In your opinion, what is the single biggest issue BP is facing right now
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This is why BP will fail with its reorganization. The workers are not the problem, it’s the level e and up.
Guy is probably charging £600 p/d. Much more common than you would expect amongst the engineering contractor crowd.
Process engineers (good ones) were commonly charging >£800p/d a few years back before falling back a bit.
Sounds a lot but Shell ( + BP) will regularly engage the big 4 / McKinsey / Boston to do pieces of work and won't blink at paying them £2k per day per person.
It really doesn't pay to be an employee of these big co's, even during previous cuts I've seen contractors retained whilst staff let go - probably looks better on "headcounts" when reporting to shareholders. F—'em and fill your pockets.
Blimey!! £12k invoice every month!!? You’re doing alright no wonder you can laugh!
The only problem I'll ever have with them is when they can no longer pay my invoice.
Extract as much ££ as you can from them whilst you're there and play the game in whichever way necessary to maximise that ££ - what we all do is irrelevant nonsense really, treat it as such, smile / laugh inside when the buzzwords start flying (even join in for a laugh).
Ooops, that's another £12k invoice this month, thanks BP!
this effing place will have a 2-hour town hall about why dog sh– is the best lunch on earth. 500 highly educated people will be forced to call in. after listrning to this bull, a bunch of wannabees will chime in with softball questions and fawning statements about how dog sh– is the future of food. then every participant will be assigned a dozen online training sessions to complete and then be forced into weekly chexkins to discuss the merits of dog sh–.
then, your next perf contract will focus mainly on dog sh– and not work.
BP will always be optics focused. As a consequence, they will not lead, but react to activist investors. Each time they scream, BP flinches. As such, they abandon what they've started, and everyone is left to repair the damage. So, Looney gets in and he overturns everything and announces bp will trade in green energy. Great. Who commits to working on something they know very little about and jumps in with both feet??
The company is forever at a reputational and fonancial disadvantage after macando
Bp has, and always has had, ADD. It is always pure chaos and initiatives that are started but the organization doesn't have the ptience to see through. Most jobs are revolving doors and directions are shifted ever couple of years. Bp lurches from one crisis to the next. 2020 has been a great example in which other folks have commented. The constant chaos and lack of focus, along with the incredible current uncertainty, has destroyed morale. Bp is a hellhole. It is an embarrassment to say you work there.
Mental health of staff. St. James announced these cuts way too early and has been weighing on people for more than 6 months. This affects us on a personal level with some extreme consequences, like we’ve seen in headlines recently. And this will affect our ability to focus on safe reliable operations. But Bernie wanted to send a signal to investors as soon as he came into office. So now we all have to deal with the emotional stresses. He’s a selfish and sh–e leader.
Have to agree with trimming “leadership”. I was so disappointed to see that Tier 3 was not cut anywhere near 15-25% as previously announced. In some teams, like I&E, Tier 3 headcount came no where near their target! And of course they have already said no cuts to the “front line.” That means the real cuts are coming to tier 4 and lower. Good luck to all the underlings who don’t have connections in the exec office.
Trim the digital and tech teams. They don’t actually do anything anyway they just get third parties in to do the actual work.
If the CEO actually cares as he says and if they really want to save money, the first thing would be to trim the Leadership team salary and that will keep 100's if not 1000's people with jobs. Long list of VP about 600 of them. Is that really necessary? I bet 1 VP salary can pay at least 4 engineers.
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