Thread regarding Noble Energy Inc. layoffs

This isn't a defense of HR, but their role is to be the enforcer. They don't make the decisions, they just implement them. The executive team kicks off and decides the depth of the layoffs. Lesser managers pick the targets. HR just handles the dirty work.

"Miss Cindy", what you say about the Noble HR group is true. I have never seen a group of department "leaders" that LAZY and indifferent about their jobs. When the department leaders do nothing, you cannot expect the workers to produce. There are a few good workers in the HR ranks, but most are no more energetic than their management. Many spend several hours each day gossiping about employees and sometimes about what is written on websites like this and who they think writes on here.

I'm with "seriously"! Tired of them telling us one thing in Town Hall meetings and doing the opposite shortly after !

Ultimately, it's HR that dictates how these things go down. The mandate comes down to cut staff, then HR goes about getting the murder weapons in place. Their usual strategy is "No need to cause panic. These layoffs are going to happen, people will squirm in anguish, but they'll be gone and then we can move on." You gotta love people who work in HR: "I'm a 'people person.' I love interacting with people" - and then they just dismiss you 'cuz that's their job!

They can get away with that "energizing the world, bettering peoples lives" because to them you are a number not a person.

Energizing the World, Bettering People's Lives!

Doesn't Management have to report to the stockholders next week?

Let's see....

"We've bombed out in the Falklands and every other goat pasture, but the GOOD news is WE"RE CUTTING JOBS! So, we can keep leading, right?"

As employees that continue to purchase our cutrate stock, maybe we should band together and threaten to dump it all back on the market!

Oh, that's right, we're already too deep by buying into and devoting a portion our life savings backing up a company that is less than responsible to us!