So. I feel the need to share an experience. May it gird the loins of others.
I'm replacing the mud hoses on a ram rig, not easy, but with some thought, skill and experience, not too taxing.
Night shift gets swapped out. A new team takes over. Maybe a shit handover, maybe Inate incompetance, results in a display of rigging of epic ineptitude.
The only way forward is to strip out all that has gone before and, literally, start again. Yes it's that's bad.
Times passing, the driller is getting restless, barge engineer is pacing to and fro, but they can see what's occurring, so are as sympathetic as can be expected.
Supervisor get on the radio, demands my presence in the office. He's been an arse like this all all trip. You have to abseil down, exit the rig, (we're in a shipyard), down the stairs, across the yard and up the stairs in the office block. Not once did he board the rig-it was always a summons thus.
So down I go, much to the consternation of drill crew. Across the drill floor, down the stair tower, across the yard, up the stairs…
“You're taking too long! You must go faster!”
Now, i rolled out the killer phrase, the one I will hold in arsenal going forward. The one I humbly offer in the hope it will be of service.
“OK. Which one of the safety systems that I have put in place would you like me to remove to make things go faster ?”
5 minutes later I was back on the Derrick, the radio blissfully silent.