If HR or project team is reading this or anyone else, will employees that are voluntary leaving or involuntary let go: will they black listed by company to be consider for future position?
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Getting blacklisted here would be great for your career.
Did anyone notice the date they are closing the San Antonio office? March 6th...the same day the Alamo fell. I wonder if this was on purpose with some sick sense of humor or a coincidence.
Reorgs are never easy, but this one is embarrassing. Project Ascend is a sad display of incompetence. Misstep after misstep.
“In some ways I get more info here than from the meeting and the project ascend webpage.”
Good to hear. Perhaps that is because the execs tell one thing to San Antonio and another thing to Midland?
The “apology tour” (great description by the way) exposed that the execs can’t keep their own story straight. In fact, they can barely even come up with a story at all. Guess they figured that no one would check in with their friends in the other offices, but like most everything else they’ve done, that was a bad assumption on their part.
The best way to get news is to ask several people and either triangulate the responses if they are different or just go with the most negative one as the likely outcome.
I don’t work for you all....but been through the BS at a different O&G company. After 3 years from being laid off, I’ve come to realize there is no good way to handle these things. There are people who really need their job and work hard and through no fault of their own get let go. And on the other end of the spectrum there are those that have been dead weight for years and should get let go. Either way, a person gets let go and it s—s both financially and to their self esteem. And there doesn’t really seem a good way to avoid either of these. I’ve talked to people who work elsewhere and there was no severance package. Just a “we are sorry, we don’t need you anymore.” So at least there is some type of package. Anyway, best of luck to you all. I consult from time to time in the industry (if the pay is right and it’s an interesting job), but I don’t really miss it a whole lot as toward the end it really wasn’t fun going to work wondering if that was your last day.
In some ways I get more info here than from the meeting and the project ascend webpage.
Project Ascend is the biggest joke in the companies history! The fake apology tour that two of the execs (one being the leader of Project Ascend) was a complete waste of time and MM came off as the biggest pompous, full of himself jerk to put it nicely. The only thing we found out was what the severance is going to look like, which as one of the posters below put is a completely joke as well. These guys pat themselves on the back and have their heads so far up each other’s butts on the 14th floor that they fail to see that nobody in the company cares for them or believes in the direction the company is going. They have handled this whole project like a bunch of amateurs and that is how they are running the company as well.
Project Ascend is code for Propaganda Apache.
What is the point of putting anything on Project Ascend?
Most of the answers are non-responsive or just outright misleading, like stating that the severance package would be competitive, when it clearly isn’t.
The only people who should be blacklisted are the execs that got the company into this mess and the execs that are leading the transition.
Since this is a question to HR, I'd pose it straight to Project Ascend, if it's already not talked about in the FAQs. But also, no you will probably not be blacklisted.