's having to work.

Hope you're not disappointing too many people by not getting home herbie!

(must point out herbie probably makes more in that week than i do in a month )

[herbie]

awwww, cheers for sympathy lol.

Dont really hate working offshore, I just hate my back to back.

Its the 3rd time this year he's let me down by 'mysterious' illnesses and excuses

Might by able able to work something out by sourcing someone from an agency.

[ScoobyAndy]

Sorry m8..

Its a wee bit unfair of him.. get off and go find him n kick his fat lazy ass back to the rig Skivers like that make me

[NightOwl]

I'll do your extra week Herbie!

And in fact any other shift anybody doesn't want to do....just so I can keep my beloved Scoob!

What do I pay this month? The mortgage or the car HP? As Sharon's sig says...You can sleep in a car but you cannot drive a house.

Bit of a squeeze with the wife, bairn and two dogs though.

[ScoobyAndy]

I'll do it too. Anything to get away from christmas!

Dont have a clue what to do but i'll pick it up soon enough

[fai17]

I hate working FULL STOP.

I have to look at delicious hot chinese grub all day every fecking day. It makes me HUNGRY

I have to work christmas too but i do get double pay for the week and probably enough to buy a new BIG TURBO.

Just need to get some time off so i can enjoy my car and time with the family.

[john_robertson]

We're currently running a book on one of our guys that is rota'd for xmas and new year, he was laying the foundations last trip pretty thick if he does we'll never let him forget it

John.

[G.T.]

although i dont work offshore my mate that i change shifts with is a twat too , his time keeping is total pish never in the same time twice in a row. feel sorry for you stuck out there for crimbo mate, ive managed to get my fisrt crimbo day off in about 6 years working all through newyear though

[colinj]

Quite a few of my mates work offshore, when there home they go on about how good the money is and spend like its going out of fashion - I mean like really flash the cash.........................then moan like fook about how crap it is & not looking forward to going back on the chopper for another 2 weeks hard graft, moan about not seeing their family - paranoid about who there burds getting it from when there away etc!!

Gotta take the good with the bad tho I guess, sure I get to come home every night & kick back with a beer & ride the missus, do whatever I want.......chances of me working Xmas/new year are as slim as winning the lottery - BUT I dont earn half what they do!! I dont care - im happy

Unlucky having to get called in to cover like that.........next time you meet your shift change mate make sure you dangle him by his feet over the edge of the platform so he never pulls a sicky again

[ScoobyAndy]

PMSL. Nice on Colin

[Lovat]

Life is nightmare for the guys offshore and on ships right now - everyone nervously expecting their relief to have a sore back, an ill granny or a sick dog so they can't come back until after a miracle cure is discovered on 3rd January.

I'm crewing ships and this is the worst time of the year - everyone else is going to fine lunches and personnel is in the office desperately looking for an elusive chief engineer or some other rank.

[Gumball]

I USED TO LOVE IT!!!!

leaving the day before and travelling to Yarmouth or Denmark and staying in shatsville hotels overnight before flying on a helicopter to a man made island in the middle of the drink for 14 or 21 days of whatever needed done at the time. this usually involved contracting the flu or a shatty cold through the AC before counting the days till i went home to see the bird.

the money was average in the big scheme of things and i hated everyminute of it. SO

i take my hat off to the guys that work on oil rigs across the northsea and the rest of the world. You guys have the shatiest job i ever did and you are stars IMHO.

[scientific steve]

at least you know when your getting home, i'm sat down here on my own in turkmenistan,

waiting for the job to start so i can go onto another

and when shall i be back???

dont know, dont care, bah fookin humbug to the lot

not looking for any sympathy just a proper rotation would be nice

[ANDYJDMSTI]

Looks like you have 2 choices

1. Get on with it and be thankfull you will be home at all over the period

or

2. do something about it i.e get your cv in order and look for another job

Everyone has control over the path they take and jobs they do in life, if you can't handle it/ don't like it then change it!!!!

I have not been home for either xmas or new year for the past 6 years because of the paths i have chosen, i am just thankfull that i have a job that affords me the lifestyle i have.

[G.Mac]

Nae luck bud, this is my first Crimbo off for a few years now so im going to make the best of it!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (sorry if rubbing salt in the wounds)

Graeme

[jamie_wood]

Its taking me three flights, two were delayed and now my baggage is lost.

Im sitting in Gatwick right now, waiting for an extra four hours to get the flight to Edinburgh due to missing the early morning one.

I aint slept for over a day and a half and I just want to get to bloomin' bed!!

I dont mind though...cause it means I dont need to spend christmas day sailing past the Bahamas.

I can freeze my nutz off in Bonnie scotland

[Carl Davey]

Tough break. It's bad enough being fogged on for a few days but it's a total kick in the teeth when your BTB pulls a fast one like that. Best advice is to take it on the chin and get on with it, no point in whining as it's the nature of the game. If that doesn't work remind yourself of your annual attendance allowance.