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Thread: Job vacancies in...Antarctica

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    Quote Originally Posted by V8Ian View Post
    No, but Scarry is updating his resume, as Mrs Scarry darns his woolen socks.
    He won't need no goddam woolen socks. As a Fridgie he would be used to having frostbitten tootsies. Why would he be a Fridgie in Antarctica? To ensure storage temperatures are kept warm enough possibly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by V8Ian View Post
    What's a balancing tech?
    A married Land Rover owner/driver?
    Yes,that,and something like balancing the bank balance,when the LR repair shop calls and says it is going to be a few more gorillas,now we have had good look and done a few more checks

    Such is life

    Well, not for me,i have moved on

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    The base rates they are offering tech staff are delusional, the only things that could make it attractive are the allowances, and the experience.
    2005 D3 TDV6 Present
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    Quote Originally Posted by scarry View Post
    Yes,that,and something like balancing the bank balance,when the LR repair shop calls and says it is going to be a few more gorillas,now we have had good look and done a few more checks

    Such is life

    Well, not for me,i have moved on


    Ah that olde
    "we have had good look and done a few more checks"
    ruse eh?

    Just when it is really inconvenient to take time off to go & have a shufti, eh?


    Cynical? Moi?

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    I too , applied for an Antarctic position quite a few years ago. Involved 18mth stopover.

    I got to second interview when they asked me the specifications of all the engines , pumps and generators I'd worked on and listed in my application. I said I don't know how you expect me to recall all that. They didn't like that reply.

    They then asked me why I had no experience with snowmobiles, snowploughs, skidoos and snow tracs. I told them if anyone else they're interviewing has my mechanical experience plus snow machinery experience as asked that they were bull****ting because they couldn't get all that experience and still be young enough for application as was quite religiously stated.

    I think that ended my interviews.

    What a bunch of pompous bi-spectacled contemptable ****** they actually were.

    I later received an "offer to apply" for Heard Island "winter" which involved being dropped off on Heard with a list of jobs by the Auroara Australis on it's way to Antarctica and being picked up on the way back. I politely said no thank you.

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