Tragedy in the field strikes and Brother Tom wants to know why it keeps happening. Wake up dummy, it’s your fault, and Liam’s, and DW etc etc etc. You have created the toxic culture and resulting attrition that is accelerating. Your failure to take action has resulted in extremely low morale. Our culture permeates across to our partners and service providers. No wonder accidents are happening? Yet Brother Tom and Uncle Liam have the gal to summons all of UNCON and treat us like it’s our fault. Sadly, tragic accidents will continue to happen until You start treating employees with respect and dignity so we can get our heads back in the game.
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Ridiculous post. Have some respect for the one who loss his life.
Bad situation. What ever happened to the Stop Work principle? Any one on a job xan stop work any time fir any reason for safety concerns. Are we not doing that any more? Are we really falling in to the BP like trap of top down pushing to make money and workers are paying for it? We are ExxonMobil.
@2gfe That’s O&G in a nutshell.
Remember Deepwater Horizon? Of course you do. What you may not know is that the “experienced” people who the made college-intern level mistakes that led to it are still drawing handsome salaries to perform the same work.
Somebody needs to take a blowtorch to this good ol’ boy BS. Putting people in key positions just because of who they know is really starting to come back around in nasty and dangerous ways. Nepotism has always been a problem; now it’s a full-on safety issue.
Accident data shows younger get hurt more than older. Old folks learned to get out of the the way and give the risky jobs to the "young d-mb ones"
Just know, for every serious incident, somewhere out in the XOM void, there are tens of ops guys, safety guys and engineers making little powerpoint presentations with little arrows pointing to little pictures of basic equipment to brief little overpaid managers on basic equipment operations they should already know about but are oblivious to. Then those little overpaid managers will make their own little presentations with little simplistic arrows pointing at equipment pictures to brief their little over paid bosses. And on and on up the ladder.
It is true.
It doesn’t help that they put people like Brother Tom in a leadership position when the guy doesn’t even know what a rod pump is, and then cycle these know nothings off to the next position before the mess they just made has a chance to rear its ugly head.
@1btk Exxon’s work force skews older and many “experienced” people are lifers with 10+ years of service.
The problem is that you have a bunch of complacent people with “experience” who have coasted in their careers but are actually woefully unqualified. This is showing up everywhere, not just Exxon. What used to be once per decade safety incidents are now a common occurrence.
The O&G workforce is poorly managed, overworked, and aging rapidly. Get ready to see more major safety incidents as a result.
This is the result of going crazy with cheap labor. Just saying.
This is tragically happening yet again because of inexperienced supervisors, engineers, and managers who either didn’t spend enough time learning the ropes or have forgotten what it was like in the field, a perpetuation of the culture of no accountability that affects every single area of this company that stems from their “leadership development”.
The biggest problem with this company is there is way too many snowflakes that don’t want to do manual labor. This is an industry for people that don’t mind working hard so maybe go to a different industry that doesn’t require hard work if you aren’t cut out for it.
You people do realize this is a dangerous industry right? Especially for the people that work out in the field. You can do everything right and still get hurt because there’s so many things that can go wrong. For the people that think it’s the old people you couldn’t be more wrong. The old timers worked in conditions way more unsafe than what they are today and still made it without losing their life. Quit blaming other people for not taking your own safety seriously.
You people do realize this is a dangerous industry right? Especially for the people that work out in the field. You can do everything right and still get hurt because there’s so many things that can go wrong. For the people that think it’s the old people you couldn’t be more wrong. The old timers worked in conditions way more unsafe than what they are today and still made it without losing their life. Quit blaming other people for not taking your own safety seriously.
What happened?
'Layoffs' are age-based.
Job fatalities are not.
Safety is a loss-leader in the company's eyes.
Time to stick some knitting needles into those eyes.
@1tju The people making the operational decisions are in their 50s and 60s.
Nobody is blaming the victim here.
Wonder what impact to Liam’s bonus is from those?
@1wfq+1iQSIz9p The victim was in their 30’s.
Aging work force of the contractors? If that’s what you are saying thats on @XOM. What now is UNCON is an unusual business with “standards” and people that seem to change every 6-8 months. Value has been turned into a joke and the folks who really want to work or actually fix things are swamped down with work or have no voice cause they have no sponsors. I have no ideas on how to fix the incidents. My big question though is where does uncon SSHE group become accountable? Their LT make a lot of money on power points and pointing fingers elsewhere. They need to be part of the answer no matter what the options are. Or move them back into the work force to help their struggling coworkers who are leaning way to much on contractors.
@OP It happened because the geriatric workforce lost their edge a long time ago.
Have you noticed that the accidents keep piling up across the industry as the workforce gets older? You think there might some correlation there?
What incident did you all have out there?
I think the few mid-career folks that are left... we all have the same concern. We've decimated the employee base and are now trying to fill it with less (owner's) experience global employees. Only continued safety incidents, project run-aways, etc will steer the boat the other direction.
I was attending waiting to get the blame for this fatality, the life altering injury last week and the fatality a few months ago.
Tom delivered.
Will anyone at the top realize that ki----g the culture and spirit of the employees results in these sorts of incidents? They are the ones that should truly be held responsible.
One the remaining people are saddled with creating and communicating a huge safety stand down across the entire uncon. This will probably cost as much as the savings gotten from canceling the 401k.