Of course, our perceptions of fairness are not the same, the fairness is an ideal that is difficult to achieve and complete fairness should not be expected at all times anywhere, and especially not at BH. However, most will agree that many things are not fair here and that they are witnessing unfair practices on a daily basis. This is what motivates people the most to look for a way out. I haven't been here that long, so I can't talk about it, but I'm still wondering if this has been the case in the past or is this a company where fairness has never been particularly present?
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"Fairness is in the eye of the beholder: Life is not fair!" Fairness is the idea that rewards and punishments are allocated or withheld in some approximate proportion to those who have earned them (and at a minimum based on need; most people don't want the least fortunate, the least talented, or even those who serially make bad choices to die in the streets).
Life is indeed not fair. Outcomes are often random. There is no karma. To think otherwise is to ignore survivors' bias, to engage in magical thinking that there is some guiding hand, to assume direct control or indirect influence over events that are beyond our control.
But this is not to say that we don't expect fairness on a smaller scale. The market doesn't work without a sense of proportionality that we call fairness. Organizations and markets require a sense of fairness for the participants to play by the rules. If participants do not buy-in and if interests are not aligned, then they play by their own rules and the system is undermined and the organization is dysfunctional, which only produces more unfairness, until something breaks down--people leave, the company hits bottom--and things can be set right.
Is BKR fair to you and others? If not, are you waiting for it to fix itself? Or will you leave?
Peopl not saying anything because feel foolish. Huge f-up by aberdeen drilling dept left everything in a mess reason why BH pull out of Aberdeen. Big mistake putting mwd numty in management role and ruin everything.
It must have cost BH a lot of money pulling out of so many oil services. Not only paying off but all the costs of closure and layoffs etc. No wonder BH lost something like $18b last year. This is like a clusterfxxx x 100. How did this happen? Why did they want to shutdown? BH aren’t going to shutdown because they want to save the environment so it must have something to do with the drilling-up in Aberdeen. Hundreds of employees must see their careers and lives destroyed by this. But nobody is saying anything just like sheep.
My advice to you is get the he-l out. Do not stay working for baker. Definitely has changed over the past 5 years.
Yep the Boomers absolutely have no one else to blame but themselves.
They gave trophies to the current generation of workers and asked them to work hard and compete. This is a foreign concept to the knuckle draggers that just want a paycheck and get their feelings hurt when given honest feedback.
Moral of the story is you reap what you sow.
@clq you must be a HR shill.
Everyone here knows that the idealistic views you stated does not apply at Baker where the mantra is skrew or get skrewed.
Your hard work, abilities or contribution to the organization has zippity doo dad to do with your level of success at Baker.
Fairness is in the eye of the beholder: Life is not fair!
People that work better, provide more value, and are more pleasant to be around are going to be favorites in any organization.