Northbelt layoffs will begin in a few days. Management is quickly realizing that the furlough will not be enough to save this company.
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Don't worry lads, HF has our back in the NB MFG center. As long as you are an SCMP, you won't get let go. She will have your back, and make the best possible decisions for everyone!
HDFX won't work at all, unless the designers or engineers know their core knowledge well, otherwise just waste time
Temps were let go after Tuesday this week in manufacturing site on North Belt Campus. This is just the beginning more heads will roll to appease the Admin building id–ts.
Couple of comments to all the below:
All capitol has been cut and is being moved to Singapore.
iCruise isn’t even safe...unless you can/want to continue to perform L1-L2 maintenance.
NBT will be considered an R&M facility.
Yep, districts think about that for a minute.
RIFs will be big this time. HR teams have been called off furlough, so expect the worst to start on the coming X schedule.
Contractors have not been part of the RIFs yet (discussions) because they are considered PO contractors and not HR contractors...meaning they don’t affect headcount...just billing.
Blue collar, white collar, who cares. We all are consumers and all screwed just the same. We have lazy blue collars that toss parts in the bin when they don’t want to work and white collars that feel they are owed something because they finished school. At the end of the day covid is gonna k–l us al!!
Good luck my friends! I wish us all the best and hope the smart ones can find a great job outside of O&G.
You go do that and let us know how it went.
Protest in front of the Admin Bldg at 2:00 today. We want answers, we are shareholders too!
The time we've given this company is worth ten fold the value of the CEO's shares!
Out of their rear ends
40% where do people get these numbers?
With any luck, the majority will come from the Admin Bldg!
Northbelt is laying off 40% of the workforce.
PLEP is a joke. I've known many PLEP graduates that were let go now and in the past. So many of the projects that were worked on in the past added absolutely no value. Graduating from PLEP is no guarantee of advancement or future employment. Watch and see!
Promote up and Lose the PLEP projects and Pope mentality.
Get back to having design engineers that understand how the equipment they design is used before touching a design.
Quit pitting departments and PSLs against each other which has been imploding the company for years and upper management either doesn’t care or understand
to the person arguing with MUK about management Take a seat on the iCruise because it is going over the cliff Apologies, I could not resist.
@muk Here's your point in a nutshell:
"Blue-collar hero, bla, bla, bla,..., real men do dirty work, bla, bla, bla...".
Here's my point: it doesn't matter how much money you make, because you have to get dirty in order to make it, and that's what you seem to resent. That's your problem, not management. Maybe if you didn't buy a $60k pickup truck and whatever other stupid toys you own on a credit card you would have less to feel resentful about.
Nobody is safe. It does not matter how smart or experienced you are. Now its all about cost cutting so the accountants will decide who is laid off.
@wpq+14vAzwyc Actually, you missed the point. Its not about "getting hands dirty." Its about managers who have been brought in from other industries, then making decisions about the development of oil and gas products where they have no experience. I've worked for 4 oil and gas companies including SLB, Baker and Aramco. I've seen the same mismanagement of technology development in all of them, by managers brought in from outside. It boils down to incompetent managers. Managers should be grown internally so that they can understand the engineering behind what they are managing. Promote from within.
PS ... I'm not a manager. but I do earn more than most of them, so no I'm not envious about them. Just putting fact into context.
And about the HDFX post ... SLB introduced DFX about 15 years ago .. then Hal just stuck a H in front. There's no point in doing HDFX when most HAL engineers are not even competent in the basic foundations of their disciplines. Don't get me wrong, there are some really good engineers in HAL. Unfortunately they are managed my mediocrity. HDFX will NOT be advantageous in another industry if you are not even a competent engineer.
I hope I get a package yo. FTP
ICRUISE will save Halliburton!!!
Funny how you make fun of HDFX. In reality, the folks that embraced these tools and really learned them are the ones that stand the best chance of finding a job outside the oil and gas industry.
@cyj Managers set and maintain work process guidelines according to business objectives. It isn't their responsibility to "get their hands dirty". That's your job. If you don't like that other people make more money without "getting dirty" then that's your problem. They don't need to do your job to know how it fits into the business.
Don't worry, junior/middle managers will be thrown under the bus in due time. That's how corporations work.
HDFX will solve all Halliburton's problems (sarcasm)
Contractors are going first since they most of them where not affect by the furlough.
Time to get rid of the useless junior/middle managers! If they cannot do the job of their subordinates i.e. get their hands dirty .... then we don't need them. Time to clean house of all those managers who were hired with ZERO oil and gas experience. "they don't know what they don't know"
I know a L and T contractor that was laid off. Person was on H1B visa ... that sux
Safest place to be is SUSTAINING ... all those high dollar new projects are at risk!
Are the L&T contractors affected?
Already happeining
They have already began. I know a couple of people that have already been laid off.