Thread regarding Shell Oil layoffs

In Canada it wasn’t so much avanti as the asset sales. Foothills, fox creek, Gundy, peace river all sold in the past 5 years but for the most part while senior management just moved onto new roles globally the middle managers don’t have those connections so they are just kinda floating around now in various made up scrum teams etc

Yes but pre Avanti management mis managed and promoted the unskilled to the point no one understood the business. Simple decisions couldn't be made and it spiraled downhill. Remember the billion dollar challenge? The explanation from Watkins team of what that meant changed continuously. It is that inept leadership that destroyed a good business in Canada. Look at the acquisitions they made for 5 billion, pumped capital in and then sell for 500 million and then tell us it was a good deal. Duvernay, Blackrock, East Resources, Eagleford etc.

The foothills divestment couldn't be completed and the AER has forced Shell to retain the wells licences.

In Canada it wasn’t so much avanti as the asset sales. Foothills, fox creek, Gundy, peace river all sold in the past 5 years but for the most part while senior management just moved onto new roles globally the middle managers don’t have those connections so they are just kinda floating around now in various made up scrum teams etc

I worked on a team like that (but not onshore). A large leadership team, few peons. Every week the "leaders" would ask if anyone needed "help."

I said - too many tasks with short deadlines, and was suggested to merely rearrange what I was doing as to be more efficient. Neither the volume of work nor the deadlines changed! The "leaders" continued to enjoy themselves, "delivering through others", and feeling good about being so "helpful" to overworked peons.

Oh man. Unconventionals has become an industry laughing stock since avanti. It’s common now to have 2/3 or even just 1 contributor reporting to a cell lead, 2 cell leads reporting to a team lead. 2 team leads to a manager, etc. Each of those leadership levels focused on “delivering through others”.

Other companies are plenty profitable all around my field, but we never have nor will be. The work isn’t getting done anymore but staff payroll has barely budged with promotions offsetting the layoffs.

What else can you expect? They always let the slackers go first. You and your colleagues must be full-blown slackers that have no or little up-to-date job skills.

"You can't just say that men are bitter because there are a lot of women at JG1/2 leadership roles. It's because many of those are obvious stretches...

Shell has set up women for failure in leadership by promoting them way too fast, and discourage them from developing technical expertise. And that's not good for men or women."

in the old days this would matter. In the new Shell, the achievement is defined by who does the most number of meetings, and not by any commercial metric that keeps the company profitable. As such , these promotions are always a success!

There is nothing wrong with have more diversity in management, fully support encouraging that as long as it isn't only diversity of gender but also diversity of thought, politics, background/experience, etc. Gender is not the only type of diversity, nor is race!

The issue at hand is laying people off based on gender, not performance and merit. Gender-based layoffs are appalling and frankly an illegal form of sexism (in most countries). Sad to see Shell take this approach; the honest women regularly talk about how lucky they are to be women right now at Shell.

More diversity in leadership is a worthy goal and in theory makes for a healthier decision-making process. Unfortunately at Shell you've left the implementation of diversity goals to lazy id--ts. The only metric they hold themselves to is a percentage of diversity.

You can't just say that men are bitter because there are a lot of women at JG1/2 leadership roles. It's because many of those are obvious stretches. It's because team leads were named after everyone's job applications were in.

Now, filter for high technical roles at JG 1 and 2. One of my filters came up with 33 of 34 as men. Of course this is not because men are innately better technically. It's because women have a much faster path up the ladder by taking on coordinator and leadership roles.
Shell has set up women for failure in leadership by promoting them way too fast, and discourage them from developing technical expertise. And that's not good for men or women.

Are you insinuating that the females getting higher JG's will cause Shell to collapse? Bitter much?

The OP here. Seeing lots of females shooting up into high JGs with the Reshape. Will bring on more and more meetings in the near future! As the business is being flushed down the toilet ...