I only have a few years with the company and It’s not clear to me what exactly do the majority of the Advisors and Planners do?
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The preceding posts are a bunch of bull.
Advisors are managers who flame out early and get put in a high CL position to kind of do technical work while continuing to hold the coattails of their sponsor.
@tom+1eiEsKeq Some of us taking planning assignments and shut our mouths and nod our heads so we can get the management position and change from within. Have to get into the club by pretending to be a huge fan before changing the music.
For EMIT at least, this is what you get when you pay managerial better than technical. Everyone technical wants to be managerial for the pay and ability to make a decision without 5 approvals. So then you have managers with zero background in the financial info needed for a good manager. Pay the technical a lot and make the technical role important. Then you’ll have managers be people who like, and have experience with, management and won’t need a planner to do all their work for them or have that technical person be a planner to get exposure. This is how every good IT org runs. We are not a good IT org.
I have been there and since I didn't want to do any real work and reap all the benefits of networking and high pay, I stayed as Advisor of all sorts. Here is my honest take on it
Advisors and Planners are examples of everything that is wrong with the company. This role collects a bunch of enthusiastically incompetent people who are good at saying yes to every ridiculous ideas from upper management (these are an exotic breed of d-mb people who may actually believe in them), and believe that their full time job is making powerpoint bullets and attending meetings.
If our company fires every single one of them after shaming them for being freeloaders, I would say that it may have started on the path to profitability.
Sometime the purpose of named advisor is to take them close to the door, but it depends if the advisor has a good sponsor they just waiting to fill a EM position when the position are available. If you do not believe me. Take a look from XTO in Permian. Many of them were promote to advisor , and now they are out of EM.
When they did the UOG, UIS and UBD reorg a few years ago, they took away more detailed role descriptions and called everyone advisors. I feel this was done to simplify the number of positions for the purpose of screwing people on pay increases that stem from industry comparisons. Example: some one prior to re-org could be Senior Structural Marine Engineer. Makes sense and you can gauge the type of role and person in it. After reorg they just call them Marine Advisor. A dilution of employee value. Subsea Drilling Engineer is now Wells Advisor. Magic!!! Chevron and Shell have Subsea Drilling Engineers but they don’t have Wells Advisors, so can’t compare anymore. They fact they put everything wellhead/drilling related into “Wells” and put that in the UIS silo is beyond ridiculous.
Planners....well there are maintenance field planners then there are the office jockey planners. It’s a launch pad/must stop role for high flyers. They make Power points and are basically a Parrot on a VP or higher shoulder. Like the one from Aladdin, but more annoying.
We do not make powerpoint charts. We simply advise and plan. We have young engineers and geologists under us that we get to make pretty charts.
Make vu graphs