The c-ap is getting deep in the Midland office. Little by little as the org chart eeks out, nepotism and favoritism are starting to run rampant. Folks with HR files as thick as the good book are getting promotions. People that were friends yesterday are stabbing each other in the back today. It's ugly.
The best part of Concho is long gone with the VSPs last year and the management that left on the 15th. I think Conoco in a few weeks/months will start asking a really basic question. Who in their right mind gave any of these people jobs? Much like the water you should never trust anything that comes out of Big Spring, Texas. Conoco take a look around, there is no way this new venture is going to be successful as is.
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So you’re saying nepotism wasn’t alive and well when “corporate opportunities” found its way straight to a VP position?
Concho was pretty damn good at profit sharing and benefits.
COP management is absolutely profit driven... personal profit.
Bad Concho management being replaced with bad COP management. But at least the Concho management was profit driven.
When you say midland do you mean the actual town itself?
I will have to somewhat agree with this after recently hearing about people in an obsolete dept in Midland office getting offered jobs in other various depts within the company in midland. Obviously these secret jobs were not offered to everyone, some that definitely deserved those opportunities. The worker bees have their end dates while others get secret jobs. Sounds fair to me
I don’t know, seems to me that Conoco is cleaning up a lot of the Concho management mess. Long overdue. You will still have people high up that have maturity issues, but on paper it will be much more logical.
Sound a little disgruntled
On the bright side, the next round of layoffs will clear out a few more. And then the next. And the next. And the next...
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