Thread regarding Phillips 66 layoffs

@fh yeah actually this point is hilarious - most of their “high profile” hires are people no one else will touch. Often they describe the roles we hired them for as the best thing that ever happened to them - but delusional hiring managers read that as they are excited for the opportunity while the market looks at these placements in shock and awe that we would be so crazy to put them in these roles

Let me throw in this perspective. I was laid off two years ago. Since then, I've had three recruiters reach out to me offering an opportunity with the exact same job description as the role deemed "no longer necessary." It's a shell game. They need the tasks completed, but it looks better, on the books, if the job doesn't officially exist.

Look at the disastrous impact external hires have had on the IT organization. It's hard to ignore how much outsourcing has followed in their wake.

As the late George Carlin once said, “It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it!”

@OP demoralizing for everyone across the company to see high level positions going this direction. The message is the company is not interested in retention, recognition or promotion opportunities for its own home grown people that know the foundations this company was built on.

Take Tractor Man for 1 good, glaring example of an external hire gone bad.
For that matter, Go-Go himself is a great example!
Please help us Elliott!!

These external picks aren’t elevating the company from an optics standpoint not one bit. Most aren’t even known in the industry. Underwhelming 100%, self sabotage and the disastrous thing for the company is these people are embedded for years now, they won’t be removed, management will never own up to their mistakes.