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... On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:28:22 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard" wrote: "Joe" wrote in message ... snippage I'm glad you were able to find something on the internet related to the subject. I know all that confined space safety stuff without having to search it on the Internet. Jail cell Yup, I'm posting from a jail cell right now. That anonymous remailer stalker got me arrested. He was just sooooo convincing. Bwahahhahahahahhahahahahhahahahahhahahahhahahahahh ahha. Hahhahahahhahahahhahahhahaha. Heee hheeehehehhehehehhe. Bwahahhahaahahhahaha. Bwahahhahahah ahhahahahahhahahahah hahahahhahahahahhahha. Hahhahahahhahahahhahahhahaha. Heee hheeehehehhehehehhe. Bwahah hahaahahhahaha.Bwahahh ahahahahhahahahahha hahahahhahahahhahahahahhahha. Hahhahahahhahahahhahahhahaha. Heee hheeehehehhehehehhe. Bwahahhahaahahhahaha. Wilbur Hubbard |
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On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:17:13 -0700 (PDT), Joe
wrote: On Mar 20, 3:32*pm, "Gregory Hall" wrote: "Joe" wrote in message ... snippage - Show quoted text - I did not make it sound like that, you assumed. And yes a proper breathing apparatus (forced air hoods) are required in the mud tanks as most mud is petro based. I said you have to "Suit up" to go into the tanks bonehead, pay attention Im not talking about a gray pin stripe. Are you using oil based mud in the gulf now? Over here there is very little used, or at least it is not usually used, as it costs more and generally the formations found do not require it. In addition most countries in the area are now, more of less, environmentally conscious so the days of just dumping the mud tanks is pretty well over. By the way, I find that snipping Willy's comments contributes to the intellectual quotient of the conversation :-) Joe I'm glad you were able to find something on the internet related to the subject. Cheers, Bruce (bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom) |
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On Mar 20, 7:00*pm, Bruce In Bangkok
wrote: On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:17:13 -0700 (PDT), Joe wrote: On Mar 20, 3:32*pm, "Gregory Hall" wrote: "Joe" wrote in message .... snippage - Show quoted text - I did not make it sound like that, you assumed. And yes a proper breathing apparatus (forced air hoods) are required in the mud tanks as most mud is petro based. I said you have to "Suit up" to go into the tanks bonehead, pay attention Im not talking about a gray pin stripe. Are you using oil based mud in the gulf now? Over here there is very little used, or at least it is not usually used, as it costs more and generally the formations found do not require it. In addition most countries in the area are now, more of less, environmentally conscious so the days of just dumping the mud tanks is pretty well over. We could never dump mud, if they over bought they would take back what was never used. I'm not sure what kind stuff they are mixing these days, it would change weekly to what ever was the best thing going. We hauled stuff that looks and feels like heavy runny snot to boat loads of black magic. I think the gulf is getting pretty tight on any type of discharge, and it's been awhile since I hung around with any drilling fluid folks. Joe By the way, I find that snipping Willy's comments contributes to the intellectual quotient of the conversation * :-) Joe I'm glad you were able to find something on the internet related to the subject. Cheers, Bruce (bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom) |
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On Mar 19, 11:30*pm, Bruce In Bangkok
wrote: Not to be too noisy but what is the pay scale on a work boat? A day rate for days worked? Or hourly? Monthly? I was hired as an OS at $150/day. From what I understand that is typical pay for unlicensed people. ABs get $240-$320 per day I was told Im off to another boat and will be filling an AB spot there. I guess they wanted to see if an old guy could cut it. guess I did. Ill be starting $260/day as AB with this company Bob |
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On Mar 20, 9:04*am, Joe wrote:
*You mean a 300 ton boat right? A supply boat? Do you know the name of the boat? Nope......... actually about 1300 GRT I can't think of any 1,600 ton boats working in the Gulf, unless your going to work for NOAA, or on a semi underway or perhaps a smaller drill ship. there are several 1600 ton boats and a few UL in deep. Im NOT on an OSV or a crewboat or utility or a sismic or a NOAA or semi.......... Humm I wonder whats left???? *What's the name of the boat you are on now? Dont want to say Who's it buildt by? Master Boat Builders 2001 Who you guys working for? The boat delivers services for companies. *Supply boats have cement and mud tanks Bob. I warned you! No worres here we dont do that kinda stuff. We dont schlep stuff around. Bob |
