Thread regarding Halliburton Co. layoffs

backlogs on machines ! what factory do you work in everyone loves raymond ? not our one thats for sure.

How many Inspectors can help out on machines to clear any backlog? Point made I think.

round 3 I would do my job if you could manage to do what you are overpaid to do , buckle down and watch your feeds and speeds mongo

anony moose, you Sir are witless and incoherent , your pin the tail on the Donkey approach to punctuation and sentence construction marks you a hapless fool. Do your job and shut the F ù ç k up!!!!!

Randolph Hughes how persecuted are you micromanaged really ? by whom ? cause they really need to get booted as they are failing badly going by some of the crap thats coming off the machines. concentrate hard and you might do youre job right the first time and make all our jobs easier. the machinists being the biggest group of employees have the biggest amount of management, common sense surely ?

Machine shop is micromanaged and held to account but all other departments run a mock .

The Big Guy is visiting soon, so I'm sure there's plans afoot. Get that floor painted

Let's just say when I started at arbroath about 2 years ago I thought it was a well organised outfit, but within 3 months realised just what a shambolic place it is. Good worker that I am will never go back to that place whether desperate or not!

is having no back bone a chronic condition? if so how did all the pgl and ptls survive?

is anyone who is posting on here still in work at arbroath? .what the f is going on yet again the coward that is archie foster has created chaos with his demands for the end of the month. perhaps he doesnt realise that he has paid people off as he wasnt here when it happend , is this a case of i wasnt here so i cant be blamed for anything. for a long time i thought archie was good for arbroath but now he has to manage without being able to throw money at problems he is failing badly.with the management he has put in place we are all well and truly up sh-- creek.

Let's just hope things pick up dramatically so that the guys that are still there's jobs are safe, then when they need to employ more engineers they can't get people.

Discrimination in the pay off is as clear as day warning do not admit to any long term illness I.e diabetes chrones, etc if you look at the number of employees laid off with chronic conditions no way is it a coincidence. Arbroath should be reported and this management removed.

how much fun are we all having ? archie and joyce return after the payoffs are done, no work in the place, upcoming shift changes for those that are left, nobody willing to tell you anything. get the feeling that we wont be to far away from the next round, aye we are all fecked.

Just enough time to catch our breath before the next round. Take a look, their ain't no work.

10 % of workforce again 3rd round of layoffs, more machinists gone this time , 9 machinists, 2 assemblers, 2 inspectors, 1 ptl, 1 pgl, and 8 non productive bods. not the biggest of workforces left to cut next time around. will end up closing as not enough bods left to do work at this rate.

How did arbroath get on????

how the hell did this thread become about brexit ? and frackin ? stay focussed fer feck sake.

knives away gents time to start brown nosing again ready for the next round.

well that went better than expected, only a month or 2 and we can go through it all again !!!!

Big Donald's a blethering cock knocker .

How's fracking getting on in the USA?

Isn't it the worst hit and most affected due to higher cost per barrel?

Yeah let's start fracking here then it makes perfect sense.

Dummy

Thw main reason that the people will vote for a Britexit, is to keep Britain British, Big Donald knows the score !

Read your Halliburton history whiney babies. There was a union years ago and they went on strike in Duncan. Didn't work out too good as the company replaced them with retirees who produced more product that the young people did. Hmmmmm? Kicked their whiney little butts out and started over and this was in good times. When times suck as bad as they do now, the entire house of cards begins to fall. Maybe your favorite scumbag mis-manager didn't get canned today but give it a bit longer. Also, get over this crap, Halliburton is no longer a place for a career. Get out there and find a job. Don't wait on Halliburton, go to work elsewhere and put Dave and his buddies on the soup line.

Thinking about voting REMAIN? Read this....

Think the UK will lose jobs if we LEAVE? Read this...

Think the EU is good for Britain? Read this...

Cadbury moved factory to Poland 2011 with EU grant.

Ford Transit moved to Turkey 2013 with EU grant.

Jaguar Land Rover has recently agreed to build a new plant in Slovakia with EU grant, owned by Tata, the same company who have trashed our steel works and emptied the workers pension funds.

Peugeot closed its Ryton (was Rootes Group) plant and moved production to Slovakia with EU grant.

British Army's new Ajax fighting vehicles to be built in SPAIN using SWEDISH steel at the request of the EU to support jobs in Spain with EU grant, rather than Wales.

Dyson gone to Malaysia, with an EU loan.

Crown Closures, Bournemouth (Was METAL BOX), gone to Poland with EU grant, once employed 1,200.

M&S manufacturing gone to far east with EU loan.

Hornby models gone. In fact all toys and models now gone from UK along with the patents all with with EU grants.

Gillette gone to eastern Europe with EU grant.

Texas Instruments Greenock gone to Germany with EU grant.

Indesit at Bodelwyddan Wales gone with EU grant.

Sekisui Alveo said production at its Merthyr Tydfil Industrial Park foam plant will relocate production to Roermond in the Netherlands, with EU funding.

Hoover Merthyr factory moved out of UK to Czech Republic and the Far East by Italian company Candy with EU backing.

ICI integration into Holland's AkzoNobel with EU bank loan and within days of the merger, several factories in the UK, were closed, eliminating 3,500 jobs

Boots sold to Italians Stefano Pessina who have based their HQ in Switzerland to avoid tax to the tune of £80 million a year, using an EU loan for the purchase.

