Pros
-Above average benefits. -Lots of opportunity to travel. -Job requires a diverse skill set and critical thinking, which makes the job challenging. -Lots of safety training, which will eventually help you get a job with a company that actually walks the walk insteady of just talking the talk where safety is concerned. -Opportunity to work with a lot of awesome people.
Cons
-Brutal lifestyle, you live at the mercy of your cell phone. If you are on shift, you don't have a life. -Progression has become an absolute mess and a lot of qualified/skilled new hires are realizing this quickly and finding employment elsewhere. -Wages are not on par with the competition. Weatherford says they are busier than anyone else so the job bonuses make it the same. We get to work harder for the same money? Uhhhhhh......thanks, I guess? -You are stuck doing all your training and safety programs on a network that is much like having dial-up circa 1995. -Management turnover has become a burden on the employees. It has become impossible to ask for a raise because your manager has no idea of your worth to the company. 5 years, 5 different managers. -The company has a positive vision for the future, but the way they are going to get there changes every 6 months. Expectations constantly change. Further to this, the managers will pick and choose which policies they will follow (too cheap to buy the equipment that company policy says must be used); yet the employees are expected to follow all of them. -Communication is brutal from management to field staff. -The company cares about revenue more than they care about employees. They will take on every job they can and then expect YOU to figure out how to make it work. Dispatch will pretend like they have no idea what the hours of service regulations are and try to get you to work when you legally can't and then make you feel like the bad guy. -Frustration has led to significant employee turnover in the last 3 years: the skill, experience and knowledge base in the existing work force is thinning at an alarming rate, failures and incidents are likely to increase.