reservoir engineers and geos?
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H1-Bs, CPT, and OPT never worked well for Americans
It’s just a way for companies to use cheap labor to replace Americans. No other country Earth enables this.
I spoke with BNG leadership. There is no shutdown. Only shrinking by merging departments by having MOR to reapply.
Furthermore less growth in compensation as it has been the last years.
Give this talent H-1Bs and green cards. India badly needs H-1Bs and green cards to support its younger population while its leaders indulge in corruption and the looting of the country. It worked very well from the mid-1990s until Stephen Miller came along.
it’s greed.
the important thing to remember is that shell is a follower. not a leader. our leadership has no spine. it’s all following and paying for others to take the fall.
so they pay mckinsey to tell them what they want to hear. and what they want to hear is that sending every job to india is wise because other industries send jobs there
you can set your watch to it. if another big company, especially if they are an oil and gas major, makes a decision, then shell will do its own version whether it makes sense or not. none of the current senior LT will be here in 5 years so they don’t really care about anything but making bonus. that’s why we will buy back stock no matter what it costs
@ms the computational team are many.
Shell is doubling down on its Bangalore strategy. Apparently, it takes three people to do what one person used to do in the US or Europe. But hey, leadership calls that efficiency.
@m8 The problem is leadership thinking decades of technical expertise and institutional knowledge can be transferred through a few PowerPoint slides and Teams calls. Apparently, if it looks good on an Excel spreadsheet, it must be a brilliant strategy.
Why would we offshore such highly technical roles to a call center country? Are we d*mb?
yes it sure does
I work in IDT and the “talent” there has to redo everything 3-5 times. Or it takes 3 people to do one of our jobs. Which is still cheaper than one American, until you start looking at the wasted time.
I suspect they are now looking at time value of money. Plus AI. India looks to have a bleak future for outsourcing.
@cm I never worked with the subsurface, but I worked with TAO/TAS and it was basically the same thing. If we had anyone who was somewhat competent they would be gone in 6 months and we would get an equivalent to a G grade, which meant they were basically useless. I spent more time explaining to them what to do and having them rework the item 3-5x that it would have been cheaper and quicker if I just completed the tasks.
🥳🥳all laid off🥳🥳
As someone who worked with this "subsurface talent", I can assure you that Shell is not at risk of losing any talent. They are imposed on other OUs so leaders can say we are saving money, but they don't contribute anything of value, just waste everyone's time. It's about time they moved to real jobs and actually did anything.
@az explains why shell can't find any oil if so
there were people with those jobs in india!???
Reliance will not be taking any of the upstream people so it could get interesting for them. They are indeed many . . . but maybe too many?
@a7 computational team are many
Send them to stch no one is leaving it’s a safe place no job cuts for the whole site that’s the word on the street today.
Yup, they are all out