How many oil patch mariners are sitting at home, waiting for a call?

[QUOTE=pwrmariner;158650]Who said I was sent home ? For your FYi , I am WORKING. I have employment ! If my posts about the particular breed of shadiness found most prevalent with the “joe bosses” of Louisiana affends you. Tough sh!T !!
Yes there is “joe boss” everywhere, however they seem to have scour the earth for the most unethical, incompetent, unintelligent, breed of scum of “joe bosses” and put them in one place otherwise known as Louisiana.[/QUOTE]

I am certainly grateful not to be the sole wielder of the pointy stick here in the great crusade to call out Joe B for what he truly is. I do wish I could wade back into the battle though…

I miss getting the blood and guts of my foe all over my tinfoil armor.

I will say this much which is that I do feel ever so slightly some traction being gained here. It is still a steep grade to push against but as the cutbacks, force reductions and furloughs mount, I do sense some are in fact waking up to the message that Joe is not the mariners friend. Somehow, the hope exists in myself that with the pain felt by so many will come an awareness that the state of employment in the GoM offshore is one which perhaps might be changed in the future as enough mariners demand a new deal from the boss. It is not up to me to demand it though but those of you who are at the very short end of Joe’s stick feeling its point bury in to your flesh today.

Then again, that might just be that damned song playing over and over again in my head…