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On Mar 21, 6:39*pm, Bob wrote:
No worres here we dont do that kinda stuff. We dont schlep stuff around. Bob Thats great Bob, sounds like you got one of thoses union jobs, on a boat buildt by Masters. I guess you're skeered or ashamed to say what boat you are on. Must be a real P.O.S. Oh well your little stories are kinda lame anyway, you sound more giddy than Lydia steering a boat, I bet you wet your panties. Your just to OS Bobbie Joe .. |
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On Mar 21, 7:30*pm, Joe wrote:
Thats great Bob, sounds like you got one of thoses union jobs, on a boat buildt by Masters. Nope not a union boat. Nor a tug *I guess you're skeered or ashamed to say what boat you are on. Must be a real P.O.S. Neither. Just dont like puking personal info here like Skip n others. I use Bob only cause Its a fitting name for being on the water. Oh well your little stories are kinda lame anyway, you sound more giddy than Lydia steering a boat, I bet you wet your panties. When I was diving it was SOP to **** ur self. No big deal. Joe Hope you have a good day...... Ill keep a look out for a coffee slick while Im out here. Off to bed.. I got to go to work 2maro. how about you? Bob |
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On Mar 21, 7:30*pm, Joe wrote:
On Mar 21, 6:39*pm, Bob wrote: No worres here we dont do that kinda stuff. We dont schlep stuff around. Bob Thats great Bob, sounds like you got one of thoses union jobs, on a boat buildt by Masters. *I guess you're skeered or ashamed to say what boat you are on. Must be a real P.O.S. Oh well your little stories are kinda lame anyway, you sound more giddy than Lydia steering a boat, I bet you wet your panties. Your just to OS Bobbie Joe . PS Sorry for the dis-Bob. After allIm sure your forked out thousands of dollars in school to obtain the rank of OS After reading your responces to the questions I figured out I should have never asked you them as you do not know. After all the Capatin has most likely not shared any of that kind of information with you. Let me see if I can ask some questions you might be able to answer. Do you AJAX or Comet in the ****ters? Can you still get that good brasso with the cotton ? Are your paint brushes made with synthetic or natural brissles? Well that about covers it. Joe |
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On Mar 21, 8:02*pm, Bob wrote:
On Mar 21, 7:30*pm, Joe wrote: Thats great Bob, sounds like you got one of thoses union jobs, on a boat buildt by Masters. Nope not a union boat. Nor a tug *I guess you're skeered or ashamed to say what boat you are on. Must be a real P.O.S. Neither. Just dont like puking personal info here like Skip n others. I use Bob only cause Its a fitting name for being on the water. Oh well your little stories are kinda lame anyway, you sound more giddy than Lydia steering a boat, I bet you wet your panties. When I was diving it was SOP to **** ur self. No big deal. Joe Hope you have a good day...... Ill keep a look out for a coffee slick while Im *out here. Off to bed.. I got to go to work 2maro. how about you? Bob Yeah I have to roast coffee for a couple of grocery stores a resturant and a couple of corporate accounts. Have a presentation to get together for a national family diner chain bashed here in Houston. I will have to admin my Job board, as you can imagine it's been very busy. It's been on line since 1997. lightboard.com And I own a recruiting firm (hence the email addy incase you never figured it out) and, have to prep a young fellow for an interview Monday. Also I have a mile of Teak on my boat that needs a new coat of varnish, maybe I can find some dumb out of work fellow from the PNW to do it for me for a few bucks. Joe |
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On Mar 21, 8:21*pm, wrote:
On Mar 21, 8:02*pm, Bob wrote: On Mar 21, 7:30*pm, Joe wrote: Thats great Bob, sounds like you got one of thoses union jobs, on a boat buildt by Masters. Nope not a union boat. Nor a tug *I guess you're skeered or ashamed to say what boat you are on. Must be a real P.O.S. Neither. Just dont like puking personal info here like Skip n others. I use Bob only cause Its a fitting name for being on the water. Oh well your little stories are kinda lame anyway, you sound more giddy than Lydia steering a boat, I bet you wet your panties. When I was diving it was SOP to **** ur self. No big deal. Joe Hope you have a good day...... Ill keep a look out for a coffee slick while Im *out here. Off to bed.. I got to go to work 2maro. how about you? Bob Yeah I have to roast coffee for a couple of grocery stores a resturant and a couple of corporate accounts. *Have a presentation to get together for a national family diner chain bashed here in Houston. I