With the last round of reassignments, micro management in the Bakken has hit an all time point of ridiculousness. I dont know how we survived without the seemingly daily second guessing and inquisitions from Billings. The T in SPIRIT values now stands for tyrants and not teamwork.
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They already reassigned the good managers (all 3 of them). The ones that are left now poison the water and are routinely reevaluating for the 5th time the well spacing... just s**t or get off the pot already!
COP will never be a true independent. The closest they get is purchasing one. Then they slowly infiltrate the ranks at the offices that are to be left alone for a year or two. They get the folks that stayed around upset enough to quit as soon as the bonus retention clause kicks in to ensure that no actual staff people see how a real independent is run so they can fill it with the supervisors from the areas that had nothing to do and slowly change it to a large company culture that can't make money. I always found it interesting you had a company saying they will run COP Like an independent and everyone of those people never worked anywhere else in their career. I spoke up once at a meeting on how we should try to change to be more like and independent and said how things were done and my meeting invites went away and I was slowly ostracized-kind of like Milton getting put in the basement.
We're will not stay the biggest independent.
Bakken has been a money loser for us which has been recently exposed. The micro-management is a consequence. We will be exiting operations in the Rockies, San Juan, Panhandle-Anadarko-Barnett, Canada, Gulf Coast onshore gas, Permian gas. There will be significant downsizing. There is nothing to do. Everyone is scrambling to be relevant. Where to go. What to do. Perhaps next townhall will address these concerns. This just can not continue. Got to go a meeting now.
Should have a couple more layers of management above the micro-managers, who can belittle and micro-manage those managers. They can all make their millions building their empires, exercising their power and control with their toxic tactics.
Somewhere between Round 1 and Round 3 of the layoffs the company pulled the S, P, I, and T from SPIRIT and now they combine to simply mean "spit." They're still trying to find an updated meaning for the remaining I and R.
Yuck. Sounds like some real "leaders" there. Hang in there and maybe they'll be replaced with better managers.