At my terminal I sat typing, Trying hard to fight off napping. When there came a slight, soft rapping, Rapping on my office door, Only that and nothing more. Then I sat up, startled, freaking Just to hear a voice a-speaking "Your presence now I am... — read more 

It's official COP will only have 3% employees and the rest will be consultants in the EF

Gone. Get ready!

30% done deal!

Who is going to look for another job even if you don't get laid off? I am, this job insecurity is draining me.

As I was going to take vacation next week the AXE MAN caught me before I left What can I say... SLT member called my desk and asked me to come to a meeting room, shook my hand and thanked me for my years of service and left Out placement guy came in... — read more 

Sorry PAC MSOs. It was nice while it lasted.

Getting laid off from an oil & gas company is not unusual. It is a competitive business and will continue to happen. Job seekers need to accept this if they choose to work in this industry. The highs are sooo good when business is good, but the lows... — read more 

Luciana Barroso

These current layoffs are only the start of things to come if the price of oil doesn’t improve over the few months. So if you survive the few 2 weeks do celebrate too much because there will be more layoffs in the near future (I really hope I am... — read more 

I think it would be a great time to do an employee survey. Post the things you would like management to read.

It looks like Monday Oct 5th is the day the massacre will start around here. Has anyone heard anything different?

curios... status of human resources, recruiting, finance, legal and information technology (shared services) -- status of supervisors in particular!

So how can we make it as hard as possible once we get the call? Like don't even bring your laptop to work, leave your red card and cell at home? Any ideas?

Are they done in the EF office? I was told that they went back to Houston... but everyone is unsure... anybody have a clue WTF is going on??

So, by this time next week many of the subsurface teams in Houston will have experienced ~50% cuts in the technical staff, but not the managers. Yet there is still no sign of any actual leadership by Ryan Lance or Matt Fox, are they: 1) just hoping... — read more 

Rather than cutting some redundancy from our excessive upper management, the writing on the wall says that the majority of the cost cutting will be from the middle and bottom. I won't say which organization, but those of you in my org know exactly... — read more 

Has anyone heard when layoffs will start for PAB?

Your turn is just days away!

For anyone in the know, or who has been through it, will someone just show up at your desk and ask you to go with them to a conference room, or will you get a meeting invite well ahead of time so you have to sweat?

I have a couple observations to make. The people who play with the model train sets (BR) are not the good at producing oil and gas and also the logo for Conoco looks just like a giant suppository.

Does anyone know what, if any, help Conoco can/must provide in finding a new job after severance?

The waiting is horrible...

Folks next Tuesday and Wednesday are dooms day!