12-16-2011, 11:59 AM | #2073 | |
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We are not allowed to take any electronics with us at all... No laptop, no hard drives, no thumbdrives, no ipads, no cameras, no cell phones... etc... I have extreme issue with this as I am traveling to a foreign country, and I am not allowed to take any form of communication. This bothers me... When we arrive on a "CHARTERED" aircraft that makes the flight daily, for three different drilling companies, we retrieve our bags from the cargo hold... and have to walk around the aircraft and throw our bags on the tarmac... This is where the 14-18 y/o Mexican Army regulars, irregulars, or what ever they are are standing with fully automatic rifles, looking at us like we raped their sisters the night before... We step back and they bring these flea bitten, mange riddled dogs over and let them sniff or pee or pretty much anything the dogs want to do to our bags... Step 1 of security... We then have to carry our bags into the teminal and walk through a scanner... Not sure what it is scanning for... Step 2... We line up and go through a customs clearance station... and then have to walk past a buttton on the wall, for random additional security checks... You push the button and if green, proceed, if red.. then you get your bags torn apart... Step 3... We exit the terminal and load up into a van... for a 10 -15 minute ride to the heliport.... <<< remember this part... Upon arrival at the heliport security gate, we have to exit the vans, we can't go through the gate in the vans... so we exit them, and walk approximately 1/3rd - 1/2 of a mile around this sidewalk... and meet the van about 150 feet from where we exited them... where the driver has thrown our bags on the filth encrusted sidewalk... There are often times nappy looking animals, dogs and cats, and what not there at our bags prior to us making it all the around this stupid jaunt we are required to take for some unknown reason. We can pick up our bags, and enter the heliport lobby... Which is less than 100 yards from the terminal we exited 20-30 minutes earlier... remember the 10-15 minute van ride.. I could walk it in less than 30 seconds.... So... we enter the lobby... and go through another scanner for some unknown purpose... step 4... We then approach the counter and are asked random questions... what are you here for, who do you work for, etc... duhhhhh... Step 5... If we answer appropriately we are given a little tag with a number on it... If we loose this tag we are sooo screwed... There have been guys taken all the way back to the airport and threatend with deportation for losing the tab... Think a little piece of paper the size of a t-shirt tag... Step 5 We then have to go through a standard airport type of security station... remove the shoes, belts, watches or anything else that may harbor weapons of mass destruction... They x-ray the bags and then they do a hands on demolition of them... Candy, (in the trash, or taken home which is what actually occurs) Food, same thing... shampoo in bottles larger than 8 ounces, trash,,, or home... (Remember we are going to these rigs for 28 days of working our asses off and it is really really hot that far south... and they do not sell shampoo on the rig... We can have 20 of the itty bitty bottles, but not one big one... No cigarettes.... (this due to some dumba**s translator that took literal meaning off what a Pemex facility is... We own and operate these rigs... Always have, always will... They lease our services... but the memo out of Mexico City that stated no smoking on Pemex Facilities... read building and offices... got carried over to the rigs that dont even belong to them... by the idiots in the heliport... so... in the trash... ANY Form of electronic is confiscated, and you will probably be deported out of the country for attempting to carry them... We are there for 28 days... The Mexican Nationals are on the rig for 14 days... We are denied any form of entertainment or personal stuff to do while off duty... I can't even take me kindle... Why... WHY do I mention all of this... Because... The reason we arre not allowed any of this stuff is the poor babies are embarrassed.... We are required to wear coveralls... possibly the hotest piece of clothing I've ever worn... but thats a different subject... The coveralls are color coded... Pemex wears Yellow << Remember this part... drilling contractor employees, like me wear orange, and service company employees wear their companies colors other than yellow... I got a company man to admit one time that the helicopter pilots are trained to rescue the yellow suited people first in an emergency... So, this leads to this... Please note the color (yellow) of the coveralls worn by idiots that are celebrating something... This was not on our rig, or on any rig my company owns... This was on a rig that supposedly belongs to Pemex... Yes, they (Pemex) are embarrassed, and rightly should be... They are afraid of more instances of videos like this being distributed out off their country... I guess they forgot we have internet access... and can post or e-mail stuff at will.... We also have work related and rig owned cameras... but I can promise you would never see this crap on any rig I've ever been on... yet we have to put up with all th stupidity for it... Now you know a SMALL part of the reason I do not want to go to Mexico to work... I get along with the Nationals just fine, even some of the company men, but the Company Pemex, Petroleo Mexico, the state oil company, is the most screwed up backa**wards bunch of knuckleheads I've ever dealt with.. Sorry for the rant...
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12-16-2011, 12:20 PM | #2074 |
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Well, it certainly wasn't meant to upset you. I was thinking your leg + Mexico classes. Sorry bud.
But I do see now why you didn't want to work in Mexico!
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12-16-2011, 12:31 PM | #2075 |
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so rob you don't have to deal with all that crap when you work out of brazil?
Cus those guys are embarrassed at a youtube video that was released.... really? Gees...
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12-16-2011, 12:50 PM | #2076 |
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You didn't upset me at all... I just needed to vent since I'm chasing my tail around trying to get all the stuff done that is required by them prior to leaving... Knowing some idiot in an office in Mexico City is gloating at how many hoops they made the gringo jump through.. To help them get their oil... We recently, last 18 months, pulled all of our rigs out of Mexico due to contested downtime... If awatchagism in a part of the rig they never see, never use etc... Doesn't work and they find out about it, that's a percentage per day downtime offense... And half a days paperwork and somewhere north of 20 emails back and forth with our office about why and who etc...and the idiot that wrote up the DT report is sitting in the office on our rig with a smug look....these rigs are incredibly complex... Stuff happens all the time that doesnt effect operations.. But they don't care...they get another lil feather in their cap from the big office on the beach...
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12-16-2011, 09:27 PM | #2077 |
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Rob give me a call on my mobile if you have a few minutes.
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12-16-2011, 09:29 PM | #2078 |
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Alright, I'm off my soap box... I was pretty wound up earlier having to driving all over hell and highwater trying to get everything done... The part of it that upset me is nowhere else in the world requires all the silly hoops we have to hop through to work where I'm headed...
I leave at 6:45 am, and will be in Cuidad Del Carmen by noon or so... I am looking forward to some decent food at the hotel we stay at, and more than anything else, I'll get to see a friend I haven't seen since I last worked in the Gulf of Mexico about five years ago...
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12-16-2011, 09:30 PM | #2079 |
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PM me a reminder of the number... I'll store it this time...
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12-16-2011, 09:33 PM | #2081 | |
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12-21-2011, 01:12 PM | #2082 |
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Someone has some updating to do. I saw it.
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For you Robert.....get home soon! Was asked to post this so I'm not giving any secrects away. I think.
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12-21-2011, 01:21 PM | #2084 |
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Ok... Car on lift... Turbos in mail... Trans at shop... Boost and nitrous on the way...MOHHH POWAHHHHH Actually there is a bit more detail but typing on my iPad sux... And copy pasting is worse....
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12-21-2011, 01:23 PM | #2085 |
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Your hooked up now
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12-21-2011, 01:25 PM | #2086 |
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