I feel you man. I work offshore on a three man platform. My lead operator is one year from retirement and does not give a damn about anything any more. He spends half of his day upstairs taking naps and does not even have a phone or radio up there so we have to answer the phone for him. When he comes downstairs he turns the speaker off on the company set because "they talk to much" so we have to carry an extra portable radio with us on the deck to listen for any inboud helicopters or boats.
The B operator can hardly do any of the paperwork, or reset the separators when they have an upset because all he knows how to do is clean because everywhere he has ever been he has just worked as a roustabout with a larger crew of A- operators doing the real day to day operations.
That leaves me, the C-Operator, the lowest payed guy on the platform by over 4 bucks, doing what an A-Operator would normally be doing. I fill out and file probably 70% of the paperwork, all of the adjustments/monitoring of the equipment, and MMS safety checks.
What really ticks me off, is when this guy retires they will probably move the B operator into his spot and I will have to do everything I am already doing, plus what little the lead is doing and still wont be promoted to the level that my work duties entail.
