Has the world changed?

[trigger_andy]

7 hours ago, eggsarascal said:

There's tons of us about, but £150/day doesn't buy it any more. They don't like it.

 

My heart bleeds for ya.

[Mike Hill]

I think as always,the better staff are already occupied.

 

I have struggled this year to find a helper,my turnover is about half of last years as a result.The audacity of some of the applicants is frankly staggering,I include a flat with bills included in the deal,one guy was willing to come over,maybe if I bought him a campervan for him to travel about in on his off days!

[Rough Hewn]

every one moans about young lazy youths etc, are there not people in their 30,s 40,s with a bit of experience and a better more steady work ethic around???
might have to  pay them a bit more but might be worth it as apposed to continually looking for and changing staff. 

When I ask for £150 a day grounding most employers laugh.
Tell me they can get groundies for £50-£80 a day.
It's a bit of an arsehole filter now.
But I have found firms up and down the country who do serious work and pay properly.
Just takes a while to find them.
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[trigger_andy]

1 hour ago, Mike Hill said:

I think as always,the better staff are already occupied.

 

I have struggled this year to find a helper,my turnover is about half of last years as a result.The audacity of some of the applicants is frankly staggering,I include a flat with bills included in the deal,one guy was willing to come over,maybe if I bought him a campervan for him to travel about in on his off days!

If your turnover is half of what it could be due to not having a helper then surely paying a helper an extra 100-200,000nok would seem like good business sense if it got you back to what you should be bringing in? Or are the margins just too tight?

[Mark Bolam]

1 hour ago, Mike Hill said:

I think as always,the better staff are already occupied.

 

I have struggled this year to find a helper,my turnover is about half of last years as a result.The audacity of some of the applicants is frankly staggering,I include a flat with bills included in the deal,one guy was willing to come over,maybe if I bought him a campervan for him to travel about in on his off days!

The offer still stands mate!

[Mike Hill]

23 minutes ago, trigger_andy said:

If your turnover is half of what it could be due to not having a helper then surely paying a helper an extra 100-200,000nok would seem like good business sense if it got you back to what you should be bringing in? Or are the margins just too tight?

Margins are not too tight. I cannot attract decent staff to what amounts to a 440k nok package.

 

It's not the money it's the quality or lack their of of staff.

[trigger_andy]

1 minute ago, Mike Hill said:

Margins are not too tight. I cannot attract decent staff to what amounts to a 440k nok package.

 

It's not the money it's the quality or lack their of of staff.

To put things into perspective 350-450,000nok is around what our guys get in the Workshop in Stavanger for mincing around all day drinking coffee. Private Health Care and a very good company pension. 

[Mike Hill]

5 minutes ago, trigger_andy said:

To put things into perspective 350-450,000nok is around what our guys get in the Workshop in Stavanger for mincing around all day drinking coffee. Private Health Care and a very good company pension. 

Or three times what a 19 year old English kid who is looking at for his first tree job.

 

5 second commute

Bills paid

Rent paid

6 weeks paid holiday

10,000kr travel bonus

 

If you fired half the workshop rats in Stav,would your company pay the remaining guys twice as much?

 

[trigger_andy]

Just now, Mike Hill said:

Or three times what a 19 year old English kid who is looking at for his first tree job.

 

5 second commute

Bills paid

Rent paid

6 weeks paid holiday

10,000kr travel bonus

 

If you fired half the workshop rats in Stav,would your company pay the remaining guys twice as much?

 

Are you specifically looking for UK guys or hiring Norgies? Just curious? Surely UK lads would jump at a deal like that? 

 

Actually, I went into the office a couple of years ago and threatened to leave and doubled my Salary. Expected to negotiate hard but they said ok, even threw in 9000nok in car allowance a month that I never even asked for.  Was a good day.

 

 

[Mike Hill]

2 minutes ago, trigger_andy said:

Are you specifically looking for UK guys or hiring Norgies? Just curious? Surely UK lads would jump at a deal like that? 

 

Actually, I went into the office a couple of years ago and threatened to leave and doubled my Salary. Expected to negotiate hard but they said ok, even threw in 9000nok in car allowance a month that I never even asked for.  Was a good day.

 

 

Uk guys. Nogs dont have the will or base experiance. I tried for years.

 

I have seen adverts in the paper offering 100k bounties for anyone to get them into the offshore sector.

 

If you are not being taxed I  Norway, it's no wonder they doubled your pay. You were half the cost of a local to begin with.?