Thread regarding Noble Energy Inc. layoffs

How long does it take to receive the severance package?

The Lucky ones were sent packing with a nice severance package :)

Kim Jong Un and his Lieutenants in the Subsurface Team are anything but Professional. Work ethic doesn't count here anymore - all that matters is being in the "Click". Upper level management better take notice soon - people working part-time getting paid for full time work. Noble used to have a good reputation but no longer...... SAD. Lloyd Noble's mission statement always comes to mind - what a joke that is to this team.

This company is so far past the ditch they couldn't find their way back to it with a spotlight and a trend map. Us underlings know we don't have to put up with the politics, poor decision making and ego trips regardless of market conditions. My 'trained intuition' says thank you very much for the package and the exit ramp off the sinking ship!

That GAP garbage is nothing but BS. Biggest waste of three days I have ever seen. I am sure it costs Noble hundreds of thousands of dollars. Noble sticks everyone in their little silos doing the same thing every single day and then wants you "think outside the box". There is NO break through thinking going on in this company. Look how creative they were with their answer to low commodity prices. Lets just layoff! Very creative! There is some "Break through thinking" for you!

Saw things go from bad to worse as Cunningham's head got bigger and bigger. Wish I was laid off. I now have to deal with the new regime which means arogant managers who don't understand the subsurface and if they do they take your ideas and promote them as their own.

Cunningham and her lackies have with their GAP BS driven the company into the ditch. They replaced proper geoscience with their Breakthrough Mumbo Jumbo. It is only going to get worse. I'm happy to have been paid to leave. They laid off those that had not drunk the GAP kool aid.

Clearly the goal was to get rid of older employees. They may have found some "sacrificial lambs" in the younger employees just to balance things out. However, they will just replace them with a batch of new college recruits this summer. They are not stupid and they don't want to be subject to an age discrimination lawsuit. However, I know some attorneys who are looking at this with raised eyebrow.

It was before Stover but he is part of the issue but not the driving force. Sad to see all the knowledge and experience get sent out the door and the ones left don't have a clue. Once Ardmore is closed more knowledge is gone and there is no getting it back with these young guns who just entered the work force.

Ever since Stover became in charge, all has fallen. All employees have bad attitudes now since he became in charge.

Stover is very self-centered. All he cares about is himself. When Davidson was in control, all was going real smooth.

You watch, Stover will ruin the company in due time.

It is politics. I was laid off. Never once was I told that my performance was substandard. Got good year-end reviews nice raises and bonuses. Then a severance package.

It's all about politics at Noble these days. Certainly nothing is merit-based anymore.

When the manager doing the laying off is basically reading from a script and not looking you in the eye... that shows real class. Oh.. and thank you for the free box and the ride home. It wasn't humiliating at all to get in a car with the entire office looking out the window - should have just rented a party bus with a keg.

This size of a layoff would have never had to occur had those entrusted in running the company have understood that Noble is an Oil and Gas company and not a image marketing firm or a firm for educating and training college graduates. Certainly there is an important place for PR and bringing in new employees however, there has to be an equal value and balance to remain viable in the market. Be careful not to be greedy, history does repeat itself. To place all of the focus on the price of oil is to not learn from the poor management and business decisions made when the price of oil was at the highest. Why were efficiencies not being looked at in anticipation of a rainy day. First pride, then the crash - the bigger the ego, the harder the fall.