Heads up to people with Aera in Houston. You recently hired on a senior HR rep from Occidental Petroleum. Be warned that this women is a bigoted individual who enables and protects people who persecute and attack others in the work place who are... — read more
News
It 's Friday people, let the feelings come out.....what's happening in the old shell, layoffs still? What's like to work for shell now days?
How do you hold a strike on a North Sea platform?
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-36882431
48 hour strike on North Sea platforms, protests at Shell Centre, Southbank and Brabazon House,Manchester
http://stv.tv/news/north/1362675-crunch-talks-fail-to-avert-48-hour-north-sea-strike/ https://www.rmt.org.uk/news/wood-group-strike-action-goes-ahead/ http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-northsea-strike-idUKKCN10E2EY
Shell Strategy " Let's make the future" - Q2 Results
Yaa right, mate! Make the future for our well connected empolyees that don't ever need to go on MOR - while screwing hard working poor dedicated engineers that don't have any connections..........after all it's all about the person next to you! isn't... — read more
Which side are you on ? Walk out at 0630 !
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-36888514
Shell-to-cut-25-percent-of-deep-water-gulf-jobs
http://fuelfix.com/blog/2016/07/25/shell-to-cut-25-percent-of-deep-water-gulf-jobs/
Shell to Leave North-East market by the 4th quarter or 2017
My multiple sources confirm Shells plan is to completely exit the northeast market by the 4th quarter or 2017, and concentrate on the more profitable other areas of the country. Once the Motiva split is complete, the most under-performing terminals... — read more
Mega Merger Announced
In a move that stunned three business sectors, a mega merger was announced that promises to have seismic effects on Wall Street. The three industry sectors involved are petroleum, fast food and personal care. This merger culminates secret meetings... — read more
BG summer cuts in Houston
http://fuelfix.com/blog/2016/07/11/bg-group-to-cut-more-than-150-jobs-in-houston-close-office/ http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2016/07/11/bg-group-discloses-houston-job-cuts-tied-to-shell.html
North Sea industrial action, unions pushed too far
https://www.energyvoice.com/oilandgas/north-sea/114412/shell-north-sea-strike-know-far/ Workers fed up with paycuts, longer shifts, erratic hitches.
Shell Warns Of Further Job Cuts - posted by OilPrice 5th July 2016
The shortsightedness of these current Shell mgrs only proves those that don't remember/know the past are doomed to repeat it; having lived thru Shell's mid-80's gut and dearth of talent that followed for the next 20 years, I was hopeful; if this... — read more
Workplace safety and security guards in aftermath of homegrown terrorism
Ask yourself do you feel safe at work ? Guards mental fitness, unarmed or really conceal carry. http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/orlando-nightclub-massacre/psychologist-i-never-evaluated-orlando-shooter-mateen-n594976
Houston Open sponsorship - the writing is on the wall
http://www.espn.co.uk/golf/story/_/id/16053208/shell-end-long-sponsorship-houston-open Anyone else hearing that they are doing this because they plan to close Houston offices
Seeking new horizons ? Adventurous opportunities in Syria.
Petrol Suriyah LLP : FTSE 100 company seeking experienced go getters in all disciplines. We offer relocation expenses, language classes, completion bonuses, friendly security detail. Weekends at our villa on the Mediterranean coast. Please view our 8... — read more
More layoffs
The Sunday Times reported at the weekend that the company may reveal even deeper job cuts than those announced shortly after the merger with BG completed.
Just Sad
Joined Shell over 30 years ago - one of the proudest days of my life as joining Shell really still meant something back then. Shell never really recovered from the infamous transformation of the 1990's which eroded everything that made the company... — read more
We are better than this
This is too funny, pick up the pieces and move on. What we should do is start some form of company ourselves maybe not in oil and gas but hey Franchises, apartment complexes, stock trading, we have the expertise why not use what we have anyone... — read more
Shell announced that out of the additional 2,200 job losses, 475 will come from its upstream UK and Ireland business .......Houston????
"Shell said it expects net job losses in 2016 to be lower than 5,000 due to recruitment in IT and at the graduate level" So We layoff 10,000 people in 2016 and hire 5,000 people and claim we only had 5,000 job losses.
Ben gets the pay,another spill today, everthings a-ok
Check royaldutchshellplc.com for Shell AGM coverage, pipeline spill in Northern California
Silly
I agree, not just there but all companies, these suck assmanagers need to realize it does not take all that to get a job done. After all how can you become this great manager, ie just what the company needs and you are in bankruptcy up to your balls... — read more
GOM Spill Thursday
New Orleans media reporting GOM wellhead spill, "Thank you for calling subsea surveillance, no one is here to take your call, please call back during normal business hours goodbye "
BG staff moving on up to Shell Houston sites. Welcome to the jungle
http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2016/05/09/exclusive-namesake-tenant-to-vacate-downtown.html
Shell unofficial website- take a look
The long established site royaldutchshellplc.com is a non corporate site gathering news, press releases and opinion all things shell esp. Layoffs and offshoring jobs. Has a decent blog contributed to by employees round the world. Just to state the... — read more
Shell made me impotent
at first I thought I was in this demeaning situation alone but I had a frank conversation with my boss and realized that all the shell people became impotent within the first year. I got sacked and as I was walking to the parking lot I noticed a... — read more
"Medical leave" to avoid being laid off??
I've heard some managers protect their favorites by asking them to go on "medical leave" to keep from getting laid off. Not sure if it is true or not, but some of you may know more
WATCHOUT FOR BACKSTABBERS!!!!!!
Watch out!!! Shell Woodcreek Offices are flooded with too many backstabbers!!! If you are smart, you will sense these haters (two faced morons often loved by their confused unethical leads or managers). I can name some miserable bastards here but not... — read more
Shell to close 3 UK offices and extends Voluntary Severance to UK staff
“This [voluntary redundancy programme] is in the context of the reality of a lower for longer oil price environment, and is not exclusively related to the Shell-BG combination,” the company said. “A similar proposal was communicated to Shell staff in... — read more
Shell moving some jobs from New Orleans to Houston
http://www.nola.com/business/index.ssf/2016/04/shell_jobs_moving_to_houston.html Shell will relocate some jobs from New Orleans to Houston as it moves forward with plans to cut its global workforce by 10,000 employees and contractors. The company... — read more
Severance Package (2016)
Has it changed if compared to what we had in 2014 and 2015?
Have you heard anything about layoff recently?
Looking at oil market...I am losing my patience. Just wondering if anyone heard anything this week.
Shell Layoff Locations
Hello All - I am researching message boards relating to Shell layoffs due to the recent O&G downturn. The information is scarce. Would someone be able to help me out by replying with a list of major geographic locations that are affected (a major... — read more
HERE ARE THE BIG OIL AWARDS
I've been watching all your boards for a few months and here are the awards from first to worst (posted on all your boards) from Shell to Exxon to BP to Chevron. 1st Place - Chevron - The "Street Fighters with Big Balls Award" Easy to see why these... — read more
The only thing we were pioneers and innovative about at Shell was in developing Deepwater Drilling and Production in the Gulf of Mexico.
It turns out that we weren't even really pioneers at that, what we really did was pay for all the research and development that Chevron, BP and Exxon needed to come into the deepwater business on our dollars spend, and kick our ass We're not only... — read more
The good 'ole boy system is alive and well at Shell
The good 'ole boy system is alive and well at Shell....
New Open Resourcing site
What's happening? Why they hide number of applicants?
Job cuts
When will they start?