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yes, they have to 'sign on' at a pre-determined time every week and report back here with a list of what they have done to actively seek work.

this time will of course be at the most inconvenient time possible. perhaps each jobseeker could be assigned a 'case worker'.

those of us on a power trip could also call people in at random for 'interviews', asking extremely stupid questions with no real correct answers or confirmation that the interviewee was right or wrong.

you could get working on this B9, you're on nightshift so it's not as if you're doing owt else. ;)
 
perhaps each jobseeker could be assigned a 'case worker'.
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You read my mind felix.

Seeing as you're the keeper of statistics (amongst other things) you could perhaps put up a list of the reprobates ( sorry jobseekers) & we could pick & choose who was to "casework" them.

It might be fun it might not.

Also I'm very unfortunate to have a job that permits me to spend so much time so essentially pointlessly. Most people probably think it's a breeze sitting here posting endless shite about nothing taking K & stims etc - but it soon gets old believe me.
 
I bet it's boring and goes really slow?

Would you prefer to be working hard or things to stay as they are?
 
Originally posted by Felix: excellent stuff, well done!

isn't it amazing what a little Job Club thread can do?

can you tell us where it is? (e.g. newcastle/riverside?) how is this affecting your househunting?
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It's on a business park just a short metro ride outside of Newcastle. Took a chance the other week and already signed a contract for a house in the West End of Newcastle which I move into on the 1st of June

The treck to town everyday from where i'm staying at the moment will be a hassle but it will only be for a couple weeks then it'll be no trouble at all from new place :)
 
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Sounds like it's all coming together nicely CCF! Congratulations.

I got another letter from this Oil & Gas thing this morning. Didn't open it for about 10 minutes cos I was too nervous :D But all it says is that OPITO (the people who run it) work alongside the ECITB and so my application has also been forwarded to them and they will be in touch in the near future to progress the selection process of my application.

=D

I was getting pissed off this morning about my lack of work too. See, you never know what's round the corner!
 
ah nice one! OPITO are the people that approve the offshore survival courses, so they are definitely legit & official. (i'll have to renew mine in november... fucking pain.)

anyway, i'm off to the shops to buy myself new trackie bottoms and slippers for my new job. %)

(seriously, i am. i need to wear something when i'm sitting in the tea shack eating my bacon rolls in the morning and watching jeremy kyle, right? ;))

i'll take on Spade as a special 'difficult' case. %)
 
Hmm that reminds me I need to go to the job centre on Monday. Didn't have to go last tme cos apparantly it was shut. Fine by me!

I'm going to see if I can arrange a better time though. Every appointment has been at 3pm. A most awkward time.
 
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I genuinely thought there was fuck all oil and gas left in the north sea.. When is the extraction due to decline, if it hasn't already?
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don't believe the naysayers' hype, there's still plenty there. the project cletus is working on has added another 25 years of working life to that platform, and the field i'm going out to will last a good 30-40 years. and there are new fields discovered all the time, but a lot of them are kept quiet. oil companies tend to keep that news to themselves until it suits them to release it, because it can have a massive effect on their share value. according to some sources (which are completely unverifiable without the benefit of hindsight) we hit peak oil in the UKCS in the last decade or so, but to keep things in perspective, that's due to the exponential increase in worldwide demand rather than an exponential decrease in supply.

anyway, one thing that's possibly skewing the headlines is that the offshore decommissioning industry is now starting to kick off. some platforms are 30-40 years old and they're big fucking deathtraps held together with rust, so good riddance to them. a lot of their purpose will be served by the use of lower cost, unmanned subsea installations. which is the fashion nowadays, you rarely need to build big expensive platforms unless it's a huge find or the raw product needs a lot of processing before export.

getting back to the main point - there is still plenty left, and it's being discovered all the time (e.g. 'my' field was discovered in 2001 and was the biggest find in the UK for 10 years, and now unbelievably supplies 10% of the UK's oil supply 8o)). some of the smaller discoveries are not financially viable to produce yet due to low pressures or difficult rock formations, so their position is logged and they're capped (cemented over) for future development. as i said before, they are usually kept quiet and the oil companies go back to them later when the technology improves & gets cheaper, at which point they become viable. a lot of this is also political game-playing by the oil companies too - you may remember a story a couple of years ago where BP were complaining about the government removing tax breaks for exploration, which made them say that working in the UK is becoming pointless? the smaller oil companies are gleefully moving in cos they can develop these new discoveries for much less money than the old slow-moving dinosaurs.

it's true to say that the majors like BP, Shell, ChevTex etc. are moving gradually out of the UK, but that's cos they're playing the long game - they're thinking of their worldwide plan for the next 40 years, and are gradually moving to more profitable areas like Africa & Eastern Europe/Asia. there are also vast areas of 'oil sands' in places like Canada still to be fully exploited. the technology doesn't make it very viable yet, but when it does the environmentalists will go fucking APESHIT. think of open cast mining in 'protected' National Parks the size of small countries on an epic scale. total permanent destruction just to get a relatively small amount of hydrocarbons out of the ground. by that point we will be scraping the bottom of the earth's barrel to get those last reserves out of the ground.

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Heehee the IT company I got a job with are having IT problems so they've asked if I can start on Thursday instead! Suits me fine as it was rather short notice so i've more time to do some work clothes shopping and less days I have to do 3 hours a day travel to work!

