Thread regarding BP PLC layoffs

Some other examples of why BP deserves its fate:

Commercial teams traveling in business class from London to Aberdeen for short meetings ....

A lot and unnecessary participation in technical conferences (e.g. Drilling, Projects ...)

A lot of Lawyers teams making lobby to US politicians ....

Abuse of expat packages, in some cases not only by the employee but for his spouse ....

Excessive advertising in the media to create a (false/exaggerated) image of being a glorious, innovative, green company ....

Many others .... You can contribute to this list, in order to identify and try to remove such bad/costly/inefficient practices ...

I work at BP on Westlake campus Houston and by what I see more that ~70-80% are white male over 40, And if you look at BoD and VPs more than 95% are while male over 40.

http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=7174

It's not just BP, see link above.

Well, there are obviously some miss management in the company, affecting its performance. In my opinion the main reason is not if the company if run by males/females with some accent or not, but the cost and work culture in which we have lived for years.

BP got used to spend a lot of money, without any good control ... BP and its employees believed the $100/bbl party will last forever and so didn't take proper care of the company (and in some cases of personal and family) costs. The world changed significantly, and only until now due to current prices we all are just realizing it.

BP have a lot of UK expats living in USA, a lot of USA/Other regions living UK and other countries (Indonesia, Trinidad, Azerbaijan) , when they can do the same job with the same skills and experience at their own countries. BP is expending a lot of money in those unnecessary expat benefits around the world in that way, plus the fact that BP employees have been used to live the easy-life, so many meetings, coffees, conferences, but only a few working hard and producing value ...

I am not against expatriation (I have been expat too), but this crisis is now about survival ! If we want BP to overcome these difficult times with the less impact on people and get better, everyone should should change and the company should also review its practices and be more efficient and better organized ....

It's on this message thread.

Read the comment " So I could have just walked my vagina into BP and gotten a management job??? You guys would've been so awesome to work with. This job-eating vagina really missed out."

That's a hostile feminist. What kind of BP professional would refer to herself as a "vagina" ? What's happening to women? They have lost their grace. Do they want to be men??? Sadly, at BP, this is a culture that breeds this type of woman who would use such vulgar language.

Once again, hostile towards men - especially while males. This is in their sub-conscience. They have an axe to grind. And this is the hostile environment that males have to put up with everyday at BP.

Some people refer to them as feminazis. I refer to them as male haters. And that's becoming pervasive at BP. It's obvious among some of the female employees, and hidden among many others.

BP culture.

I know a woman that destroyed an 11,000 bopd Mad Dog well and got promoted less than 12 months later.

All joking and feminism aside, to summarize I think the company is in this mess because of a routine culture of promoting individuals to present a 'PC' view to the public that has no basis on talent. You get enough unqualified people into management and the ship is going to sink itself.

So I could have just walked my vagina into BP and gotten a management job??? You guys would've been so awesome to work with. This job-eating vagina really missed out.

So BP is in this mess because the company is not being run by white males? Hummmmm... I was actually thinking it was the other way around.

Is it the industry that is full of ignorant bigots or is it just this site?

The most interesting comment complained about foreign accents... The company is mainly foreign, duhhhh! Dude, you need to get out of Houston.

http://www.businessfinancenews.com/27271-heres-why-bp-plc-slashed-its-workforce/

Yep, take a look at that cartoon.

Most of the executives and VP are white males. Not sure what you are talking about.

Hate to say it and I am female but the thread above is so very true. It does the promoted women no justice to put them in jobs that they are not ready for, there has been some strange mandate from above to be diverse and the white male is now out no mater how talented and worthy he is...shame, the new BP is going down the tubes.

"pale and stale" - ha ha. Rather, BP is pale and stale. And the most sickeningly PC operator in the world.

Maybe corporate should change the name to PC Oil.

Meanwhile, massive layoffs relative to its peer group. Down BP goes (oops, I mean PC).

Wow, quite ignorant. I agree with original comments. The culture now seems exactly opposite that of '1970'. I feel strongly that the best qualified person should be recognized and rewarded regardless of race, gender or ethnicity but I've seen it over and over again, the better qualified persons are passed over simply because they are 'male, stale and pale' as you put it. Why do you think we're in this mess?

Can I just check the date that this thread started? Reads like its from 1970 and not 2016 coz the world has moved on since then boys and you need to catch up.....BP is doing what every good company should do - get the best folks for the role and if that happens to be someone not male, pale and stale, then so be it.

If anything gets acquired, it will be the assets only, not any of the personnel. BP is only worth something to another company if it is sold without employees.

Spot on and it comes from a mix race female with an accent....A shame, there are some very talented and smart people working for BP however their culture has become so unbareable PC....

Criteria for getting a promotion, need only one but if you have all 3 you'll probably be CEO in < 5 yrs:

1) Gender: Woman

2) Ethnicity: Non-white

3) Foreign Accent: Yes

BP is not a good place e if you are a white male.