I received a phone call from management saying that 5 out of 9 employees at my grade will be let go. I'm a mud engineer and apparently the thing that determines who stays and goes is a redundancy matrix lol. I'm not holding my breath. A letter will arrive before the end of the week to say the above in writing. I hate mud anyway.
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They parents are Neanderthal and Australopithecus from Tasmania perhaps, this is why they speak of natural biodiversity. And they came to the US to promulgate these principles meaning they get rid of anyone claiming to be Homo Sapiens.
isn't an MBA a business degree?
what kind of environmental research director are you?
The key was my knowledge in bio diversity and a deep understanding of environmental sensitivities. From there it was simple to build a world class team that is highly respected by Schlumberger based on our results. We outperform all the other SLB research teams combined.
It seems that you guys came to Houston, TX from Aberdeen, UK to research something that completely changed our views on protecting the environment. Obviously, you found here something what you could not find out there nor could we find here for which you were promoted to top management positions and, most importantly, retained by SLB in these positions at any cost. What exactly did you discover? Maybe a magic method making crude oil spilt by BP go back to the refinery without touching water, soil and air?
Sorry we had to couldn't keep you onboard but SLB were asking for heads and we couldn't resist any longer or they would shut us all down. We must maintain our world class research capabilities to ensure we continue as #1 in the business.
to ES Director of Research (MBA) - it was not her, its was me. It has been 2 month only and you already faked another diploma in such a short time. What happened to your marine biology diploma? Again traded for petroleum engineering to become a research director?
This has always been the case there. When ever your British bosses suspect someone of being capable to tell the truth, they would let them go. Those are your true faces of the greatest researchers and protectors of environment that make SLB even more proud for having you there than they are. Dirty rotten scoundrels!
This is just some rubbish about our research team and we are much better than this. I apologize to the poster here who doesn't like us. I know who you are and we had no option but to let you go as it as requested by our bosses. Sorry and try to be less abusive of your ex colleagues and friends.
Again someone tries to blind eyes! Yes there are rotten British and Aussie managers that don't know shit and use Americans to guide them. They keep their jobs because of their connections, you all know that and don't give me this crap. Otherwise they are useless.
What are you talking about, there is no British there. Its all Americans dude.
We have been #1 for some years and then Schlumberger came along and is taking us to new heights of success previously only dreamed off. Our strategy is to benefit from the size and reach of the Schlumberger organization for more business and to extend our research capabilities even further. There is no other company out there even close to us........please tell me any one? They simply don't exist and the SWACO name is associated with world class capabilities and technologies. I will go further and say thanks to the British management we have reached this level of success as the American market is low tech and all about low prices and zero technology and we needed a more sophisticated management style that the British have bought us. I think perhaps this is the reason we have some complaints about our world class research team simply because our american cousins don't understand technology or the need to research as they are still stuck in the stone age.
You are in the woods where no one hears, reads, sees or cares. They stay and you go, they are protected and you are not. It does not matter what they are, do , not do, or know. It is the way it is. Don't waste your time anymore on them. If before they were protected by mi swaco, now they are protected by SLB. Nothing changed for them, just the bids are higher.
The purpose of this discussion was to divert the attention from the dirty rotten managers still working there to some technologies, I can clearly see the trend. The fact stays strong that there are such. This is not the place and time albet to blind eyes with cheap propaganda of MISWACO being the No. 1 in protecting our environment. Someone may agree and someone not. The point is such: WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT THE ROTTEN MANAGERS? Your answers is such: NOTHING, because we don't have such! Because we are the No. 1 in protecting our environment throughout the world thanks to these managers. So, we are back to square one: I STATE THAT THESE MANAGERS DON'T KNOW SHIT and prove it to me that they do.
I am new to this chat but would also like to see external references not just the company website. I don't know about No. 1 as I have not personally tried the technologies you are referring to. There could be a bunch of PhDs workings on technologies to save environment but eventually what matters is whether you can sell the product and how many of those technologies are out there. If a technology has a single use, ie.e its a custom-made for a single client, then I dont consider this a technology.You confuse the terminology here and as such, I think that you are working for their HR or public relationship dept.
