Every person they have to hire will be less skilled, less trained, and more expensive. It would be better to just compensate competitively.
And I am not saying experienced hires are less skilled. But 6mo-1yr to find a candidate and then the onboarding time for them to learn our dysfunctional work processes? Like 2+ years of efficiency is lost.
[ ID @ufk+1jMQhXfn ] What needs to happen for our leadership to understand this?
xom leaderdhip are not the sharpest tools in the shed, but they are the greediest
@ohq. You must have limited experience and never spent significant time around production facilities in the real meat of our business. I'm guessing you're either an EMTEC or BTC office we---e. Maybe you're in IT. Dushpag.
@1ouf Cool story. Try again.
@1kqg+1jOPyGqr My my you sound absolutely clueless.
@1kqg+1jOPyGqr
Trying to read between the lines on what you do. I’m going to go with 0-5 year mechanical or chemical engineer working in a field based engineering position?
@bhu You guys look up standards, change the wording, and cut/paste graphs.
The hard work was done years ago. All you’re doing is following previous documentation.
Nothing new has happened in oil and gas since around 2014. There’s not much to know that can’t be looked up. A lot of it isn’t even paywalled (if you know where to look).
If you think all of the industry knowledge exists in industry standards, I wish you luck in your management career. This is one of the most naive comments I've seen on this site.
What senior employees refuse to understand:
Their skills are dated, they’re very expensive, return little value, and have failed to adapt to workforce cultural/technological changes.
“B-but…my experience and institutional knowledge”.
Anybody with at least one functioning neuron can access industry standards via the company subscription service, which is what your “institutional knowledge” consists of. Beyond that, sitting in Zoom calls, checking dimensions on 30 year-old drawings, and cutting/pasting pictures into Word documents are all things that can be done better, faster, and cheaper by somebody else. Doesn’t even require a college degree in most cases.
Move on.
For all of "leadership's" shortcomings, being stupid isn't one of them. They know this is exactly how the system they put in place will work. They just don't care. They want cheap labor at cheap prices, and they'll get it.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”