will have to admin my Job board, as you can imagine it's been very busy. *It's been on line since 1997. lightboard.com And I own a recruiting firm (hence the email addy incase you never figured it out) and, have to prep a young fellow for an interview Monday. Also I have a mile of Teak on my boat that needs a new coat of varnish, maybe I can find some dumb out of work fellow from the PNW to do it for me for a few bucks. Joe- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - PS BOB One last thing before I go to listen to the band at the Boardwalk with friends, then maybe out on the bay for a quick moonlight cruise. I dont have to rush to bed because I will not have a dispacher screaming to get under a crane ot 03:30. Or a Captain telling me the ****ters need scrubbed again. Might sleep in late if I feel like it. I work were I want and when I want. I do not have to drive across the country to work because I take chances. Moved into the .com before the bubble burst and we are still going strong, after many failed. Owned a shrimp boat, failed at it Opened a recruiting firm, still going strong after many many firms have failed. Had a 1,600 masters at 24 and left the industry for better money and a better lifestyle. Just started a coffee company that has a goal to bring back sail transport, and the company is growing while others like Starbucks are dropping like flies. So you keep on making your smart ass comments about my losing RedCloud and her cargo of coffee and I will keep doing or trying to develope the worlds best career for myself. I will be master of a next generation coffee clipper, providing 100's of thousands of people with the freshest best tasting coffee in America, and in doing so will reduce this country dependence on oil from places like Iraq. I'm going to live my dream, it's just a bit different than scrubbing ****ters. I only responded to you hoping to provide you help in prusing your dream career of scrubbing ****ters, I'll seldom bother again as you want to play the role of an asshole sock like Nellie. You keep joking about a coffee slick douchebag, I brought my crew to shore alive and well, and I'm smart enough to be very grateful for that. I've know many that have not been so lucky, you keep with it, you will too. Who knows Bob, maybe some night soon I will be sailing a three masted clipper through the oilfield you are tending. I'll be on my way to somewhere exotic, tropical, a real paradise and passage full of adventure, while you hang off a bouy scrubbing ****ters. Two dream worlds passing in the night! Aint life grand? Adios Pandeho. Java Joe |
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On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:33:20 -0700 (PDT), Bob
wrote: On Mar 19, 11:30*pm, Bruce In Bangkok wrote: Not to be too noisy but what is the pay scale on a work boat? A day rate for days worked? Or hourly? Monthly? I was hired as an OS at $150/day. From what I understand that is typical pay for unlicensed people. ABs get $240-$320 per day I was told Im off to another boat and will be filling an AB spot there. I guess they wanted to see if an old guy could cut it. guess I did. Ill be starting $260/day as AB with this company Bob How does that compare with say, an engineer? Just trying to get an idea of relationship of pay there to pay here. Of course here there would be no foreign AB's but there might be a foreign engineer. Cheers, Bruce (bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom) |
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... PS Sorry for the dis-Bob. After allIm sure your forked out thousands of dollars in school to obtain the rank of OS After reading your responces to the questions I figured out I should have never asked you them as you do not know. After all the Capatin has most likely not shared any of that kind of information with you. Let me see if I can ask some questions you might be able to answer. Do you AJAX or Comet in the ****ters? Can you still get that good brasso with the cotton ? Are your paint brushes made with synthetic or natural brissles? Well that about covers it. That chip on your shoulder sure is huge, Joe! Honestly, I don't know why you even bothered with a helicopter rescue. You and your entire crew could have floated to shore in comfort on that six-man life raft of a chip. Wilbur Hubbard |
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On Mar 22, 12:05*am, Bruce In Bangkok
wrote: On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:33:20 -0700 (PDT), Bob wrote: On Mar 19, 11:30*pm, Bruce In Bangkok wrote: Not to be too noisy but what is the pay scale on a work boat? A day rate for days worked? Or hourly? Monthly? I was hired as an OS at $150/day. From what I understand that is typical pay for unlicensed people. ABs get $240-$320 per day I was told Im off to another boat and will be filling an AB spot there. I guess they wanted to see if an old guy could cut it. guess I did. Ill be starting $260/day as AB with this company Bob How does that compare with say, an engineer? Just trying to get an idea of relationship of pay there to pay here. Of course here there would be no foreign AB's but there might be a foreign engineer. Cheers, Bruce (bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Hello Bruce, Here the average pay for a 4000 HP engineer with a couple years experience is 500 a day. Joe |
