Rumours from Sonatrach Managers that a deals being done behind closed doors and will close in Q4
Is stupid VH still employed?
This woman needs to go She k–led the company i gave my best years to and destroyed my retirement hopes
Chevron Acquisition of Noble....Hey Oxy..advice?
Once the Chevron takeover is complete, what's your take on the likelihood of most of the Colorado field office and Denver getting the ax in a few years? Any advice on how Noble folks can survive? How did the Oxy acquisition of Anadarko affect... — read more
I had my kids college fund wrapped up with my Oxy stock
Its all but gone Its my fault I should never have believed that stupid woman I am LOXY and im am f—ed WFH? Stick it in your ass
Chazen, please fire Hollub!!
The board of directors’ #1 job is to hire/fire the CEO. What are you waiting for? All confidence has been lost. Do it now!!!
Down another 4% today
VH need to go She destroyed this company
Cramer came out and said it - Single Digits for Oxy stock
Has Occidental Petroleum fired stupid Vicki Hollub yet? What are they waiting on? What does it take? CEO bet the company that the demand for oil was going up and she lost. The company lost. Shareholders lost and to add insult to injury didn't even... — read more
How to know you are going to be fired
Refer to this post: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/23-signs-youre-get-laid-off-catherine-byers-breet Specifically: (1) You are put on a PIP (2) Managers and HR stop conversing with you, avoid eye-contact (3) No direction in what to work... — read more
Amusing Video Someone Made About OXY & the APC Acquisition
https://www.ft.com/video/d2bdb8c4-fc12-4eb2-83ff-ee2c27ed80e9 Hate to say it but the video is 100% right. OXY is going down the drain fast.
Why do we have so many unnecessary layers of management at OXY
Look at the land group and you will see what I mean. 2 VPs of Land (why is there a need for more than 1), followed by unnecessary directors and managers. Makes getting documents signed almost impossible as everything has to be approved by at least 3... — read more
Paying Uncle Warren in cash
Oxy announced that Uncle Warren has a cool $200M cash coming his way Oct 15. This could mean a few very contradicting things since we have only paid in discounted stock till now. Which combinations do you think? Or did I miss one? Oxy has... — read more
Moodys Investor rating
Moody's Investors Service downgraded the debt rating of U.S. oil and gas producer Occidental Petroleum Corp to “junk” status in March of this year. I can't think of a better word to describe Oxy and its employees than this. Anything else more... — read more
Take over by Berkshire (Strong speculation)
Hear me out. Warren is the largest single debtor and now the market cap of the company is around $9.6B. Is it un reasonable for him to invest a bit more to then take it over completely? Ichan will get his and the new ownership will inject life into... — read more
Here is the idea
I am surprised that no one here has yet proposed a idea to help our company? We are the big company why don’t we all chip in $10, $100 or whatever to fund the company in these tough times ? I mean call me crazy but boy is all in. Show em how we do... — read more
Adding rigs!
Why are we drilling more wells in the Delaware? Shouldn’t we save $ instead of spending?
How many LAPC are making an effort?
Why dont they bring back the VCP or some other hybrid of VCP/CoC and let us go? I am only staying for the health insurance but im not doing a lot to earn it Its not entirely my fault but my boss is pretty ineffective and does not allocate me any... — read more
Is VH getting ready to step down?
I sure hope she is as the company will go chapter 11 if she stays
Q3 spin predictions
What are the spin doctors putting in front of VH and crew to spin this dismal Q into a win for the earnings call? WFH Selling 1 plane Selling Land and minerals to Orion Mining Getting year one of CoC done Failed Africa asset... — read more
WFH
So I was just out driving around and there a lot of people driving on the freeway during rush hour. It seems like it is more than 50% of pre-virus levels. These people are working at some office and they are not service people either, unless... — read more
LAPC Bonus Targets Slashed
Didn’t we hear “we won’t wait until change of control passes and then cut your compensation package, we’re not going to play games with people.” And yet today, just over a month past CoC protection, we find out our bonus targets are substantially... — read more
What were they main highlight of the call for you?
I think personally the sale of 1 plane is a start.
Sold
FYI one Gulfstream is sold how much longer until the rest of the fleet is SOLD??
Chickens coming home to roost.
You people deserve every bit of this and you know it.
Why are you praising her
Do you think VH wanted to extend WFH or was the overwhelming sentiment too loud to ignore. The EC, while dumb, isn't oblivious to their peers who are doing similar. This isn't VH being great. It's that she would be vilified if doing anything else... — read more
Holiday party this year?
I guess there will be no holiday party this year.
Mr Oxy spreading the good word
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WWvUCT8XMss VH needs to go out of her boat comfort zone and start flying again that Gulfstream jet. Spread the good word about field employee efforts to try to keep production flat, AI innovation, cost reduction, CO2... — read more
Thank you VH for keeping us safe!
Credit is due, VH wants to keep her employees safe and for that I commend her extending the WFH option.
Greg Abbott Says Offices Can Increase Capacity to 75%
Here we go with VH and her right leaning EC forcing all the employees back on October 1st! “We need to get the bulk of our employees back to the office”. What a load of sh*t. Cases are about to skyrocket like they did the last time the governor... — read more
VH Needs to Be Resign!
How is VH still in charge of this sinking ship? The entire EC and the BOD need to be cleared out. OXY has dire agency problems, With self serving executives who do not have shareholder interest in mind. Most employees I know hate working for this... — read more
Why posts get deleted
I posted about chipping in money and some naysayers deleted it. So much for freedom of speech.
Update on Return to the Office 10/01/20
Regardless of your opinion of return to the office or work from home, what does everyone anticipate management to say on the matter come 10/01?
WES exchange debt with Oxy
https://www.google.com/amp/s/finance.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/occidental-oxy-notes-exchanged-western-150103384.html Robbing Peter to pay Paul Dumping toxic debt into WES, like Oxy did with defund CRC. Couldn’t get anyone else to fool, so fool... — read more
WFH
How many of you honestly believe that people are taking advantage of WFH to slack off? I know I've never been more productive primarily because I want to prove that WFH works in hopes of seeing it extended indefinitely. There are probably some who... — read more
Who is that dude running the Algerian Operation?
All he does is send an email a day telling us to be safe? Is he a real person or a CAPTCHA testing us to see if we are awake at our desks? Does he exist or is VH hiring AI now ?
Let’s Just Clear The Air Here
I’ve solved our problems by developing these new labels. You may self-select one for yourself and identify as such in future posts. WFH Masters: those who are more efficient and effective, and also have current heavy workloads and are performing... — read more
Please extend WFH through 2021
If any Oxy execs read this, PLEASE extend WFH through 2021 at least. In spite of what a few random people say, I think the vast majority of us are extremely productive from home. It allows us to have better physical and mental health and means SO... — read more
Who else is not doing much and drawing a salary check every month?
Its rewarding to f— this company over every month They really are a very stupid bunch of worthless vanilla HR are especially inept and just pass messages back and forward You could train a r—d to do that