57 Replies to “Message from the Wife of an Oil Rig Worker”

  4. I am typing this from the shack on my rig in the southeast sask oil patch! That is a good woman married to a good man!

  8. This is how the elitist east should thank the common hardworking west as well.
    Without our ‘democratically’ confiscated contributions they would all just be Greece but on Skidoos.

  9. As an ex oil rig worker (with the scars to prove it) a big Thank you to one classy lady!
    And that is one lucky guy indeed.

  11. But Liberals like Stephane Dion say these are bad jobs and people shouldn’t have them

  13. Thank-you for your comments. This is one lady in touch with the reality of the real world not the bizarre imaginary one that the occupiers want to live in. Again, thank you for your accurate comments.

  14. When I consider this lady and her hard working oil rigger husband, I have to think that if the 99% manage to destroy the workplaces of we in the 53% … we will not have work to go to, so we will have time to come kick the asses of the tiny percentage of the alleged 99% minus the 53% minus the 1% all over their smelly campsites.
    Most of us (at least 53%) are happy to be living in our capitalist democracies and we warn you not to mess with it. The fact that the vast majority of us are not protesting means the there isn’t really a problem that the next US federal election won’t cure.

  15. I wonder if Bri C is on one of the rigs I’m looking at right now? I’m watching Cats build a new lease right now, in SE Sask. There’s a wellsite supervisor a mile east of me, who went into a long rant the other day, about how “we’re causing global warming”. For a guy who makes well over $1000 a day, to look out a window while guys work their asses off in the mud, he seems to have a poor attitude.
    I feel bad for that girl’s hubby, having to spend 300 days away from her.

  16. I think that it would boggle the pee brains of the “99%” if they knew just how much they depend on those of us who work

  17. I wasn’t on the rigs, however, I would be away for 2 – 3 weeks at a time in some frontier town. My bride stuck with me, and supported me for over 56 years. Being away wasn’t much fun, but it allowed us to retire with some dignity. Why do these people believe that they are owed?

  18. coach >
    I’m a Wellsite Supervisor that “looks out a window while guys work thier ass’s off in the mud”- occasionally.
    That’s because over my +30 year career, I stood on too many rig floors working in every kind of weather and mud, in too many countries to remember.
    It’s called earning the position, taking on serious responsibility and dealing with allot of crap most would not.
    No offense to those that are still “working thier way up”, been there, done that, it’s a long hard road.

  19. Could someone please post this on the various Occupy sites, the clowns have blocked me for daring to ask questions.

  20. As the Mom of an oil-patch guy,I truly relate to what this wonderful young lady says.My daughter-in-law (bless her heart) is doing the same thing…with a new baby at home.New ‘Daddy’ has missed so much,but has to go where the work is.I have the utmost respect for the hard-working guys,but the wives/girlfriends deserve our respect too! Bravo young lady.

  21. Sadly, this will be lost on the lazy, self-centred jackholes with an undeserved sense of entitlement. If you want to make them understand, give them some gruelling work to do and then don’t pay them for it. Maybe then they will understand how ingratitude really grates those who work for them.

  23. Gee, where are the journalists standing in line waiting to interview her; after all she is a woman truly speaking truth to power.

  24. Knight 99- I may have given the wrong impression, I’m an overpaid supervisor as well. I have nothing against supervisors in general, just this one hypocrite, who’s ranting about the evils of the oil industry, while milking it for all it’s worth.

  25. Hey coach and Knight 99, drill guys drill. Have to keep these John Deeres humming and the lady’s husband bringing home the bread.

  26. My wonderful husband has been working on the road for close to 20 of our 25 years together. We knew if we really wanted to get ahead, there would be sacrifices to be made. As difficult as it was on me as I raised our 3 children alone much of the time, my husband spent all that time without his family with him. It has been a much lonelier road for him.
    But this is what we had to do. This is what productive people do when faced with life choices.
    Great big thanks to my husband, I really appreciate what you have sacrificed for us.

  27. It just occured to me though that because we make these sacrifices to make a better living, we also get to pay far more in taxes than we might have otherwise.
    And I don’t want to give up another penny.

  28. A real lady, with a real family, something the CBC poofters will never experience while they champion the losers in their tents. Thanks to all the real people who are starting to speak up, phone your mayors and MLA’s and MP”S, why should our system be bankrupted by a thousand cuts by these Soros funded kitty spitters, I am sick of Green peace Sierra Club Pembina pricks etc, breaking our economies and unless politicians start to take notice, we will be like the Maximus Eatapusses in Greece, BROKE.

  29. I’m confused, her husband is the 1%? Is he the cause of the fraud, but works hard and therefore is entitled to it? Perhaps I’m missing what the protest is about.

  30. Sacrifices….something the “occupiers” think is doing without a latte for a day…The lady said it all as well as it could be said. And a big thankyou to all the oil field workers who keep us warm all winter long.

  31. Well put lady. As a health care worker in Alberta I’ve made the point to a few individuals that the so-called “dirty oil” is the stuff that provides the energy, money and raw materials for the CT scanners, operating rooms, staff salaries etc. that allow us to provide health care to the people of southern Alberta, south western Saskatchewan and south eastern BC. I’ve yet to see anyone decline it because it was funded by the direct and indirect earnings of the oil patch.

  32. These latter day hippies are so clueless, they don’t even know which end of the year to start a revolution. Geez, the knowledge that has been lost since 1968!
    Seriously, let ’em freeze to death, cull the herd.