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On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:06:42 -0700 (PDT), Joe
wrote: On Mar 22, 12:05*am, Bruce In Bangkok wrote: On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:33:20 -0700 (PDT), Bob wrote: On Mar 19, 11:30*pm, Bruce In Bangkok wrote: Not to be too noisy but what is the pay scale on a work boat? A day rate for days worked? Or hourly? Monthly? I was hired as an OS at $150/day. From what I understand that is typical pay for unlicensed people. ABs get $240-$320 per day I was told Im off to another boat and will be filling an AB spot there. I guess they wanted to see if an old guy could cut it. guess I did. Ill be starting $260/day as AB with this company Bob How does that compare with say, an engineer? Just trying to get an idea of relationship of pay there to pay here. Of course here there would be no foreign AB's but there might be a foreign engineer. Cheers, Bruce (bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Hello Bruce, Here the average pay for a 4000 HP engineer with a couple years experience is 500 a day. Joe Interesting as that is somewhere in the general neighborhood of what would be paid over here for a "rig mechanic", assuming that he is US or European but they are getting scarce. Years ago we used to have supply boats and tugs with US or European officers but now days they are all Indonesian or Filipino. Wages are obviously somewhat lower. Cheers, Bruce (bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom) |
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On Mar 22, 6:24*pm, Bruce In Bangkok
wrote: On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:06:42 -0700 (PDT), Joe wrote: On Mar 22, 12:05*am, Bruce In Bangkok wrote: On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:33:20 -0700 (PDT), Bob wrote: On Mar 19, 11:30*pm, Bruce In Bangkok wrote: Not to be too noisy but what is the pay scale on a work boat? A day rate for days worked? Or hourly? Monthly? I was hired as an OS at $150/day. From what I understand that is typical pay for unlicensed people. ABs get $240-$320 per day I was told Im off to another boat and will be filling an AB spot there. I guess they wanted to see if an old guy could cut it. guess I did. Ill be starting $260/day as AB with this company Bob How does that compare with say, an engineer? Just trying to get an idea of relationship of pay there to pay here. Of course here there would be no foreign AB's but there might be a foreign engineer. Cheers, Bruce (bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Hello Bruce, Here the average pay for a 4000 HP engineer with a couple years experience is 500 a day. Joe Interesting as that is somewhere in the general neighborhood of what would be paid over here for a "rig mechanic", assuming that he is US or European but they are getting scarce. Years ago we used to have supply boats and tugs with US or European officers but now days they are all Indonesian or Filipino. Wages are obviously somewhat lower. Cheers, Bruce (bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Somewhat lower wages? Once we were working a production field pulling up dry well heads for Mobil. Had a boat from Norway working with us, they had a huge stern A frame. Anyhow things were going good everyone happy till they found out we made about 400 times the money they made. They had an attitude after that ;0) Here in Houston AB's make an average of 175-195 a day. I have a friend that owns Houston Marine dot com. My cousin and him served on a CG tender together. He trains 100's every year. Bob did better than any other AB I know of.... scoring that 240 a day gig as an AB. Joe |
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... trimmed a bunch Here in Houston AB's make an average of 175-195 a day. I have a friend that owns Houston Marine dot com. My cousin and him served on a CG tender together. He trains 100's every year. Bob did better than any other AB I know of.... scoring that 240 a day gig as an AB. Is there such a thing as an AM (Able Minded) seaman? It seems to me that's something none of you so-called professionals seem to possess. Wilbur Hubbard |
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Bob did better than any other AB I know of.... scoring that 240 a day gig as an AB. Unions will do that for you. Cheers Martin |
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On Mar 23, 3:15*pm, Marty wrote:
