What you are seeing now is the result of every single decision being based on “how will this effect my PIP”. Poor planning over many years and through many executives who have only cared about themselves and their friends. Field and factory workers are never considered when planning or making decisions. SLB doesn’t give a dang about you and never has. Oliver can put out his propaganda videos about sacrificing and all that BS but I’m telling you now, if you can get out, DO IT! SLB will never be better than it is today. Covid-19 and the oil crash haven’t helped but we would be in much better shape if management would have done better years ago.
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Time to hit the sickboard ASAP.
@3mlx+14g3qFwf...... brilliant assessment and.... on point.
Hard to disagree with the topic.
PK and his attendant minions, ruined this company with a series of ill-judged decisions, thinking that they were masters of the universe. Buying manufacturing companies at greeeeeeatly inflated prices when Schlumberger is totally clueless at costing and delivering manufacturing, is a specific example. Employing a whole legion of 5S advocates who have spent waaaay too much time reading lame management speak books and lame Engage to Excel all essentially doing the jobs that managers should be employed for is another shining example.
In a nutshell Schlumberger paid too much, gave too high bonuses to a bunch of managers, supervisors/directors who were under-utilised in cost control and did not have clue about applying costings and maximising profits.
Thank God we have PK for 2 years at $2m/annum to navigate us out of this unholy mess....... wait a minute though... oh sh........ te.
The cheerleaders can stop whining about Covid19, the share price has been steadily decreasing for 10 years and although the virus scare has not helped, the oil price has been sliding South for years - the rot set in some time ago and all the cheering, backslapping posters on the home page articles, did not notice or did not want to acknowledge the glaring ego-massaging mistakes.
Ironically and comfortingly this bunch of losers will never pass an interview in any other job. The world will change and people fannying about, talking utter managementspeak rubbish, will be the new pariahs.
I am a manager at another service company. HR is just doing what either I say or what my boss says. Policy is just an excuse we give to not hurt feelings.
Maybe there is a magic book that governs all things SLB that no one has ever seen. Maybe SLB does have a manual... your culture has a lot of formality. The magic book it is going to be on rev. 20 in about a week's time because everything is about to happen real fast for you. Bigger you are, the harder...
Career advice 'policy' prohibits raises and promotions... until you show your boss an offer letter, That get's you about 10% more than the new offer. But, it can put a target on you if you don't keep rocking it.
You can’t call the people in HR Human Resources because all they do is hand you a phone number and tell you to call it. Smith had Human Resource people you talked to them and they took care of it for you, it may not be the way you liked but they worked to help you
HR became worst, they never find any opportunity for you outside your vertical...especially in automation side previous HR was the worst whole company...just follow whatever program manager says...like a clerk job..no more innovative or supportive approach
I dont know how HR got this bad. I bet if you d–g tested the entire SLB HR then you would lose 50% of them.
HR is destroying SLB and Cameron. Cameron used to have great HR people that gave a sh–. Now HR is a bunch of lazy people that do nothing. The people in our HR would have been fired from any other company and for some reason in SLB they are protected. All the HR people could just disappear tomorrow with no replacements and the company would instantly improve.
Our objectives do make zero sense. Not one objective is under my control. We were told we had to have these broad objectives that have nothing to do with our work, no exceptions.
HR sets all policies and then disappears when it all goes wrong. HR is worthless in this company.
Bonus? We haven't had a bonus in Little Rock for three years. We have only had two raises in 7 years. The s— ups have had a few raises that the regular manufacturing worker doesn't get. This place is all about money for management. That is all it will ever be.
HR don't set policies. They enforce and comply them.
If you have a problem with company policies and personnel decisions, look at the senior and executive line managers who are giving those orders.
Management by objectives (KPOs) is fine. Incentivizing (PIP) people to follow those objectives is how you ensure it'll get done.
The problem is not this system of paying people with PIPs for following objectives.
The problem is the objectives are all f—ing wrong. And the management never set or distribute them properly, on time. They objectives for 90% of employees don't make any f—ing sense. They're distributed half way in the year (or not at all!). They're never tracked for progress. And employees aren't empowered to do a damn thing about them.
But, hey, file 300 RIRs and you get 5% bonus.
Can't disagree with any of the sentiments below. PIPs have totally ruined this company
I dont know about other locations but the Florence Kentucky is run totally on that principle. Nothing is done that doesn't help someone's bonus. That's why employees absolutely hate this place. So sad because it used to be the best place in the area to work at.
If SLB will not reshape the roll of HR, SLB will never have future. So many BS guys as HR are damaging the company.
I only took this job straight out of college a few years ago because they were the only company that would hire me, along with paying me a decent wage. Now that I've established myself and have work experience, screw this place. Once this situation stabilizes, I'm getting out of here.