In my region Sr. Leaders have started to move some favored Midline Managers into new “special” roles. This always happens at BP right before a big reorg, so Sr. Leaders can save their favorites from being let go. Any one else see this occur in there region? It seems like Meg has some people SHOOK.
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@1sf who was this??
@1tb the US supply chain team is keeping the business running by constantly chasing the PSCM folks in India, Malaysia, Hungary, and other parts of the world who have zero idea how anything works. If it weren't for them the US business would ground to a halt - the smallest orders of business like POs and Invoices take forever and they have to intervene to get literally anything done by these "cheaper" labor. Thank LAR, another BL "Protégé" for the current state of affairs of PSCM.
@1tb what is the biggest issue with the US supply chain team?
Not sure why there is still a US supply chain team. Thought that should be the first thing to be transferred to TSI or KL.
Yes, in US Supply Chain - leadership were moving and/or promoting their favorites into other roles to protect them from layoffs.
Someone with a “manager” title is a level F? That’s wild.
So, I was having lunch with my mate in the canteen yesterday in building E, and he let it slip that he is being laterally transferred out of his current role into a new “group level job”, doing the same thing but on a project for the next eighteen months.
The job that he is leaving is in a central group and something to do with Finance and Performance work where they support wells.
I checked in the TAS, and sure enough, his old job is posted - “something something Performance Manager” Level F in Sunbury, if anyone likes to gamble.
Thank god for the us legal team, they give everyone including fu-k ups a pay package. All the stuff people have on bp… make it rain. This company is a sh-t show.
@1f9 I assume the VP of wells! Worked with this horrible snake in Alaska!! Never met a human like this.
@1fv this was written by someone in HR. Nobody else talks this way or uses these terms. Written like an HR person fishing for support for a ridiculous decision about to be made.
@bk I saw that in C&P too. The funny thing is everyone know what to do but they don't have guts to take the right decission. Its just CYA/BAU
Yep, I see that. People are moving their favorites from Tech to Business roles in retail. Really!! Get the right folks in else there will be nothing else to move
Every leader ever puts people they know can deliver into roles and is more skeptical of the unknowns. Additionally sometimes people don’t know why they have a bad reputation because nobody ever has the hard conversations with them.
Crying about this just sounds like people don’t know how all businesses work. I promise you Meg does this as well as every leader has.
All that aside I do agree that force fitting DEI ambitions about women and “non-whites” in leadership roles is completely foolish when those aspirations are significantly higher than the workforce as a whole. There’s areas where you’d need to promote every single woman into leadership to get close to the ambition.
@18f who is Serpa? I am in procurement. Sounds like the problem is across disciplines.
@19d oh a bronze energize award? Thanks so much, however will I decide how to spend this 15 pounds
@18f It’s endemic in this company. I work in a totally different area and have experienced this. What really gets me is I am repeatedly told I’m doing a great job, and even asked what I would like my next role to be. Then when we reorg, I get left in the dust again. Do they realize Energize points don’t really mean sh** to people with ambition? I want opportunity, not cheap platitudes.
@16g - sounds like you have had dealings with the Queen “Serpa” snake, like many of us.
No matter how hard you work, what your qualifications are, what you do to make her “look good” in her “say yes to everything” culture, if she does not like you, you do not exist in her world…
Central teams are the worst in terms of merit. Favoritism is rampant and the Senior Leadership makes up events that never happened. Being a woman trumps all other qualifications for leadership roles is the current view.
Pay Attenton Meg,
The folks that are moving before you move them are the reason why BP has been stuck in the gutter.
That’s a sure sign that cuts are coming soon. I wish they would make the process fair and merit based instead trying to be sneaky to save their friends.
I’ve saw this happen in P&C last year during the mass layoffs. It’s BAU at BP.
Which region are you referring to?