I was a loyal and dedicated employee for 15 yrs, had no life and missed out on my kids childhood just to make sure the jobs got done, and they laid me off in June 2015, but they kept the manager who had been caught with alcohol in his company vehicle on company property, showed up to work so hung over he couldnt work, slept at his desk most of the time, bought lottery tickets with scrap iron $,sexually harassed the admin. And degraded employees and even hit a couple. What a company. They preach how they don't tolerate any of that but yet he still has a job and I'm in the unemployment line.
12 replies (most recent on top)
Oh well. Quit blubbering and move on. You are one of thousands.
You can be the best of the best and everybody knows it but they still let you go. Happened to me and there wasn't a week that went by that some manager would say "I don't know what we'd do without you", "You keep this ship afloat", "This place would fall apart without you". Yeah...we see how true that was, huh?
no doubt, field tech. bottom line being the oil price. the true culprit.
Maybe the price of oil has something to do with it or your manager threw you under the bus.
DEFINITELY, unless you're in ops, it will pay off to be a schmoozer. I pretty much built my own job up from scratch over my first year to meet the demands of my 15 or so different bosses. It was fantastic, I wasn't tied to a bench, when things were going really good for a while there, it was an easy 60 hrs a week, and I always got the job done right, and a lot of it on my own. I always have believed that if you're doing a great job no one hears about it. This is true. Things were really kicking and when we finally got some help I trained a couple guys who, while pretty good dudes, were really light years ahead of me in the schmoozin department. They took a lot of the load off of me in a lot of rescpects and that let me concentrate on a couple areas more than being all over the place all the time. Seemed like they spent a lot of time being pals with ops. I don't really pay much attention to their business. I was there to do my job. Word was, also, they blamed me for a bunch of stuff I had nothing to do with, painted me in a bad light. Meanwhile, I'm doing my job, plus a shit ton extra, as well as helping them frequently. Made it through two rounds of layoffs, on the third I got tossed. Had been out sick as f--- for close to two months. Massively fubar'd and bedridden. When I was finally able to come back, I spent two solid days trying to catch up the most pressing paperwork and they let me go at lunch the third day. Guess who did not get let go. Moral of the story, as previously mentioned, YOU are the best person to talk yourself up. Track what you are doing. If you save them money, be able to show it. Track your time. Your call outs. Keep records. Definitely make sure you've got a lot of friends in the office and not just the shop. Or not. Be like me and get f---ing laid off.
As for who actually cut my throat, I guess it was me for not being proactive about my value, and not heading off the bullshit train at the pass. I heard so many stories, I'm not sure what to think. Who said what, etc.
Either way I'm out. Yee Haw! Met a lot of great people there, though, so that's something.
Sad, very sad that you got fired. And your worthless boss keeps on sucking on the tit.
WFT is full of BS employees, who can't solve oilfield problems. They can write emails to make it look like they can work.
you are right , the ones kissing ass are the ones they keep. At JFK location that's all that's left ,ass kissers and managers that don't know their ass from their a--hole. If you can , get out soon and don't be like many of us; a lot of years of dedication and long hours, at the end they just kick you out of the door.
More importantly, it is who knows you. You may be the best working in your camp, but if no one knows it then you are vulnerable. Do your job, but get known throughout the company. Participate in Company functions and make sure every0one knows it. These things can make the difference between staying and being RIFd. If you just do your job and think that is enough, then no wonder you are gone. It is a new workplace, not just the oilfield. There are no guarantees, but the above helps. Consider it at your next job.....if you really want to keep it. Otherwise, drown in a bottle.
.
It's all who you know. Also, if you are in a supervisory position or generally in management position, chances are you are safe regardless as they don't seem to be touching those positions.
I feel for you. I worked for in the field for almost 9 years. I was laid off last year. I didn't cost the company a dime in mistakes. However, other guys cost the company hundreds of thousands and I got let go. I came to realize it not what you know or how hard you work it how good you are at kissing ass.
Should have been like Jose in Farmington