They still planning on moving 2/3rds of our stuff to Singapore? Cause that's what it seems like has been happening. Gotta take advantage of that slave labor and lower benefits cost. Not to mention the shady costing going on.
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just worry about your job. If you are able to weather out this storm and stay employed, that is great! If you get laid off, just look for another job, life doesn't end because of this. I know several people that got laid off and actually found better, higher paying jobs with equal bennifits. So my advice to all on the below threads is to stop whining, y'all sound like a bunch of spoiled brats that seem to be entitled and guaranteed an easy career...... Welcome to the REAL world when your name is on the next layoff list...... That is what you should be concerned about and have your resume updated, because there are about 10,000 more layoffs coming at the end of Q2. Halliburton is going to continue to run the business as they always have and we do not matter, especially with an economy like we are experiencing now.
Space rates? What the heck are all of you talking about? This facility has been here since the 50's. It's been paid off for decades. We don't lease space through Houston RES. There are no real estate costs except when they want to charge $1,000 in labor to hang a new tv on the wall or $2 million to renovate the break room on the shop floor which of course they were told to shove it. But all the main buildings were paid off in about 1969. I've had family working here since Mr. Otis built the place, some of whom worked in RES. Trust me real estate costs have virtually no impact on them laying people off. It's completely the market conditions, nothing else. I have access in SAP to our labor and burden rates and "space rates" are about 5% of our labor and burden rate and that's only because we are renovating and adding buildings right now, of which the contracts were negotiated about 5 years ago. So in reality those costs were factored in budgets from about 2012. So to the guy worried about space rates, you have no clue what you are talking about when it comes to Carrollton mfg center.
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SPACE RATES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm with the guy calling you a moron. No one cares about our real estate expenses in Carrollton. See no matter how much you yell it no one cares. You want to complain about space rates look at the Houston area where we have about 40 facilities too many. Not to mention our ridiculous headquarters at north belt with its 2 cafeterias and a gun that rivals any lifetime fitness in America. Now those are all incredible wastes of Money.bwe aren't Google we don't need koi ponds and gyms with massage tables in them.
Ya I'm sure that how much space we occupy has everything to do with the Layoffs and not the fact that we have no work and all of what we do have left seems to be going to Singapore. An even bigger waste of your precious "space rates". There's no way that us having no work is the culprit, yes it's the f---ing real estate space we occupy that is the reason they are laying everyone off. What a dumb statement. That is probably a 5% factor in them laying people off. If space was such a concern then why would they continue adding buildings even in these times?? Because we need it that's why. You want to complain about a cost that's not needed that does impact out bottom line it's the 4 layers of mgmt that seems to be rampant here. Get rid of all but 1 layer and you could probably save the company 50 million a year just in Carrollton in salaries that you are paying these people to be "program managers" or "global manager" or "global assscratcher"
i would also like to add, that I am still a Halliburton employee, this will be my 24th year.
there are other contributing factors when decisions to reduce the work force are concerned, but now in 2016, you are absolutely correct! I never understood why we have to pay the high sq ft costs to RES, but that is David's accounting practices.... We experience the same here at Carrolton so I don't know why the employee below is so upset. All of the PSL's globally have these same concerns, and we are being charged way to much! When you factor in all of the facilities globally, RES is collecting approximately $450,000,000.00 in space rates from our PSL's. That is taken directly from our profit margin, we have to consider these space rates each year for our fiscal budgets. So, when you factor in our annual operational costs to run our PSL's, the low oil prices, low production and everything else, one would think that our own company would let up un these additional internal costs. And to make matters worse, only about one quarter of these costs go towards the utilities, taxes and O&M to maintain the facility. The other three quarters go to support all of the RES corporate located at the NB facility. They should all be rolled in to real jobs and our rates should be reduced to take some of the burdens off of the PSL's that are actually making $$$$ for Halliburton. So, to the disgruntled employee that says that he doesn't care about space rates, let me say, that it directly impacts you and your PSL and when the layoffs come down, this is a big contributing factor of the quantity of employees that are released from duty.
i haven't been laid off dickhole, and definitely do not work for those RES cocksuckers....... We have a lot of out of control spending that affects the bottom line which relates to additional layoffs. That is all I was trying to get across to your dumbass..... We have a PSL here that was directly impacted by the economy, but, they could have weathers the storm if they wouldn't have been paying the pimps $180,000.00 a month in the space rates. And the pimps wouldn't adjust to help them out and they had to lay a lot of good hard working machinist and craftsman off and those layoffs were DIRECTLY related to the space rates.......
