The supervisors started to ignore equipment problems and pushed us to get done more quickly without regard to safety procedures . They routinely shouted obscenities at employees in front of others. A couple of my work mates were fired and a couple of others quite their jobs. I almost lost my job one day just because my boss thought I was deliberately working slowly. He didn't realize -or care- that the fitting I was connecting were damaged. Several people started finding ways to avoid the supervisors and get as little work done as possible. Many of my coworkers developed back problems. We jokingly called it the 'riggers's backache' because some employees faked their aliment to leave the rig with paid sick leave