As a Tubo employee, I have always felt that we are the black sheep of the company.
We do inspections for other business groups within the wellbore group.
To myself, it feels like some of the more senior employees (especially DHT) see us as the "lesser" NOV employee.
I am grateful for the steady work, I just don't feel that I owe anything to them. I see them as employees, just like myself.
My question is, does any other Tubo person feel this way?
I am just curious as to how it is in other divisions in the company.
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Several posts were removed. What gives?
SMT: ok guys, we got improve margins and Ebitda. What’s the plan?
Coach: I know, let’s raise prices!!!
SMT: Bold strategy Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off.
Slamming the Coach!
I’ve never worked for a company who was so allergic to giving their employees a raise as Tuboscope. Working in inspection is like be punished for being born. Should have listened to Ma when she told me to go to college
I agree about the VPs not holding their Managers to any accountability. Our Manager leaves by 3 everyday and noon on fridays
@@bkh+1eFAVnxQ, you are incorrect. Actually Tuboscope bought Varco . . .with Varco's own money and the original Varco folks (me included) were sick with the changes. The Varco private ownership was ready to move on CFO Clay Williams of Tuboscope orchestrated a loan to buy Varco and then used the cash within the bank at Varco to pay off the loan but no one really knew the Tuboscope name so they kept Varco at the name.
The biggest issue with Tuboscope within the NOV world is that they are primarily a service within a company that manufactures equipment. They were/are a round peg in the organization's square ho-e. NOV has always had a hard time with pipe and that includes Grant Prideco but you have to have that stuff if Pete wants to claim "from the crown to the drill bit".
The other issue with Tuboscope as mentioned here is that their management (VP and down) are just horrible. They are as incompetent as many of the other NOV folks but in some cases even worse because they are abusive, short sided and frankly in some cases just not very smart but they survived the departure of others so they got promoted.
Grant acts the same way. They’re across the street from us and treat us like the red headed step child. Anytime they need something, we’re expected to stop whatever we’re doing and get on their projects even if their poor planning has put them behind. Our plant manager just does whatever they say. I guess I can’t blame him though, if he doesn’t, they run and cry to their fearless leader like the babies they are.
What groups in Tuboscope would NOV really want to hold on to? They should sell it all off for whatever they can get for it.
Tubo went from industry leading tech to barely able to maintain their own decades old legacy tech in one engineering vp's horribly failed tenure. During that time Tubo acquired r&m tech that never really existed or worked and rather than admit it they doubled down and bet the farm on the ALT team giving them the reigns and all of the resources which not surprising still didn't produce what they needed or wanted. They've been losing inspection market for a while and can't admit any mistakes and fix anything because of sunk cost. After bleeding engineers and experience to attrition, layoffs, and multiple people quitting they scrambled to bring in a couple outside hires that have no idea how to right the ship because the current leadership still holds on.
To your question from the NOV side, they bought up Tubo for their name and tech and have easily come to realize how utterly incompetent tubo is managed. They will continue to invest in divisions and departments that can actually perform. Not on a bunch of old guys riding the coattails of smarter engineers back in the 80s. Tubo will continue to promise and beg NOV that this time they will finally make something work, they will continue to fail, and NOV will grumble and look down on them because at least they got some decent coating patents and facilities out of it.
Look in the coming years for Holmes road to finally deteriorate and buildings continue to fall apart before NOV finally steps in and breaks things up taking what works and leaving what doesn't into more competently handled divisions.