A coworker did about two years ago. Packed his entire family and all, just to be laid off within six months. Trusting this place will have your back because you uprooted your life for them is id--tic.
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So your coworker was laid off a year and a half ago? WHY AM I JUST HEARING THIS NOW???!!
@re after 2016 it got even worse with opening office in Blr. Cyberjaya was ki-led within a year, people who trusted 'Shell cares' lost their jobs rapidly.
@f1
Are you joking? As someone who started their career in 1989, the mid to late 90s su-ked *** in the industry. We had several round of layoffs between 96 and 99. Honestly it was an absolute bloodbath until about 2003. Besides Transition 09, the stretch between 2004 and 2014 was by far the best times I saw at Shell until I got force retired in 2016.
Leaders care only for their own early retirement/ financial freedom. Only those who support that get promoted in Shell by that leader.
This game has nothing to do with the core business of pumping and selling oil or another 100 years of Shell.
Prove me wrong.
the industry is not “ultra competitive”
the demand for oil has passed its peak and the end is in sight
that’s why every major is selling assets and buying back its stock and cutting costs. the plan is to shrink with grace because the pivots didn’t work out.
if it was about competition you would see assets with multiple bids. instead nobody is building anything and only selling to smaller players. it’s time for you to wake up and smell the permanent irreversible decline.
the leadership teams demands to “be competitive” are about absolutely nothing more than finding the cash to buy back the stock so that the price has an artificial bottom.
The #we care b ull sh it has never been more nauseating than it has in the last few years.
Can’t imagine a more tangible example of “people are our most important assets” being dead and gone.
So, when senior leaders stand up at staff gatherings, with that smarmy smile, and make any comment about how important people are to the Company, it is pure feel-good baloney from a male cow.
@f5 prime time? The industry was different structurally. how so?
No Unconventional factory
US production on persistent decline
Oil and service company culture was significantly different
Go to this years SPE ATCE and notice the difference. In 1996 far larger attendance for more social events. It will be an exercise in low turnout low energy low social connections….
Shell needs simplicity for survival. The days of being treated with white gloves is over. We are in a global industry that is ultra competitive and those comforts of the past are no more. Look around Houston…does it look or feel like 1996? Nope so get used to new ways of working. The days of pampering and mollycoddling are over. It’s really rough out there outside your pristine campus. Very few jobs and the hiring process is brutal…when you spend 9 months looking and only receive a few poorly developed opportunities you will understand the real job market.
@b3 when we had AK, shell would transfer you back to lower 48 if you were made redundant. Destination was your choice if not successful fining anything. You got another full move package but I don’t think a premium added. That’s the closest I’ve heard to us compensating for transfers that didn’t workout. Maybe other areas are different. I agree, we should bring people back under certain circumstances. Especially if a venture fails and not in that persons control.
I've seen this at other companies. I feel like corporations should be on the hook to compensate employees in this situation at twice what it cost to move them.
I think in another decade the company would have taken care of you. That company doesn’t exist anymore.