Is Halliburton having issues recruiting people? Seems like all the new hires that are arriving have almost no manufacturing experience. I personally don't mind, everyone starts somewhere, but it's odd to me because normally I'm used to seeing people that at least transferred from some type of small machine shop, competitor or something like that. What's going on really?
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That last reply is absolutely correct and obviously the person who wrote it either worked there or was a customer who experienced the new Halliburton and found it was a cesspool of incompetent mo--ns led by egotistical failures.
Do you have a pulse join Halliburton Arbroath no experience required your here to make up the numbers. See a job opportunity go for it you will get it no questions asked, do you have a drink problem great on your c.v go for a supervisors role. Are you experienced no luck there your the sh--e on management's shoe
It's a race to the bottom, hire bottom dwellers low achievers at a low cost. Hire clueless managers to manage clueless workers and now you have a winning recipe for the company. Low wages poor management and it's a value proposition that only WINS.
It's not even the field hands. It's everyone in all departments that are treated badly.
If someone has legitimate manufacturing experience they will have job opportunities available to them that are much more stable and attractive than Halliburton. The days of the big service companies being able to easily recruit and retain top shelf technical talent is long gone. Partly due to the general state of the industry and this economy, partly due to how poorly managed these companies have become. As an industry veteran it's sad to see.
"Manufacturing experience", what's that? When you have high school graduates that can't do basic math, read, or comprehend written instructions, or have no clue of how ANYTHING mechanical operates, or when you have a 'pool' of college graduates, with their absolutely useless degree, that don't want to get their hands dirty, or absolute stoners (Colorado, I use YOU for an example), along with also having absolutely NO clue on how anything mechanical functions, you suddenly realize that the bottom of the barrel has been reached.
On the plus side, WHY would anyone want to try to make a career with a company, where there are NO, or extremely limited opportunities for advancement, or a company where management treats the field hands (who make the money) like fe--s, or, a company that rides on its past reputation, a reputation that peaked in the 1980's, and those that were hired then, and actually gave a tihs, are now gone, along with the reputation that they, and those before them worked hard to establish and maintain, leaving Halliburton with NO new ideas, NO future, and NO reason to hire anyone that is NOT expendable.
The days of Halliburton being anything but just another service company, are long gone.