I can’t speak for all of the companies but I’m sure they are similar to ECO. Yes ECO does have some “nicer” equipment but as a whole they’re lacking. 1/2 day pay on signing on and off “Travel pay” that is taxed and covers only a fraction of the cost to get to and from work. No shore leave. No i…

[image] ItsJody: Many boats without electronic charts or ECDIS (radar and paper charts only) What are yall gonna do come January? Or June 5th for that matter? All the harbor charts in the gulf will be gone by then, I’m sure the coastal GOM charts will be canceled after the West Coast harbor c…

I worked for them 30 years ago and it was the same story back then. My biggest gripe was certain mutant captains that were juiced in and ruled like tyrants.

[image] ItsJody: Under par food budgets (lucky if you even get food when the boat is off charter) A lot of shotty, broken equipment that is hidden from the customer on a regular basis. You must have H___ as your manager… if so, both those issues are believable. He’s the one manager that I ut…

Long time without a post on my side. As a former shoreside employee for a few OSV companies I can relate to your gripes about quality of life, budgets, etc… The reality of things is most mariners applying for jobs were only worried about their day rate…nothing else. You could pitch health insuran…

In the post-Covid economy with demographics of smaller generations, more people working from home in their yoga pants, and fewer people willing to make any lifestyle sacrifices for the sake of employment, the old way of doing things has to change. Most boat companies are busy and making good money. …

[image] tugsailor: Boat companies need to provide all the things that most shoreside employees receive: fully paid travel, wages paid while traveling, paid holidays, paid annual vacation, overtime, training, wages paid while in training, etc. These things need to become standard. These things…

Let’s face it once they were able to defeat the unions, they could operate as poorly as they wanted to with impunity. The only positive is that ECO is a good place to get sea time until you find a better job.

The OSV companies may have scrape the bottom of the barrel for “boat trash,” and at times be a bit shorthanded, if they don’t improve working conditions.

I just had a flashback to my 6 years in the GOM. This thread could have been written in 1997 when I started with Seabulk. Did 3 years there and three more with ENSCO. Neither company has OSV’s anymore,

Heck, this thread could have been written before the internet was invented. The GOM companies have always known they were temporary contract operators. They just neglected to tell their employees that they too were temp workers. Nothing has changed but the names of the companies in over 50 years. …

When will OSV companies get with the times?

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