One person I spoke with said that since she was on a visa she would not get furloughed! Absolutely infuriating! SLB hates bad public exposure. Any friendlies in the media that you know of that would help expose this?
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People with H1 visas have been laid-off and asked to return to their home countries on their own dime and in a given period of time, with no house selling assistance. If anyone sues SLB, they will have examples to prove them wrong.
vmys+14ENoVlE - Your case doesn't represent every L1 and L2 family in SLB. Two reasons, first, you have a low title, second, you don't know someone. In HFH (Houston Financial Hub). Almost everyone is L2 in some teams. the worst part is the Spouse system. I saw the political system in most OFS companies, but it is the first time I see the Spouse system. Impressive. They laid off Americans and replaced by wives and husbands who are L2 holders. Happy family reunion in HFH.
This thread should have been titled VISA HOLDERS so that I could have skipped it. Who cares?
@dzgo - You are anti-American. Hopefully, you and your family don’t take any benefit in USA. Otherwise, you are C-O-W.
Schlumberger should fire all useless, overpaid, entitled Americans working all over the world and send them back to America.
@diei+14ENoVlE - Do you figure out L1 & H1B different to L2 & H4? Cut L2 and H4 won't affect L1 and H1B, but it will help the US job market.
@ @dvhj+14ENoVlE no he won’t. He is buddy with Modi, putin and Netanyaho. Find out where are those H1 and L1 holder’s coming from...
@dwaj+14ENoVlE - Soon, you will see Trump's Administration cut L2 and H4. Wait and See.
Didn’t y’all MAGA folks voted for DT? Why are you complaining now?
@cmwv+14ENoVlE - Don't be rude and arrogant.
The most L1 visa employees are hardworking, but L2 and H4 are unqualified and incompetent. Moreover, SLB layoff American to keep L2 and H4. Do you call it "racist to foreigners"?
Under these circumstances, most of the American families are both lost the job, they have little children, mortgages, and auto loans to pay. a little saving. they are struggling with survival.
L1 and H1B holders with their wives and husbands (L2 and H4) both work in SLB. Who makes hate to L2 and H4?
Your guys took chance to bury American survival.
Schlumberger is a French company you damned id–t why are you being racist to foreigners. You yourself are a foreigner to the company
How about the L2 and h4 visas? Do they affect by the furlough?
“SLB should lay off all foreigners and prioritize local workers“
Couldn’t agree more. Fire all entitled, overpaid and useless Americans working all over the world and send them packing, and prioritize local workers.
L1 visa are affected by furlough as any other colleagues and it is mandatory! Not optional.
Should be easy for most Americans; "If you are a US citizen and wish to keep your job, the best strategy is to speak with an unintelligible accent, use incorrect verb tenses, and spell everything incorrectly when writing reports."
I agree this is Ridiculous. SLB should lay off all foreigners and prioritize local workers. Which means close down the Houston local office. No American visas to France. Make France great again, and put French workers first.
SLB will keep the people with the worst English skills. If you are a US citizen and wish to keep your job, the best strategy is to speak with an unintelligible accent, use incorrect verb tenses, and spell everything incorrectly when writing reports. In other words, just talk and write like the typical field hand.
I’m on an L1 and I told by someone in management that we will not be sent back. they would rather lay off some Americans since they get unemployment benefits.
The lay-off's which are happening now the first people to go are Contractors. Then in the employees there are VISA holders and Citizens, in which Citizens are lot more in numbers. Now in the same group if both of them work using same technology, then VISA holder needs to be let go to protect the citizen. If this is not happening then there is problem in the system.
Remember in Slb the only way you can move up is if you know some manager as no positions are open! HR and the higher management feel like invincible and only help the people they like and not based on competency. The layoff decisions are made by the same people who maybe biased towards nationality, gender and other things which is very hard to fight. Unless the work culture changes and also on the government level rules for VISA changes things may not look fair.
@4ovd+14ENoVlE Per your moments, we understood the visa situation. Moreover, do you think about most Ex-pat managers base on the nationalist to protect their original country employees? They keep incompetent visa employees. Let American layoff. It is against Trump Administration which is to protect US workers first. Do you consider some of the American employees who are only person work to support their family? In contrast, the L1 and H1B visa holder's family members (L2 and H4) are still working at SLB now. Do you think that's emotion? That is American survival and raise family. If SLB has morals,
The visa has provisions that they cannot be furloughed. Lot of them were let go because of it. However in the current situation only thing which matters is if you are working on a project which has money to pay you and on top of that your relationship with your manager. So there are lot of things let’s keep emotions out of it
If you have evidence that's credible? I have good friends in big name media companies. Leave a way to contact you and we'll met privately.
L1 visa is international transfer employees of Schlumberger. At least, they are professional and experienced.
H1B visa is that US hired foreign employees. Most of them are non experience but they are low pay.
NT visa is Mexican and Canadian employees.
L2 visa is L1 visa families. Most of them are housewives and househusbands. Their are lower quality and lower pay. They are most work at back office. Especially HFH.
H4 visa is H1B families. same work status with L2.
L2 and H4 are Visa abuses. It must cut immediately. They are worthless only relative.
H1B for New graduated students and a fewer years experience must cut. Schlumberger can’t train new employees at downturns.
If you got layoff, but another employees don’t which are visa holder for H1B, L2 and L4. You can report to “abuse H1B visa”.
H1b workers are not affected with furlough but can be laid off .. L1 are affected
So L1 is not affected .. it is voluntary for them too like H1
Voluntary furloughs are allowed and we have few here on visa who are doing so to help the team.
So furlough don't affect L1 visa holders ? I thought they are affected too with furlough !
Here in the UK we have quite a few of these Visa holders working in positions where nationals can perfectly fit. Nepotism at its maximum expression. We are tired and frustrated with their bragging too. Not to mention the wives, bragging about their yoga classes, cooking lessons, etc... all with SLB’s money in an environment where we are not making a profit.
Across the Houston area there have been VISA holders released in this current wave of layoffs.
Help expose what? The fact that Schlumberger is adhering to federal Visa laws? Lol ok bud good luck with that.
Yes, not really fair to us citizens. They become the scapegoat.
But she can always be laid off. Many on Visa already have been.
There are certain types of visas that cannot legally be furloughed like H1B. This is the law and not SLBs doing...
As I understand it some types of visas can't be furloughed. They would have get whole new applications, and start the Visa process all over again. They ould not work without all the approvals being done by the government. After a very short window they would be here illegally.
At my location everyone with visas (that don't have this problem) are all furloughing in line with the rest of staff.