Means I've got to go to my meeting at the Job Centre on Monday now. Bugger!
 
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felix said:
don't believe the naysayers' hype, there's still plenty there. the project cletus is working on has added another 25 years of working life to that platform, and the field i'm going out to will last a good 30-40 years. and there are new fields discovered all the time, but a lot of them are kept quiet. oil companies tend to keep that news to themselves until it suits them to release it, because it can have a massive effect on their share value. according to some sources (which are completely unverifiable without the benefit of hindsight) we hit peak oil in the UKCS in the last decade or so, but to keep things in perspective, that's due to the exponential increase in worldwide demand rather than an exponential decrease in supply.

anyway, one thing that's possibly skewing the headlines is that the offshore decommissioning industry is now starting to kick off. some platforms are 30-40 years old and they're big fucking deathtraps held together with rust, so good riddance to them. a lot of their purpose will be served by the use of lower cost, unmanned subsea installations. which is the fashion nowadays, you rarely need to build big expensive platforms unless it's a huge find or the raw product needs a lot of processing before export.

getting back to the main point - there is still plenty left, and it's being discovered all the time (e.g. 'my' field was discovered in 2001 and was the biggest find in the UK for 10 years, and now unbelievably supplies 10% of the UK's oil supply 8o)). some of the smaller discoveries are not financially viable to produce yet due to low pressures or difficult rock formations, so their position is logged and they're capped (cemented over) for future development. as i said before, they are usually kept quiet and the oil companies go back to them later when the technology improves & gets cheaper, at which point they become viable. a lot of this is also political game-playing by the oil companies too - you may remember a story a couple of years ago where BP were complaining about the government removing tax breaks for exploration, which made them say that working in the UK is becoming pointless? the smaller oil companies are gleefully moving in cos they can develop these new discoveries for much less money than the old slow-moving dinosaurs.

it's true to say that the majors like BP, Shell, ChevTex etc. are moving gradually out of the UK, but that's cos they're playing the long game - they're thinking of their worldwide plan for the next 40 years, and are gradually moving to more profitable areas like Africa & Eastern Europe/Asia. there are also vast areas of 'oil sands' in places like Canada still to be fully exploited. the technology doesn't make it very viable yet, but when it does the environmentalists will go fucking APESHIT. think of open cast mining in 'protected' National Parks the size of small countries on an epic scale. total permanent destruction just to get a relatively small amount of hydrocarbons out of the ground. by that point we will be scraping the bottom of the earth's barrel to get those last reserves out of the ground.

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Ta.


Hopefully by this time we'll have better harness of renewable energy supplies and nuclear fusion will have come online.
 
felix, do you also get the option to buy into the company after working there for a few years?
 
felix said:
don't believe the naysayers' hype, there's still plenty there. the project cletus is working on has added another 25 years of working life to that platform, and the field i'm going out to will last a good 30-40 years. and there are new fields discovered all the time, but a lot of them are kept quiet. oil companies tend to keep that news to themselves until it suits them to release it, because it can have a massive effect on their share value. according to some sources (which are completely unverifiable without the benefit of hindsight) we hit peak oil in the UKCS in the last decade or so, but to keep things in perspective, that's due to the exponential increase in worldwide demand rather than an exponential decrease in supply.

anyway, one thing that's possibly skewing the headlines is that the offshore decommissioning industry is now starting to kick off. some platforms are 30-40 years old and they're big fucking deathtraps held together with rust, so good riddance to them. a lot of their purpose will be served by the use of lower cost, unmanned subsea installations. which is the fashion nowadays, you rarely need to build big expensive platforms unless it's a huge find or the raw product needs a lot of processing before export.

getting back to the main point - there is still plenty left, and it's being discovered all the time (e.g. 'my' field was discovered in 2001 and was the biggest find in the UK for 10 years, and now unbelievably supplies 10% of the UK's oil supply 8o)). some of the smaller discoveries are not financially viable to produce yet due to low pressures or difficult rock formations, so their position is logged and they're capped (cemented over) for future development. as i said before, they are usually kept quiet and the oil companies go back to them later when the technology improves & gets cheaper, at which point they become viable. a lot of this is also political game-playing by the oil companies too - you may remember a story a couple of years ago where BP were complaining about the government removing tax breaks for exploration, which made them say that working in the UK is becoming pointless? the smaller oil companies are gleefully moving in cos they can develop these new discoveries for much less money than the old slow-moving dinosaurs.

it's true to say that the majors like BP, Shell, ChevTex etc. are moving gradually out of the UK, but that's cos they're playing the long game - they're thinking of their worldwide plan for the next 40 years, and are gradually moving to more profitable areas like Africa & Eastern Europe/Asia. there are also vast areas of 'oil sands' in places like Canada still to be fully exploited. the technology doesn't make it very viable yet, but when it does the environmentalists will go fucking APESHIT. think of open cast mining in 'protected' National Parks the size of small countries on an epic scale. total permanent destruction just to get a relatively small amount of hydrocarbons out of the ground. by that point we will be scraping the bottom of the earth's barrel to get those last reserves out of the ground.

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ZzZzZzZ! :p

Could you not have summed that up into a couple of sentences?
 
You would sad case. Never seen so many people get a hardon about working before. :!
 
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