There’s been some discussion about “pride”, or lack of it, on this forum. The definition of pride includes …”a feeling of deep pleasure or satisfaction derived from one's own achievements, the achievements of those with whom one is closely associated…”. So who you work for and with is important.
What will it take to get our pride back in working at Shell?
Be at peace. Your job or someone else's evaluation is not who you are. It isn't even in comparing to your peers. It is doing the best you can with the options presented to you.
Knowing that you've done right with the choices you have, take pride in that.
Post below happened to me, wfh talking to India the whole day making them add value. Was not in office wasting time in su-king up to local leader, so he decided to cut me and keep the ones that talk to him and praise him at the coffee machine. He made sure others landed in positions with other jg1 friends he had.
So yes go to office and chat with leaders in US/UK/NL so that you are not an easy savings target for them.
The unfair way people were targeted during last IT reorg made me lose pride forever. Impact everyone versus targeting certain people.
If a person can’t feel good about the work they do or the organization where they work, they need to bail.
If you can’t stand the work you do or the company you work for but keep staying because of that big paycheck, you know what that makes you?
Lousy way to go thru life.
Lord, that question sounds like a discussion topic in a SPS report out session. Typical to Shell staff, full of cynicism, the translation would be “how can we manipulate you toward and outcome where you experience the emotion of pride in Shell”.
Wael be like - “we reward performance” then cuts health insurance, tries to cut the benefit where you pay for more vacation, gets rid of stock comp to JG4, JG4, and cuts it to JG3 and JG2
Then boomers talk about “wow where is the pride in your work”
Hey boomers - where is the value return on being an employee relative to the market? Why do you guys rant about loving the free market if you aren’t a fan of individuals using it to get their bearings?
What goes around comes around.
Prioritizing outsourcing and getting rid of DEI are conflicting goals.
Pride don't pay the bills.
Best bet for working with pride is to leave the company and work for yourself. I took that opportunity last fall and have never been happier and glad to have that mess behind me (I purposely left the oil industry entirely). If you are getting laid off, take it as a personal opportunity to better yourself by getting away from this industry.
A takeover by BP
Make it so people can work a full career and retire as Shell.
Work towards some real innovation
Remember when Shell people were hired out of college AND then stayed in Shell for their entire career aspiring to reach the highest level they could and then retire and have benefits until death? That's really when there was pride in being Shell.
Then there were some serious penalties about subsidiary companies paying into Royal Dutch Shell causing some really awful behaviors and business decisions before buying them into Shell. Then there were debacles like the reserves scandal, then in 2006 they started chipping away at the pension and retirement benefits like health insurance for life going to just <5 years. Layoffs like transition 2009 where everybody had to apply for their job... and the layoffs continued again and again. Managers saying Loyalty is over and to expect to work for Shell for only a couple of years then some other company. Treating the Dutch like kings and everyone else like subjugates. Hiring in experienced hires instead of training them from university onwards treating employees like any commodity or spare parts. The shift away from progression in-role to mainly progression on transition to a new role signaling that we want surface level skills not expertise. Having one CEO after another integrate lines of business and the next chap separating them for focus. Having Voser reduce the bonus pay and giving a chance to earn only part of it back. Malcom B. and the Nigeria scandals with tapes released. Pausing the dividend and giving no raises. Giving 1-2% raises to "fight inflation" while the SEG got much higher raises. Lumping the middle 80% to strong or 1.0 in the ratings and rankings instead of differentiating better than average performance. Pledging to stop producing by 50% by 2030. Reducing number of people getting the PSP's. Having inexplicable business decisions not supported by technical staff e.g. Guyana. DE&I training. DE&I quotas for leadership positions but not all the way from lowest to highest pay. Snr VP's saying diversity over merit and meaning it and doing exactly that. Shell Bangalore...too much to say except just why? Fire sales of the Candian and US assets. Inability to organically find replacement reserves. There is more, but these all took a lot of the pride away.
First undo the second paragraph of bad behaviors and resume the first paragraph then the pride will come back in 10 years
Shell leadership not showing ethics by creating jobs that suit their friends experience to save their job.
Is that ethical or fair to others that just focused on hard work and not networking/su-king up?
That kind of sentiment says a lot about what’s happened to work ethic and self pride to deliver an honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay. Good grief.
Don't bother. Do the bare minimum, get paid, give them nothing else. They don't deserve it.
I believe displeasure at the company started when Shell went down the DEI path about 10 years ago. Once you get rid of the staff that does not impact revenue or reduction in expenses, the pride for the remaining staff will be back. Also the company should embrace outsourcing and automation at full speed. Shell's headcount in high income countries should be minimal so the sustainability of the company long term becomes stronger.