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Originally Posted by driveway
Oil and Gas is the laziest industry IMO. Oil is easier an cheaper to get and produce than Coca-Cola, the vast majority of workers simply sit in offices all day and occasionally have meetings. There's travel, conferences, etc. most O&G office workers put in maybe 4 hours a day of real "work" and spend the rest of the day on the net/phone/reading reports, standing at the office cooler.
Then they have the audacity to a) claim they're worth 100k+ a year, and b) whine and complain when the market forces they love so much hurt their employability.
I'd sure love 140k a year to operate spreadsheets.
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Coming from someone just starting off in engineering, it comes down to liability in my opinion. What's the worst outcome of having a crappy teacher? You get a new one the next year and your kid has to work harder to catch up in classes. Whats the worst outcome of a crappy engineer? Far worse.
Now if we're talking about someone outside of engineering, I'll agree there's lots of excess fat that could be trimmed, HR comes to mind. 4 hours a day of real work is massively selling them short, much in the same way me saying "coming up with a lesson plan to teach addition" isn't real work. It's pretty obtuse.