Necessary Roughness

Pictures of the flight to Prudhoe Bay and the Halliburton facility there.

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Normally we Information Technology people are classified as an “indirect expense.” Our salaries are not easily related to job revenue. Given the amount the proposal writer was going to short HAL, the amount of time fixing a botched proposal, the time a customer accountant can hold payment because the actual charge didn’t match the proposal, etc., yours truly turned out to be an indirect revenue generator.

My coat was stolen in Grand Junction, but the investigation netted two thieves who stole two coats.
Last Wednesday I wore my coat to the HAL facility, but the day had warmed up so much I didn’t think about wearing it back to the hotel. I left it in the training room, and it was gone [...]

The AP reports that the U.S. Geological Survey is estimating 4.3 billion barrels of oil can be recovered from the Bakken shale formation in North Dakota and Montana.
For once, HAL doesn’t have to move a camp. We have a site right in the thick of it, in Williston, ND. Could Williston become the [...]

Our Information Technology department in Houston announced a reorganization and the release of seven individuals. My boss was understandably upset when the order came from above, and she had to do the informing. Most of them were good people that had worked on the project as long as I have, and they will be hard [...]