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Originally Posted by Cajundaddy
Lots of technical flaws regarding safety and hazmat but I have spent some time in the area and the lifestyle is not too far off. This is the modern equivalent of the 1849 gold rush era. Live fast, love hard, die young.
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Interesting point...is it supposed to be historically set in the past? I thought it was supposed to be current....
When I got my training, my employer (Shell) had recently been informed by the government that if any more employees died due to H2S, the executives were going to jail for criminal negligence.
Seems like there had been something like 4 cases of one guy falling over, the other running to go help and both die.....
The reaction (this was in the 1980's) was that anyone who came near H2S had to have the full training, Scott Airpack and all....and all beards and moustaches had to come off.
As for the other stuff, yeah - plant and field workers are not cut from the same cloth as us pussies in the office.
I remember visiting one remote drill site where the rather enterprising cook had set up a wonderful after dinner prostitution service, complete with hors d'oeuvres that was thriving due in no small part to her captive audience, the onsite abundance of cash and the absolute lack of morals.
D.