It has to be right? I’m referring to what we spent to buy our way onto the JUST 100 list. It certainly is good for a laugh, but at the end of the day, we certainly approach our public image with intentionality, because no one who works here, or... — read more 

The swing of the kid at the end of the baseball commercial couldn’t capture the soft, wannabe winner mentality of leadership any better. Nicely done

IT ever start doing their jobs? Or still gatekeeping and stonewalling?

Bets on if management will take steps to clean up the pollution in the tower?

The inability to have honest conversations. When you cannot give critical feedback to a leader, when you can't question a decision that's been made, when disagreements are frowned upon, when it's unpopular to point out problems. The worst thing of... — read more 

Conway's Law is an adage that states organizational design systems mirror their own communication structure. It is named after the computer programmer Melvin Conway, who introduced the idea in 1967, and was never learned by our technology... — read more 

At what point does an entire team become irrelevant? Is it after they’ve proven themselves inept at doing what they are tasked to do? Is it after they’ve totally messed up rolling out new processes? Is it after they’ve done a bang up job of... — read more 

Mr. Podcast at fuze talking about the future of the field worker, all the while his organization gatekeeps and stonewalls. Who asked for this? Maybe get your house right before you go talking about stuff you obviously don’t know about or care to... — read more 

https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/devon-energy-mulls-ma-options-with-marathon-crownrock

How is the business going ? any surprises coming this quarterly result ? Or is the market underestimating performance ?

10$ lost in the last month and way down from a high of 70$ Can’t wait until the earnings call and another dividend slash to crush the price further. It’ll be time to buy before the next big acquisition inflates the price for a few months. — read more 

Opening up that position for remote work isn’t going to get you any closer to doing what you actually need to do. And promoting some doormat to “lead” tweedle Dee and tweedle dum isn’t going to stop the bad press. Fix your house, get rid of the... — read more 

As long as data processes are built fast and cheap, we will always struggle to understand who is accountable for data quality issues. When leadership asks for a dashboard, the complexity that goes into defining the query, understanding the business... — read more 

1 Gone

Looking over some of these job postings and I have to wonder if it’s an exercise in satire or just complete obliviousness. “Foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement” Entry level postings, but require years of experience. I guess... — read more 

What is data at dvn?

I never thought Devon would be this week. Failure after failure and the epa and blm penalties haven’t hit yet. Behind marks on production and ESG. Doomed to fail like Chesapeake did prior to WPX coming and sparing a few more years of production for... — read more 

Another down quarter, when will the rolling layoffs resume? Because when toxic employees' negative behaviors are tolerated, it can have a hugely detrimental effect on the company's culture, decrease collaboration between teams, and so much more as... — read more 

It’s devon buying Permian Resources out of midland tx? Here we go again!

I didn’t realize it was acceptable to get completely out of control inebriated at user conferences on our dime, but apparently that’s where we are at. No oversight, no control, just let the good times roll. Wonderful example of our employees to the... — read more 

It's miserable to be in a workplace where toxic people come to work each day to undermine good employees. Their focus is never the mission or the customers. It is the deeply dysfunctional belief - a pathology - that taking others down will somehow... — read more 

Ah yes the good old workplace abuse playbook. Employee performs well and/or speaks up Abuser creates a false narrative, sabotages, or otherwise demeans the target to reinforce their power. ,Target has nowhere to turn. HR works for... — read more 

Workplace bullying is synonymous with our culture at Devon. Not only during this so called “merger of equals” that was really just a thinly veiled cover for an acquisition, but throughout the last decade. Situations such as: Falsely accusing the... — read more 

The shock and awe of the faces from an anonymous survey results have been glorious.

When is our resident poster child for technology PR spinning his next yarn? I have some friends that want to listen and I think they’d get a kick out of his complete and utter lack of substance while trying to portray excellence in innovation. — read more 

Generative AI doesn’t eliminate the need for high-quality data sets. Curated proprietary data sets are more valuable than ever. We have terabytes of data with near 0 value. we will miss out on the returns that Generative AI can deliver and fall even... — read more 

You implemented tools to solve all your data problems. There are 3 things that act on data – people, process, and technology.  In that order.  If all you do is implement a tool, you’ve solved a technology problem and ignored the people and process... — read more 

Exxon ready to buy, will wait til max pain on shares. Sucks because last thing I want to do is move to north Houston.

Another dividend cut, another share plunge

It’s really not worth the time and money to attract top talent if you aren’t considering the work environment they are coming into. Retention only happens when your company culture is worth staying for, and we haven’t done the hard work to remedy our... — read more 

Regarding the removal of one certain news pundit, it was said, it is "about time" and that "for far too long." Inside his organization, some of his internal critics rejoiced upon learning the news, saying there's "a lot of relief generally, surprise... — read more 

Hey! There is this new thing that can help us because we know our own IT org can’t handle it, but let’s use the code of conduct as a thinly veiled threat so we have to continue to rely on subpar technology and those that gatekeep it. Might start... — read more 

Exxon? Chevron? Who’s it gonna be that ACQUIRES us? And you can be sure they don’t need any IT help. Time to start refreshing those resumes technology! Such great news!

Worked @ DVN for 14 years. Loved this place and got let go with the WPX merger. Chances are the cycle will continue and the longer you are there the greater the chance you will get let go. It is sad, real sad. In my tenure there my department had 11... — read more 

Now that all of the merger hassle is over we can get back to turning on each other apparently. If you aren’t just giving up and quiet quitting that is. I wonder who will remain once the dust settles at the end of the year?

No one wants to stay, can’t find anyone willing to join. Maybe it’s the toxic culture? I’m sorry, maybe it’s the “culture”. Argh, one more time, maybe it’s the culture? Same old Devon, we never change. Which is not the flex we think it is. — read more 

When a toxic leader can no longer control you, they will try to control how others see you. The misinformation will feel unfair, but stay above it, trusting that other people will see the truth, just like you did. Unfortunately, we have such an... — read more