Don’t wait to be fired. Make plans and leave on your own tiling so it isn’t a surprise. The writing is on the wall.
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USA doesn’t have the ba--s to put sanctions on India.
This trend (exporting job to India) won't last much longer, with India knocking on the door of having the world's largest population (beating out China).
The next megatrend will be India exporting the little Injuns to U.S. and other western countries. It's already started...don't believe me, look around you the Injuns are everywhere like flies on shitt.
Looking at the big picture over a long timeframe perspective:
EM Executives get bonuses for their efforts to move work to India
Future-EM Executives get bonuses for moving work out of India after complete failure.
The impact on employees and their families is irrelevant to an Executive trying to justify more million$ in bonuses.
India just offered to buy EM’s confiscated Sakhalin One assets.
India just sign a military contract with Putin to supply military hardware
It would be appropriate if the US government put sanctions on India and BTC useless instantly.
There are lot of insecure EM high cost center employees who intentionally sabotage BTC work products. Please start behaving like educated professionals for once instead of discriminating and using racist tactics at work.
We need to stop sending our jobs out of the USA
BTC! QUALITY! FEEDBACK!! YOU HAVE TO BE OUT OF YOUR MIND AND TOTALLY DISCONNECTED FROM THE WORK PRODUCT!! YOU HAVE A FUTURE CAREER IN THE FAKE NEWS WORLD!!
I do believe there’s some Texas Evangelical prosperity gospel preached by ExxonMobil managers. They seem to think if I just “declare it” then it will happen. Like if I say “we’ve shifted thousands of FTE staff over to BTC and KL with no losses” then it’s true and will happen.
In reality - training and developing a workforce without consistent site exposure is like taking the worst parts of our business, throwing them in a blender and trying to enter it in Great British Bake-off. Everyone thinks you’re a fool, and not sure whether to think less of you or feel sorry for you being so terrible.
Also agree with “the company plans to keep you confused long enough so that not everyone quits at once.”
Supervisor has been trying to paint a long, bright future in our career discussions. Understand that they're just stringing us along for their own interest.
Flex your days, work the contracted hours, deflect unnecessary requests, approach your job in a way you find satisfying.
The most ironic thing is the BTC (Xom employees) try and keep most of the work away from the MSP (contractors), because “ they will take our jobs” .
Think about that one
"If u provide feedback, the deliverable will get better."
Funniest thing I've ever read on this forum. EVER!
Greedy Managers ( they are not leader) prefer garbage deliverable from BTC.
Most accurate thing I have heard on here: “the company plans to keep you confused long enough so that not everyone quits at once.”
Rings true.
When you look at the annual structural savings they have announced they want to achieve ($3B+) versus what they have already ac, expect the high cost countries, particularly the U.S. to lose another 10000-20000 workers over the next 2 years. They are treating labor as pure commodity and have admitted lower quality can be tolerated. The people at the global technical centers are good people; unfortunately they have a bunch of HiPos sent to mentor them versus getting a real person a lower level with people skills who actually cares about adding value to the corporation. If you are under 40 and in a high-cost country, it is in your best interest to make other plans and leave. Other operators are hiring in the US and other countries and would be happy to have you. Folks at the BTC, get your training and consider Shell for better pay as they seem to have a balanced approach to doing things. As the company races towards the bottom, the BTC, KLTC and Argentina will be pitted against each other as well as they seek continued structural savings so while you may benefit today, be aware of what the future holds. If you aren't extremely specialized in your role, the company views you as replaceable on an annual basis. Always have a plan in place for the annual layoffs in July, if you stay, I recommend job applications in March /April. Best of luck all, your fellow workers want to see you succeed and value your input. I won't speak for management, but you are welcome to form your own opinion based on the publicly available articles you see in the news.
They can't fu----g follow a biscuit recipe! It doesn't matter how well you make the notes and train them!!!!!
Those who complain about the btc quality are those that are not willing to spend time to mentor them. If u provide feedback, the deliverable will get better.
Easy solution. How about moving to India?
BTC is a clown fiesta. Complete waste of money given the quality of deliverables.
I was asked to teach them how to do research. Told my supervisor that they can only learn that at the The Universiry of Chicago, Stanford, Texas Tech etc.
What a fkn joke!
Confusion is their strategy, keep everything optional so that you can't make an informed decision. Then they control and can select or deselect you at will.
It’s too bad I spend all my time redoing everything we send over there. What will the company do when the folks in Houston that are actually getting it done right are gone?
While the spelling is wrong, this is the corporate plan. If you’re under 40, the company plans to keep you confused long enough so that not everyone quits at once.