Joe wrote: *Bob did better than any other AB I know of.... scoring that 240 a day gig as an AB. Unions will do that for you. Cheers Martin That must be it. I bet he flashed his union card to the HR manager, right after he demanded to be issued a new cold water survival suit. Joe |
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On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 06:53:37 -0700 (PDT), Joe
wrote: On Mar 22, 6:24*pm, Bruce In Bangkok wrote: On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:06:42 -0700 (PDT), Joe wrote: On Mar 22, 12:05*am, Bruce In Bangkok wrote: On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:33:20 -0700 (PDT), Bob wrote: On Mar 19, 11:30*pm, Bruce In Bangkok wrote: Not to be too noisy but what is the pay scale on a work boat? A day rate for days worked? Or hourly? Monthly? I was hired as an OS at $150/day. From what I understand that is typical pay for unlicensed people. ABs get $240-$320 per day I was told Im off to another boat and will be filling an AB spot there. I guess they wanted to see if an old guy could cut it. guess I did. Ill be starting $260/day as AB with this company Bob How does that compare with say, an engineer? Just trying to get an idea of relationship of pay there to pay here. Of course here there would be no foreign AB's but there might be a foreign engineer. Cheers, Bruce (bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Hello Bruce, Here the average pay for a 4000 HP engineer with a couple years experience is 500 a day. Joe Interesting as that is somewhere in the general neighborhood of what would be paid over here for a "rig mechanic", assuming that he is US or European but they are getting scarce. Years ago we used to have supply boats and tugs with US or European officers but now days they are all Indonesian or Filipino. Wages are obviously somewhat lower. Cheers, Bruce (bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Somewhat lower wages? Once we were working a production field pulling up dry well heads for Mobil. Had a boat from Norway working with us, they had a huge stern A frame. Anyhow things were going good everyone happy till they found out we made about 400 times the money they made. They had an attitude after that ;0) Here in Houston AB's make an average of 175-195 a day. I have a friend that owns Houston Marine dot com. My cousin and him served on a CG tender together. He trains 100's every year. Bob did better than any other AB I know of.... scoring that 240 a day gig as an AB. Joe For quite a while companies over here used to have different pay scales for different nationalities. U.S. was highest, Brits and Australians lower, etc. Apparently some Bean Counter's idea of an equitable system based on home country salaries. Unfortunately, the hands talk to each other and sure enough you'd get a crew down in the jungles somewhere that would get to talking and some of the hands would discover that they were getting less money for the same work and want to quit. Of course, it is hard to quit down there in the jungle when you have to wait for the next crew change airplane but in a couple of cases people did down tools and lay around the camp waiting for the plane. which of course ****ed off the rest of the crew. One of the startling innovations our company made was to pay everyone the same...... Cheers, Bruce (bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom) |
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... On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 06:53:37 -0700 (PDT), Joe wrote: On Mar 22, 6:24 pm, Bruce In Bangkok wrote: On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:06:42 -0700 (PDT), Joe wrote: On Mar 22, 12:05 am, Bruce In Bangkok wrote: On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:33:20 -0700 (PDT), Bob wrote: On Mar 19, 11:30 pm, Bruce In Bangkok wrote: Not to be too noisy but what is the pay scale on a work boat? A day rate for days worked? Or hourly? Monthly? I was hired as an OS at $150/day. From what I understand that is typical pay for unlicensed people. ABs get $240-$320 per day I was told Im off to another boat and will be filling an AB spot there. I guess they wanted to see if an old guy could cut it. guess I did. Ill be starting $260/day as AB with this company Bob How does that compare with say, an engineer? Just trying to get an idea of relationship of pay there to pay here. Of course here there would be no foreign AB's but there might be a foreign engineer. Cheers, Bruce (bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Hello Bruce, Here the average pay for a 4000 HP engineer with a couple years experience is 500 a day. Joe Interesting as that is somewhere in the general neighborhood of what would be paid over here for a "rig mechanic", assuming that he is US or European but they are getting scarce. Years ago we used to have supply boats and tugs with US or European officers but now days they are all