Engineers are leaving left and right in recent months. Most left for higher-paying jobs or companies with larger technical groups. Attritions been on-going for the last 6 months, yet, positions are not being back-filled. Works got spread around to the remaining employees, snowballing the workload and stress.
When will the management realize the lack of "worker-bees"? We don't need anymore middle management.......
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I think that is not a bad thing. If they have a relevant skill, they can come back as contractors and make plenty of money if their skillset is in demand probably with less taxes and less interference from seniors because they are more valued. If not, then they will struggle somewhat and it is a good indication to look at alternative fields. You don't want to be in an area which is not valued, it will be a perpetual struggle otherwise. I think every person should realize how demand and supply in a capitalist world works, this is not the USSR. Feel free to seek the greenest pasture that is out there because a corporation is there to make a profit, not for the welfare of the employees. YOU look after your interests, especially financial interests, your employer looks after their interests which is their profit margins!
Imperial is now a company top sided full of middle managers and not enough workers to do real work. This is why we have such a toxic workplace driven by middle managers that find themselves without real work. Their jobs are to create caos and do their best to be relevant. Pretend that they are saving the day by “intervening”.
Let’s go to a ratio of 1 supervisor per 20 -25 workers. This is how effective companies are managed.
It’s the culture in this country. Canadians are never leaders, never will be. This is a country of followers, afraid of success and undermining our best assets. It’s not just IOL that has this problem.
I don’t know what’s wrong with ExxonMobil. Now as never before it makes sense to get back and wake up a sleepy joe and get him to act and push trudop to get some projects rolling . We need more oil . Rather they prefer to release strategic reserves. Canceled Keystone. Oh my. What’s wrong with all these people. Such a big office we have here in Calgary but it looks like we just fiddling our fingers and waiting for someone to show us the way out
This is not Imperial Oil anymore. Let’s be honest and change the signs to ExxonMobil. Imperial managers only goal is to keep their EM bosses happy so they can move on and get well ranked. They will drive BTC targets and reduce local head count to what ever EM targets.
I feel sorry for young engineers that had hopes to grow their technical expertise here. All of that will slowly be outsourced and replaced by contractors.
Not being back filled because that’s the strategy to source work out of BTCs, short term staff pain for long term company financial gain. At least in ups I don’t know if this is happening in ds