Having the office staff move to Midland is BS. It’s a great layoff strategy between Shell and COP so no one has to pay severance.
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COP has been trying to passively increase attrition for years. They do this by assigning lousy rotations, busy-work, and mediocre tasks so they can then give you an average or subaverage rating. Hope being you’ll get fed up and quit or they can eventually have just cause for letting you go. If you’re not “management material”, you’re disposable.
Welcome to SPIRIT values!
Just wait until you meet the JV squad.
If Shell is forcing you to accept merger and move to Midland, you have to visit it to see how pretty it is there. And if the company is moving you all expenses paid, and you are retaining your current salary or getting an incentive to move, why worry.
If you have family good luck, they usually freak after 6 months have passed and the "vacation mentality" changes to omg we live here. Otherwise take the severance and run.
Yes, if you work in the Permian, you will have to move to Midland. At least that is how it was a couple months ago when I left COP. They moved my position to Midland and would not make an exceptions to work in Houston so I had to find another job - no severance. If they accommodate Shell employees and let them work in Houston, they will have a lot of pi-sed off COP employees that had to move. As far as open positions in Houston, there are very few available.
"If your work location changes from Houston to Midland means that you don't need to apply to a COP position."
Ok, but would not you have to apply with Conoco to find out where the new job would be??? And if you get a Midland offer, it's too late to decline it!
This is not true. If your work location changes from Houston to Midland means that you don't need to apply to a COP position. Folks in that category can apply internally in Shell and eventually get a severance if unsuccessful in MOR rounds
All Shell Permian staff that wants to stay with ConocoPhillips has to move to Midland? Or are there a few roles in the Houston office?