Govt radical plan to boost jobs and employment

[Diver]

What do you do? And how much is highly expensive? I want a piece of this action.

I'm a consultant in Offshore Renewable energy projects Wind, Wave & Tidal Energy Converters);
Maritime Engineer
Marine Civil Engineer
Commercial Diver
Heavy Lifting & Logistics
Project Management
CDMc
HS&E Offshore
Lloyds & ABS Maritime U/W Inspector

I also do a bit of (Run) project data management for HSF and O&M

[swamp]

The easier it is to sack permanent staff the weaker the case for hiring contractors.

[Scoobos]

yup, ties in quite nicely with the ICT promises and the move to tulipstick all us ltd company owners too.

[KentPhilip]

I'm a consultant in Offshore Renewable energy projects Wind, Wave & Tidal Energy Converters);
Maritime Engineer
Marine Civil Engineer
Commercial Diver
Heavy Lifting & Logistics
Project Management
CDMc
HS&E Offshore
Lloyds & ABS Maritime U/W Inspector

I also do a bit of (Run) project data management for HSF and O&M

So you are a real diver?

Is it still the case that you can earn £1000\day as a saturation deep water commercial diver? I've just started learning SCUBA (PADI open water), and can of course do more training. Plan B for anyone?

[Diver]

So you are a real diver?

Is it still the case that you can earn £1000\day as a saturation deep water commercial diver? I've just started learning SCUBA (PADI open water), and can of course do more training. Plan B for anyone?

The chance of earning that kind of money is very very limited. most deep work is now done using extremely versatile ROV's

I have retired from commercial diving now (age) but still SCUBA dive when on Holiday.
I did my PADI courses before my Commercial (Up to Divemaster) but went into commercial because of my marine background (marine engineer at the time). Now as part of my job I actually assist in the safe design of subsea and offshore structure by designing out the necessity for use of divers in installation and reducing the need for Underwater maintenanence and inspection by divers. This also makes the Installation, O&M and decommissioning of these structures safer and more cost effective.

[KentPhilip]

The chance of earning that kind of money is very very limited. most deep work is now done using extremely versatile ROV's

I have retired from commercial diving now (age) but still SCUBA dive when on Holiday.
I did my PADI courses before my Commercial (Up to Divemaster) but went into commercial because of my marine background (marine engineer at the time). Now as part of my job I actually assist in the safe design of subsea and offshore structure by designing out the necessity for use of divers in installation and reducing the need for Underwater maintenanence and inspection by divers. This also makes the Installation, O&M and decommissioning of these structures safer and more cost effective.

That's what I kind of suspected.

One of the other (IT) contractors at my place was telling me last week that saturation divers used to make £1000\day ..in the 1970's!
Mind you they had a very high mortality rate back then.

Tell me, what's the deepest you've ever dived? (no smutty jokes please )

[DodgyAgent]

sacking staff

It is quite ridiculous that one should not be able to sack an employee without having to go through the most ridiculous process of warnings and evidence gathering. Often it ends up with having to make the employee redundant which means making the job redundant. If someone is not doing their job then get rid of them. Apart from anything else this ridiculous "employee sided" employment protection makes staff complacent which is not healthy for anyone.

[DodgyAgent]

Having no empathy or social conscience should be a bit of a worry though.

Who's empathy? who's social conscience?

[SupremeSpod]

It is quite ridiculous that one should not be able to sack an employee without having to go through the most ridiculous process of warnings and evidence gathering. Often it ends up with having to make the employee redundant which means making the job redundant. If someone is not doing their job then get rid of them. Apart from anything else this ridiculous "employee sided" employment protection makes staff complacent which is not healthy for anyone.

**** yeah!

Rule by intimidation, the bastards should be lucky they've got jobs!

[The Spartan]

Apparently here in Switzerland it's very easy to let people go and it supposedly makes for a more competitive workforce, I'm not sure what the law entails exactly but I shall see if I can find out. In the case of the UK I've seen a lot of companies that have a lot dead wood working for them so I think it'd be a good thing in some sense to make it easier.