Indonesian or Filipino. Wages are obviously somewhat lower. Cheers, Bruce (bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Somewhat lower wages? Once we were working a production field pulling up dry well heads for Mobil. Had a boat from Norway working with us, they had a huge stern A frame. Anyhow things were going good everyone happy till they found out we made about 400 times the money they made. They had an attitude after that ;0) Here in Houston AB's make an average of 175-195 a day. I have a friend that owns Houston Marine dot com. My cousin and him served on a CG tender together. He trains 100's every year. Bob did better than any other AB I know of.... scoring that 240 a day gig as an AB. Joe For quite a while companies over here used to have different pay scales for different nationalities. U.S. was highest, Brits and Australians lower, etc. Apparently some Bean Counter's idea of an equitable system based on home country salaries. Unfortunately, the hands talk to each other and sure enough you'd get a crew down in the jungles somewhere that would get to talking and some of the hands would discover that they were getting less money for the same work and want to quit. Of course, it is hard to quit down there in the jungle when you have to wait for the next crew change airplane but in a couple of cases people did down tools and lay around the camp waiting for the plane. which of course ****ed off the rest of the crew. One of the startling innovations our company made was to pay everyone the same...... Cheers, Bruce (bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom) So they all put down the tool and lay around waiting for the plane? :) -- "j" ganz @@ www.sailnow.com |
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On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:58:42 -0700, "Capt. JG"
wrote: "Bruce In Bangkok" wrote in message .. . On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 06:53:37 -0700 (PDT), Joe wrote: On Mar 22, 6:24 pm, Bruce In Bangkok wrote: On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:06:42 -0700 (PDT), Joe wrote: On Mar 22, 12:05 am, Bruce In Bangkok wrote: On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:33:20 -0700 (PDT), Bob wrote: On Mar 19, 11:30 pm, Bruce In Bangkok wrote: Not to be too noisy but what is the pay scale on a work boat? A day rate for days worked? Or hourly? Monthly? I was hired as an OS at $150/day. From what I understand that is typical pay for unlicensed people. ABs get $240-$320 per day I was told Im off to another boat and will be filling an AB spot there. I guess they wanted to see if an old guy could cut it. guess I did. Ill be starting $260/day as AB with this company Bob How does that compare with say, an engineer? Just trying to get an idea of relationship of pay there to pay here. Of course here there would be no foreign AB's but there might be a foreign engineer. Cheers, Bruce (bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Hello Bruce, Here the average pay for a 4000 HP engineer with a couple years experience is 500 a day. Joe Interesting as that is somewhere in the general neighborhood of what would be paid over here for a "rig mechanic", assuming that he is US or European but they are getting scarce. Years ago we used to have supply boats and tugs with US or European officers but now days they are all Indonesian or Filipino. Wages are obviously somewhat lower. Cheers, Bruce (bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Somewhat lower wages? Once we were working a production field pulling up dry well heads for Mobil. Had a boat from Norway working with us, they had a huge stern A frame. Anyhow things were going good everyone happy till they found out we made about 400 times the money they made. They had an attitude after that ;0) Here in Houston AB's make an average of 175-195 a day. I have a friend that owns Houston Marine dot com. My cousin and him served on a CG tender together. He trains 100's every year. Bob did better than any other AB I know of.... scoring that 240 a day gig as an AB. Joe For quite a while companies over here used to have different pay scales for different nationalities. U.S. was highest, Brits and Australians lower, etc. Apparently some Bean Counter's idea of an equitable system based on home country salaries. Unfortunately, the hands talk to each other and sure enough you'd get a crew down in the jungles somewhere that would get to talking and some of the hands would discover that they were getting less money for the same work and want to quit. Of course, it is hard to quit down there in the jungle when you have to wait for the next crew change airplane but in a couple of cases people did down tools and lay around the camp waiting for the plane. which of course ****ed off the rest of the crew. One of the startling innovations our company made was to pay everyone the same...... Cheers, Bruce (bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom) So they all put down the tool and lay around waiting for the plane? :) No, but they used to complain a lot. Funny, a guy would come in all raggedy and dirty and say something like, "I really need a job". We'd hire him and he couldn't wait to sign his contract - never even read it. Then, as soon as he had gotten his first pay check he's in the office bitching about his per diem or something. I used to say, "Hey! That was all in the contract you signed - you want me to get it out and we can read it together?" As someone in the U.S. Embassy, Saigon, was reputed to have said, "If it wasn't for you guys coming in here bitching this would be a pretty good job." Cheers, Bruce (bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom) |
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... On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:58:42 -0700, "Capt. JG" wrote: "Bruce In Bangkok" wrote in message . .. On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 06:53:37 -0700 (PDT), Joe wrote: On Mar 22, 6:24 pm, Bruce In Bangkok wrote: On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:06:42 -0700 (PDT), Joe wrote: On Mar 22, 12:05 am, Bruce In Bangkok wrote: On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:33:20 -0700 (PDT), Bob wrote: On Mar 19, 11:30 pm, Bruce In Bangkok wrote: Not to be too noisy but what is the pay scale on a work boat? A day rate for days worked? Or hourly? Monthly? I was hired as an OS at $150/day. From what I understand that is typical pay for unlicensed people. ABs get $240-$320 per day I was told Im off to another boat and will be filling an AB spot there. I guess they wanted to see if an old guy could cut it. guess I did. Ill be starting $260/day as AB with this company Bob How does that compare with say, an engineer? Just trying to get an idea of relationship of pay there to pay here. Of course here there would be no foreign AB's but there might be a foreign engineer. Cheers, Bruce (bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Hello Bruce, Here the average pay for a 4000 HP engineer with a couple years experience is 500 a day. Joe Interesting as that is somewhere in the general neighborhood of what would be paid over here for a "rig mechanic", assuming that he is US or European but they are getting scarce. Years ago we used to have supply boats and tugs with US or European officers but now days they are all Indonesian or Filipino. Wages are obviously somewhat lower. Cheers, Bruce (bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Somewhat lower wages? Once we were working a production field pulling up dry well heads for Mobil. Had a boat from Norway working with us, they had a huge stern A frame. Anyhow things were going good everyone happy till they found out we made about 400 times the money they made. They had an attitude after that ;0) Here in Houston AB's make an average of 175-195 a day. I have a friend that owns Houston Marine dot com. My cousin and him served on a CG tender together. He trains 100's every year. Bob did better than any other AB I know of.... scoring that 240 a day gig as an AB. Joe For quite a while companies over here used to have different pay scales for different nationalities. U.S. was highest, Brits and Australians lower, etc. Apparently some Bean Counter's idea of an equitable system based on home country salaries. Unfortunately, the hands talk to each other and sure enough you'd get a crew down in the jungles somewhere that would get to talking and some of the hands would discover that they were getting less money for the same work and want to quit. Of course, it is hard to quit down there in the jungle when you have to wait for the next crew change airplane but in a couple of cases people did down tools and lay around the camp waiting for the plane. which of course ****ed off the rest of the crew. One of the startling innovations our company made was to pay everyone the same...... Cheers, Bruce (bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom) So they all put down the tool and lay around waiting for the plane? :) No, but they used to complain a lot. Funny, a guy would come in all raggedy and dirty and say something like, "I really need a job". We'd hire him and he couldn't wait to sign his contract - never even read it. Then, as soon as he had gotten his first pay check he's in the office bitching about his per diem or something. I used to say, "Hey! That was all in the contract you signed - you want me to get it out and we can read it together?" As someone in the U.S. Embassy, Saigon, was reputed to have said, "If it wasn't for you guys coming in here bitching this would be a pretty good job." Cheers, Bruce (bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom) Life is great without customers, at least for a while. -- "j" ganz @@ www.sailnow.com |
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