roustabouts

Oh, and Song of the Roustabouts is something too.

This career field given actual training and OTJ supervision is a logical upgrade path for roustabouts.

Probably a negative stereotype but roustabouts don't seem to sweat as much as the drill crew.

Swanking into the joint, assuming spherical cows, and berating the locals for being lazy roustabouts who just need to see the light is not going to make you friends, because it's demonstrably not useful.

I am not making value judgments about blue collar workers, about oil field roustabouts, or about any of the categories of workers you're talking about.

I did come across oil field roustabouts in my Googling, and if that's the primary definition of the term as implied in this article, I stand corrected.

It turns out that some of the same roustabouts are willing to employ themselves in such a way that, for my benefit, they engage in the time competition, whereby they effectively turn it into a convenient bidding competition.

I suspect that we have quite a few "roustabouts" getting stuck at the bottom rungs of our labor force, and I'm not talking about illegal immigrants.

If you need 50K roustabouts to keep the oil flowing, and you teach them to be "CSS developers", then all you're going to do is crash "CSS development" into poverty and not get any oil.

I don't have the figures, but some roustabouts get killed OTJ trying to upgrade themselves without actually knowing as much as they think they do, aka I know I'm not an electrician but I'll "help" with that damaged wiring or whatever.