There is a lot of talk here about BTC, quality of work, etc. But what is forgotten is that a lot of the work we do is still work we make for ourselves. It is not necessary. I suspect management knows this and when push comes to shove, they will abandon these - or outsource it. Think about all the things we do, the processes we go through annually. How many of these are needed to run the business. We are still overstaffed in some disciplines - even after the purge.
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BTC provides a good quality of work. And on time.
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@grkr Not a manager guy. I work for a living. I also have to clean up messes made by your “SMEs” much more frequently than I’d care to.
All of the real experts left Exxon and either retired or became consultants. The leftover cr-p is what you hot-desk with everyday.
@hght A lot of do-overs and corrections for the work of the US-based “subject matter experts” too. Many of you don’t seem to understand your own specifications, or when they’re not being met by your vendors.
I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again: get TF over yourselves. You’re nothing special.
Ironic is that nobody is tracking the huge efforts in every department to correct, re-do, or completely do the work for id--ts in BTC.
The final products are attributed to BTC low cost “equal” talent instead of realizing the effort that US employees had to input.
Smoke and mirrors. Management sees what they want to see,,,,not the truth.
The reality check is you couldn’t pour Pizz out a boot with instructions on the heel sp they made you a manager because of who you are and it went to your air head.
The reality check that everybody posting here needs is that updating purchasing specifications and sizing equipment aren’t worth $200k/year.
Moving jobs overseas is an economic bribery that we pay the cost for. How else does India get US dollars when they don’t export anything? This is why all the tech companies have shops there. These are policies that are backed by the Federal Reserve to retain dollar hegemony in a dedollarizing world. We’re just expendable pawns in the grand scheme of things. They want Modi to abandon BRICS. And he’s playing both sides so he can stay in power. Imagine if all the US companies pulled out of India. They would be an economic depression and Modi would be booted out.
Current BTC employees are given a bonus and likely PDS “points” for recruiting other poor souls. This also frees up the recruiting BTC employee for expat assignments which is the ultimate goal.
100 positions for American Soil jobs posted on XOM Website today! Are you happy and oblivious to the impact this has on our country and the future of our children? Yes! I said YOU! PULL YOUR HEADS OUT!!
BTC SU-KS!!!! NEXT IS CHYYYNA!!! Look at the zillion open technical jobs in Bangladore!!!
@fay+1nUSRCsf News flash! This isnt XOM. You cant tell folks what they can and can’t do on here and expect them to cower down in fear. You don’t like it, don’t read it, no one died and appointed you queen, one day you will be piped as well and all you will be left with is your overinflated ego and the hopes that someone else will hire you giving you points for who you are. Get a life pathetic Sup.
Getting work done remotely by someone that has never been to a site (BTC) will not be high quality without significant local input.
Getting work done by a new hire that has never been to any site (BTC New Hire) requires significant local input and near total rework.
Upon success of both cases above, management attributes the entire success to BTC and disregards all the effort locally that avoided total catastrophe.
The problem is the ranking system. You're predominantly judged based on things that are not base work that directly contributes to the bottom line or something completely out of left field that comes up to raise a Hi-Po or drop someone they don't like. Ranking is based on advertising yourself and "step-outs" unless something goes really wrong and blame is pinned on you. The other side of that is there are those who are really good at spinning a failure into success. Unless they change performance assessment to only direct business results, it won't change, whether on a relative or absolute assessment.
Hey look it’s Annandale guy. Newsflash: nobody cares. You pipe down as well, BRCP guy.
I had a manager that required a PP presentation to talk to him about the simplest thing.
He is not a big shot at another refinery. A real “winner”. People hate him there as well.
They is EM got you.
Welcome to Annandale 😂😂
To many managers not enough managing. You are correct, lots of pushing paper. Some groups under staffed and under managed. Lots of dysfunction unless you have sponsorship or part of a group propping itself up. See CX.