Yes I'm inbred your right. What a dumbfuck you are. First off I asked about layoffs not your dumb f---ing space rates you dumb RES working piece of sh--. No one and I mean no one gives a sh-- how much space we are or are not using. Your probably an ex employee who was too f---ing dumb at their job so they laid your donut eating assoff. Meanwhile I'm still here and at little to no risk of being laid off because I actually contribute something. So do everyone else a favor quit hijacking my thread and go f--- your dog a little longer I'm sure he's missed you since this morning.
you still don't get it do you, you stupid inbred son of a bitch...... What I am trying to get across to you is that you are spending millions of dollars for NO reason, millions that can go to the PSL's profit margin...... But instead, you are giving those millions to RES in the space rates and the PSL is forced to layoff employees, meanwhile the space rates do not get adjusted, they are still $4.00 to $6.00 per sq ft...... Even when times are good we spend way too much in space rates, they should only be around $2.50, fair market pricing. But, included in these space rates are the entire corporate RES team located in Houston that has NOTHING to do with your PSL in Carrolton. So, just shut the f--- up, bury your head up your mamas assand just keep spending these space rates!
If you are not from RES, likely you are not able to access RE module unless you are very high up there.
The funny thing is a lot of PSL is paying for space they are not using because they do not understand the mechanism how it works. Least is to run and understand the report.
So, if you care about the bottom line of your PSL, check the monthly space area you are assumed occupying. Your local RES manager can generate a report of space usage with a marked up map.
I know there is a lot of mistake but nobody care to do anything. Right, Maggie?
No one gives a sh-- about "space rates" this has nothing to do with Carrollton technology or manufacturing. Go post your drivel on a Houston topic. No one in Carrollton gives a sh-- about Houston. Houston is literally the ahole of Texas. Where all of us in north Texas flush our crap down the toilet it ends up in Houston. Spilling in the gulf.
to the other stupid knuckle dragging comment below..... Do you realize the more than half of the allocated space rates go to support the Houston Real Estate Services bunch????? Your facility probably has one facility site manager an admin and a few maintenance technicians. Add the contractors, utilities and taxes........ But what you do NOT understand you STUPID SOB is that in your space rates you are also supporting ALL of the fat......... And THAT is what you are too STUPID to figure out because you obviously do not know and do not have the security to see these hidden costs in SAP........ Just stay under that rock you knuckle dragging SOB!!!!!
Now that's a dumb statement. Carrollton won't be shutting down. We will become the custom shop and Singapore will become the shop that makes the widget crap. Do you seriously think a company that would be spending millions still on new buildings and adding a state of the art calibration lab would be selling the place in 6 months??
Carrollton shutting down in Q4-16. Move to Singapore
To the bottom post---most of your rant is knuckle dragger stupid. As far as the monthly cost analysis from real estate. If the manager at your site can't provide that in 5 minutes, he/she is an idiot. Of course, everybody has access to the same financials in SAP so if you can't get it yourself, you're the village idiots twin.
Dubious costin in Singapore, I can vouch for that. Totally farcical, some product costs would make sense if raw materials, like say, steel were free of charge in that part of the world...
What the heck does this have to do with Carrollton? I don't give a sh--e about Houston.
need to take note of the upper management team...... Dave, Jeff and Accenture need to go before anything changes for the good! Then they need to address the damn space rates that real estate charges us. There is about 1.5 million square feet of office, manufacturing and warehouse space just in Houston alone. We are charged at an average of about $5.00 per sq ft..... Do the math, that's a lot of money, each month. There is no way that electrical, taxes, maintenance, gas, water, and all the other cost to run a facility cost this much. This is the funny money that all the executives split up. This practice should stop immediately........ If you don't understand this, just try and get a monthly cost analysis report from real estate services for the budget that you are paying these space rates for. With all of the so called cost reductions, why haven't our space rates been reduced????? These are just to name a few of the corporate shady dealings going on behind closed doors.