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Who would work for Trioceanic

posted 13 years ago by mrmuggles
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Their contract said that they would get half the pay if they hadn't collected a certain amount of mineral by the deadline (was it silver?).
Who would agree on such a *beep* contract? The crew members must have been pretty desperate. Any delay and your whole pay is halved... *beep* them!

Must be how the company can afford to have an expensive medical facility for an underwater rig. They had a cat scan, an electronic microscope and computers that can analyze DNA and its mutations in a matter of seconds! Unless this is of course set in the future (somehow it didn't look so).

[–] Burntout 13 years ago

It was highly dangerous work mining silver that deep in the ocean. I'm sure the pay they were receiving was more than sufficient compared to the risks and perhaps even greater than expected...therefore, you don't meet the quota the company can halve the pay and yet it still might end up on "industry standard" pay which would most likely not be too shoddy either. Highly hazardous work is usually well compensated as long as the corporation involved is making a lot of money (mining silver in this case had to have made them tons of cash just for having a center like that 16000 feet down).

There are a TON of inconsistencies and truly unrealistic scenarios, but this is a rather weak sci-fi entry to begin with so none of these minor quibbles matter. You either are willing to suspend your belief for 1hr.39min. of this tripe or you realize how formulaic and unrealistic it is and move on to give it a fair grade of 5 or less out of 10.

Pretty freakin' simple really.

[–] mrmuggles 13 years ago

Over-paid miners, now that's science fiction.

I like the minor quibbles, if they didn't matter to you don't bother replying, don't you think?
It's fun to nitpick to such low-expectation movies (which I like anyway) and I thought it was pretty *beep* that their pay would be halved if they didn't reach the goal.

[–] Burntout 13 years ago

Haha, fair enough points. I agree it's fun sometimes to make a mountain out of an anthill which is kind of the point of me having bothered to reply in the first place.

I guess I should have stipulated that since this was the future I made the usual assumption that it was more of a utopian society (as compared to today) including generous pay for the more dangerous work (especially that deep underwater). Only reason I made this assumption here is that the future did not seem to be so bad.

Probably got paid less than most white collar jobs for certain, but probably well over most industry pay.

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