Overuse words justifying the existence of people who don't know a lot about the business, jumping from role to role, people who does not do real work, always using their mouth to babble words they don't even understand, a big fan of incompetent people, promoting people that can do their dirty bidding, use their tears and family to gain people's sympathy, NOT CARING for those people who actually do the job and look down on SMARTER people who are really the future of Baker Hughes!
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LOL. Said Tech leader has been in her role for 3 years...what has been done???
What improvements?
Nothing. Zilch. Nada.
So pretending to uncover an issue ? Typical BKR management. Let’s blame the previous management. New management still doesn’t have answers.
Give me a break
What more Sales can expect when the Technology Leader herself said in her quarterly report to employees no structure is being following for the last 2-3 years in career development of her employees!
All Maria wants is yes men. The current Chemicals leaders are that for her. They are not leaders by no means. Heck Rusty used to send out Christmas cards to his people. That doesn't happen anymore.
Lorenzo and Maria are both just cruising and cashing checks, they don't GAF. They are incompetent as well.
The Leadership technology and product line teams control the HR in Chemicals. This is the most corrupt part of Baker Hughes. If I were Lorenzo and Maria, I will look into this. They always do the same project over and over again, reinventing the wheel everytime and then they move on to their new roles.
What is going on with Chemicals?
Very few of the original St Louis guys left. The ones that saw this thing grow from the start. Even the protégés that came from them - very far and in between now.
Ahh ‘One Baker Hughes’ , “All for one. And more for me!” Who would ever have thought we would ever look at that blind alley with any notion of nostalgia? Just illustrates the journey corporations take in destroying profitable businesses, no matter how resilient that core business is. It’s 23 years since the Barnikels sold off the family silver. Anyone betting it will see 25?
"Everyone outside of chemicals (Customers, other Baker Hughes business units, competitors) call it Petrolite"
So very true, another couple of examples are, although the number of people who actually remember the names, are rapidly dwindling, were Welex and Otis.
While Welex never had the reputation of Schlumberger, or Dresser, OTIS was every bit the equal of Baker's completion tools (back when 'completions' meant something other than frac plugs).
These names, including Petrolite, were dropped at the expense of employee morale and pride in being part of something different, BUT it was more important to make a 'team player' out of them, under one big corporate umbrella.
I would agree with you. Petrolite was a strong brand name in oilfield. It represented quality and performance. Calling a business unit Chemicals like they did with Petrolite, is akin with buying a dog and naming it well, dog! Not really a leap of imagination on the sales or marketing side is it? It just illustrates the dangerous levels of hypoxia and brain death that’s set in and festered here. To my eye, especially that massive BOE loan they took in 2020, everything is on borrowed time.
Tempus fugit
Petrolite is the better name. Dumbest thing ever was to call every different business segment the same thing.
Well let’s look at one of the fundamentals - Identity
Everyone outside of chemicals (Customers, other Baker Hughes business units, competitors) call it Petrolite (these days that’s an absolute travesty) where as everyone within chemicals goes along with the corporate branding and refer to the business as chemicals, so as not to confuse themselves or other business units.
If you can grasp that concept, then you are well on your way to understanding how chemicals are being managed within OFS.
Field operations and sales are the heart and soul. Everyone else at HQ just ask questions to operations about how they could do more and be better at it.
Prove me wrong...
What’s going on with Chemicals?
No one could say it better!
I crawled my way to where I ended up in the Baker GE organization. From PB to SPB.
I've pulled all my efforts and retirement out from underneath this organization.
I've realized my real value through all of this, and I hit the ground running when I walked through those gates. My future was waiting for me. Best part is that I'm working for a major competitor of both GE and BH. I haven't lost a bid; I've retained all my customers; I've pulled customers from them and up sold them; and I'm creeping into their vendor space; I'm beating them like a drum in every category. I will continue to push digital solutions into their territory. And i will call my shot now! I have a meeting with one of their major upstream customers. Time to kick their fake news technology overboard. This might even cripple the division I was let go from.
I'm absolutely pleased that BH is doing these things. This is making my job easier, and I'm getting rich while doing it. I firmly believe that BH leadership is creating their own opposing force. To my fallen homies, you now know exactly who I am.