Employment Nigeria Bristow Helicopter
SJ-So you're a misfit eh,well welcome to the fold.If you haven't yet signed on the dotted line read on for an insight into your soon to be not forgotten experience.Nigeria and it's peoples are a diverse bunch,outwardly friendly but inwardly volatile,things can change in an instant.For further info.look at the websites of the USA State Dept.and UK Foreign Office.Watch your back(and your front and sides)at all times,keep your hands on your wallet,passport etc.,never forget this is the home of the 419"scam"where corruption and kleptomania have been refined to perfection.Your first sight of the BRC will be a foretaste of things to come-high walls topped with razor wire,guards on the gate,barred shutters on the doors and windows.If you've done time in a penitentiary you should be well prepared physchologically.What about fire precautions did I hear you say,don't worry there are no smoke detectors and anyway DNA testing is an exact science these days, your family will be confident it's you that's being returned to them if you're that unlucky.Gravitating to the saloon/bar on arrival will quickly see you introduced to your fellow M's.,in the background you might just be able to hear the sound of gunfire as the 1st.wave of robbers open up.If you're really lucky you might just get your 1st.beer down your throat before the power fails and the standby generator kicks in pumping it's pollutants into a toxic sky.Not for nothing is NEPA known as the "no electric power authority".But I digress-back to your fellow M's.A more diverse bunch of normal de-generates you couldn't hope to meet.From sheepshaggers to kaffir bashers,pornographers to adulterers,fornicators to drunkards,they're all here.Before you get too depressed there are a few beacons of light present,vainly casting their pearls before the trampling herd in the stygian gloom.And what of the management,entrusted with the unenviable task of leading? this bunch of social misfits?The management appear to subscribe to the Shell school of control.i.e.leading from the "derriere" position and even if required the "soixante neuf" position for those familiar with French bedroom farces.A more loveable bunch of dinosaurs from the neolithic age you couldn't hope to meet,although there are signs of +ve change with the arrival of native/colonial "wannabees".A current example of management's thinking is to be found under the heading of allowances payable on "ad hoc"operations outside Nigeria.Nigerians are paid 30o/o more than expats.of whatever hue,truly a textbook example of "reverse discrimination".Perhaps any share-owning OLOG pilot reading this might care to raise this matter at the next AGM and enquire why this should be when the major shareholders in the USA and UK are required to both observe and be seen to implement their respective countries Equality and Racial Discrimination legislation.(Woodside,Kerr McGee,Bunker Hunt ethics committee please note) If you're still reading this SJ you've certainly got stamina,which you'll need in large quantities to get thru' a tour in Nigeria.On 2nd.thoughts perhaps you ought to stay at home,pay your taxes and sleep with your wife at night,or possibly somebody else's wife if you're really lucky and leave W.Africa to the three M's.
PS.And we didn't even get to discuss the operations,weather etc.,aw shucks,save it for another day.
(Thinks-does any OLOG pilot get paid enought to own shares)?
(Double thinks-Is there such an animal as an ethical oil company)?