Originally Posted by
PleaseComplete
The biggest problem IMHO is the tiers not the idea.
Maybe some mathy type can figure out the amount of hours available per month divided by the amount of people that will be able to bid and hold more than 85 hrs. I'm going to guess the percentage is not that high.
That is why we need trip and duty rigs. This could actually work more in our favor if we had decent trip and duty rigs. More and achievable tiers also.
As it stands now... as you said it seems the company is three steps ahead of the Union. I wish it wasn't so US vs THEM... of course we will always differ on what is and what should be but as you also said - we were already solidly mid tier on pay and with everyone else making gains and us arguably going backwards we are solidly trending to the bottom...
It would nice if they just made us competitive with the hourly rates, instead of coming up with hocus-pocus ways of paying us to do more work while not really benefitting us. Guarantee their problems of getting people to cover open time would go away quick.