“You heard of ExxonMobil?” Hannah Pawelski asked her dad during a phone call posted on TikTok. “It’s like an oil company,” she added. When her father replied yes, Pawelski, holding back laughter, told him she “saw like a job posting, and I applied and it’s like an apprenticeship … in an offshore oil rig,” and that it “pays so much money.”
Pawelski, like many other girls participating in this latest TikTok prank, isn’t serious about working on an offshore rig, but her dad doesn’t know that. Her father understandably responded to his twentysomething daughter’s call by trying to make her understand that offshore oil rigging is not for her. “You’re in the middle of the ocean, the wind is blowing. It’s probably one of the most dangerous jobs in the world,” he told her.
