I have been working here for a long time and I notice that there is less and less enthusiasm and motivation both working hard and advancing one's career. Some new hires are literally lost, some of them don't even know what to do. No one has ambition to stay here for a long time anymore.
I'm leaving soon, and if someone asks me if things will get better - I doubt it. Most people think it will get worse. The only question is in which way it will get worse for employees here...
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Been transitioning that way since the 70's and 80's. Nothing new about it.
Aramco is being run out of Riyad, not Dhahran. Riyad lives in a high-tech-sustainable-eco-friendly-glowing-cities-in-the-middle-of-nowhere-video-game world that is free from such non-sense as economics and efficiency. Company management are a bunch Riyad "yes men" who ask "how high" when they are told to jump. If you are doing anything that isn't being discussed in Davos, you are irrelevant. Aramco is running on auto pilot right now because responsible people don't want to work for irresponsible leaders. It is only a matter of time until something really big goes wrong, and you won't want to be anywhere near the place when it does.
Quit yer bellyaching. I am 62 and I'd return in a millisecond. Easy work, high pay easy life.
Is it perfect? No, but what is. Make your bank and go home when the s bucket exceeds the $ bucket.
It’s a death spiral. Hire cheaper people, get worse quality, treat them like apprentices, hang around save some Buck , then leave. Repeat. There is no career of any sorts for expats. It’s KSA gov policy.
This model means that eventually one ends up with an org full of slackers and incompetents. Corporate memory is lost. Id--ts leading id--ts. This is Aramco today.
Smart people respond to their environments, if you see how others are treated (like dirt and with zero respect) it’s only natural that people who can, will find a way out.
Aramco is not a sustainable business model in any normal commercial environment. This is KSA and Armaco is a monopoly, where it can get by being run terribly, by virtue of it having oil in its backyard and the infra setup by Americans all those years ago.
The music will stop one day but not before armies of consultants have made their fortune telling Aramco management exactly what they want to hear.
Aramco is hiring high experience people, to face veteran employees without any interest to show how the business is run cause they are fear to lose their jobs and with envy of their salaries plus inexperience bosses with no any management skills and a rough environment.
But no issue at all cause they will continue spending money recruiting every couple of months.