re: What is your most memorable co-worker quitting story?

Haha we had one along these same lines. Dude just flipped out and sent a mass email to about 100 people including the president and his son just calling out everyone and throwing everyone under the bus. He then went on a calling rampage and was blowing up all the managers and screaming at them.

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We all just saw a mini palm tree weaving it's way through the cubicles.

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This letter was sent to every one in the company from the VP on down. When he left the OIM tried to shake his hand, he just stared at him and told him to go frick himself. I know it's long and some may not understand it but to oilfield hands they will appreciate it.

To all,

I have been a part of the XXX project for 16 months and have seen this rig go from a place that I would like to ideally work to the place that it is right now. Please consider this my resignation letter.

I can not understand the mentality of the operational “supervisors”, and I use that word loosely, directly over this rig. Let me start with the logistics nightmare that has been the XXX. How can people who order a part be the one’s held responsible for the lost tracking, non-purchase, not showing up or receiving of an item. I spent 4 days looking for a particular item on this rig, through emails finding the tracking information to physically looking in spaces and boxes, to no avail. My job was threatened by my Rig Superintendent, XXXXX, that if I don’t locate them I would be run off. Not because I didn’t follow company policy, not because I got one of my guys hurt but because OTHER people aren’t doing their jobs properly and checking this stuff in as it arrives onboard. These items were located at 1730 on the 31st of December by the rig floor crew as they were moving boxes around unpacking them and the OIM told them not to tell me that they were found. I saw them in an open box at 0730 on the 1st of January and went to notify the OIM. He told me that he knew that they had been located the day before and he just wanted “to frick with me.” I spent 14 hours unnecessarily worrying about my job and future so that he could “frick with me?” These people think that the best way to get someone to do their job properly is you need to threaten them with their jobs, constantly. This is why I use the word “supervisors” loosely. Which brings me back to the original point, why is it the receivers fault that this stuff isn’t being properly received and the responsible person notified? And this isn’t an isolated incident; it happens everyday on board numerous times a day. No blame or fault is put on the persons “responsible” for shipping or receiving items. No system exists onboard for this and it’s well known that this has been a major hindrance on this project. When you buy a product online and it has a 3-5 day delivery time and then a week or two goes by and it doesn’t show up, do you look in the mirror and blame yourself for not receiving it. No, you get on the phone and chew out someone’s arse for why your product hasn’t arrived because they are the ones responsible.


Also, on the topic of supervisors,XXXX Drilling could have a much better subsea department in the Brasil division if it had a proper “supervisor.” Supervisors are supposed to be someone that helps to guide his subordinates when need be. In the time that I’ve spent working as a Subsea Engineer for XXXX I have noticed a few things. The supervision, or lack thereof, is hurting this department greatly. You aren’t encouraged to ask questions and when you do ask a question to the department supervisor you are thrown under the bus for not knowing your job while simultaneously being “cc’d” to every higher up in the division, just to make sure that everyone knows that you don’t know it all. What kind of incentive is that for a Subsea Engineer to better himself? I thought that was the reason to have a Superintendent? Especially when that supervisor spent the previous two years getting this project up and going, shouldn’t I be able to ask him questions about this rig? This company is getting hurt in two ways. One is that you have Subsea Engineers that won’t ask the questions that they need answers to, limiting them in their knowledge. The second is you have Subsea Engineers that are good workers and are trying hard that won’t put up with this abuse and go to another company. Both ways XXXX loses.

All of this is drastically affecting the moral of the hands on this rig. I have been on 30+ year old rigs that were falling apart where the hands felt better about their jobs. No one is given any incentive to do a good job. It’s exactly like the humorous saying goes, “The beatings will continue until moral improves.” Only this is the true feeling a person gets working on the XXX. I heard a comment from one of the OIM’s on this rig that went something like this, “Well I guess I must be a good OIM now because all of the hands on the rig hate me now.” Seriously, is that a “supervisor?”

I know I am just one employee and this letter will be taken with a grain of salt, but just realize that these are the feelings of 90% of your XXX crew.

If anyone feels the need to discuss this further I can be reached at my email address,

If it is 100% and the premium is paid by the employer they offer some great benefits. I am not sure what ours is but it's no where near 100%.

Benefits are great there, but over the last 6 years things have gone downhill terribly. They basically brought in an all new upper management team 6 years ago, and went from SEC football, to the Sunbelt in that short of time. The turnover rate now is embarrassing, considering the pay and benefits they offer. It's sad to see...

PUBLIC WORKS FUN. Most of these are involuntary.

1. Guy said something to the effect of "Imma steal you" to another employee in an argument. Ghetto speak for kill or beat da fuk up or something similar. Police escorted him out.

2. Guy "A" attempts to bite guy "B" because guy "A" said he was going to bang guy "B"'s whore that he was paying for (not those exact words, but you get the point), a footrace to the nearest open work truck occurred, and one guy locks the door while calling my boss on the radio "XXX, YYY, ANYBODY HELP ME" while this other fricking retard was jabbing a screwdriver straight into the door window. Both were terminated.

3. Guy shows up high as a kite on hydrocodone (lortab?), almost has a head-on collision with some random person, careless equipment operation, and general disregard for safety. Failed a drug test. He quit instead of going to counseling.

4. Guy shows up high all reefer madness and shite, gets into an argument with coworker about why he didn't pay the power bill for last month and he owes him $200 (da fuq, i pay like 50 a month). Punch thrown, missed target. Boss witnessed, employment terminated.

5. Homosexual encounter of the third kind occurred in a city vehicle. Both parties quit out of shame

6. Guy gets picked up on a warrant for murder that he didn't know happened because he was high on shrooms.

7. Old man has heart attack first day on job due to not being fit for manual labor. Hospital visit, quit same day.

8. Guy comes in for several weeks and decides we are doing prisoner work, calls up the mayor, asks to be compensated until the end of the pay period because he is quitting today and he put more than his fair share into the workload. No dice.


There's probably some I'm forgetting, but these are all within the last 5 years.

As someone who works in a kitchen this has always been a dream of mine. Good for him.

At my job it's 100% for the first 12 weeks, I think, then it's 60% after that until you come back or transfer over to long term disability and it's fully paid by the company.

SWB??

we had 2 mailroom people..one quit so, the other one quit right after "because the other guy was his ride".