I've got interviews out west with BP and i wanted to see if anybody on here is an employee.

I have done work for them as a sub contractor but not directly BP. Watch out, they are tough as nails when it comes to safety rules. NO cell phone at all when pulling into the complex or interview. BP FREAKS ABOUT CELL PHONES!!

Can't understand why anyone would give you a neg one for trying to just get a f-ing job in this economy so I +1 you.

Can't understand why anyone would give you a neg one for trying to just get a f-ing job in this economy so I +1 you.

 

 

haha thanks..

More like DP!

I have done work for them as a sub contractor but not directly BP. Watch out, they are tough as nails when it comes to safety rules. NO cell phone at all when pulling into the complex or interview. BP FREAKS ABOUT CELL PHONES!!

 

Tough as nails on safety rules eh? I think some people in the Gulf of Mexico would tend to disagree.

They're verrrrry sowyyyyy.

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I've got interviews out west with BP and i wanted to see if anybody on here is an employee.

 

 

Once you get in, dont forget me!! (I want outta Jerzy!)

....I feel like a statistic being unemployed!

help a brotha out.

Tough as nails on safety rules eh? I think some people in the Gulf of Mexico would tend to disagree.

Yeah and those people have absolutely no clue as to what they are talking about. Just like the media a couple of months ago took a mini sub down to the bottom by the spill site. They were like "oooh, look there's nothing down here, everything's dead" They were flat out making it sound like it was a coral reef before the spill. I for one can say that when I am on bottom and see some kind of life, I have to stop what I am doing and video it. It is such a rare occurance to see anything alive past 4000ft that WE HAVE TO VIDEO IT!!!! The media is a big bunch of IDIOTS when it comes to the disaster. Once you realize the media sensationalizes everything to get a good story, look up the real facts as to what really happened (if they are even released yet)

 

What I was saying about the cell phones and such. BP is a major stickler when it comes to safety rules. When you drive to the facility on company time you have to file a journey management plan. Where you are going which routes and what time, ect. If they call you and they know you are driving, dont even bother coming to work..... you're done. Talking on a cell phone and driving at the same time is a huge NO-NO. Look up BP's 6 in 1 training (I think that's the name) It will give you a good heads up, and may impress them at the interview that you actually reviewed the training.

also feel free to blame the GOVT for the oil prices. There hasn't been a new hole started in the gulf since the spill, almost a year ago. The news is reporting that "permits are getting approved" but the fact of the matter they are not for new wells. They are for re-entry on wells that were plugged when the moratorium started, or for intervention work. So they are allowing rigs to start to go back and finish the wells that they started, not start new wells. And the permits still are slow as heck, we are still waiting on a permit to do some minor work, but govt bureaucracy wins. I come to work just chip and paint.

if you think the no cell phone rule is nuts just go work for any coastgaurd regulated refinery or tank farm. When I hear about accidents at these facilities it amazes me that it could happen. We had to have a full time babysitter plus a bunch of movies about safety as well as 50hr OSHA cards with confined space entry sertification. And that was to work outside! The work was good though and I wish I had it all back now. (NJ statistic here too....) If you can get in with ANY oil company take it. Its one failproof industry.

Ken

My interview is may 9..hopefully it goes well. It would have been nice to drop a few names on an the application but out of all the forums i'm on, nobody seems to work for them.

I wish you the best of luck. For real,... no sarcasm!

Ken