Currently on internal hiring's Conoco will only put women in positions that open up regardless of experience. There have been multiple positions of Staff and Senior personnel applying for the same job type in a different area. The person that got the job was a women from college, and a women engineer with 2 years experience. Competitors for the job were all men with 10+ years and field experience. It seems corporate has decided to refuse in hiring men going forward. With that alot of us are starting to leave as we will no longer be moved around.
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My advice to the disenfranchised is go somewhere that your contributions are recognized and rewarded. The realization that you cannot win on any level at this company may be difficult but the sooner you stop blaming yourself and move on; the better you will be. If you are being passed over for lesser candidates then the message is clear. And by staying, your response is clear. We have sold many assets that are fun to work and present developmental opportunities. Follow the work. At some point, COP could simply be left with an exclusively diverse workforce, at least optically, that has no ability or motivation to complete the work. Do not stop believing in yourself. COP has become a parody.
@9ixs+1fDfS77W Coming from an older white guy (well I'm 52, so call me that if you want) that used to be in the industry ...that was all there was in the industry back in the 80's and 90's - times were tough in the oilfield and hardly anyone was going into Petroleum Engineering as it was thought that the US would run out of reserves sooner than later. STEM wasn't something that females went into as it wasn't pushed in any way in the high schools or at home so you didn't have many. Most of the girls I knew went to college for business, accounting, teaching, or medical fields. All noble ventures. I was lucky to get my degree in the mid-90s in Petroleum Engineering because many of the classes didn't have enough people and they'd mix in the masters students with us undergrads. I was also lucky to have spent a few years before going to college working on rigs as a floorhand and also being on frac crews before it was just an everyday thing.
So it isn't that you had all of these white guys promoted, it's that experienced people from back then are pretty thin. And regardless of what you think with your technology and other gadgets, the rubber meets the road in the field and a computer won't solve something really bad that happens in the oilfield and hopefully by now you have figured out that when bad stuff happens it is usually very bad and costly. I went through the gamut of jobs working on a drilling rig for a couple of years, then well testing. That stuff I learned my seem prehistoric, but when stuff happened on the rig floor when I was drilling engineer, the upper management calls me in for the explanation, not my boss that never stepped foot on a rig floor other than to observe sometime. Good luck to you young guy. And don't develop chestnut syndrome even though you are starting to get the start of it.
Actually, your statement that “ You go to college nowadays and it is half women so get used to the brave new world.”, is not accurate. Women were 59.5% of the student population in the US in 2021. Women have outnumbered men in college since 1979.
Sorry but there were so many incompetent old white guys when I was there. Some didn’t even really know how to use a computer other than to watch the stock ticker all day. This is a younger white guy btw.
Experience didn’t really mean much it seems, the grumpy old men’s experience was basically trying to read emails and watching the stock price like I mentioned. The only ones doing real work were the young new hires, independent of s-x. My older boss wouldn’t really approach the older crowd since he knew most of them were clueless bs’ers. One guy would rant about socialists while waiting for his pension handout, which I believe would be corporate socialism lol.
Anyways survival of the fittest and lazy men aren’t the fittest. You go to college nowadays and it is half women so get used to the brave new world.
Rent seeking is eternal. Meet the new boss same as the old boss.
@2mbo Not sure anyone is asking for it to be bias in anyones favor. Best person for the job with the best skills
I guess all your previous time playing golf with the bosses or going to the right church isn't going to work this time.
Your kind of attitude comes across to your coworkers. There are plenty of other places to work if you think the system is no longer biased for you.
Visiting from chevron. We have been like that for years. Now it is so bad they don’t even hide it anymore. It’s funny D&I at chevron means female.
But, but, but we need to be diverse. We’re in a journey so you better get onboard. This is how we roll here at the E&P Company of choice.
It’s been happening for several decades but it’s even worse now.