Can anyone give me some information on Jambon? Done search but nothing comes up about them. Seen the older boats. what about the pay?
Thanks
I always wondered it their name was pronounced “Ham Bone”?
Anyway, I am sure a typical Ma & Pa Kettle shelf operator with typical lower everything that the major mafia famiglia pay their footsoldiers.
DO NOT DO IT. They don’t show up on tge internet for a reason. If you’re starving and have no choice you gotta do what you gotta do.
drug infested and poor run down boats
Thanks for the feedback. Guess I will not get my hopes up.
[QUOTE=bayoumobboss;118834]Can anyone give me some information on Jambon? Done search but nothing comes up about them. Seen the older boats. what about the pay?
Thanks[/QUOTE]
Only go there as a last resort. Poor equipment, no steady work and treat their employees worse than 3rd world citizens. The owner was also arrested in Grand Isle because he was using racial slurs and spit in a woman’s face who was doing cleanup work during the BP Spill. It was all caught on tape, on the news, etc… Really classy operation if you can’t tell.http://thegrio.com/2012/09/25/louisiana-woman-spat-on-called-the-n-word-attacker-had-a-bad-day/#49154160
You all were correct I got a low ball offer less than making on the casino vessel I work on now. Thanks the input and the video.
I would choose Kevin Gros Offshore before I would Jambon. And even then I would have to be pretty hard up.
I thought the only way to get a job at Jambon or Kevin Gros was to pay a headhunter?
I didn’t hire in through a headhunter when I worked at Kevin Gros about 5 years ago. In fact when I quit, for awhile they wouldn’t stop calling me, asking me to come back. The pay is very low for industry standards, due to very old outdated boats that can only fetch low day rate jobs by brokers or oil companies that are looking for the cheapest of the cheap. They are ALWAYS short handed, because any fairly competent captain always leaves for greener pastures as soon as something opens up. But if your in a pinch, or new to the industry & looking to get some experience, its pretty easy to get hired on there. This is not meant to bash or demean the company in any way, I’m just sharing my own personal experience there.
Jambon is Lower pay than the bigger companies, my biggest gripe with Jambo was their lack of consistency with crew changes. You never knew when you were going to work or get off.
I know a few people at work for jambon marine. And they not on drugs, vessel are old but well maintained. You just have to contact jambon direct for a job they don’t use headhunters. From what i hear they just got a $100 plus raise for captain.
I know a few people at jambon and they been there awhile and don’t have problems. They work 28 and 14 and have a relief without any problem. The pay over their is better than International , Callais and Odyessea.
Thanks I neede a good laugh.
No fucking way a company running old run down, out dated equipment can pay its lead captains on 145ft boats $500 a day, let alone the 2nd and mates in the $400’s. Hell the dp boats they do have is the old stuff they bought from Abdon.
Never been on a Jambon boat, but the ones I’ve seen have been pretty run-down. Guys there I talk to over the rail have consistently asked me if we have any openings or talked about moving on somewhere else.
From what i know from friends that work there. They don’t have any thing smaller than 170’s. All of them have chouest dp systems (MT). And i know for a fact they have an office oversea and has boats work there. Also have two boats being built that’s over 300ft.
Y’all are talking about 2 different Jambons. There is no way the Jambon Supplier is a dp boat.
[QUOTE=“ElCapitan;120422”]Y’all are talking about 2 different Jambons. There is no way the Jambon Supplier is a dp boat.[/QUOTE]
That was the exact same thing I was thinking!
B_trosclair I thought you worked for Jambon?
yea jambon has no DP boats