Please stop sending unprepared or poorly matched representatives as the face of the team or organization to seminars and conferences (external events). It was embarrassing to watch our representative at the AIChE recruiting event struggle to communicate and barely explain the material. We had to step in repeatedly to help her.
The same issue happens when people who simply want the spotlight are allowed to present technical work they cannot clearly articulate. Wanting visibility does not mean they can represent the science of the work they didn't contribute to.
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@j5 Problem is, he’s not a unicorn.
Everyone we’ve hired with an O&G background, even the ones who didn’t directly work for the oil companies, has the same issue. There seems to be some correlation between working in Houston, inflated job titles, and unmitigated mediocrity.
@dk if he left after 30 years clearly he was PIP material
@dq Correct. I’ve seen Robot Crane and his little pets spend weeks rehearsing their scripted “interview” for the show scheduled after dinner with faculty.
If you are not a CEO, Executive Board Member, President or V.P. you are severely constrained on what you can say at industry conferences especially during the Q&A session.
Some speakers are nominated to speak just so that they can document on their annual career development PADP that they represented the company at an industrial conference. They do not need to know anything about the subject matter.
@bp It’s even more embarrassing when one of you people actually gets hired based on your claimed experience.
My company (mid-sized consulting firm) recently hired an O&G guy from Houston with “30 years of industry expertise.” He’s a joke. He struggles with basic communication, doesn’t read anything that’s sent to him, constantly forces meetings, and he can’t perform basic business processes. We’re all just working around him until upper management finds a good enough excuse to fire him.
Hopefully after we flush him back to the H-town swamp (where he belongs), we can get someone who can actually function in a high-impact, client-facing professional role. I’d rather have a zoomer fresh out commencement than this clown - they would at least be trainable.
@OP Nobody cares who goes to these technical conferences or what’s said there. It’s just a bunch of tired old men most of the time anyway.
Nobody is reading your papers either.
The conferences that matter are the ones attended by executives. Rest assured that competent are being sent to those.
Get over yourselves.
Yes this is the new norm. Total id--ts in positions of power and leadership. I was tasked with accompanying a d-mb blonde who chosen to present our testing program. She new nothing and retained nothing as well. Her number one response was Dont know or I dont recall. I had to step in and finish the presentation. The clients were puzzled on why she was there.
Embarrassing to see Some incompetent managers meeting with clients and struggling answer questions
Experts? We don’t need no stinking experts.
@ad Good, then back off and let the great and capable people present their own work
She didn’t get the AI email? Our guy within the first month was regurgitating stuff that there was no way he knew. Hello AI.
We've stopped being a meritocracy years ago. Now every promotion is politically driven
We can’t all be great like you
This is a great point but unfortunately I've seen this in other places as well.