Good Luck!
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Looks like a professional hit: I’m seeing a fairly even mix of supervisors and real people, which suggests the consulting group did most of the picking. If leadership did the picking all supervisors would have been safe.
Words of encouragement for you all going through this. I've been in the energy business since the early 80s. Just retired last year. I have pensions and 401Ks from integrated, upstream, midstream, downstream, chemicals, consultants, etc. I have changed careers and professions. Thats just the nature of working nowadays.
I survived the Conoco-Phillips merger, the BR acquisition and sat where you sit now. Luckily I found another job, took severance, and made out well when I left COP right when Mulva cashed and COP and P66 split. I'm just saying you all will find something; its part of the ride. Good Luck.
Pausing the games for 15 minutes, to remove bodies from playing field…
Death be not proud, and just remember: Only the good die young.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but this will likely drag on for months if not years with multiple small waves. Morale will be horrible and great folks will voluntarily leave all to plan of the company. I've worked in O&G for years and it's never 1 and done like we all would like to believe.
@ac It's BEEN the Hunger Games! People not sharing information. Trying to prove their worth without helping others. Promises/lies. Today the final chapter just FINALLY begins!!
Layoffs have always been part of oil industry life since the early 1980s. Companies will always cut costs. Fewer people are needed in all roles due to automation and advances in computing. Even in the late 1970s and early 1980s we had hundreds of people in typing pools, typing reports for the hundreds of engineers and scientists. I guess the file clerks and technicians are few now too. Many of those entry level types of jobs doesn’t even exist anymore. Even experienced people who do repetitive type jobs are going away. If you want to stay employed, keep your skills updated and keep a positive attitude. Those who do will find even better opportunities in the future.
@OP
Best of luck to everyone today. May that pit in your stomach dissolve without incident.
To those of us that may get impacted, your destiny is meant to be brighter than COP and it’s never ending cycle of hire and layoffs. It may not feel like it today, but you’ll land on two feet and be better off in the long run.
It's like hunger games
Up early this morning, couldn’t sleep. Remember, it’s a small oilfield. If you plan to stay in the industry do your best not to burn the bridge if you get the call today. Who knows, in 3-6 months they might have a contractor spot that looks a lot like your old job. Busy winter season ahead. Keep your head up no matter the outcome today.
I'm betting your co-workers feel the same about you.
@a6 I know what you mean, but they are still people. People who have families and support children. You should never be happy to see your neighbor struggle. A first principle of the B1ble, love thy neighbor.
The company has done its employees a disservice by making it impossible to fire people during regular times for poor performance. Also we give everyone rating of 3, when many people deserve 4s and 5s to let them know they need to shape up or ship out. This is a cultural self-inflicted wound.
May the gods keep the wolves in the hills and the women in ours beds!
I’ve been battling this moral conflict for months . I know I shouldn’t be excited to see a lot of the lazy id--ts I work with get layed off . But I just am . They actually deserve to be fired with no severance
“May the odds be ever in your favor”