I cannot stand the people I work with. They are always top everyone else or ki----s in the meetings. I hate the meetings because you will always have a person who wants to impress the bosses. I like to work on my own because of these a ho-e employees. The meetings are the worst I hate them. They are just great time killers and a place for the favorites to show off. Notice that if a supervisor or managers in not attending the meeting the superstars are quiet. When the Big shots are present boy do the toppers talk. In technical meetings there is always some one who wants to improve my ideas and complicate things. I don't want it complicated just simple and plain. I want functionality from a dysfunctional group and company as a whole. A smart company would allow the best person to do the work not the favorite of the manager. They push good innovators and designers to other tasks such as the paperwork and admin work. I will spend my remaining years hiding out and avoiding the useless meetings. Remember meetings a place to showoff and get some talk time in with the supervisors and mangers. The people and meetings are sickening. Remember to use all the big and fancy words to describe the most mundane of work. Draw out any small detail and go on and on for hours about the insignificant details about the useless work. Turn on your camera and look intently into the camera as if you care, flail your arms and use you hands when you talk. I told someone this once about the hands and soon they were doing it to impress the bosses. Sick sick sick.
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Every day in Annandale , place is a cluster. More will be leaving this week, stay tuned😆😆😆
Really think about how many meetings actually make the company money? If you guess 1-5%, you are probably accurate. These meetings are usually led by someone who already has the answer and is ready to act, but just needs a couple consensual head nods from the right people.
If we want a different company culture, this is the one thing that everyone, no matter their position in the company, can influence. Insist on clear objectives and action items at every meeting. Make sure the action items actually lead to a bottom-line results….and not just curiosity pandering. If that cannot be done, don’t attend and articulate to your boss exactly why you aren’t attending. Explain the ‘more valuable’ work you are doing instead, since we are all doing 2-3 jobs now.
@1fsc is spot on. The real and satisfying work is at the affiliates and work sites. EMHC and BTC are for dushpags who clamor for information from people doing real work and spinning it. Hahhhaaa. It's wasteful and shameful way to run a business
Leave Houston and go work closer to the well if you want to do acutal work.
I agree, but can you really blame them? We are all just one bad PDS or bad supervisor away from being fired or destroying our career.
I’ve seen really good people being driven to backstabbing, a-s kissing, and throwing others under the bus. People who once refused to play that game find themselves doing things they are ashamed of once they have a big mortgage or a family to support.
You can’t have innovation, collaboration or productive discussion and teams when you have a ranking system that almost forces you to do the exact opposite to keep your job.
Meetings are just a stage on which you can show how much you are willing to play the game. It’s sad and embarrassing to see it in action. The last few years (after the layoffs thinly disguised as PIPs) have been exceptionally bad. I am glad so many people are deciding to quit, retire early, or ride the wave until they find another job. I’m one of those people. I am retiring in a few months (the minute I become eligible). I cannot wait until I’m out the door.
good golly, OP. a really good spew.
Could you Powerpoint that?
see your own thoughts at work.
I cannot handle how fake some people are in meetings. Everything is calculated. I didn’t realize people lived like this (new experienced hire).
Do you think Exxonmobil would medal if talking were an Olympic sport?
Had a manager who treated his reports like cr-p. The worst boss I ever had in my career. His first taste at managing people but it’s clear he considers us underlings as he is was confident he will move to bigger and better things. Makes my stomach turn at the way he treats people when he thinks no one is looking. The misogyny and the arrogance simmering underneath is horrible. He is really careful never to leave a paper trail on anything. Only showed up to meetings if his boss or a VP is present at which times he say all the right things and shows all the right behaviors. People like him is reason I don’t want to work here.
I try to sit back but I keep getting caught by the meetings. Our supervisor wants participation in these useless meetings. The supervisors like their butts kissed and I think they get off on everyone trying to top each other. On my performance review I was told that I had to engage more and be more present in the meetings. I explained to the supervisor that I did not matter what I said as no one listened. The supervisor said just try and get you point across even if they don't listen. Remember don'y accept a meeting unless you can shine in it. My experience and two cents.
I've not been busy for about 3 years. Now, we're so limp you don't even have to pretend to be busy, they just now let you get on and quietly quit it appears. You're totally correct on the dysfunctional and over complicated culture we're in to....we used to spend about a third of the time doing correctly what we now do superficially and with errors. Just try to sit back and watch the show, that's the only sane approach I think 😂
Billions have been lost on "Let's Pretend We Are Busy" meetings.
All of this so true.