So sorry to those who have been forced out. It isn't your fault if you didn't challenge the system and were placed on a struggling asset, on dog projects, or under a limiting supervisor. Unfortunately employee productivity is being blamed for the financial struggles, i.e., not successfully executing the plan, rather than dealing with that the plan hasn't been that great. Otherwise we'd see more managers laid off too (not just old guys retiring). Some hard life lessons to learn. Hopefully, whether you are in or out, this mess will motivate us to try and influence change and not just fester bitterness.
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So sorry to those who have been forced out. It isn't your fault if you didn't challenge the system and were placed on a struggling asset, on dog projects, or under a limiting supervisor. Unfortunately employee productivity is being blamed for the financial struggles, i.e., not successfully executing the plan, rather than dealing with that the plan hasn't been that great. Otherwise we'd see more managers laid off too (not just old guys retiring). Some hard life lessons to learn. Hopefully, whether you are in or out, this mess will motivate us to try and influence change and not just fester bitterness.
There are still a few companies that ran lean and did not play with people's life's and career as COP and some other oil companies are doing. With good management, this unnecessary pain to terminated employees could have been prevented. A few companies actually cut the leadership and employees salaries in preference of paying of thier dedicated employees. Bottom line, this was preventable if the company had been running lean.
Hate? No, definitely not. For COP or others, the race to get as much as possible was at the expense of "disposable employees" and their families. Greed and the love of money do not become virtues just because competitors or Wallstreet give a thumbs up. We can do better than that.
You want people to hate the company but it wasn't the company blaming productivity it was the price of oil dropping so low they had to cut people to survive. Just like all the other companies it was a race for the oil to get as much as possible and when there was too much oil they had to pull back. Just like the old saying your darned if you do and darned if you don't.