According to the New York Times, Looney is being employed as Chairman of Prometheus Hyperscale, a Wyoming start-up. Does this mean he will move to Wyoming? I can't see how he can run it from London. As it's a start up, and he is the Chairman, he'll get to pick the female employees!! LMAO.
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BL’s “climbing in your windows , he’s snatching your people up…”
I've just taken a look at his LinkedIn page. He has changed his main photo to one taken a good many years ago!! What an ego. LMAO.
@2uvy+1vEsHw9f because, unfortunately, a significant number of people are not principled and are driven by self-interest
@2uvy+1vEsHw9f The reason for BP employees @liking' his LinkedIn post is because in his statement to the Financial Times he sent BP 'best wishes.' He really is a creepy crawler. The FT says that he is also advising a Norwegian technology company (Heaven help them). They better start hoping he doesn't relocate their IT jobs to India! He is also sitting on the board of a US non-profit organisation, Focusing Capital On The Long Term (Heaven help them). They better start hoping he doesn't advise them to buy capital assets which give no return and have to disposed of at a loss years later!
I wonder if in order to get these positions he has used an executive employment consultancy agency where they approach prospective employers on their client's behalf. It's like a reverse of headhunting. It was reported in the press a while back that a senior BP executive said that no major UK public limited company would touch him.
I was surprised by how many bp employees “liked” BL’s LinkedIn post about it.
Another great comment on the UK Times article from an employee:-
David Simons
3 hours ago
Oh Lord please stay retired. He was an absolute liability at BP. After his prolific philandering, then lying about it, does anybody take the net zero impostor seriously ? Stay retired.
@1kwe+1vEsHw9f You are exactly right. In one of the articles, the CEO said he wasn't bothered about the reason for BL leaving BP. So, it looks like they're not bothered if he works his way through the female employees. Maybe we should send him a supply of Viagra! It's still a pity he got any employment after his trip to India in 2023, where he would have been instrumental in U.S. IT jobs going over there.
Not exactly the world changing role he would have been expecting. Chair of a family owned start up building data centres on owned land in WY.
Shows you how far down the pecking order he’s got.
A really apt comment was submitted to today's UK Times article. The reader said in response to the company's name: "I thought for a moment it said Promiscuous (on a) Hyperscale. Still chasing windmills. Bless."
FROM MSN: In his new role, Looney will also assist with tasks including work on the company's flagship $10 billion data center in Evanston, Wyoming, Prometheus Hyperscale said.
"I'm wishing BP well, and of course for me I'm thinking about the next 32 years of my career, and I can't think of anything more exciting, more challenging to do than get stuck into this space," Looney was quoted as telling the Financial Times in an interview published on Sunday.
The next 32 years of his career? He's 54!! Is he still going to be inflicting himself on an unsuspecting business world when he is 86? He'll be going to work using a walking frame. This crowd better lock up their female members of staff.
I doubt in his role that Bertard would spend much time in Evanston, WY. He has likely been there previously as Amoco had multiple large operations there that remained with BP for a number of years post the takeover.
@oct+1vEsHw9f my company contacts in London say that Helge keeps a very low profile in the City of London financial district. They said he is so low profile that he is invisible. Having said that, the OP has a point, how much time do you think he will have to spend in Wyoming because it's a start up rather than an established concern? It would be a big cultural difference from living in London.
Chairman doesn't run it mate, that's the CEOs job.
It why we haven't seen hide nor hair of helge during the fu-k up that is reinvent 2.0