Little tiny Jeffrey, stocks still at $20 bud. Layoffs ain’t changing anything. You couldn’t work on a rig to save your life. I would like to see you work a rig like a man. You ain’t representing anything bud. Same with the rest of you soft white collars.
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bottom line is that at $20 stock price we are all at risk of losing our jobs from the roughnecks all the way up to SB Managers.
@qv you missed the point - each and everyone has their own skills. A firmware engineer doesn’t need to demonstrate his skills by joining drill pipes. That would be handled by skilled field hands who don’t need to demonstrate their skills by coding either.
Unfortunately for us, a $20 stick means more layoffs.
@c2 The clown show “management” at Halliburton is a joke. I don’t expect a competent, well educated CEO to necessarily have field level experience. Most CEO’s at major companies come in with no experience in the field in which they are leading. This isn’t uncommon. I do expect plenty of people that surround said CEO to have some field experience though. The CEO should have people that can advise him/her. My main problem with Halliburton (former employee from years ago that got tired of the incompetent management) is the senior level management has no regard for the guys in the field- the ones that make the money for the company. As a former lower level manager with multiple years of field experience, I occasionally interacted with these people. Their disdain for the actual workers was very off putting to say the least. As for “connecting drill pipe”, that’s not an easy job and there’s much, much more to it than simply connecting joints of pipe. Anyone that would dismiss this as an easy job doesn’t know what they are talking about and probably wouldn’t last very long if they ever tried it themselves. If anyone goes to the rig floor and actually observes what these guys do you’ll respect them whether you like rig hands or not. They do a lot.
@cg Jimbo and Chris both have field experience.
Ahhh you made my point…joining drill pipes together is called making a connection. Imagine saying this cr-p in front of a customer. The rest of the oilfield service companies have field experience in their management. If all you can do is manage why don’t you go do it at walmart. Our business is failing because our managers don’t know what the oilfield needs. You ignored that and got butthurt someone called you out on your lack of oilfield knowledge.
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You're wasting your breath, these tards can't see beyond their immediate vicinity and if THEY don't know then it doesn't matter.
I write firmware for downhole tools for a living, and make good money. Since I make more money than a field hand, do I have to prove my worth by joining drill pipes on a rig? To lead people one does not need to have the skills of every person being led. I have seen “smart” engineers saying how much more they know about the project they are working on than their managers. What they miss is the fact that the managers are managing couple of dozen projects instead of just one. How is it humanly possible to know everything about every single project they are managing? I have also seen these so called smart engineers crumble under pressure when they have to manage multiple projects!
C-level is above it all. Field experience is rare at this level, few have worked their way up the ladder that high.
None of our management has any field experience anymore and that’s why they have no idea what the market for oilfield services wants and NEEDS. That’s why we are always a day late and a dollar short with new technology. Look at who gets promoted to executive and VP positions…only yes men that completed a few bogus internal koolaid classes. You’ll even see service managers needing to be briefed on their own customers before meetings and such. My favorite is when they bring in a foreigner to manage an area that they have zero experience in (to try to get experience of course). This whole company is ran wrong and are so arrogant to think it’s being ran properly. We still believe that we have the differentiator when it comes to pressure pumping lmao. What a joke.
Why Jeffrey needs to work on a rig to prove anything? It is like asking an airport janitor to fly a 747. Everyone has their own skills and experience based on which they are employed.