Can anyone add to these reasons for not getting the job?

Hi,

Fantastic post 😀

7/ Some scab has undercut you (due to their stupidity)
8/ The agency asks you what your minimum day-rate is (ie will you do it for £50 a day less), than last year.
9/ We the agencies are just trawling for more "cheaper ""can do"" C.Vs"

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"one for all and all for one"

Interesting thoughts Profannysaurus – but it could work in our favour too.

If the Agencies do not realise that Seaeye are owned by SAAB and ask for SAAB experience, I have both the SAAB Viggen fighter and SAAB 9000 car on my CV so I could well end up on an oil rig with a Tiger.

Were you suggesting that politicians or HR people were useless twats – or both?

Where do they go when they find they are shite at that too then?

16) You don’t already have a valid Visa for the country we wish to send you to and the client will not pay for you to get one.

Seen this one appear quite a bit over the last 12 months or so. What’s that all about?

17) You missed out on the job because someone who has the same experience as you did decide to do the job for £20 per day less. But, he realised he is a commodity (the same as oil/gas) and weighed up the pros and cons of his situation. He had more than enough money in the bank to sustain him for a year or more, didn’t wan’t to dip into his hard earned cash and would rather be at sea doing the job he loves, even if it is for £600 per month less. He sees this as a valid sacrifice in times of uncertainty. He knows that when the price of oil picks up he will be first on the list of the agencies because he never let them down and will be a more valued commodity having worked consistently and regularly rather than driving lorries at home to "teach" the greedy oil and gas industry (better to work for 100 quid a day as a driver than £330 a day as an ROV guy…) a lesson.

Supply and demand, fact of life, more of something drags the price down and more of a demand drives it up. We are all caught up in this whether we like it or not.

Surely some people agree with me? I don’t whore myself out for the lowest price but also would rather make money at doing what I enjoy.

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330 Pounds per day??Are you serious?…Is this for an agency?.As I mentioned in another post,I was working for one of the bigger agencies in the UK in ROV 7 years ago for 350 Pounds per day.Today 7 years later they are still offering 350 Pounds per day.Does your cost of living never go up or something??..If it does then how in the hell are you going to pay your bills in 7 years from now when these agencies are still paying you 330 Pounds per day for your 12 hours per day,7 days a week..
Slightly off topic it always makes me laugh when you sometimes get a supervisor offshore who will have guys out working out on the ROV for 12 hours solid,always finding the guys stupid little jobs to do,whilst they sit there on the computer surfing the net..Well you are away from home for 24 hours a day,so you should be being paid for 24 hours a day??,so this stupid mentality that you are paid for 12 hours work,so you will work for 12 hours,is Mindless..

I agree that if the day rate with this company was 350 per day 7 years ago the rate should be more today.

However, factor in more ROV bods on the floor and less ROV work at the moment means that the day rate is going to be lower than what we are used to. Of course I would love to earn more per day (everybody would) but I expect that as the oil price keeps increasing and the oil giants turn on the R and D tap along with exploration budgets getting the green light the day rates will return to a higher rate.

Maybe the good old days have gone? Day rates going down over a period of years rather than recovering/increasing?

Plumbers had a surge of people going into the industry and saturating it, maybe we have had our chips with the number of ROV guys coming into the industry… I hope not though and look forward to be in the position to earn the 400+ per day we used to.