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ntropy · Joined: 11 Oct 2003 Posts: 671 Location: ghurba

When are the London interviews?

qtfriend2all · Joined: 27 Mar 2007 Posts: 9

Hey all, I'm still here but for some reason Dave's doesn't update me when there's a reply to this topic. Feel free to post to me or PM at will.

qtfriend2all · Joined: 27 Mar 2007 Posts: 9

globalnomad2 · Joined: 23 Jul 2005 Posts: 562

Thanks for that! It sounds like job security is a tough prospect. Then, if you're traveling every other month, even if tickets are provided I imagine it will be hard not to spend half your money. Another thing...I heard previously that EG antimalarial protocols are extremely tough and unpleasant...have you heard that?

qtfriend2all · Joined: 27 Mar 2007 Posts: 9

nodster · Joined: 13 Jan 2007 Posts: 8

globalnomad2 · Joined: 23 Jul 2005 Posts: 562

Thanks for that! Headaches and nausea? Hhhhmmmm. I don't know that I would find that an acceptable trade-off. Maybe if the symptoms were mild and short-lived.

aharbut · Joined: 12 Jan 2006 Posts: 19 Location: Arizona,USA

Went through this interview and don't think this late comment is even valuable any more but I found the director and the whole program extremely rigid and definitely looked like the type of person I wld definitely NOT want to work with. If you'd like details, I'll be glad to go do into details. Am still waiting for reimbursement for small expenses incurred.

The whole project sounded like a prison. Rolling Eyes

bdbarnett1 · Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 5:49 am Post subject: Re: Wood Group

aharbut · Joined: 12 Jan 2006 Posts: 19 Location: Arizona,USA

That Broussard guy who did the interview (what a waste to hv people fly all the way to a fancy hotel in Detroit for a 2 hr. interview that cld easily hv been done by phone) was so out to impress me on how he so cleverly figured out that the project wld need pencils and how he so cleverly figured out how to order them. Wow! Then he said that if a student scored 99.9d% in all the other courses he wld be taking and only 69.5% in his ESL--70 being the cutoff--they wld still dump him. The other two interviewers in the room and I all blanched at the same time.

After he went on and on about the extra special copier they wld be getting, he later went on to say it was positively NOT for use by tchrs and nothing but nothing cld be copied--not even out of books designed TO BE COPIED-games, etc. (They were not planing to use any "game"-books.)He also made it sound as if any mingling w/ those "folks" on the "other end of the island" was not encouraged. All in all, I was sure I wld've done him some bodily harm at the end of a cple wks HAD I been hired. Super rigid.

The facilities sounded army barracks-style and I wld bet that when you were gone, someone else wld be using your rm. Coming bk to the US through that many time zones wld tk you a wk to recover from--going east is easier. Doing it every month wld probably having me baying at the moon at some point. Shocked

That job sounded like a real blood letter. I did a similar set up in India but that was infinitely better than anything the EG had to offer and they weren't an $OIL$ company.

Best cut my losses.

allons-y · Joined: 02 Jun 2007 Posts: 1

aharbut..........I just read your post. I, too, was in Detroit for an interview and agree with everything you say. That Broussard was so full of himself talking about how they could not have hired a better man for the job (himself) and generally stroked himself for 20 minutes before he 'laid down the law' for teachers. No Internet, no going off the compound, etc., etc. He even said that he has access (and we wouldn't) to shipments that come in, including fresh lobster, but that he MAY invite us on occasion. What a jerk. I totally couldn't wait to get the hell out of there.

Re: teaching. In effect, one would job share. You would briefly confer with the other teacher while you were on your way out and the other teacher was just arriving for his/her 30 days. He admitted this is where they have had problems. You can imagine the problems that would arise from this system.

This job was definitely a good one to pass over.

Insubordination · Joined: 07 Nov 2007 Posts: 394 Location: Sydney

*Insert inappropriate and untimely rant8

It i* a prison. I seriously doubt you'd be allowed to step foot in the country itself. I saw a documentary on it (made with a smuggled camera) and the cities look like rubbish dmps as the corrupt dictatorship (who banked for Pinochet) doesn't spend a cent of infraestructure.

I worked with the (tiny) EG Olympic team as a Spanish interpreter and a tighter rein was never kept on anyone. Well, maybe the Cubans.

Still, many of us probably have cars filled with their oil as our countries seem to be OK with this particular dictator and buy it.

biffinbridge · Joined: 05 May 2003 Posts: 701 Location: Frank's Wild Years

I had an interview for this post in January 2007. I was not offered a job. First job I haven't got got after an interview. Loads of experience, still in my 30's, done oil rotations, soon off to do another 6 and 3er.
I have absolutely no idea what kind of teachers they are looking for as everyone I know who has had the interview has failed and many have pm ed me on Dave's having failed. The only person to contact me actually with Marathon Oil was a teacher with very little experience.

40% tax taken in EG...gotta be some kind of 'baqsheesh'.

Oh yeah, btw I found the British interviewer, (in London), really anal.

junkmail · Joined: 19 Dec 2004 Posts: 377

If the Devil had a home it would be Bukavu, if he had a summerhouse it would be in Bata.

Rotation work has it's benefits though. Enjoy your 4 off with your 'hard earned' cash and keep your wits about you and your sanity while your in EG; easier said than done.

globalnomad2 · Joined: 23 Jul 2005 Posts: 562

never mind!