Well, there was flying from QIT today today, but the cowardly HRM of Bristow has not come to sort the problems he has made. There are now threats of all junior staff to be sacked - that will certainly calm matters down
Soon in the swamp there will be heard the sound of the Bell again when a native company, Calverton flys the Bell 412 for Shell
Eket will not be able to keep any expatriate soon unless Bristow realise the many problems, much of which is of its making, and does something. I have just today seen on our comopany website something posted by Richard Burman. I have never met this gentleman and I am sure that I will not because from the nonsence he talks he has no idea what happens outside UK or Houston. He talks all sort of mumbo jumbo about cultural initiative and tightening of the belts with asking for "constraint in salary and compensation expectations especially in those parts of the world where we know our terms of employment and overall compensation packages are at the very top of the competitive range". For this yoh can read just to expect the usual 2.5% on basic in Nigeria where people are being killed and kidnapped almost every day and there is always trubbel. Forget the pilots on the North Sea who are also work on equal time for only $150,000+ per annum. Here we will just continue in our prison surrounded by barb wire and bush, 13 hour days, convoys of gunmen to escort us to our work, no facilitys and the management will think we should be pathetically grateful that for this we should recieve an extra $17 per day. Well, I am sure that all this senior managers such as the one who have just left for GOM will take there profit bonuses, and think nothing more of this place they have left after a few short years. The managers who follow will be managing a declining empire as more people leave and nobody will arrive to remplace them. It is only a matter of time as more opportunitys open up outside of this hell hole and our managers will have to finally use up all of the piles of applications they claim to have on there desk because we are over staff allready.
