CTC is hiring about 50 r&d Engineers. Would that be an oportunity for those laid off in the past?
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Office now filled with inexperienced kids, who know nothing, and just continually pester field engineers for the answers, even for basic simple questions. Never known anything like it, situation is dire here at Rankin & Woodlands, and losing many customers because of this.
We don't have ops management above the district level. Just a bunch of apps engineers, R&D engineers, and tech managers of varying degrees of whistledickitude.
Field eng, I'm not sure what your product line is, but you may be confusing "support" with Operations management in Houston. We in Technology have seen an enormous increase in requests for tech support in the form of meeting demands from end customers for an extreme level of ratings data. We are trying to get it done by demanded dates, but getting too many "need end of day" to keep up. And our headcount has been cut sharply since merger fell through. Oh well, keep rowing the boat.
Field Engineer again. I was thrown to the wolves in 2012. Couldn't get office engineer support from the field, so we learned to be self-sufficient. Now that things have slowed down I have more "support" than I know what to do with; from demands to review simple designs to recommendations given sight unseen. My P/L is short field personnel, but we have a surplus of tech managers who haven't been wellside this decade and couldn't sell a job to save their life. BHI is still top heavy, and I'm still waiting on the layoff.
Desk jockey engineer here again. I wouldn't call the Ops engineers names, those guys are caught in a really bad situation. BHI laid off a lot of experienced people and these field engineers are having to fill the gap. I do the best I can to help with that from a product support perspective, but we are just swamped with requests for data. Customers don't like to hear that we don't have the resources we need to get info to them quickly, but that is where we find ourselves. Now with pay cuts and threat of future layoffs, morale is lower than ever.
Unfortunately i received a hefty raise and was promoted to head my group. Now i get to spend more quality time with my field wife and kid. I kept my discount at st james
'thicko' is a thoroughly tasteless description for qualified BHI field engineers, but oh so true in the majority of cases.
I'm a field engineer, and my pay has not been affected by this temporary 5% cut, nor was it affected by the less-temporary 5-15% that came about earlier in the year. No 401k match, though. Still waiting on that layoff.
Well I'm just glad I'm not a 'thicko' field guy, and have my feet under a nice cosy desk job at Rankin Rd. I can survive the 5% cut easy. No worries for me.
Actually Operations did not get the 5% pay cut. They got more RIF instead.
Office cut of 5% isn't a complaint, just a reply to those who seem to think office had no cuts or RIF. Also no 401k match, just like everybody else. That's all. And the only place I have read that field guys got 15% cut and no 401k match is on this board. Not a reliable source.
Glad I was smart enough to get an office job
5% for a desk jockey engineer.
Gee whizz that is an absolute bummer (that's the in word at the moment).
Suggest you cut back on the daily box of Dunkin Doughnuts and gallon of Starbucks coffee.
Then it actually feels like a 10% rise. You also go below 240 lbs, and will be able to walk and not waddle around office, without needing oxygen.
You're a winner all round.
Ooh Ooh a whopping 5%, that must hurt bad, you poor poor thing. Take it easy now.
I am an engineering desk jockey in Houston, and I got a 5% cut.
So field staff take the big hit again, ensuring office boys pay stays at inflated levels. Bullcrap.
Bummer
Only applies to Grade 10 employees and lower. Generally that will be field engineers and not office staff.