Thread regarding Schlumberger Ltd. layoffs

HR in SLB provides almost no support. 99% of their job is basically ignoring everything and preventing managers from properly doing their jobs. Sure there a few good HR people, but almost all of the HR in SLB is worthless. HR does not even enforce the rules and they close their own ethics complaints against themselves. I cant understand how the most worthless one's are being protected from the layoffs just because they have HR titles. From what I see HR is actively trying to put SLB out of business with their incompetence.

More detail here - https://sanfordheisler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/16-First-Amended-Complaint.pdf

Where was HR when all this was going down? I see a lot of comments on this board about how HR s—s. The basins I worked in seem to have mostly decent HR. They didn't always tell you what you wanted to hear, but didn't blow of legit complaints.

This is not Bed,Bath,and Beyond.

Maybe noodicles are an option

A lot of he said she said. Take everything with a grain of salt, from both sides. A few will end up with a good chunk of change, though not $100M. Nice work if you can get it.

Another woman joins s-xual harassment lawsuit against Schlumberger

September 2, 2020, by Bojan Lepic

Another former female employee of oilfield services giant Schlumberger has been added as a second plaintiff in a $100 million s-xual harassment class-action lawsuit against the company.

On Monday, the Sanford Heisler Sharp law firm filed an amended class action complaint against Schlumberger on behalf of women who work on oil rigs in the United States.

The amended complaint adds Jessica Cheatham, a former Schlumberger employee who worked on oil rigs in various states, as a plaintiff and class representative.

Cheatham joins original plaintiff and class representative Sara Saidman who filed her lawsuit in late June. Saidman stated in the lawsuit that the company turns “a blind eye to the pattern of s-xual harassment, s-x (gender) discrimination, and physical danger that women are subjected to” while working on oil rigs.

The lawsuit seeks an award of damages under Title VII, including back pay, front pay – instead of reinstatement, compensatory damages, and punitive damages in an amount not less than $100 million. The lawsuit was filed with the United States District Court in the Southern District of Texas – Houston division.

Michael Palmer, one of the lawyers representing the women, said: “Despite being employed by Schlumberger at different times and often different locations, the discrimination they experienced is consistent and common. Plaintiffs now seek to put an end to the systemic discrimination and harassment that they and hundreds of other women have suffered while working at Schlumberger”.

According to the law firm, in amending the complaint to add Jessica Cheatham, plaintiffs chronicle the gender discrimination, s-xual harassment, and retaliation that Cheatham, like Saidman, endured throughout her employment at Schlumberger.

In the complaint, Cheatham alleges that one of her male colleagues threatened to “bend over [his] knee and spank [her]” and used inappropriate and crude s-xual language when teaching her how to use a certain tool.

When she complained to Schlumberger’s human resources, she was told: “Guys just do that. This is a man’s field, so they’re bound to say stuff”.

Other instances alleged in the amended complaint include Cheatham’s male colleagues telling her that she was “one of those girls working in the oilfield, trying to sleep around with men out here”.

On another occasion, she was accused of performing “special favours” of a s-xual nature to get a promotion. Another Schlumberger employee told her that wearing shorts on the rig meant that she was “asking for it”.

Cheatham also alleges that male workers told her that she did not deserve to work on rigs and, in one instance, called the Schlumberger office to request that she be “replaced by a man”.

The complaint notes that all of the s-xual harassment and gender discrimination instances were reported to Schlumberger on multiple occasions, but were either discounted or ignored entirely.

It also details how Schlumberger retaliated against Cheatham for complaining about discrimination, eventually refusing to staff her on any rig unless she accepted a significant demotion and took a position in Alaska.

“The addition of Cheatham as a plaintiff and class representative is further evidence of the pervasive gender-based hostility that exists for women who work in the male-dominated oil field at Schlumberger”, added Nicole Wiitala, another lawyer representing Cheatham and Saidman.

Women in Schlumberger
It is worth noting that the law firm stated in the complaint that 95 per cent of Schlumberger’s employees on oil rigs are male.

“Women who work on oil rigs are s-xually assaulted, s-xually harassed, groped, leered at, and treated as s-xual objects by their male colleagues. They are referred to as “c–ts”, “b–ches”, and “sl–s” who are undeserving of equal pay.

“And this animus, harassment, and discrimination is not isolated: women working on Schlumberger oil rigs nationwide have reported a hostile work environment in which pervasive s-xual harassment and discrimination are standard operating procedure”, the law firm said in the introduction of the complaint.

The complaint quotes Schlumberger’s website which claims that “diversity has played a major role in the development of Schlumberger, and for nearly 25 years gender balance has been a major focus for us […] Today, diversity runs through Schlumberger at every job level”.

In opposition to these statements, women account for barely 16 per cent of Schlumberger’s global workforce, and women occupy approximately 5 per cent of field-based positions.

In the complaint, Sanford Heisler Sharp claims that Schlumberger itself acknowledges that “decades of male dominance” have led to these abysmal gender diversity numbers.

https://www.offshore-energy.biz/another-woman-joins-s-xual-harassment-lawsuit-against-schlumberger/#:~:text=Another%20woman%20joins%20sexual%20harassment%20lawsuit%20against%20Schlumberger,-Safety&text=Another%20former%20female%20employee%20of,action%20lawsuit%20against%20the%20company.

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The can of worms is being prised open,. I'll just get a cup of coffee, sit back and enjoy.

Go...go... go...Sue SLB.......They really deserved ...Hope to see more people joining and not only in s-xual Harassment...Other topics will came for sure ..working conditions....working hours... overtime...

Amen.

HR in SLB is worthless, so not surprised there are issues like this as they ignore everything.
HR can literally disappear tomorrow and no one will notice. They literally do nothing but collect paychecks. The biggest savings SLB can do is get rid of all the HR managers.

It’s liberty’’s problem now

Joining the "bandwagon"??? Do not pass Go, do not collect $200, go directly to your (probably white) male privilege time machine and go back to the good old days with the rest of your good old boys to when backwards, racist, s-xist oilfield trash culture was KKKool. SLB parades around like its sh!t doesn't stink... ha! I can't wait to see a couple (or couple dozen) girls drag SLB through the mud and then bleed it dry.

Not a fair statement while those that were or are still employed by the company face even more challenges when lawsuits like this happen.

No doubt more will join the bandwagon, they usually do