Most emails and inc page messages alluded to majority Calgary layoffs during these cuts. Of course this wasn't the case, field took the brunt AGAIN and the fat was barely skimmed in the twin towers.
At least the EVP/VP scene has been reduced greatly, that was a long time coming.
It's perspective. Rfo took a giant (rightfully so) hit in the field. Process safety and safety advisors are pretty much all gone in field. (Calgary team almost fully unscathed.. that was a huge mistake. Most of the field advisors were pretty worthless, few good ones remained.wtf good is a safety team from bow? Policy changes before field can even understand or implement the last revisions).
All due respect, but we'll see more of what happened yesterday now. FLS do not own safety in nearly any of the of groups. Culture will suffer.
Field doesn't see the IT and finance etc cut backs. And BOW doesn't see what happens in the field.
They could have trimmed more fat in IT. I know people say that they are running thin, but considering some of the teams left, they really could have cut more. Again, it’s the buddy system. If you have a buddy, you’re ok. If you don’t, you’re gone.
I highly doubt the field are taking more cuts than CGY. Most of the field people with the sold assets are already gone, not the Calgary staff.
There was one guy let go about two weeks ago that pretty much had all the knowledge of 4 other departments yet they kept at least 3 useless staff that have been transferred from department to department with ZERO job responsibility over the last 5 years because they were all "buddy...buddy" with the management. Unfortunately within IT, it's the contractors that actually know what they're doing and have all the knowledge....not the employees and the contractors take the first hit.
I’m not sure why field folks think that’s true, but it’s not! I’m a lowly accountant in the Calgary office, and I can confirm that 280-290 people in Calgary were let go today, plus about 50 people in Calgary yesterday. And our layoffs in finance haven’t even happened yet. Our layoffs are coming on February 20. So the field is not alone at all. Calgary office workers are taking a huge hit, and most of the office layoffs are hitting the grunts on the front lines with relatively few manager layoffs. So we are all in this together.