The stress is nonstop, and dealing with all the ridiculous decisions from management is driving me crazy. It's like they’re on a mission to burn everything down just to see how bad it can get. Things aren’t getting better, they’re only spiraling. I’m counting down the days until I can leave this mess behind.
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I don’t get why all of you unhappy whiners just don’t quit. Especially when it comes to work from home. I get the feeling this place is filled with the actual problems and the reason the company is doing poorly. Just insufferable. Just quit already. In fact, just plan to do a mass walkout.
40% reduction needed. Start with the melting snowflakes.
Lance has to go. The problem is the ELT are just as bad and there is no successor. This is a great opportunity to get out through EOI as the company is going to the dogs.
RL has got to go. His only purpose is to make his life and those of his friends as cushy as possible, traveling for "business" and making big donations to his former school to look good and get an ego boost. The guy doesn't give two sheets about the employees or future of the company.
This is the same “project” that we went through back in 2015-2017, except this time around prices aren’t in the tank. We spent tens of millions on “consultants” and severance payments, and now we’re at it again. I don’t see how we can reduce staff and assume we can easily flex contractors up or down as the volume of work dictates. Contracting competent reservoir engineers, finance, supply chain is vastly different from holiday hiring for Amazon. It’s apples and orangutans.
The thing that concerns me is the Competitive Edge. . . .if this is just an exercise in bringing in BCG to 'cover their tracks' and tells us to layoff 10% to get in line with our peers, we will make that cut. There will be even fewer employees around here to work the same amount of work, which means increased workloads. How will this be managed because people have a pace of work and its hard to motivate them to give you more throughput? Each individual will have to either give more throughput, which as I said is an extreme challenge, or you compensate with contractors and contingent workers that you can grow and shrink with quickly. I think ultimately that is what mgmt wants so that the company doesn't get 'stuck' with a ballooning workforce when a commodity price downturn occurs, which will indeed happen again. They are try to position us to where we can essentially turn off the contractors/CW should we need to.
Thats my theory of why the workforce continues to shrink even when work needed to be done does not go down (in fact gets more as we add more bureaucracy.
100%, the amount of frustration, gossiping, and back talking going on is crazy. Gotta love the CEO who travels 80% of the time making everyone go back into the office. Only people who enjoy coming back are the micromanagers and the people who like to pick up dirt on people to use that against them to move up
Good-bye.
No facts or real information in your post. Are you real or just an internet troll?