Most of the people I know from IT have jobs already. They let go the competent ones, or the competent ones who had enough and asked to be let go, and kept a lot of the ones who don't contribute or are related. Architects, IRM, etc.
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Anonymous199622, go buy yourself a bottle of bourbon to drown your sorrows. Go tell your tales to someone at the corner bar. We don't want to hear it.
Why, THANK YOU 603! If I use any "big words" in THIS post, you'll be so kind as to advise? Obviously, "big words" upset you, so I will endeavor, I mean, TRY to refrain, I mean, KEEP, my use of "big words" to an absolute minimum, okay? So,... here goes,... Goooooo FUuuuuCK yourself. That better? Oh! By the way,... your "impression" (that's a very big word, for YOU!) is completely incorrect. Also,... I shall "vent" in any way, manner, or form I so choose, on this board, f*** you, very much. Believe it's a little thing we call Freedom Of Speech. Have a very nice day, Ass Clown.
Anonymous199521, stop trying to impress with big words. It's obvious you don't normally speak this way. My impression is you are someone recently laid off, perhaps someone who thinks they are now too old to start over and now lashing out at the younger folks who kept their jobs. I understand your anger but face reality and put it behind you. Feel free to vent constructively or with humor in this board.
Interesting. The ONE diamond, in all of these mostly pathetic posts, is how appallingly shallow and short sighted a LOT of our seemingly "bright" employees really are. Some guy simply offers a possible solution to the question of "where might graduate engineers go, from here", and a shocking number of you dim-bulbs, who, it is obvious, have absolutely NO idea of The World outside your own little bubble of self-absorption that you must live in, do nothing but tear it down. While I'm no psychologist, the lack of vision, the inability to even consider another path, even when offered benignly, to help, tells me you're not quite as "bright" as your vaunted degrees and/or "position" in the company may have lead you to believe. Any of us who have ever sat in one of the myriad meetings Chevron's so fond of can attest to the blindingly stupid resistance from purportedly "intelligent" people to something new, to change, to something THEY didn't first think of,... it's endless. It's toxic. It's malignant. And, it's evidenced in posts, herein, with a few exceptions. My own bias suggests that the most virulent examples of stupidity, herein, are most likely a product of recent graduates, or recent hires,... the younger generation, filled with a false"certainty" upon which they base their half-baked, shortsighted opinions, obviously influenced by their own over-inflated, but laughably sensitive egos, so quickly and effectively remove all doubt as to their lack of depth, their utter cluelessness. If nothing else, I will enjoy watching these young, stupid little grasshoppers as they are drug out, kicking and screaming, forced to face, and to endure, The Real World.
Won't need many people for logistics on that wall, it will exclusively be provided by United Vision. A certain portion of the wall will be supported by joints of P-110 casing and tubing pup joints from GOM.
I'm with you on that. It will be HUGE!!
Hey, most o&g people could slip into a construction job. There will be a huge need for a construction project along our southern border very soon. Materials will have to be procured, logistics put in place, cultural assessments, impact studies, environmental controls, crew management, etc.
278, you are not a Chevron employee. Your last words revealed that. Stay focused when you write, else your true self is exposed.
Yup..... Still work here. I was hired to help develop lean processes (you know, like the ones the military has used for over 50 years) to streamline fat useless processes that do nothing but confuse MCPs and BUs, and achieve nothing but failures.
Surprise! I used to work in the military.
I won't be stupid enough to give you the babe if the contracts and contractors.... Otherwise crybabies like yourself will go bog it down just to realize you're not cut out for the real world.
All I see is a bunch of prima donnas who want to show off how much you make for so little work, flying first class and getting bonuses for doing nothing. Blood suckers like yourself have done nothing but collapse the company and industry in general.
130, you have a blind trust in your government that will surprise you one day. Go work for the military as a project manager or engineer. You just might be transferred near the front lines in a foreign country... and you know the rest of the story. Jeez, do you still work for Chevron? No wonder our stock is plummeting.
Short-sighted idiots.
If you are a graduate and go work for the military, it does NOT mean going to the front.
Ever heard of airplanes, weapons, tactics? If you're a degrees employee (project manager, engineer) you'd be designing/ improving military planes, WMDs, processes, etc.
But by all means, go flip burgers.
Hey, Anonymous199051, looks like 070 has schooled you. Better to keep your mouth shut and have people think you are a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt. Same lesson goes when you attempt to write.
051, given the choice between a job at McDonald's and joining the military, I would choose the burger joint without a second thought. You go ahead or send your neighbors to get killed or injured in a political war. Not me, and would not send you either. At McDonalds I won't be flipping burgers. No sir, I would be managing the restaurant and looking to own 2 or 3 more franchises. Perhaps one day you'll bring yourself and family into my restaurant. If so, I'll tell you some truths you seem to have overlooked.
Another difference with the 80's is that many more American jobs are being taken by foreign workers.
199002,... obviously, someone with no imagination. But,... I forgot,... you're probably a GRADUATE ENGINEER, so,... you know it ALL. Okay. Forget the military. You wouldn't last a day in Basic, anyway. Maybe McD's will be paying $15/hr by the time you hire on, huh? Don't spend it all in one place!
A strong country needs a strong defense.
I don't think you can join the military past age 42.
The Military you say? An exiting and rewarding career? Are you out if your mind?? Why would anyone sign up in the military when we don't have anyone attacking our shores? All our military is out there fighting political wars, nothing more. There's nothing to gain in that, much less coming back home without your legs or arms. Military no way! I'd rather flip burgers at McDonald's.
924 is right. I, like many others, lost my job in oil and gas in the mid-80's, in Lafayette, La. The economy, at that time, was NOT in the dire straights it's in, today, and I looked for 6 months, tried power companies, other O and/or b) we'd never be happy with their pay scale, as compared to what we had in O&G. Am certain these same biases are "out there", today. So,... that, coupled with the glut of laid off O&G employees who will be competing for the available jobs, today, and it could be a pretty difficult situation. If it were me, and particularly if I was young, think I'd look into the military. Could turn out to be an exciting and rewarding career.
I don't think other industries can absorb all of these laid off employees. Also it is difficult to change industries if you have been working in oil and gas for many years.
many of the folks who have been laid off will have to look outside the industry and when things are picking up it is unlikely that all of them will come back