Thread regarding Schlumberger Ltd. layoffs

HR would use grammar check you illiterate f***. Is English your second or third language?

We will do all we can to help our ex employees however if we find we can get new employees cheaper then we will need to think of the shareholders first and the stock price. Hence we look for the best deal for the company. We cannot offer any guarantees to ex employees I am afraid.

I wish we could do it differently but we simply must make the highest profits and keep our shareholders and CEO happy. I am sure those of you who own SLB stock will agree with us here and those of you who don't may want to consider buying some stock whilst it is at such a low price.

Please let us know if we can help you with anything.

Why don't you just contact the employees you laid off when it's time to start hiring?

Anonymous92064 - it is bad logic to assert that only those working in the field create income. How is field work achieved without tools, communications, support etc? . The converse seems more plausible - most guys in the field are expensive overheads who should be replaced by automation.

I also work with the big blue SLB, and am curious as to how many office workers are affected as compared to the "real" workers of these companies? You know, the workers in the fields who are actully making the money that is paying the wages of the office workers, and Paal, and the shareholders. When the prices do rebound, and they will, good luck getting the experienced workers to come back to this place! I don't understand how laying off experienced workers, then eventually hiring green hands, and paying thousands of dollars to train these new workers, is economically sensible! Trim the "fat" from the top down.

The Wall Street Journal got it right: SLB management is more concerned for their stock price than the welfare of it's now-ex employees. Meanwhile they continue to pay consultants (with just a 15% cut in pay in my area) while employees are getting laid off right and left back home. The guys that run this disgraceful heap of manure have no shame. Goes along with why I never took them up on their discount stock purchase plan... I'd be ashamed to claim ownership in this crap and I prefer to invest elsewhere.

Too funny. If this post would have been made by a professional HR group the focus would have been on people, not the stock price priority, To those who lost jobs - move on. You will be a much happier soon.

"This of you..." ??

Lol, the initial post is comical. People, ignore this nuisance and do the best that you can. The best revenge is living well.

Well for slb it's more important how u park ur car that the real work that's why slb in trouble

Should Human Reaources be changed to Inhuman Resources given we as employees are just numbers on a spreadsheet ready to be fired as required with HR managing the process a bit like the Nazis did in WW 2 genocides.

Slb is like the husband who hits his wife and the employee are like the wife that never wants to leave the husband

I can't believe people reply to this dork posing as HR. Hey..pretender..go find a job. You have way too much time on your hands to be posing as a staff member of SLB.

HR can be replaced with robots and save even more money

If SLB wants to be efficient they should Fire whole HR department and IT support they were always terrible incompetent, but no they target senior people which are the driving force of company well if u continue like this only HR will park backwards

How do they get help from ask HR if they are no longer employed by the company??