The question you should ask, the same question I ask myself, is the money worth the environment and degradation of your career progression. If you're happy, you're set, don't worry about layoffs. If you find money isn't worth the environment, you should look at it from that prospective. All these years, moneys have always been worth it for me, until now. At this point, I'm just waiting and watching if things improve. If things keep going as is, ill be looking at options myself. My age is the critical factor, I don't want to stay too long and the environment stays the same or degrades and I've become "Aramconized" and afraid to move on. Im seeing lots of people in my department choosing to move on for various reasons.
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@3mfh+1bhjBHRu, you nailed it. I was very pleased with the pay at Aramco, but that was unfortunately all. I’ve been working for a much smaller amount lately, it’s still weird to me and I’m not completely used to the new environment, but I’m much happier in the new company.
I left just when I started to wonder if the pay was worth everything I went through here and when I realized that my career here could only go downhill.
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A carrier as you knew it started to degrade the day you land in Saudi. Every Saudi manager thinks they are their clan leader and tries to micromanage every little detail, not because he wants to have control, but because they are afraid of letting others know how little they understand of how to run a team.
@7ply+1bmRUwat it depends on an individual case basis. But seriously going to a land far away with restrictions such as those faced in KSA. I had a previous experience with Saudi companies (non Aramco) as customers I naively thought Aramco was better managed and learned that it was actually the same. With that background information what made me accept the offer back then was simply M-O-N-E-Y. Why else would I have gone to those conditions?
It's sad to see people on here who are ALL about the money. Money is important of course but at the price of selling your soul and wh0ring it over there ain't worth it, believe me!
Well Mr. Clever, I'm from layoff class of June 2020 and in my case it made sense financially since a substantial part of my earnings were invested. I am actually close to my retirement number and have sat down this COVID situation quite comfortably while I look for a job.
I couldn't agree more on the (lack of) fulfillment part and experienced a decay in the quality of the schools and life on the camps. It took me 3 years of the 6 I spent there to learn to just go along with the flow. In my particular department emphasis was placed more on the "show" aspect of things than actually getting things done. Well, it has been said before about the utter incompetence of the vast majority of locals.
At the end I was sacked and now enjoying a lengthy vacation,
Why is that that people come here and just lie... Truckload of money? BS!!! There is no such thing in Aramco unless you were from the very old Aramco payroll.
Now, you just get enough so that you stay and not more than that, so that you don't leave on your own term. All of you money hungry id--ts will realize when you turn 60 that all your greed didn't payoff! You should look at the whole package: kids education, your mental sanity, the environmental impact on your health, your intellectual fulfillment, your earning...
People are so lost in this myth ( Big Money Aramco) that they don't even realize that they can make more of that money back home or doing something else more intelligently. I am sad to see some of the posts in here...
We know. You’re exactly what did (not) build the place. You’re just a western saudi
When I see a bag of greens deposited at my bank every month tax free and another truckload at my retirement account, I have this huge smile on my face and it's all worth it. I would do it all over again. Couple that with the merit announced this week and I am a money wh0re. I dig it baby.