JDS Uniphase run by two Dutch men, bought up companies in the UK with £20 million in EU 'regeneration' grants, created a pollution nightmare and just closed it all down leaving 1,200 out of work and an environmental clean-up paid for by the UK tax-payer. They also raided the pension fund and drained it dry.

UK airports are owned by a Spanish company.

Scottish Power is owned by a Spanish company.

Most London buses are run by Spanish and German companies.

The Hinkley Point C nuclear power station to be built by French company EDF, part owned by the French government, using cheap Chinese steel that has catastrophically failed in other nuclear installations. Now EDF say the costs will be double or more and it will be very late even if it does come online.

39% of British invention patents have been passed to foreign companies, many of them in the EU

The Mini cars that Cameron stood in front of as an example of British engineering, are built by BMW mostly in Holland and Austria. His campaign bus was made in Germany even though we have Plaxton, Optare, Bluebird, Dennis etc., in the UK.

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH - VOTE LEAVE NOW AND GET US AWAY FROM THESE dic---adS

Fracking is something that will save Halliburton and other manufacturers in Scotland and the SNP sit on the fence and Scottish Labour say no to Fracking. Whereas down south its going to happen, so be careful what you vote for all you YES punters. Vote LEAVE in the EU referendum.

I would prefer the format from the eurovision song contest, that way it would avoid block voting and managment favouring certain school, golf, family, members!!!

Day 27 in the Hallibuton house, still no sign of who will be evicted. Maybe now we should go straight to the public vote

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I think we should all use our stop work authority every day until we're told. How are we supposed to concentrate with this hanging over us? An accident waiting to happen. Should get rid of the HSE woman she delegates her work to everyone else anyway. Waste of a desk

Use your imagination? This isn't Barney the f---ing purple dinosaur you twat !!

awa an boil yeer heed ya bampot !!!

Sad people really !! If one employer does not want to buy your skills or work ethic find one that does !! Or work for your self !!!! You only need imagination !!!

another day with nobody knowing nothin guv, ask any manager when you might hear anyrhing i dont know nothing , surely somebody can give us a clue to when this farce is going to end,

The manufacturing unit has to embrace the newer technology. Management at PGL level have no input into it. Either shirked their responsibility or didn't have the wits to know where to start. Sooner people realise it's management and PGL's holding the place back the better, for everyone's sake both now and in future when the industry swings back up. I think it would be foolish to assume the oil services and equipment industry will return to 'business as usual', which about all most of this group of management and production leaders know

Thanks puppy playboy. The hunt for another job continues :) I also hope the next wave of redundant peeps get other jobs.

p.s. Im a woman :) A woman with balls but a woman just the same

well said that man, but not all of us have gone along with the status quo , yes archie is getting blasted but he is responsible for bringing a lot of bods in when there wasnt any real need for them, yes many have took the wee and milked the company for o/t due to the incompetent managers feeling they had to have people in on saturday and sundays then we all stood around with our thumbs up our asses with nothing to do on monday, yes it was good for those that took advantage , personally i had better things to do than be in hallis at a weekend. the buck still comes back to the management and the complete arse they are making of the redundancies, therefore carrying on the farce that they have managed to keep going all these years. good luck on finding a job,

Oh, and if all you can comment on is the spelling mistakes(I can see that I've missed out the "t" in redundant......save it

Ok, this is coming from someone who has already been made redundan. After been served redundancy I was angry and hurt and upset like everyone else who is/has been in this situation but at the end of the day we don't have any control of our fate regarding working in the oil industry. If you saw that things weren't being run properly why wait till now to vent your concerns? I'll tell you exactly why......."I'm alright Jack" So long as you were getting YOUR overtime/wages you didn't give a stuff. Now, when things are going down the proverbial pan you're all up in arms, blaming everyone but yourelves. Taking no responsibility for any of your actions but, of course Archie gets it in the ass!!!! He was a great guy up untill all the redundancies starting. By all accounts he was doing a pretty good job but now......????? It's not his fault that we are being kicked out!!!! Grow up folks and be a bit more dignified. Redundancies are happening all over in the oil industry. I expect there will be a few rants about this message. You know what? I don't give a flying f***. I took my redundancy on the chin and still looking for a job which pays the same as Hallys. ....not gonna happen so will have to take a job at minimum wage. Hey ho. Will have to tighten my already tight belt.

If we all join union we can use it for legal information and advice as we are getting shafted and we have no way to turn just cause halliburton doesn't acknowledge unions doesn't stop you joining one

Just found out on Friday that we have 2 senior PGL's , one is responsible for over a hundred people and works hard doing so, the other has a department of 5 planners ( lower case p deliberate ) . How can this be? Same as PTL's looking after entire shop floor, but we need 2 just to govern 24 lazy skulking inspectors? Why haven't these questions been asked before?

The whole downsizing ethos is to trim the fat, but the lard still remains, or could it be that it's protected?

you get the feeling all this is above the skill level of the incumbents in the management at the moment, we all know the level of incompotence of our own managers. we all watch mr brown running around clearing up the mess that the self absorbed pgl and ptls leave behind them. for to long the dummies have been left to push their own agendas and create the end of month chaos we always have. will anything change ? doubtfull. union represantation never, the americans would close the place before they allow that. we are well and truly fecked all we can do is hold on and hope that there is achance the old boy network doesnt remain in place after this and that a clear out happens, but in reality it is very unlikely long live the status quo !