Experience
Paul Thomas
Independent Consultant. P/A, Rigless Supervisor, Snr. DSV. 32 years experience.
Ladies and Gents,
Like to share this and see what your feelings are.
You have been with a Company for over 10 years, your experience is more than some people can learn in a lifetime especially in extreme areas which have experienced prior invasion and destruction of their natural resource infrastucture. You have stayed as a loyal employee although seconded, to re-build and advance their productivity and over time have built a team which responds 24 hours a day, 7 days per week to any problem. You as the Supervisor has no means of buying new equipment but whatever the job you always get it done, whether Xmas Tree change, well kill in an emergency, coil tubing, wellhead blowout etc.
Then a younger guy comes along. He is only established from a Company in wellheads but thinks he knows everything. You go on vacation for 1 month and when you come back,
You are then surplus to requirements
What would you do:
But, at end of the day, you are just paid help to them, so move on, go after day rate- you could have made a bunch more- elsewhere and can do so in future.
Paul, just accept that your work over and above is not appreciated by career company staff management ( out at 5 if even in office for 3 hours ) who don't understand and never could,what you to do to keep things running. Very rare to get thanks: more often the opposite as if you want improve things you will be rocking the boat and on someone else's turf ( though can think of one consultancy company in paricular that has politics right- strawman thing- give them opportunity to claim ownership
Snr Toolpusher at ADES - Advanced Energy Systems
7 年They get what they pay for, experience and loyalty means nothing to some people, someone's buddy , discrimination, hope you got a good excuse from them, this is happening all over the place, this happened to me too, after 20 +years of loyalty and 15+ years of No LTI or Recordable , mentoring safety and training to my men, got the call before going back to work, I was replaced by younger man, who has since lost his finger in incident, very proud to have worked safely for over 30 years and still have all digits and respect from my men, who still call to see how thins are going.
--Tool Pusher
7 年I am interested for Night Tool Pusher [email protected]
Maintenance and asset manager
7 年Paul, I think you should quietly leave without a fuss. Make sure they know you are there to help should they need you. In this day and time you cannot burn bridges. In time, they will know that they made a mistake. The young guy might be able to talk himself into the position but when he gets to the field the talking will be over and his actions will do all the talking.