We’re making a big bet on India and staffing down all over the world. But has anyone thought about what happens when our internationally unpopular president gets pi---d off at India and we no longer want to be each other’s friends? Seems like the company would be pretty sc--wed!
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If the jobs were being sent to Sweden there would be zero discussion on this topic.
Just putting that out there.
it’s the most pressing oil and gas industry issue of our times, so yes it comes up a lot. not shocking.
Why deal with our real structural problems? If your project queue is non existent, blame your “high cost” employees. Don’t just stand there with your d*ck in your hand, go outsource something.
India weak currency makes offshoring attractive for greedy corporate executives
Look at BP and Shell, they collapsed because of Indians incompetence.
These people can execute SOPs like robots, but they have zero grasp of actual business strategy.
Scan the entire Document Indian portfolio: not a single company leads its product category.
EM is about to doom himself betting on donkeys.
OP, yes, aggregate it and it is a little terrifying. India is a BRICs country with alliances with countries that aren’t friendly to the US. Yet we are sending proprietary information over there: plant locations, production numbers, financial flows….for oil, manufacturing and tech across the US. Yes, satellites and internet already make some of this publicly available, but we are also just giving them everything else on the hopes of saving a few dollars. Hope they stay our friends.
@OP They are not doing the same work for less money. In fact they are not even doing a fraction of one tenth of the work. The company pretends it’s reducing costs by replacing experienced, high-accountability workers with cheap labor, but what’s really happening is they are hollowing-out operational capability.
It’s like replacing a high paid high skilled carpenter with an army of termites.
The termites arent building anything. They’re consuming the structure while creating the appearance of activity. On top of that they complain they’re underpaid, despite contributing less than nothing but process theater and fast tracking organizational decay.
@c8 Seems like you were the only one who actually read and understood the original post!
@dh You know there is something called internet, right? A quick search would tell you salaries are adjusted based on cost of living, degree, and several other factors. And by the way, you’re always free to decline an offer. And most important one, stop being victim of your own outdated stories
@OP A company can look perfectly healthy from the outside long after the structural integrity inside has started disappearing.
That’s how termite damage works.
At first, everything still looks impressive:
the paint is fresh
the branding is polished
the org charts are beautiful
there are meetings, platforms, dashboards, queues, workflows, alignment sessions, and status reports everywhere
From the outside, the house appears intact.
But termites don’t attack the paint. They consume the load-bearing structure.
That’s what happens when organizations slowly replace substance with layers of abstraction, process theater, and ownership diffusion.
You start hearing: “We own server engineering.” “We manage platform strategy.” “We coordinate infrastructure enablement.”
But then someone asks: “Okay… who can actually deliver a functioning server with connectivity that works reliably for a real application?”
And suddenly the room gets very quiet.
Because the visible structure still exists:
the titles exist
the departments exist
the governance exists
the ticket queues exist
But the actual craftsmanship, accountability, and operational substance holding the walls up have been hollowed out.
For a while, the company still stands because the outer shell remains.
Then one day someone leans on a wall during a real crisis, an outage, migration, security event, production failure, and their hand goes straight through the drywall.
That’s when leadership discovers the difference between: the appearance of capability and actual structural integrity.
Everyone brings up racism on these threads about hiring so many people from India.
What about racism paying someone 1/10 to 1/8 of typical salary for same work just because of their National origin?
@an, nothing left to say? As long as the unmerited PIPs continue, I for one will not be silenced.
@an, You’re the race baiter with your talk of brown people. We are talking about good people being NSI’s and replaced by incompetent and unqualified people as our company is being dismantled.
It sure does seem like a big geopolitical risk.
@an Resources are stretched so thin at site, if BTC is indeed helpful, they would be welcomed with open arms. It's always easy to just scapegoat incompence as racism.
It’s the biggest bet that XOM has right now and for the future of the company. The bet will be positive and even if it’s not, the leadership will polish the message to make it so
Yay! Another post whining about brown people dressed-up as concern trolling.
Do you people ever get tired of posting this BS? It seems like every other thread posted leads with this topic. We’re at the point where there’s nothing else to say.
Unfortunately the India deal is beyond any one US president. Until us US taxpayers are truly American first cheap labor is everyone’s problem.