I'm going to the Mac!

[w squared]

I've always wanted to work up in Ft Mac.

How does a good hard worker/laborer get on with a company up there?
I do not have a trade, but they seem to hire tons of foreign workers.

Thanks
Matt

From what I've seen on the Horizon site, 90% of the tradesmen and labourers up there are all union. If that's really what you want to do, get into one of the unions.

To be honest though...I'm not sure why you'd want to work there instead of somewhere else in the patch. It's the same work...just really, really crowded.

[parabs]

I've always wanted to work up in Ft Mac.

How does a good hard worker/laborer get on with a company up there?
I do not have a trade, but they seem to hire tons of foreign workers.

Thanks
Matt

Hard work is good.  Safe, productive work is better.  You roll into an interview and say that you are commited to being productive while always keeping an eye on safety, someone will hire you.

W squared, what do you do up here?  I just put in 83 days since Jan 1 at Fireskag.

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No union for the position I'm in. Not sure about the rest of the place. When my brother-in-law was first trying to get a job up there he had to join a union and tehn the union assigned him jobs. Was kinda weird actually, the company told the union they need "X" number of guys and then the union supplied them.

Everybody drug tests so if you have a problem with that you may want to look elsewhere.

[w squared]

W squared, what do you do up here?  I just put in 83 days since Jan 1 at Fireskag.

You poor ba$terd. 

I've spent a bunch of time at the Horizon site lately, but I actually work in our Airdrie office. I'm a manager for an industrial safety company. You may just see us on site when Firebag goes into turnaround this year...

[parabs]

Im a gypsy, I wont be back until next winter, if I come back to this project at all. 

Memo to "W squared" if you receive/hear/or see a resume from one Timothy Toth from who has experience on Firebahg while working for TallRig, please do yourself a favor and look to the next resume.

*Disclaimer - If you are of know of one Timothy Toth, and the Tim Toth you know has a head shaped like a pear, I apologize to you should you find this to be offensive, however I will not retract my statement.

[w squared]

My desk probably wouldn't see his resume if he worked for TallRig - I'm more on the specialized industrial safety side (shared services and technical equipment instead of NCSO's). I have a counterpart who's division handles helping clients implement their general safety program on site, so it'd be his desk that the resume would hit. What I can say is that if he's worked for TallRig, there's already one red flag up. We've taken over programs from clients after they've run TallRig off, and the mess they left behind was obscene.