Haliburton Jr.

[Bandalero]

well yeah, they bug me. and i usually pay as soon as possible. the thing is, some of these companies aren't on the ball so they don't know either until one day, hey, your account with us is closed because you haven't paid us. that leaes me in a situation because i never knew about the missing invoices, and then they have to fax them over and it's just a massive paperwork hell.

[don't ask why]

watch syriana. it'll change your view on corrupt companies.

[thirdhour]

Corruption. Corruption is our protection, corruption keeps us safe and warm, corruption is why we win.

*saw syriana last night*

[don't ask why]

It's a deep movie, eh? But I need another watch to encompass everything that was going on.

[Bandalero]

so maybe they're not wasteful, although we use up alot of oil and diesel every month. in december we used $160,000 worth of it. iron is also a massive expense. chemicals too, but i never saw those figures.

missing invoices, hidden mail with invoices. that's probably the reason why when i came into the company in november 1st, there were massive amounts of invoices dated from june, and a few others from early in the year. at the end of the year we sent in all our old stuff, and corporate came back and slapped it in the face of the head guy in charge at the yard. he called us into his office wanted an explanation at which point i threw my boss into the fire and put it all on him. after the ass chewing, we go back to the office andfind massive amounts of envelopes with originals invoices in them, all of them were supposedly given to him the day before. of course i do not buy it since they were stuffed into a rarely used drawer. if someone gives you something today, chances are it's still gonna be on your desk tomorrow, not stuffed in a drawer. nevertheless, some guy came down to investigate a little bit and when i sat him down with me, i told him everything i suspect. the guy has worked with my supervisor before and he flat out old me 'yeah, your supervisor does that.'

then the fun part. my boss knows i've burned his ass again, and i'm already written up twice. he asks me if i told the guy anything and i said no. of course he didn't belive it, and goes to his office in the shop and writes me up a third time. i actually go back there and see it. i come back to my office tell the receptionist, and she flat out told me, he doesn't like you, he hates you. he called human resources and asked how to get rid of you, and they told him three write ups and he can be terminated. so after i burned his ass again, he got pissed and was going to get rid of me right then and there. but a friend of mine at work see him with the write up, and asks him what the hell he's doing. my supervisor tells him he should have gotten rid of me a long time ago. and my friend flat out tells him, hey, he's cleaning up your fucking mess man, and you've done nothing to help him, your still at it and you want to get rid of the guy, explain that? so he stuffs the write up in his back pocket.

but it's all clear to me now. i know he wants to get rid of me, i know he wants to cook the books, i know that he's done it before at another company. i will not make myself look stupid for a good paying job. when the audit comes, he'd throw me into the fire to cover his ass. so i went to corporate in houston this past friday, and told my story to accounts payable, told it to human resources, told it to a man who was just a name before i met him, a name everyone feared. then i quit.

the nightmare is over....

[xjsb125]

You did the right thing. Personal integrity is worth more than any paycheck.

[nikki4982]

Nice. Hopefully your supervisor gets fired.

[Soozy]

Yay Reno

[happening fish]

the rant, she lives!

[Kathy]

good for you!

[thirdhour]

My brother works...er, worked for Precision Drilling on an oil rig near Dawson's Creek (northern BC), but he quit a few days ago because conditions were dangerous because the company chooses to cut corners rather than put the safety of their employees first. He said that employees weren't given the right tools and that his rigger (the head of his crew) would purposly do things that would put the rest of the crew in danger. Even when he talked to upper-level people, they refused to do anything to protect him. People lose their arms and even die regularily, but yet nothing is done to make it safer. After 5 months of putting up with this shit, he finally just walked off the job and drove home. His boss keeps calling asking if he'll come back, but he's had enough and has decided that the money wasn't worth his life.

[nikki4982]

Eek. That's a dangerous enough job when they do things correctly.

And, on a completely different note... teehee Dawson's Creek.

[thirdhour]

I know. I really wonder if they named the show after the town.

And jesus motherfucking christ, a kid from vernon died on the rigs TODAY. I am so freaking glad my brother isn't going back there.

[Bandalero]

we have a prescision drilling down here. and i know y'all got a Weatherford up there. a guy up in the edminton area from Weatherford recently slid off the road in a company pick up on his way to work.

and i've heard a story of a guy right before i showed up fell of a gel transport and died in the hospital a week later. the debate was that they had harnesses, but he refused to wear it, but other people are saying no, there were no harnesses, they bought them after the fact for insurance purposes. but for the most part the saftey guy was pretty good at his job.

then when i was there, a guy hit an abondoned truck on the side of the road with a rig. all the rig hands lost their bonuses because of the accident, and they were going to retaliate. and yet you'll be suprised how upper management didn't do a whole lot to protect the guy. it was like, hey if i was you, i'd leave. but they never like made sure the others wern't going to kick his ass. it was like, oh just leave before the other hands get here. crazy.