Columbine Logging Reviews

- Long hours - Often extremely remote locations - In the past the Colorado office personnel have had very little idea what it meant to be a logger. They will often ask you to forgo planned vacation time with little or no notice. - Zero face time with the people telling you what to do. I know people that worked for columbine for years and have never seen the office. Your only contact with office personnel will be negative. (phone calls/emails letting you know that you did something wrong or phone calls asking you to go to a horrible place when you had other plans) - You are often put in bad situations with the people around you. [both at home and the rig] - Poorly bid contracts are making it impossible to pay people what it takes to stay in the oil field -- If you are fresh out of school you are currently better off looking on the environmental side of things. - They tend to treat their best staff poorly without any additional compensation. Expect to make 30 to 75k 30k if you are on rotations as a new hire... Which is a joke because you will only get a rotations once you threaten to quit. 75k if you never go home and happen to be on a rig that does multi lateral wells and stays busy. Please keep in mind if you work for a month at this job it is the same as working 9 forty hour work weeks. If you are new expect to get passed from rig to rig because you are the cheapest person working. Personal recommendation to potential new hires into the oil industry. Hold off until oil prices are back over $70 a barrel. Up to that point companies will not be willing to adjust wages back to an acceptable amount. The problems facing Columbine are universal to the industry. You are better off finding a local geology job. You can always go into the oil industry when times are go. It is more difficult to come out of the oil industry and find a good job in another area of geology.

Columbine logging has poor operational management which leaves field personnel to resolve issues on their own.