If NOV continues to treat older employees with skills and experience in this way, the question is who will teach new employees in the future who come in with ever-increasing knowledge gaps.
It seems that NOV is not even thinking about it? If I weren’t very close to retirement, I’d rather try to rebound my career at another company.
Just look at it objectively. You and your ilk have messed it up, just a fact. May as well let the next generation in to collaborate, innovate and efficiently restore productivity, relevance and profitability. We will at least correct your mistakes and make things right, and then we will prosper. Retire and peace out, oatmeal and prunes for breakfast for what remains of your lifetime won’t be that bad…
the new millennial way of thinking will ki-l this company. yes you may have better ways of managing the spread sheet and controlling cost. but the company was built on guys in the field and the shops working thier a-s off. if nov forgets that hardwork is what pays the bills not some fairytale office dreamworld it is over.
Capable of growing the company? LOL, you couldn't get your as s out of a wet diaper much less run a company.
Actually, we the newer generation are tired of listening to your rants about your experience, knowledge and wisdom. I truly don’t care about the good old days, shove off and make room for those of us who are capable of growing the company.
Or you have Managers that have been with NOV so long they have the power to shut facilities and then put a chokehold on us in Sales because Manufacturing can’t produce. We aren’t a worthy manufacturer anymore. We have not kept our equipment up to date. When was there any thing significant in say downhole. Just us doing the same old same old while they continue to point fingers. It leadership.
Most current managers only have years of tool vaccum experience or they are lubrication specialist. Those skills will run you up the chain quick around here.
when nov started walking guys with 20-30 years with the compamy out the door that was the day nov died. Now you have managers, supervisors, and techs doing a job that they are not qualified for and have no idea how anything nov makes actually works.
prime example the Houston controls dept. the manager was given a job and the techs are not qualified to do the job. but its about the money. if you send a guy that can't fix it he gets more day rate so nov wins. the customer's now lose.
Yes yes yes. The young g-ns always think they can do better, when in reality, they have no idea how any of this works. Sure, they went to school, some to a trade school and some have higher education, but just remember boys, your ideas may look good on paper but most times, it never works or it takes years to work all the problems you created out.
And once the young inexperienced guys get to run the place closure will surely follow
Once all the old moaning guys have gone then the machines shall stand a chance of actually becoming an asset and not a liability?
They still operate in the 20th century.
Thats for sure!
There is nothing nov do now that is worth passing on anyway, so it's a good thing. Old fashion methods met with old fashion equipment, operated by old fashion people, led by old fashion management.