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Working and living at the Barakah power station UAE
UncaBuffalo:
--- Quote from: UncaBuffalo on Sep 18, 2023, 07:21 ---Found out that the room you get is based on what you bargained for when you hired on. Some of the techs accepted share rooms, while others have singles.
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Apparently it is also luck of the draw and depends on what they have available? Some of the techs ended up in a building where they are having to share bathroom, even though they have their own room?
UncaBuffalo:
Got into the plant this week. First thing that struck me is...APR-1400s are HUGE. Everything felt 50% larger than any other plant I have been in.
Have only been in Aux building so far. Plant comes down at end of month...will be interesting to see if CTMT is as roomy.
UncaBuffalo:
--- Quote from: UncaBuffalo on Nov 01, 2022, 08:19 ---YOUCH! Just had a recruiter offer me $16 per hour (straight AND OT hours same rate) and no per diem! :(
On the plus side, you 'get' to live in a C-van...and eat cafeteria food! ;)
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I had seen no hint of these mysterious C-vans....and was ready to consign them to Urban Legend status...
BUT...it's true! They had techs SHARING cargo containers a couple of outages ago! Someone finally pointed out the notorious C-Van Compound to me. Awesome! This gets more entertaining by the day.
Note: Fewer workers onsite this outage, so no one got banished to Shipping Container Limbo. :)
UncaBuffalo:
--- Quote from: UncaBuffalo on Jun 26, 2021, 07:17 ---Recruiter I talked to said they provided you with transportation also...
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Okay, so technically the recruiter was right...BUT...
I was picturing a rental car situation....or possibly a car with a driver. But something that was readily available so I could get where I wanted to go, do what I wanted to do, and see the country on my days off.
The reality is that what they 'provide' is the site shuttle system. So you can get from your dormitory to the plant if a shuttle happens to be running when you need to go to work. If it's not running then the contract company will generally line up another bus or car, but...definitely only available for work-related trips.
I'm not a hugely patient person, so often find myself a bit frustrated waiting 15 or 20 minutes for co-workers to arrive so a shuttle or transport vehicle can leave.
And definitely gives the whole experience a bit of a prison camp feel not to be able to get away when I want to.
UncaBuffalo:
--- Quote from: UncaBuffalo on Sep 20, 2023, 11:52 ---Got into the plant this week. First thing that struck me is...APR-1400s are HUGE. Everything felt 50% larger than any other plant I have been in.
Have only been in Aux building so far. Plant comes down at end of month...will be interesting to see if CTMT is as roomy.
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Initial entry surveys last night...it IS just as roomy in the RCB.
And the cleanest plant I have ever worked. I took half dozen smears on one of the primary side S/G platforms...and zero contamination detected. I guess that area was relatively highly crapped up after they completed ECT last outage...but it was 98% Co58, so now has decayed?
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