A bad start to a job

Here is a subject about a company in The Middle east and how they are treating there and other people, that will maybe in future help the ROV industry. An email i sent out to a few people about my bad experience.

To Whom It May Concern

I will take this opportunity to warn your potential future employees
That FUGRO Middle East really does not care for human welfare,
As can be confirmed by STS, MCS and ICI tracer co. (gamma flooded member detection).
We were eventually greeted at Doha airport at 0730 local time after arriving at 0530 local time via London Heathrow from Aberdeen.
(I expressly told them not to do this, as my luggage would never make it, which it has not).
An agent acting on behalf of FUGRO middle east (Inchscape shipping services) finally identified themselves and accused all of us that we were late. I can ask people who were at work on the morning of 16th October 2008, to attest that neither myself, or any other was late. (The proof would be provided using the ministry for interior’s immigration computer).
The young Indian gentleman then guided our party from the airport to his minibus where he took some of our party to a training facility to undergo H2S training,
I was informed that the h2s course that I had completed five weeks earlier was not valid for Ras gas but only for Qatar petroleum. (Qatar petroleum is a major shareholder of Ras gas).
We arrived at a training Centre at 09:30 local time and our course commenced at 10:00. The course lasted one hour thirty minutes. Upon completion of the H2S course the same Indian gentleman arrived to transport us to Ras Laffan. The driver made several stops en route taking a further hour.
At 12:30 we were finally on our way to Ras Laffan. The journey to Ras Laffan lasted about one hour.
When we arrived at the first security gate we waited about one hour before being summoned to have our luggage inspected (searched). This process lasted about twenty minutes. We were then asked to wait for another hour while the driver made multiple telephone calls to various parties, we do not understand the language that the driver was using and therefore we were not privy to the conversations. The driver’s body language did however suggest something was not right. Later
The driver took our party to the immigration office at Ras Laffan port,
We arrived at four thirty local time. The immigration office had us wait a further two hours, before the driver took our party to the quayside and deposited our belongings. The driver told us that the Stanford Princess was arriving in 30 minutes, we told him that we did nor believe him and demanded to speak to somebody with information, our party were not very happy as at this point most of us had not slept for thirty six hours, also at no time had we been offered food or water, if this had been the summer
I think some of the men may have had to be taken to hospital and treated for dehydration and heat stroke.
The driver returned to his vehicle and began to drive away the time now was eight o’clock in the evening and no sign of any crew or supply boat at the quayside.
Some of the Ras Laffan employees noted that we were abandoned and decided to help by giving us a safety induction course. A further four hours passed before the Ras Laffan port authority police asked us what we were doing on the quayside. Being threatened at gunpoint with arrest and charges of terrorism we told the police that we were waiting for the Stanford Princess to take us to the Maridive 519, as this was the information that had been passed to us by Inchscape shipping services. They told us that the only vessel expected was the Charles F McCall.
It later arrived at 01:00 on Friday 17th October. The police and Ras Laffan port employees discovered that this was the crew boat for Ras gas alpha, where the Maridive 519 was working. After pleading with the Charles F McCall captain to allow us to drink some water the captain also agreed to transport us to the Maridive 519.
The captain reminded us he did not have a passenger manifest and that his actions were illegal under international maritime law. We boarded the Charles F McCall, which is a fast crew boat and does not have catering or accommodation facilities, however the vessel was high speed and it departed at 0130 on the 17th October 2008 en route Ras gas alpha. Four hours later the Charles F McCall arrived at the Maridive 519. The two vessels came alongside starboard to port and we were asked to climb up on the gunnels of the McCall to stand on the bull work 6 inch tubular to jump across to the Maridive bull work 6 inch flat steel plate, both of which were soaking wet from the morning condensation.
As there was not a clear area of deck space to land on and the bull work is raised one Metre from the main deck, which is occupied by steel framework securing a hydraulic crane for launching the work class STS ROV, coupled with not having slept for over forty-eight hours, I declined to make a boat-to-boat transfer, which I deemed very dangerous.
I do not want to become the subject of an IMCA safety flash!
I insisted to use the personnel basket (Billy Pugh) transfer method via the Ras gas alpha platform.
The Charles F McCall crew told me to get some sleep. I tried but was soon disturbed by the crew to transfer to Ras gas alpha. Upon arriving on the platform I was told that the Maridive 519 was not ready and I must wait. I was particularly tiered and very distressed about the whole journey, that I used some Colourful language, this in turn led to the Ras gas alpha personnel thinking that I was intoxicated, I offered to provide blood urine or breath samples and explained to the OIM what torture had occurred at the hands of FUGRO survey middle east. At this point the platform doctor realised that I was suffering exhaustion, dehydration and that I was mentally distressed from my ordeal at the hands of FUGRO survey Middle East. I was afforded some sustenance and some water; I was also offered a shower and somewhere to rest. After six hours I was summoned to transfer to the 519.
I thanked the Ras gas staff for their professionalism and understanding and highlighted my admiration of their commitment to safe working practices. At five thirty on the 17th October 2008 I finally arrived on board the Maridive 519, to start at midnight.

As regards the Maridive 519, an anchor handler by design, it is a very noisy vessel because the maneuvering bow thruster is not designed for DP use. The shower facilities are so small that it is not possible to fit in the shower cubicle, so flooding the cabin is normal and the food is not present, I mean that there does not seem to be any food on the vessel. Thank god for kit Kats and Snickers.

I hope you are able now to understand why anybody who reads certain ROV sites on the Internet is not willing to work for FUGRO Survey Middle-East. I am not the only person to have to write the truth.

Never let Safety or Human welfare get in the way of bigger profits.

Yours Sincerely,