Actively accepting offers! Deeply discounted all assets priced to move!

It's becoming more and more obvious that Devon will shrink... When do we expect layoffs to start?

Start wearing shades.

Ego-driven design: Elevating our "cool idea" over the needs of actual customers, often with the platitude "the customers will love it." No, they won't. And furthermore, the cool idea isn’t actually cool, nor does it work.

Does any real action come from these, or are they simply some “we listen to you” check-the-box activity to help hr and leaders feel better about themselves?

The land group doing the old truffle shuffle of leadership just in time to sc--w the individual contributors of the meaningful performance review or promotion they worked for all year. Well done.

I hear today at one of our meetings in OKC that we looking into buy Permian resources out of midland tx. Any thoughts? Are they even worth to buy or merge?

Mr. Podcast is back on tour again! Probably to tout the innovative GME acquisition. But what happens when they all see what a complete nightmare it is to be part of the dvn organization and instead take their packages.

Maybe the next merger of equals should prompt a name change. 9/10 analysts agree!

Watching a company slowly but steadily implode. Here's why: Many of the key leaders under the execs are a toxic cancer cell with delusions of grandeur and a history of abusing people, but coddled because ?? Mission creep. In too many things. ... — read more 

New changes are having so many experience people leaving this company that it will hurt. Just because the wrong people are in power, The expectation of making a better company to work for ends down the toilet!! All this diversity bs and buddy system... — read more 

Heard Q4

Exit interviews in toxic workplaces such as Devon are a sham. They mask the rot instead of fixing it. Think about it. Employees leaving are either too scared to tell the truth or too disillusioned to believe their feedback will matter. The worst... — read more 

Do yourself a favor and take the money and run. If you are given a choice, choose to exit with the cash and your life will be better for it. We know you are better than us, we saw it with WPX. All we will do is protect our jobs and push you to the... — read more 

If your voice held no power, they wouldn’t try to silence you.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/how-devon-energy-missed-out-us-oil-gas-mega-deal-wave-2024-06-06/

Who is next on the list for a bid?

At least the softball stadium is named after us

If you are a data management professional, I want you to ask yourself: how easy is it for your customers to answer questions they have? If I am a customer, how easy is it for me to get the information I want? how well is it communicated between... — read more 

Just maybe, if we focused more on returning cash to the shareholders, instead of building more and more namesake monuments to the glory of Devon, our stock wouldn’t be in the toilet. Since our high over a year ago, it’s been one dividend slash after... — read more 

Mr. Podcast on the move again! Glad they realized he’s only worth the B circuit. When will anyone tell him he has no clothes?

The current opening for a data management professional has me laughing so hard at the posting, because if you were to read each portion in opposite land, you’d have the true nature of the job. But it’s all smoke and mirrors and written by the same... — read more 

Limerick about a company in oklahoma city that spent so much time and money building a ugly green office building that looked like a phallic symbol that they went under. There once was a firm from OKC, Whose building design caused a spree. With... — read more 

Just wanted to remind you that the good times are coming to an end. save save save save

IT does such a terrible job at their ONE job, that groups are now posting positions to handle things themselves. Mr podcast and his queen must be throwing a FIT. How dare they supplant us?! Haha

What’s that 3 times losing out? Marathon, crownrock, enerplus. I’m afraid there are few fellow companies to buy to keep us afloat anymore.

How do you sell the idea that this reverse merger corrects the issues of the previous failures?

Doesn’t look good atm. Predictions are $1.39 per share earnings, which would be a year-over-year decline of 16.27%. Latest revenue estimate is $3.87 billion, almost 10% down from the prior year Q. Guess we have to wait till 27th, but I wonder what... — read more 

It has to be right? I’m referring to what we spent to buy our way onto the JUST 100 list. It certainly is good for a laugh, but at the end of the day, we certainly approach our public image with intentionality, because no one who works here, or... — read more 

The swing of the kid at the end of the baseball commercial couldn’t capture the soft, wannabe winner mentality of leadership any better. Nicely done

IT ever start doing their jobs? Or still gatekeeping and stonewalling?

Bets on if management will take steps to clean up the pollution in the tower?

The inability to have honest conversations. When you cannot give critical feedback to a leader, when you can't question a decision that's been made, when disagreements are frowned upon, when it's unpopular to point out problems. The worst thing of... — read more 

Conway's Law is an adage that states organizational design systems mirror their own communication structure. It is named after the computer programmer Melvin Conway, who introduced the idea in 1967, and was never learned by our technology... — read more 

At what point does an entire team become irrelevant? Is it after they’ve proven themselves inept at doing what they are tasked to do? Is it after they’ve totally messed up rolling out new processes? Is it after they’ve done a bang up job of... — read more 

Mr. Podcast at fuze talking about the future of the field worker, all the while his organization gatekeeps and stonewalls. Who asked for this? Maybe get your house right before you go talking about stuff you obviously don’t know about or care to... — read more 

https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/devon-energy-mulls-ma-options-with-marathon-crownrock