Thread regarding Schlumberger Ltd. layoffs

New way of working (or not working)

Well we are moving forward with the new way of not working. Every decision needs funneled 2 layers up for president 's approval. Need to order parts submit an exemption and wait months while upper management delays approval long enough you lost the business and no longer need the part.

Need to hire an employee for new business that will generate revenue? Ignore the brand new people management system where everything HR is handled. You have to go. Ack to Quest to enter an exemption so your president can once again ignore it until you lose the contract from being understaffed.

Next we are implementing an exemption process for bathroom passes. No one can take a Sh1+ without an approved exemption.

Should squeeze a few more minutes out of employee utilization since you'll have to $hit at home from now on If you wait on approval you'll sh--e yourself before it happens.

Schlumberger has become a lethargic lumbering giant that gets less reactive to our clients and the marketplace with each self inflicted wound we give ourself as upper management struggles to show their involvement by strangling the businesses underneath them.

Afterwards they sit around patting each other on the back celebrating their Worthless KPO's that strangled revenue and growth. All the time wondering how new independant companies continue to surpass them on revenue growth and margins.

Welcome to the new way of working.

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This is very accurate! we went one week without paper towels and soon ran out of toilet paper because an exemption was required to pay the provider.. but wait, top management travel the world to all paid seminars in Europe and US while districts suffer from their incompetence.

NWW = New Way of Work = No Work in Weeks...

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Post ID: @5Obsk+OCKXhtS

Spot on

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Post ID: @3Bhue+OCKXhtS

You are absolutely correct. One time manager said get to request done asap in Quest so we can move forward it was so important. Done in 15 minutes......same manager approved 10 days later, his manager 3 weeks after that. Next month meeting president asked we I was taking so long, I showed him. He praised the managers for approvals and I was reassigned.....tell me they think they are proficient....

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SLB has no idea just how top heavy management is.

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Post ID: @2dcn+OCKXhtS

The stupidity in the oil service business is unbelievable. Never could I imagine that I would work with people who are so useless and incapable. I am basically working with intellectual pygmies.

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