I left about three years ago because Imperial had changed drastically compared to when I started. Employee morale had reached an all-time low and I didn't want to stick around to find out how much worse it would get. For the sake of my former coworkers who were all great people, I hope things have changed for the better and not for the worse since then.
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It's kinda in that awkward, heads down, work your shift and try not to think about pips. I hope they release our pip info soon.... it's unnerving
In the mine it's terrible. Unless you're a brown nosing contractor of course, then everything is great.
I used to work at controllers back in the 2000s. Culture couldn’t get worse that it is now I supposed. It was pretty bad back then with whoever was running the show back then….you know who you are
People that I work with at my site/other sites and calgary are great. But the culture has become way more top down from Houston and IOL is an EM cash cow at this point. No autonomy. Pressured to use outsourced tech center resources even though our contractors have way better ROI. No local growth or prospects.
Same feeling here OP. When I first stated with the company, I was fortunate to have worked with amazing people and the culture was much more positive and inspiring. But I saw it slowly degrade from bad to worse every passing year and most of it driven by handful of incompetent narcissistic people at leadership positions due to terrible promotions. Upstream has many such examples. I my opinion, the system is rigged beyond help. Overall, it's a great organization but it's culture and the quality of people at first line leadership roles (team lead, supervisor) roles needs serious introspection.
Upper management is trying to get as much benefit, wages & stocks for themselves and made this place as he-l. They don’t give a sh-t to this company. Those who can’t get job anywhere or folks close to retirement are here.
Definitely worse