  33. Knight 99 and coach: Keep pumpin’ out the crude, boys, and keep the economy humming. The resource sector, technology, agriculture- we’re well-positioned for a changing, hungry world.

  34. The young lady’s sign hits the nail right on the head but the message she delivers would be completely lost on the so-called occupiers.
    How many have these useless turds do you think have ever worked a 12 hour shift? How many even know what a 12 hour shift is? The best of the bunch might have worked 12 hours in a month and that was probably on a fine option program.
    And as for the items listed that are produced from petroleum … the ink came from Office Depot, the tent was borrowed from mommy and daddy, mommy bought the new camera and the pensions will be provided by the government. So how does petroleum fit into the picture?
    These mindless cretins bring hypocrisy to a whole new level. As many have mentioned previously, the impending winter will extinguish their enthusiasm and they will go back to doing whatever it is that chronic losers do.

  36. coach >
    I know that coach, I could read between the lines, wasn’t on you at all about it, just reminding everyone else that not all the guys sitting in a shack jumped into the job overnight. Cheers.

  37. Thanks for the accolades Snagglepuss & Ken (Kulak)- We all do our part keeping Canada safe, prosperous and most importantly free. Every job in our economy makes it tick and feeds our families like a well oiled machine. Most importantly by the people who can appreciate and respect what we stand to lose if we foolishly give it away or let someone else take it.

  38. Good attitude and thoughts from the oil patch wife. All the best to her and her family.
    Hey Knight99 and coach, the shack jobs are still hard work and long weeks away from home and your loved ones. Still nothing to compare with the guys working the rigs or the cats. Not something the whiners of the entitlement generation could even start doing.
    Odd that a wellsite supervisor would be ranting about global warming, he probably has his TV set on the CBC news all day. Must be a 50 rig man.
    @ Michael, you should give it a try, the oil industry needs people who want to work.

  39. Knight- I’m actually a construction supervisor. I’m the guy you curse at because your lease is too small, etc. Right now, the equipment operators think I’m doing my daily report. There’s a reason I carry 2 laptops.
    I hope your rig keeps standing. We’ve been having a terrible time with wet leases this year.

  40. When did the occupy protest become anti-oil, or anti capitalist even ?
    Might just be me, but isn’t it more about anti-greed? When we’re paying vast amounts at the pump while the oil companies rake in record profits, and their workers work 301 days a year – surely that’s just greedy, and worth protesting?

  41. No, Tom. It’s about everything under the sun. That’s why they’ve become the butt of so many jokes. They are totally unfocused and irrational.

  43. OK Tom, I took a look at the link you posted. I don’t have much time to go into it, because I should get back to work, but the joint demands appear a bit naive and one-sided. I would say they definitely reflect the axiom that democracy fails when 50% realize they can make the government support them. That is what is unsustainable.
    The comments following are even worse – eliminate all government debt?!?
    Just imagine if that was done, would the government be able to borrow money ever again? Even if the system survived, it would immediately revert to a pay-as-you-go process (not necessarily a bad thing), but certainly not what the irrational idiot demanding it wants or expects.
    Stalin called them “useful idiots” but they’re really useless idiots.
    Are you one of them?
    I prefer the lady with the poster lauding her hard-working husband.

  46. I don’t understand what any of what she says has to do with the Occupy Wall Street movement?
    The movement isn’t against anything she said, its against the banks that tanked our economy simply by selling bad mortages and then betting against them (among many other things). How they took 2.2 trillion on our TAX PAYERS money and invested in themselves, still did had massive layoffs and gave the CEO’s record bonuses for tanking the economy.
    Against how Wall Street basically has total control over the economic policies of this country. About how companies can use tax loopholes to avoid paying taxes (example Verizon in 2009 had record profits but do to a loophole they didn’t pay a dime in federal taxes and also managed to get a 1.2 billion return).
    So someone please explain to me exactly how anything she says has anything to do with the Occupy Wall Street movement?
    I am proud of her husband for finding and maintaning a job that supports so many.
    If you really want to know what this is about go read the book “To Big to Fail”

  47. Quit yer whinin’ you greedy, capitalistic wench!
    Hey Sexton, I believe Michael is willing to provide his “husbandly” services to the lady, not actually work on the rigs, heaven forbid.
    I can’t imagine this woman keeping her hard working man over the multitude of proggy poofers out there. Michael, you might want to ditch your murse before you hit on this one.

  48. Well Benjamin, let me help rid you of some ignorance. Wall Street/Big Banks didn’t create the toxic mortgages that led to the housing bust. The US Government did that by FORCING banks to lend to individuals who couldn’t afford it and used Fannie and Freddy to “back” these investments. The OWS protestors are agitating for MORE government control and regulations.
    The party that created this mess (Democrats)are also the party that receives the most donations from wall street AND the mainstream media.
    This woman’s husband works his ass off to take care of his family. The protestors want to be taken care of.

  49. Thank you for your insight, part of the 53%.
    Your pensions, homes, and savings will be raided last.
    We’ll see you on the line when you either wake up, or have nothing to wake up to.

  50. coach >
    He he, I curse to myself and never yell; most everyone I’ve ever met in the patch does an outstanding job or tries their best to do so.
    Not too sure about the weather, been overseas steady for over a decade. On and off occasionally before that. Going to take a leave of absence here soon and break back into Alberta again – before retirement creeps up any faster.

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