I’m at a major right now and we’ve had a moderate level of people under 35 move on (or get moved on). These were ‘engineers’ who didn’t know how separators or heater treaters worked, didn’t know a gate valve from a ball valve or what the difference between a centrifugal pump and a PD pump was. Think they were getting their jobs through nepotism etc. This was especially the case in GOM. One FE didn’t even know how to design pipe anchor points based on pipe stress. Some of these were snapped up by Occidental as team leads and SMEs like they were rocket scientists. Are there any standards over there or did that all disappear at some point?
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I never understand why people complain about Oxy when all they have to do is leave. Nothing you say on this Web Site will ever change anything you perceive as you being wronged. Just leave for your own sake and stop the whining. It really is that simple.
My thought exactly. Not even remotely convincing.
100% fake troll post. OP works for Oxy and is butthurt because others are getting promoted ahead of him.
The safest thing to do is to let them rise to their incompetence level. Yes, promote them to be managers and leads. Their decisions don’t matter anyway because direction, if any, comes from above. Let the good technical professional make the safety and engineering calculations and listen to their advice.
Like any other independent the standards for hiring are inconsistent. Overall they do a great job of hiring talented professionals. The company would never hire specialists who do not know their jobs.