Heard a rumor here in Houston that everyone who moved to midland in the past 36 months is going to be permanently employed in Midland. Zero opportunity to come back to Houston. No matter who says what in your chain. Any truth to this. Was asking... — read more
Q4 earnings
What do you think about the earnings? Market seemed to not be thrilled. . . . .
Game room
Curious how many folks out there are using the new game room in SP1. What do you like to use, how often do you use it, and for how long at a time do you use it? was it money well spent by the company?
forced ranking
I just saw this thread about forced ranking at ConocoPhillips it was started in December 2020. Is forced ranking still in place at ConocoPhillips in January 2023? https://www.thelayoff.com/t/18nhRr8H
Exec Leadership
Did they lower the SGL requirements to join the executive leadership? Saw a couple of additions that don’t make sense. Used to be Sgl 21+
During covid did conoco layoff any workers?
Just curious with the statistics of it
How many will we lose after VCIP?
It seems like the last couple of years we have lost very few, so to there isn't a big motivation to make a large increase to salary or even VCIP
Salary Adjustments
You saw the number, comment below
Market Factor Allowance
Did they raise the MFA in Midland? Alaska now gets 20% $$$$$!!
Carbon capture
Is ConocoPhillips allocating any precious dollars to worthless carbon capture like other oil companies are?
Vcip predictions
Vcip predictions people. One person last year nailed the amount about a month out
NextGen
Can anyone explain Nextgen to us. Is this just more virtue signaling or something with some substance?
ConocoPhillips Layoffs 2023
This thread is for info about potential ConocoPhillips layoffs? Any chatter, news or rumors?
Parking Excesses
Why on the 2nd floor of the SP1 parking garage is there an entire row of reserved parking that only 3/4 full at max? Why did the company create this separation? Its the Plebes vs the politicians around here. . . . .why does making more money or being... — read more
Rating system is terrible
There has to be some type of system for recognizing exceptional performance and also not recognizing weak performance. The problem is this becomes a beauty contest rather than a recognition system. Then throw in biased favoritism resulting from the... — read more
Ratings system
The ratings are BS. I think it is structured in a way that actually harms the company and innovation. You have multiple people/groups/business units working the same issues and not collaborating in order to achieve that differential rating. In... — read more
We are standing in green grass
I get that this is where people come to complain and COP absolutely has room for improvement. However, I encourage everyone to go look at the XOM Layoff board to see how much worse things can be. I moved over from there a few months ago and I just... — read more
Why you complain so much?
I keep reading about xyz companies doing this bonus and that benefits to its employees. I think COP has done so much for its employees. She is like mother feeding whining toddlers who are not ever happy. How much can she give and keep giving? Have... — read more
Why is this form so active?
Why is this form so active? Even p66 isn't as active as this one and they just had layoffs.... It seems like people are unhappy, but not unhappy enough to leave.... For years
Bonus Coco? No! no!
Who wants to boost ESG scores?
Additional bonus?
I heard from two friends at a conference that they received additional bonuses this year due to unusually better finances in oil and gas. One of the friend works at Total and other in Oxy. I heard Oxy paid 5% to all employees in addition to their... — read more
Total shares profit with employees!
Total announced one off 1 month bonus for employees worldwide due to record profits https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/27/business/shell-earnings-profit-oil-gas.html "Total, which has been hit by a strike by refinery workers in France, also said that... — read more
Success is a treat sport
Two weeks until the next earnings announcement where business professionals feel how small they are. You want to make a DEI impact, give everyone some equity In the company not just petrotechs. The “ P” in SPIRIT Values stands for PETROTECH.
XOM
Pretty scathing article on Exxon - good read: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-10-13/exxon-xom-jobs-exodus-brings-scrutiny-to-corporate-culture What do you think? What parallels do you see with COP? I personally don’t see as much... — read more
Fraternization
Does this company have a fraternization policy regarding relationships at work?
CAsh out pensions before bust
Anyway to cash out the cashbalance accrued without leaving company ? I heard UK pension bond funds were almost wiped out with trillon dollars overnite. We are a couple of blocks down that road.
Chief Geo retired - anyone care?
Subsurface Chiefs are at first level supervisor level, not a strong endorsement of their worth from the company. Steadily demoted the last decade. Are these vanity positions, anachronistic empty titles?
UW
This company puts in so much effort and time with UW. We always tout the $$s donated, but don't mention the overhead that goes into the annual program. I wouldn't be surprised if we spent 1/2 of what was brought in through donations via free lunch on... — read more
What price per barrel will trigger another round?
Any guesses? Will it be $50? $20? $5?
CEO for a Day
If you could be CEO of COP for a day, what changes would you make? Me, I would get rid of end of the year ratings. In my experience does more harm than good. I would allow the Mark awards value to be increased and those could substitute where... — read more
Headcount: How many executives and 'lab' people visited Alaska office this summer?
Headcount: How many executives and 'lab' people visited Alaska office this summer on trips paid by the Company, which turned into personal fishing and vacation trips?
Changes to WFH
Has anyone heard if the IT “trial run” of working from home full time is influencing changes to the policy so that all office workers can be remote?
Coasting at work
How easy is it for you to coast at work and not get any real work done? I find that I feel guilt for doing this, but then I wonder how many other people are doing the same thing? Now we have a pinball machine to distract, making this an even easier... — read more
Earning Are Up & COP Still Cuts My Pension By 10%
I had to find out from a local magazine that my pension is being cut. https://lifestyle.countrylegends1059.com/story/46954693/exxonmobil-conocophillips-employees-face-the-biggest-pension-drop-in-a-generation
The Grass is Greener…
Plus you no longer work for this poisonous back-stabbing hypocrisy-filled company. https://www.wsj.com/articles/inflation-switch-jobs-more-money-fed-atlanta-data-11658699425
Should I work here?
I am a current Exxon employee that is being recruited for a role at COP. I figured a good way to judge a company is to see what the angriest people are saying anonymously. Honestly, your complaints sound just like what is on the Exxon Layoff page... — read more
Skills have become the least important
It bothers me terribly, because this was once a company where those with the most expertise were the most valued, and today it is the exact opposite. Perhaps I'm wrong, but somehow it seems to me that this is becoming a place for the greatest... — read more
Some are quite convinced that there will be no layoffs for a while
I hope they are right?
No external job postings
With all of the comments that have been posted on this site and a lot of people writing about the high number of people leaving, I was surprised to see there there are zero posting externally. Is COP preparing for the recession, or is something else... — read more
12% for thee not for me
12% salary adjustments for contingent and contractors. Contacts are all being amended in the AKBU. Are the other BUs doing the same? What about the employees? Are we just chump change? Increase the AK Market Factor above 15%? Increase COLA?... — read more