Excellent news!!

This Year Jesus blessed our families with more layoffs and many brothers and sisters are now unemployed. Remember that The Lord acts in mysterious ways and what today looks like a curse, is in reality a blessing from the omniscient and omnipotent... — read more 

The list goes on and on. Wondering how many genius conceptualized these fxxked fancy terms and corporate schemes just to get a pay raise and glorious title? Or this is just something we purchased from the IBM consultants

https://www.linkedin.com/comm/jobs/view/249584254?recommendedFlavor=IN_NETWORK&refId=91cb5b17-99cd-406b-bbe4-36d050886536&trk=eml-jymbii-organic-job-card&midToken=AQFnWoJMqmBoDg&trkEmail=eml-jobs_jymbii_digest-null-240-null-null-vz482~iwxxbfjp~3o — read more 

Did all the Schlumberger plants cancel the Christmas party or is it just the Ponca plant?

I know this is most inappropriate for this forum but I couldn't think of any other place to ask this anonymously? In recent times, when have employees received stock options since pay increase is frozen? Perhaps, outstanding employees on their SLP-3... — read more 

According to the IEA the trend is not positive. Global upstream oil and gas investments are expected to plummet 24 percent this year, with little signs of improvement for 2017, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Wednesday. This year's dip... — read more 

Information meeting today: 134 positions will be removed in Q1-Q2 2017. The post last week was right. Merry XMas to you all!

From the latest information meeting, it is clear that more and more jobs are going to China. No one seems to realise but look at forecast for 2017 SBT down, QBT up

Too many Eastern Europeans in SHTC UK - report them and save local jobs

Does anyone remember what they answered during survey in September There is no information to employees about survey results, action planning Rumours are that company don't intend to do anything with results as it is taking focus away from... — read more 

Schlumberger has laid off thousands of employees in Houston because H1-B visa holders are doing the job and hence US citizens are not needed in Houston. We should make Donald Trump aware of this situation

Last week to kill some birds before school holidays, we don't want management have to wait all the way to 2017

What would you put on a Schlum-burger? I'll start. You gotta have a stale bun. Use your imagination people and have fun!

SLB was the number 2 oilfield service company ranked by Rigzone's survey, and number 6 overall for the global oil industry. Overall rankings for ideal oilfield employers: #1 Shell, #2 Chevron, #3 ExxonMobil, #4 BP, #5 Halliburton, #6 Schlumberger... — read more 

From the 401k statements upwards of 60% of the pension funds are in REIT trusts. With the 10 year going from 1.2ish% to 2.5% the losses in those funds will pile on quickly in Q1 and beyond. How protected are those funds with pensions? They guarantee... — read more 

Say 10% reduction in basic salary for 12 months which will be paid at end of 12 months. This will generate some cash in immediate term for saving jobs. Perhaps we should contact President-elect on twitter about great divide in Schlumberger

What if...

As others talk about the upside or bottom of the market Schlumberger are continuing to "re-structure". http://www.oilandgaspeople.com/news/11775/did-big-oil-layoff-too-many-workers-too-quickly/ Schlumberger are the best at cutting and you have also... — read more 

No merit increase for the past a couple of years. Most people were giving lateral moves just for the sake of career development. Only a few lucky ones got a true promotion with a good bump on the pay. Have heard someone was given a better title as... — read more 

If i say no thats my career over and if I take it I am not progressing in my career compensation wise. Is this legal?

HR, here are some tips for your next endeavor. SLB Executives who only care about making themselves filthy rich while laying off so many people – the most overdue, but most unlikely to be cut Incompetent managers – There are still many of them at... — read more 

So many people being laid off by so many companies that it’s not a shock any more. Bad news just gets added to the pile like the interest on a Wonga loan. The first redundancy news was a shock, but it just keeps coming; waves and waves of sh*t... — read more 

What happened to the tickbox exercise on Anton planning with employees. SHTC, UK is very tight lipped about the results sitting with management team

I know quite a few got affected this week, just not sure about the scope. I've heard they would continue this to year end.

SLB advocates "gender equality" greatly and I wonder how many of those women get their pink slips recently.

With a dedicated workforce anything is possible...........oops.

It will be announced next week, and will hit Engineering hard. As usual in France though, it will take 6 months before people see the door.

4 already and counting in Houston CHPC Ardmore Location. Specifically Liner Hangers Engineering including mid-level managers and lower level engineer

Will the latest round of layoffs save enough $ to break ground on the new NAM HQ or will it be canceled? To get the tax breaks from Sugar Land they had to have it finished by a certain date. Looks like that may not happen.

From everyone I know, the only team that is safe and still spending money like crazy is the Transformation team. They have a huge list of tasks to be completed per a preset timeline. Budget and resources are all nonessential topics. The only thing... — read more