Sounds like you got an axe to grind buddy and you are just blaming my colleagues in ES for no reason. We are the best in the industry and if you don't believe it go to the website and see for yourself all the new technologies we have and why we are #1 in the industry and highly respected by Schlumberger. Ain't nobody bigger and better than us.
What a BS! almost everything that they produce is just a waste of money because they cannot sell it to noone. Site pls 1 thing that they produce that has proven to be successful in the field and insert the external link (s) to prove it.
The ES business makes so much money and is the #1 company in its business globally. What more is needed? Schlumberger love it.
I met this guy a few times in Houston. He might be a good technical guy to sit and crunch numbers but putting such a person in a management position in charge of multiple personnel is one of the many mistakes this company has made. This is a typical example of someone highly ambitious but with no management and basic people skills and most importantly, incapable of balancing the pros and cons to get and keep business going. I hope that we talk about the same person?
Agree. He is a liability and the fact that they still keep him there escalates it. Somehow they think that doing nothing about reduces it. Stupid.
The bold one takes bribes from his subordinates. I am out of the country but wait until I stop by this f***imng building and go to your president with these facts, MF.
Strange that the scumbacks British managers there are safe. Hey, u, I know u read, how much did u pay to ur boss to stay in ur chair this time?
yeah was a few there also and about time but they didnt touch the British mafia
Anything in Environmental Solutions, Inc.?
They just fired a bunch of DPM guys
Gee, just got my postcard for sign up for benefits along with the 'So Long, Sucker" package as explanation of what I Don't get and when I lost it, like I didn't know it already,
so kind and informative. If SLB thinks they have friends, better think again, you and your lawyers are just plain ruthless and corrupt, but I guess they do keep their lawyers busy and employed, more than I can say for any of the rest of us.
Swaco in one state has cut the pay of its techs for 16.00 per hour to 10.50. They offered a severance package and all of the employee have opted for the severance, but know Swaco is making them sign papers that they will work for 10.50 until they get the severance.
They used to produce something but not now as they got rid of the talents and competitors using this layoff situation. There are fing marine biologists or botanists in charge of petroleum and other engineering research in Houston. Faked their diplomas and were put in charge of programs and departments. What else can you expect of them? Those scumbacks shall be get rid of first before cutting half of the field personnel. Why dont they evaluate their knowledge and abilities? They perhaps bribed their superiors to get and stay in these positions for years. Fing ridiculous!
BS, how many of those technologies have been sold and how many of them are in the filed now?
These guys have developed some of the leading ES technologies in the market and thats why we are #1 today - no discussion on that.
what kind of research are these jokers doing?
A research is needed, I concur, but not like what they do at Mi Swaco. Over there, the research is done for the sake of simply doing research to show a certain budget spent dedicated to it. Any research should be result or goal-oriented. If no results or product that can be sold to clients for a reasonable cost, then this research is a BS. Even NASA does not keep such researchers forever, perhaps only the University of Houston.
mmmm.....oh dear I shouldn't have let it slip. sorry you mean even less to us than i thought.
Payoff? If you truly are HR Manager, you either lie or can't spell. I sure as heck didn't receive any payoff.
Anonymous198635 - that comment justifies our decision in paying you off. You slipped through the net and we don't normally let people with such low IQs into Schlumbeger but in the end we got you anyway. Good luck in your new career.
I have some foreskin that needs researched. Probably get some results from that
198569 - at schlumberger we love researchers and the interesting work they do. We also know its a creative vocation and things like "results" are not something that can be measured conventionally.
Good luck my friend and be patient and positive as you will be working again soon - may the force be with you and your family
Feel pity for all the mud engineers. There is a bunch of fing researchers though in addition to those in Houston especially in Environmental Solutions, Inc. that don't produce shit. Those are a big waste of money, check how many millions they waste a month on research with no results. Better to get rid of these folks, especially all this management. There is one fing manager per one researcher! How come they don't get rid first of those blood suckers?
Forgot to say that this is for Aberdeen in the UK
Good luck buddy