Cameron's numbers are a disaster and they are firing all their best guys. This story does not have a good ending methinks
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F— slb they have destroyed cameron and all that it stood for! We were proud to wear are uniforms around town. Now we cant get them off fast enough! F— slb! There system is broke! Guess thats why the white flag always flys over that sh– smelling country!
Missed those Cameron days where trust on their employees was very Awesome. SLB is all about people who can talk very good but worse as a worker in the field. They flattered their manager and never get fired on anything they do wrong. Those people always smoke with their manager and you will find them sitting in managers office for hours. SLB love back stabbers. They promote people who do that. SLB don't want employees friendship. Their rat out system (Observation/Intervention/Reporting system is design for that. Id you don't hang out with supervisor or manager you are not going to the field,
All reviews against SLB that you are just a number is very true. Meanest corporate greedy company you will ever work with,Hard workers and the people who follow company procedures suffer most.
They even betrayed their frac employees to cut off 15% of the employees salaries and they will not lay off any one. Guess what as soon as people agreed to cut off 15%. they lay off people with in one month.
I regret working with SLB wasted my precious years of my life with a peace of garbage company.
well said....
I thank you for your comments. I sometimes regret not going to college, but chose instead to become very good at building things, making things, creating things. Like so many of my fellow employees, I took great pride in having the opportunity to create a world class product even though I only came from a small town in Oklahoma. I respect those who have a college education. My children all do. But nothing can replace the ability to create with your own two hands. The artisans of Smith and Cameron will go on to build great things with companies who will appreciate their talents.
Those educated idiots just prove that a degree doesn't replace common sense. Feel sorry for all those employees in smith and Cameron who have had their lives turned upside down by the SLB destruction machine. It's not only the employees but also the clients who now have to work with the most expensive company in the oilfield and with the worst customer service and now without experienced hands
-1kqv One of my professors in college, once said, that education is not the key to success, you can get as much education as you want, and even if you are not good enough, you can still find legitimate colleges which will take your money and give you a degree after a while. However, these piece of paper are the ones are like jimmy tools to open doors, the more you have, and the better they are, can help you to keep moving forward and upward. When you start seeing companies hiring more and more college graduates which can't distinguish a socket wrench from a screwdriver, you know you are in trouble, because demonstrating that "you know how to do stuff" is much harder than showing a piece of paper, especially if the person who should evaluate you, has no clue about doing stuff. What happened next, is that when enough of these people got in power, they started putting roadblock for people who know how to do stuff. They removed the "or equivalent experience" from the managerial positions, so they can safely keep the people who learned how to work and the nuances of the work to grow in the company and be a possible challenge for their worthless positions.
But companies didn't see that in the same way, they admired their endurance in staying in college year after year and not giving up, while they evaluated the people doing the job like slackers that were content of working in an environment that was becoming worse day after day.
If you are in Ponca, you have a community college in Blackwell, which is few minutes away and a very good university in Stillwater, which is still reachable. If you are in Houston you have the two biggest community college in the nation all around and university of Houston, which is very good too. Think about what would have happened if you invested few years of your life taking night classes and now you were fighting on the same level of the idiots which ruined Smith, and are ruining Cameron? Maybe nothing would have changed, but you can't know for sure.
I feel sorry for the employees of Cameron, it was a good company to work for, but again, doesn't fit very well in the bureaucratic , degree oriented, SLB. For SLB is a win anyway because it's one less competitor on the market.
Trust me, as a Smith employee, just when you think it couldn't get any worse, they couldn't do anything more moronic, it gets worse yet. Those college educated idiots who couldn't drive a nail in a block of wood will drive Cameron into the ground and blame it all on you. And when your company is ruined to the point of no recovery, they'll collect their bonuses and go on with their lives. Honestly, I hope I'm wrong because I hat to see any company suffer the same fate as such a great place to work as Smith was. We built the best rock bits in the world, and took great pride in that.