If you guys are reading this, and it's become clear some of you are: stop with the constant layoffs. At some point, if you want people to work hard again, you've gotta tell them "if you do a good job you'll be fine." Nobody will ever be an effective employee under this constant threat of layoffs, which you've alluded will be ongoing for years in the Q&A. We realize you don't want to paint yourselves into a corner...but at some point enough is enough.
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I don't think any of this is personal. You've just combined two big companies. You're not going to keep two HR groups, two SCM groups, two IT groups. It doesn't make sense. Shared services is going to get hit hard this round and that makes sense. Operations, projects, and all the rest will be fine. Some management will need to go but that's just how the cookie crumbles. I guess we'll see this week.
Enbridge management is clueless. They have been successful not because of their skills, but luck - the company's footprint in liquid transportation business. Whenever they were faced with competition, they lost. Good examples are Sandpiper, APT and other expansion projects. It is about time to leave this company.
It's better off to layoff enbridge people leader as they have no people skills.
I'm as much down on this process as anyone, but I wouldn't assume that means they're being let go. There's deffy gonna be fewer managers than Spectra is used to, but SOMEONE still has to manage, and in Houston, that's going to be largely Spectra GMs. I'd be more nervous right now as an Enbridge people leader than Spectra
Yes they will likely let go.
So if a former Spectra Manager, Director or GM has not yet been told they will be demoted, is the assumption they will be let go?
Best guess is that most of the demotions this time around will be on the Spectra side, though there will still be some for sure at Enbridge. Most of those people should've been told already though. Last time they got like a week to decide and if the big day is coming on Tuesday or Wednesday they probably already have heard if they're getting demoted. Saw a few people with boxes earlier this week not sure if preemptive or demoted.
Any idea if there will be demotion in the Calgary office, just like the last round? Or will there be just layoffs.
They've historically struggled with treatment of its employees. P'D off employees DONT work hard...happy ones do.
GB brought a fresh approach, in that he believed that if you work hard for me, I will work hard for you...BUT he treated everyone of his employees with respect. AM treats them as a number...cutting into company profits. I think (and I am not the only one) GB retired because he saw that AM was taking the company back to the days where employees were treated with distain; only a necessary evil.
Before him and after him, its obvious that employees are only around as long as management NEEDS them. Loyalty and accommodating moves to suit everyone is not part of their business practices. Yes, its business....but the more successful companies are learning that happy employees work hard, a concept that escapes AM and the current senior management.
I was one of theach ones let go in October...I still follow this site and feel for everyone still there worried about their job...yes I agree that karma WILL catch up to the ones making the decisions...what a horrible place to be working at...I don't see how the morale will ever change anyour time soon...very sad compared to what it was back in the Consumers Gas days!
This is a very toxic environment
Boxes already placed on each floor. Some already know they will let go while others are in hope.
My five cents to leadership- the fact that every one of these posts get hundreds and even thousands of views tells you one thing- there is no trust in our organization anymore! You are cutting jobs to please the shareholders but remember karma will come back to bite you. I can't wait to see when our management team is replaced by younger and brighter ppl. The pink slips will come your way too :)