We can all agree that employee morale is as low as it has ever been. Management must know this, so why aren't they doing anything about it? Every study on the subject has shown that employee satisfaction affects productivity. I think it would be logical then to keep your employees happy, and not as miserable as most are these days.
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I believe many managers do know and do care. Some of them are not great people, but many are.
The problem is that they have 20 years of training to never stick your neck out. You will not see many managers take any initiative on this, regardless of their personal feelings, because our culture was one of robotic compliance for so long. They won't initiate something here until instructed to.
And the irony is they likely won't get that instruction for quite a while. Because part of the "don't stick your neck out" thing is telling people not to make a fuss. Dont complain up the ladder. Because why would want your boss to know your group has a morale problem? That might look like its your fault! Best to just keep your head down. I suspect most morale reporting dies at the DH level. A small amount may get to the Division or VP level. And by the time the message is getting to Dallas there isn't a morale problem anymore.
ID: @lqk+1croPOpA It is the self motivated who leave.
@1kar+1croPOpA Such behaviours are embraced. Be discreet about it with upper management, you will do just fine.
One of the Complex Engineers is a bully to the younger engineers and brags about it. People across the organization find this person difficult to work with. Funny how they still remain after the layoff..
If you look at employee headcount IN COMPANY PLAN, significant attrition is planned in the US.
You can't achieve significant attrition, and avoid an expensive layoff, of everyone is happy.
The only contribution from Syrup and his lowly minions at CSR in Annandale during the last decade are free booze during holiday parties to bunch of drunkard a-s-s holes and arranging for summer picnic for otherwise unemployable PhDs and their families.
There are some managers that indeed care in the human sense but they are powerless. There are MANY managers that they care because work is not being done. Also powerless.
Of course EM plans to move many positions in low cost locations. Attrition helps on that. But the plan was for this to be done in a controlled way. And what EM management hates the most is losing control.
But The company has not reacted yet because the news have not really reached Dallas in the right magnitude of the problem. And the news have not reached there because in most cases management sugarcoats the news that deliver upwards.
No! Welcome to Annandale. So sad what’s happening here. Total dumpster fire. No picnic this year.
Since 2019, I always felt that the management’s “top priority” has been to drive people away without severance package and without lawsuit. Up to now, they did an excellent job and we shrank by about 30% from 2019. During all town halls, presidents and VPs are scratching their head on why people have been leaving with absolute zero actions - have you noticed these?
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The only criterion for moving forward in this company is keeping the people above you happy. Results are never a measure of anything. If you are not identified as High Potential, you are and will always be nothing, an expendable, anonymous warm body, regardless of how good your work is. If you happen to be hi-po and you actually want to do some work, you are reminded that actual work is for losers only and you’re nudged towards skimming other people’s work and then regurgitating it to admiring managers. This has been the bedrock of company philosophy for decades and that’s why it’s been sinking constantly since the late ‘90s, when the environment in the O&G industry started becoming increasingly competitive.
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Wait.... Do you actually believe our rank system rewards self-motivated hard workers?
Unless by self-motivated you mean motivated to play office politics, have career coaching coffee meetings with middle managers, and taking credit for the work of others, then sure, that's who our "system" rewards.
Maybe you're still pretty new, but trust me that busting your @ss at this company just makes you a chump. Now more than ever.
And if you think I'm just jaded, I've been rated highly for many years, gotten the RSUs and the whole deal. This only ever loosely correlated with work output, effort, or actual accomplishments, but it correlated extremely well with how I got along with management.
Management can NEVER sugarcoat the reality. Everybody must bring their A-game everyday, to compete with the best-of-the-best. And in everybody's back-of-their-minds, the question is "Could I be next?". Management knows and explicitly say to staff that our ranking system is rigged. And some managers quit as well. At the end of the day, only the self-motivated remains. The end.
I don’t know but I feel like a carcass at work nowadays
Management at the working level often cares, but HQ in Dallas does not
They couldn't care less about anyone but themselves and lining their own pockets.
No they could care less
Hearing raises will be below inflation from HR management
I have been trying to understand why we are gutting the company right now. Only thing that makes sense to me is they want to cut headcount in high cost countries such as USA and send jobs to India. They are forcing the organization to figure out how to get work done using BTC by cutting headcount drastically. Five years of 8% PIP with no hiring is planned. Do the math. There won’t be many of us left.
They do care about morale. They probably want it as low as possible so that people quit. That way EM doesn’t have to pay out unemployment.
Isnt this #Winning? So glad EM is rolling out their new culture of leadership e.g. how to ignore moral, transition to 1-year contracts, etc