Thread regarding ConocoPhillips layoffs

There aren’t only “younger” people in the new hire program. Several of them are non-traditional and in their 30’s and 40’s. They bring some great talent with new technologies and happen to be paid very well. So much negativity! Just because life handed you a cactus doesn’t mean you have to sit on it. Move on if you’re that unhappy.

The new hire program hires at more 25 each year, usually less. I don't believe there has ever been a time where the numbers were 50-100. Also Bartlesville IT took quite a hit in the first rounds during the downturn.

new hire program is a violation of age discrimination laws. We fire more expensive senior people and replace them with younger, less expensive. Get around law suits with severance agreements that you have to agree not to sue or lose your severance.

It’s more like 20 New Hires a year and sometimes less than that.

The hiring aligns with attrition, be it attrition at the will of the employee or the will of the employer. A move to the "cloud" reduces equipment in the data center but does not proportionately reduce the staff requirements. The move to Office 365 continues to be the better example of a move to the cloud.

“The cloud technology” haha I can probably guess your demographic from your phrasing.

Sounds like your glory days are past you, you’ve forgotten how to count, and you’re upset that you are being replaced at a fraction of the cost.

Can you support this with any facts? According to your logic, IT has grown by 250 - 500 employees over the last 5 years. I work in Bartlesville and would have noticed if we had that many offices being used!