When the US need to get its oil somewhere else and they really want to deprive Russia of allies, they no longer need :guaido-despair:
When the US need to get its oil somewhere else and they really want to deprive Russia of allies, they no longer need :guaido-despair:
ah the secret is that a lot of those workers were temp contractors getting paid peanuts. sure for them it's quite a bit of money since they're making stupid amounts of overtime, but it's unstable employment, and extremely stressful labor as well and in terms of pay in comparison to what the older laborers that worked the oil pumps back in the day as full-time employees, they're getting bamboozled
Yeah I mean the oil industry is incredibly volatile but it is also an easy way for working class people to stack up some money in a short period of time. I have some cousins on my dad's side who made bank during the last boom. Dudes that were previously making $18/hr driving a Pepsi truck, unloading thousands of pounds of soda every day went to North Dakota and ended up making $2-3000 per week driving fracking sand tankers. They bought houses outright and paid off their debts and are now comfortably middle class because of it. The best part was they didn't have to do physically intensive labor and they never had to deal with urban traffic. Just drive to a sand pit, load up, drive to a delivery site, and blow off the sand. All rural driving.
Yeah I can't really speak to what southern oil drilling's like but up here that shit is competitive and nepotistic. If you want to make those fat stacks in just a few weeks on the slope, you need to know people in the business to help you get your foot in the door since s lot of the mining up here's switched from expansive drilling to a slowed ecologically preserving drilling (however that makes sense) meaning more of the jobs are geared towards maintenance instead of expansion.
I should mention that "g*pped" is a slur against Romani people, and a pretty serious one at that. I get the feeling that most people using it have no idea that's what it means.
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bamboozled
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I think they just meant that they edited the bad word to "bamboozled" instead
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