Getting laid off would be easier to bear if this company was a little more transparent. I decided not to stress about it and accept my faith, amor fati, because I can’t influence the outcome of layoffs in any way. Fortunately, the severance pay is satisfactory. People who have been cut before, and with whom I occasionally communicate, say they are happier now than ever.
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Look on the bright side! Many were laid off at the start of the C-virus and had zero options for work in any industry. That's all improving now. I can tell you the future looked bleek when I was let go over the phone with zero notice and my 5 years of service was not taken into consideration. The funniest thing about the layoff was the part of the severance package which states that you could never be employed with the company again. Hope COP does it better for you guys, best wishes.
1eup, just more evidence that the right choices are rarely made when deciding who gets the boot.
For Burlington back in 2006 or so, we got handed one of the most arrogant sawed off twits imaginable into IT in Bartlesville, this person constantly schemed and plotted over his peers, played favorites and eventually was universally disliked by everyone who worked around or for him, he ended up being a yes man for a senior manager after everyone got sick of his activities,
Turned out he was as sleazy as he was arrogant, he later abandoned his wife and kids (young children) for a contractor, she got a real catch there,
So how come this screw wasnt part of the 100% that left?
You obviously have not worked in this business very long if you think COP is not transparent. COP is like a glass window compared to most. I haven't worked everywhere, so am willing to concede someone else does it better. But until I see it, I am going to doubt it.
Do tell me who is more transparent than COP and what they do differently when letting people go that made you feel good about it.
Same happened with Concho and RSP. Gave them good bonus and stock to stick around a year, I think most left after that so we aren't much better.
Dumb deal for us I think, part of the downfall. Didn't pan out like they thought it would.
A year after the merger (when their special one year merger agreement expired) about 100% of the Burlington Resources employees quit. The Concho employees will do the same once they experience our poisonous hypocritical culture. But don’t take my word for it... Maybe history won’t repeat!
- But you can ask around if there’s any Heritage Burlington Resource employees.
Ask any heritage Burlington employees what it was like. Oh wait...there aren’t any left. And haven’t been since about a year after the merger.
All of what we do call life, is uncertainty.
The moment you break the institutional chains of categories placed by human society upon you and understand your happiness comes only and only from within you.
You will be free my dear friends.
Choose otherwise and you best follow society into the abyss.
Can you explain what Burlington Resources 1.0 was for those of us who weren’t around for it?
I was cut in 2016. Life is so much better without this poisonous culture. Watch what happens with the Concho employees once they learn about us, it will be Burlington Resources 2.0.