If not what are we now ?
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Things are improving.
We are not even relevant in drilling services anymore, our market share is totally piss poor
@3sza The term “band” was carried over from GE. That tells you pretty much everything you need to know about it.
Can anyone explain the BKR job "bands" like Senior, Lead, etc.?
Wonder why the other employee has less experience or maybe less educated and holds the same title as you? Because he or she started 1 year before you at BKR, but you have 10 years over him in the industry?
Job capsules once spelled out what you needed to do to get to the next level. Here’s as idea (HR), let’s get rid of that guide and now everyone manages their own path. Let’s remove actual end-of-year performance ratings and may the odds be ever in your favor...
When you blur the lines, managers are able to promote who they feel deserves it.
Ask your HR partner to pull up your job title and show you a description of your role and responsibilities. Then, ask them what are the requirements to move up to the next pay grade.
It’s a basic ask that is very much within your right to know. Ask, and then you will see...
Simply put BH is now an embarrassment to the oilfield service sector. A complete joke who operators simply don't trust any more.
Post: The start of the end is actually quite simple.
Well put post below, think we should all be worried the way things are going.
The start of the end is actually quite simple.
HR blurred the lines on job roles. What once was a clear, defined role now is just ??? This creates devaluation of roles and job titles, allowing for the less educated, less seasoned employee to assume more responsibility without giving them leverage to ask for a promotion.
That’s like replacing a good plumber assistant to replace the licensed plumber. Hey, as long as the work gets done right? First, they remove the “licensing” requirements. Then open the floodgates.
Look around, it’s happening to programmers too. Hell even Medical doctors ...
We will teach you what you need to know, forget all the schooling. Google is creating their own certification programs now.
The true knowledge and talents had been singled out or forced out of the company. There are only managers that know nothing but are still there because they padded around themselves with people that also know nothing. If you ask the people that are still working there, how many of them truly know what the products and services that they are supposedly providing are? Not many at all.
I work in the field as a LWD. I am ashamed to be associated with BH now with the continual failing of equipment, non trained persons on site and non existent support from town. Wish we could go back 20 years when we were good at the jobs we did.
BH is an decrepit elephant lumbering toward the elephant graveyard.
Only got themselves to blame, thought they could play the system, lie to company reps and get c-ap out the door, that type of business only lasts so long before being found out.
I really really fear for the future of the drilling services that BH provide. Shoddiest outta the big service companies in all aspects, preparation, personnel, equipment and of course the new buzz word being banded around, integrity. Piss poor.
Think your QA had quite a bit to do with the shoddy work that was being accepted, in Aberdeen anyway, sure most remember a particular QA guy "let go" for a very specific reason.
HR messed this company up. I do not understand how a bunch of little girls who know nothing about the drilling business took over. So is Baker still a drilling company, No, it is a bankrupt company thanks to the little girls in HR.
We couldn't even decommission ourselves without making a pig's ear of it.
Are we Decommissioning ourselves ? Seems like it.
A Decom company. Don't make me laugh. Something else we can mess up.
We are a Decom company now as that's where the future is
We once were fracking everything, now we are fracking nothing. A fracking pathetic shell of what was once was a great company to work for.
Sorry to say It's definitely a HR company now, hoping to run some drilling projects on the side, which in turn will enable it to feed and fund a bigger over blown HR clown department.
Affraid the company has been a a big mess for a long long time hence the GE takeover, if it had been run well this would never have happened.
Over the years Baker went from a respected company to a joke company where the emphasis was get everything out the door whether its right or not, that attitude was your demise.
What are we now ?
A fracking big mess !!