Office Scene

Working in an operation Oil Company has its own pros and cons. The cool work-culture, flexibility in timings and schedule, informal interaction, behavior and chats among the employees, and the fat salary are the things you'll always love. But the hard screwing shifts, the huge responsibilities and extreme work conditions are among the few things you gonna hate.

Well I am in a nice mood today, so let me talk something about the coolest things here. Not that I am the most devoted employee but these are the few things that everybody gonna love.

We were having a discussion over a technical issue last eve. 'We' involves my immediate manager (the eastern hemisphere seismic business in charge!), the maintenance coordinator (weights no less then 200 pounds) of one of the busiest facility in Egypt, one of my colleagues (used to work with another big name oil company before joining us), a consultant (approximate age 50 years, a tough guy though) called up from US to help us upgrading the old system and of course me. So the set up was something like this:
The boss sits on his chair, me and colleague put our asses on his desk, the coordinator guy sits on a rotating chair (and keeps on enjoying the rotation mechanism with a time period T= 5 sec, # = 180*) and the tough old guy on the chair in front.
So the discussion was going no its pace and I suddenly felt bore and started monitoring the configuration of the sitting arrangement. Not that it was something very great to note or feel about but I found it kinda cool. I started wondering in how many corporate offices people work and discuss the issues like this, while there is always a dress code and they need to be packed in their suffocating (for me atleast) formals. The content should matter and not the covering! I was eventually feeling so nice about the work culture at this place. Well and then I forgot that people do this all while they discus..ohh so we were discussing something. I just drifted away so far that when I got back in my senses, I found the consultant's hand on my shoulder. Wow!! This is so blooding cool! A guy working in the oil field for 25+ years, has visited 70+ countries keeps his hand on my shoulder for no good reason. Guess this is the time I should also give some input into the discussion, Else the Boss gonna kick my ass very soon.

" Oh yeah! I am agree with his point, why don't we keep the decoder in the remote unit and the encoder near the well. The radio communication enables us to keep an eye on more then one decoders while we can use the same configuration in the walkaway onshore surveys as well." was the next thing I said.

PS: That was the day when I noticed my manager saying 'Fuck the freaking shit...I don't fucking care' which is another cool indication. Now I need not to apologize everytime I use the F word :-)