After 32+ years with this company, I was laid off and walked out without any emotion what so ever! Oh, I understood the numbers related to the business and they weren't good then and for the foreseeable future, but, to treat an employee that has invested so much time, energy, emotion and life into a company that after 32+ years, to be treated this way is.....well.....evidently the new norm for this company. If I hear the word "family" one more time from any company officer or "leader" from ANY company, I would run away from that company as fast as you can. Our division leader used this word so often in public but treated employees in such an opposite manner. I've seen many people speak of Pete Miller and how he treated people. I might be naive about the man but I never experienced such an employee and customer focused leader as with him. I learned and grew so much with this company. Both good and bad things but, mostly good but that was many years ago. The number crunchers have truly taken over this company. You are a number with a dollar figure tied to you and not as an asset, but a liability! I wish all of you well as I made many friends in my time there. If you are new to NOV; learn what you can and get the he-l out! Its not worth your time. Five years with this company is too long at this point. To the leaders that are there; grow a fricken spine and stand up for your people. You have lost your sense of right and wrong and for the sake of what? Protecting your own backsides? I think so.
Hopefully see many of you down the trail. Take care!
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Leaders are puppets. Never lead anything in their life.
What mishap are you referring to that’s going to cost them$10M? I think you’re misinformed.
It’s most definitely him, no doubt. I’m reading it in his whining voice. Guy was not qualified to be a Director. He’s the only person in the world who would consider him a “competent Director”. Clown
It’s is not him posting I’ll tell you that…
Move on Ol’ son!! Tell Pappy in Law to make some calls and get them bad men fired and your job back.
Oh, bless your heart, calling it a disgruntled son-in-law rant—like that explains away a everything Recordables piling up, and a $4 million oopsie courtesy of y’all’s leadership. Maybe you’re the VP or his yes man, slurp your own kool aid while he lives rents free in your head, This is why y’all are tanking our hard work. Meetings longer than a CVS receipt, cash hemorrhaging to cover poor decisions. sorry, pal, no in-law tears needed to spot this dumpster fire. Stick your head back in the bottle; the rest of us can smell you….
Sounds like a disgruntled laid off son-in-law.
It sounds like there’s a lot of frustration and significant issues within the company you're referencing—ranging from safety incidents and mismanagement to challenges with accountability and leadership. Worker injuries, mishandled projects, and the cascading effects on sales and job security are serious concerns. It must be tough to see these problems persist without meaningful action being taken by those in charge.
The picture you’ve painted of NOV is an example of how leadership dysfunction can ripple throughout an organization, undermining its culture, operations, and competitive edge. Issues like unaccountability, favouritism, and neglect of operational inefficiencies create a toxic environment where morale, productivity, and innovation falter. With those dynamics, it’s no wonder that adapting to a rapidly changing market would feel nearly impossible.
Are the issues within NOV fixable with the right leadership, the company might be heading toward more drastic outcomes?
This is good thread!! What other scoop yall got?
HR is going to be hunting y’all down in the morning haha
Did y’all hear about that sho nearby that has had a fire and plenty of worker injuries because management is never around — all tied to that VP and the Area dude that knew the problems long before the finger fell off, all while HR called us and HSE called us and did nothing “to stop work” and then on y’all’s side down in HTown that other VP team botched a coating job, they are going to have to make an extra 10 mil juts to break even on that mishap. Dont worry sales will jack up prices, loose more market share and cut more jobs instead of solving the problems. Maybe one day the New President and HR will call back the good ones and actually investigate the good ol’ boy club in charge. Pres BC you listening?
It sounds like the issues at Tubo run far deeper than strategic missteps, with leadership dysfunction at the core. The VP of Machining reportedly spends his days with a drink in hand, favoring yes-men and recently ousting a competent director, while the VP of Inspection turns a blind eye to inefficiencies—so no one rats on his Personal scam. Hours of Meetings dragging on with no action or follow-up, HR is unresponsive, and dissent is met with exclusion or termination, while millions are quietly paid out for negligent managers and poor quality and budgets are defended and misaligned. With overtime cuts and a refusal to adapt—leaving this whole company struggling against competitors—it’s clear the company could benefit from an outside perspective (oh wait they fire them too.
You bring up some valid points regarding TS. One major problem I see is how top heavy they are. There’s so many VPs that the senior management team isn’t even aware of a lot of our capabilities and services we even offer. Not to mention, some of these people do not have any business being executive officers. Key point would be the Sr. VP over engineering and manufacturing. He’s not even an engineer. He has no project management skills and is clueless about financials. He bumbles down the hallways like Goofy, clueless to the problems and issues his irrational decisions cause. CW and team should force the President to make some serious cuts in his executive team, starting with that dolt. I recently left the company but still talk to quit a bit of folks there. It sounds like they’re on borrowed time. Closing coating shops in LA, laying off salespeople while hiring new ones. Then you got Shrek who manages the ER. Almost everyone of his facilities are underperforming yet this guy gets a free pass collect a check and bonus. Then there’s another VP between him and the President. Wild!! What about the machining services VP? What’s the point of that? Why do they have a VP over that product line reporting to another VP? Doge should go in and clean house in that dinosaur.
Tubo management seems fixated on short-term gains and self-preservation, papering over past missteps that could tarnish the company’s legacy. Their failure to adapt to current market demands and emerging tech, like Nokia’s stumble in the smartphone era, might force a sell-off of key brands. Harvard’s case study on Nokia highlights how its leadership, trapped in an echo chamber, ignored external innovation, leading to their fall from the top. History will show if TS doesn’t correct their recent wrongs and continue to clinging to outdated strategies and dismissing ideas will doom even the mightiest politician we have running the show. Take a Look how Senior leadership in the machining and inspection are running off the good people, keeping Dr@@nk!n first mates around because they say yes to the captain and help close and destroy reputations and the doors ideas proven in the past financials. HR is complacent and has no back bone. So the layoffs will continue year after years till C suit wakes up and makes changes and begs back the best guys they once had. Passion + success = siloed then laid off.
And here I thought NOV had changed their name to Red M.
"I love how they lay off a chunk of our co-workers due to “market conditions “ yet we spend obscene amounts of money sending this Red M joker all over the place on company money for an organization that makes us $0 money. Make it make sense"
The management team within NOV are professional and efficient people in their respective roles and are evidently the Benchmark that any management team need to aspire to.
Well done NOV management your doing exceptionally well keep up the excellent work.
I love how they lay off a chunk of our co-workers due to “market conditions “ yet we spend obscene amounts of money sending this Red M joker all over the place on company money for an organization that makes us $0 money. Make it make sense
Tuboscope is on borrowed time. Our competitors are taking more and more market share from us every day. Our technology is outdated garbage and we’re hanging our last hope on our coating product line but unfortunately they keep having field failures so who knows how long this will last. Our leadership is non existent. We have multiple VPs who all unfortunately are not involved in any of their operations except to call their reports and yell at them when their bonuses start getting affected. At our largest inspection facility, the VP came up with this really smart idea of firing all of the leadership and letting the inmates run the prison. Great, forward thinking pal, way to bump those margins up. Then we have this accounting VP who jumps on these calls with us every week and tells us how to manage our businesses. What a tool. Next verp that’s offered, I’m popping smoke.
I completely agree, especially with regard to the Holmes Rd facility (Tuboscope). It seems that many individuals there are primarily present for the paycheck, as there appears to be a lack of meaningful work or tasks for them to engage in. N.O.V. is the worst!!!!
Sad story but all too common.
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which group were you in?