I'd love to get laid off and walk away with a severance package. I feel bad for the people that need this job that are getting laid off. I wish I could take their place.

Sad when you give your heart and soul to a company and they kick you out the door like your something on the bottom of the CEO,s shoe, feel sorry for all of the people who made the company what it is today that have been made redundant and booted out... — read more 

Has anybody heard anything about bonuses this quarter?

Has anyone heard of any upcoming layoffs at any of the Houston facilities? I've heard that some sales employees have already been cut and they may have another round soon in the sales department. Just curious if anyone's heard anything about... — read more 

NOV Grant Prideco (Navasota,TX) Is said to have 40hours minimum pace until the end of the year, a lot of people especially from maintenance quit, and found higher more reliable jobs. Our Log looks to be very busy coming 2016. Good luck to the rest f... — read more 

Layoffs happened again in Asia, Korea office will be shutdown gradually until Q1 2016 with complete shutdown. Got this from Joe Rovig. I&C, Tech College and Training teams laid off, Singapore Tech College layoffs begin v soon. Difficulties in India... — read more 

20+ laid off at Rig Solutions Corporate on Westheimer near Gessner in the past two days. Various groups and positions.

6 people gone today 7/7/15 including plant manager, two managers and 3 warehouse employees.

Well I'm back with more info on the bammel facilities. They hit the HRC today, tomorrow will be the front office, and on Thursday the Tech College all. I'm also hearing this is gonna be quarterly thing also. My prayers go out to you and your... — read more 

Well today was the day, I watched about 15 guys get laid off at the Bammel facility. From what I heard from a few higher ups, it was first start at Tech College, then Repairs, and lastly RSS. Good luck to you all.

goodbye NOV

NOV is trying to layoff as many without being a news headliner.... a commentator was spot on when he said they laid people off incrementally in US, Singapore, Korea, Brazil, UK, etc. Small enough not to arouse attention of local labor unions and get... — read more 

Applications Engineering 6 people laid off this morning. End of the month - 8 days left on insurance. Sweet.

-National Oilwell Varco (NYSE:NOV) says it will cut 1,500 jobs from its Norwegian workforce, or a bit less than a third of its staff there, by the end of this year as low oil prices have led to reduced spending by oil companies and lower sales of new... — read more 

NOV LAYS off 12-15 this past Tuesday. Not sure of a Second round

I'd say it's a toss up. NOV has a better historical performance but I like any company with Pete Miller at the top. (Not sure he has the A team around him though) NOV is struggling more than I anticipated

I'd say it's a toss up. NOV has a better historical performance but I like any company with Pete Miller at the top. (Not sure he has the A team around him though) NOV is struggling more than I anticipated

Monday Rig Soultions decided to layoff 15% off all aftermarket field service technicians. This was in all departments of service. This included all techs still in the tech college.

Nov have decided to lay off nearly all of the staff (except design engineers and sales) and move production to Montrose in Scotland resulting in nearly 40 job losses. This is Apparently to save money on duplication of management and machinery. Moving... — read more 

They are laying off half of global training team and running the operations extremely lean, instructors will be teaching multiple types of courses over extended durations. So no preparation time, no customer planning and definitely quality going down... — read more 

Any news of the second wave of layoff in nov and tech college?

As I sat at my desk Friday, I came to the sad realization that NOV is heading in the wrong direction. At a time when we need great talent to develop the company and drum up business, we are seeing all the talent walk out the door. All hopes are... — read more 

Taining facility in Brazil will be close soon as Singapore, South Korea and South Africa.

It has already started but it is getting done silently. Just last week 5/14 ; about 50 employees mostly shop floor personnel got cut in NOV Mexicali. There is talk that there will be more cutting.

The Technical College in Singapore was closed. Everybody was fired. The next step is to close the South Africa and South Korea facilities.

23 going on the 22nd of May. Another 22 going on the 5th of June! Not looking good for stonehouse!

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Today, 8 people was laid off from NOV Brazil Technical College. Was 3 engineers, administrative and the Country Manager.