This foolish effort to promote the "kids" became apparent every time upper management said "We are looking for the leaders of tomorrow". Anyone that was paying attention knew at that point if you were 40+ years in age....... your career (with Noble) was over. Those same 40+ people (again if they are paying attention) stopped teaching the young kids. Now Noble has an environment where the kids are in charge, they are making very immature mistakes, the experienced individuals are just letting it happen, and the upper management is just collecting paying checks to pad their retirement. Noble is a VERY TOXIC environment and I not sure they can recover.
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Should have kept us over 40+. We knew what we were doing. Most of us are watching what is happening and want to say Told you so, but we are too mature to do so! Feeling no stress and still making a living, life after Noble...it's the good life.
I worked at Noble as a contractor during the 2010-2012 time frame. It was abundantly clear what they were doing. They had zero interest in hiring older professionals. They wanted you there for your experience and expertise but only as a contractor. Meanwhile every twenty something who walked in the door got hired as an employee. Most senior, experienced people had to leave to get a permanent job.
It's a creepy company. They deserve to fail.
How many were layoff off of the Houston office?
This is not the first time a company has entered into such a syndrome - Companies like this one think they are real smart - get rid of the seasoned employees who of course are making a decent wage. Then replace them with kids off the street who have had their lives enriched with entitlement. Watch your productivity go down as people spend more time on their phone then they do actually working. Meanwhile the product and the customer suffer the consequence, the decision makers run like roaches and another company finds itself on the brink of disaster. Great Job Noble !!!!
The root of the issue is that the "seasoned" population at Noble in the eyes of management did not show enough "breakthrough thinking", so a changing of the guard was needed.They swung the pendulum to the opposite side and thus lost the valuable experience and mentoring that is needed to mix with the enthusiasm of fresh blood to generate true "breakthrough". Mgmt bet the farm on their understanding of GAP and appears to have lost big. Now all the have are the true believers with no one to represent differing ideas.In the words of that famous TV psychologist..."How's that working out for you?"