In 2015, Tabitha Lasley, a former freelance magazine journalist, arrived in Aberdeen, Scotland, the United Kingdom’s oil capital, having spent four years on a novel about rig workers with nothing to show for it. “
Today, men who live in areas that were once home to chemical plants or mines are still the greatest share of the offshore workforce. Though the work pays well, it is not without its dangers. One worker Lasley interviews describes his rig as a “floating bomb.” Everyone knows the horror stories, of rigs sunk or exploded, and the industry’s shorthand, such as Shell’s “T.F.A.” , which stood for a protocol thatriggers not to waste time on maintenance.
Lasley’s first interviewee is an offshore worker from Teesside, an area that was once a hub of steel and chemical manufacturing. Caden has clear blue eyes, a jockey’s body, and tattoos of the names of his wife and twin daughters. He likes the gym, ironing, the autobiographies of Mafia dons, and bio-pics about soccer hooligans. Lasley spots him at an airport, where his kit bag—a kind of waterproof duffel, designed in accordance with helicopter requirements—gives him away.
After four months, during which the couple meet six times, Caden calls his wife, Rachel, from the rig, tells her that he wants to end their marriage, and moves in with Lasley. She is elated, but also panicked, knowing the choice cannot lead anywhere good, feeling “the tranced horror of a child who has struck a match and somehow set fire to the curtains.” They live off party food and play house with adolescent tenderness.
I can't comment on what she wrote and can only speak of the men I met working on the rigs and what a lonely life it is.
There is plenty to write about at the moment but this?
So, oil men are gay ... who could have seen this one coming?
Causing pollution with oil rigs
Romance novel dressed as a documentary.
I’m going to help all the curious folks out: Apparently it’s mostly a memoir about the author’s sex life and how it intersected with offshore workers. She’s also apparently abrasive to other women. I’m not going to waste my time.
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What if it was a man writing about what women working in remote locations do to one another.
Nothing sweeter than the love between two or more men on remote oil rigs
There's no lack of lubrication
Most provocative tweet of the day....
32 years offshore in the North Sea..and I will have to say this is pure fanciful twaddle. Mince.
Or: What Happens on the Rig Stays on the Rig
98% of those who are willing to work high paying, highly dangerous, labor intensive blue collar jobs like these are men. Further validation that the gender pay gap is a myth.
Destroying the planet and life on earth all while making love lol
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