Thread regarding Apache Corp. layoffs

The Breaking Point

After three reorganizations in less than five years, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that I ended up on the chopping block. Leadership promised stability but delivered more chaos. They preached transparency while making decisions behind closed doors. Morale is in the toilet and no one trusts the executives to turn things around.

The highly marketed Business Excellence group checks their boxes and claims success, leaving destruction in their wake for others to clean up. This isn’t excellence — it’s dysfunction masquerading as progress. Leaders are being placed in roles they have no business being in, proving once again that politics—not expertise—dictates who gets ahead. Meanwhile, executives fall for the pretty slides and checked-off boxes, completely disconnected from the reality of what is happening on the ground.

Honestly, I feel for the people still there—exhausted, disengaged, and running on fumes while leadership looks forward to “exciting times”. They can keep their lip service. I’m moving on, and I can only hope the ones left behind eventually get the leadership they deserve.

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They’re all just sheep. Following orders from above along with VPs and directors who have nothing to do and no title

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Post ID: @177x+1jmgve491

@cx the business excellence team pulled staff and managers from productive work . The time wasted on their initiatives negatively impacted the workforce and results.

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Post ID: @173f+1jmgve491

@cx the executives asks their leaders what excellence looks like and then proceeds to tell them the answer is wrong. Stop wasting everyone’s time on this BS.

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Post ID: @173e+1jmgve491

There is always a buyer for junk.

We bought CPE because it was cheap, we are at 3.2 P/E ratio. Look at the majors who have a P/E of 18-24. Buying us lowers their P/E ratio which pleases their shareholders..

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Post ID: @vy+1jmgve491

The entire company is one big grift.
It won’t survive.
Because of the debt and the North Sea assets nobody will purchase the company and it will face chapter 7 liquidation.

They know that and are taking as much as they can before the inevitable.

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Post ID: @ve+1jmgve491

No "big boy" will want to touch us. for what would they actually get?

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Post ID: @v4+1jmgve491

What was the need to go buy Callon at $4.5B and currently the market cap is $8.5B. APA will be taken out by the big boys pretty soon!

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Post ID: @pn+1jmgve491

No company loses 12 VPs in a day…. Adding to instability. Ridiculous!

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Post ID: @je+1jmgve491

LOL I have seen how MM looks at Business Excellence

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Post ID: @h6+1jmgve491

If you were laid off it's the biggest blessing of your professional career. Just think, they could've "Tulsa'ed" you or even sent you a certified WARN letter on the weekend like they did to San Antonio.

It's unfathomably disgusting leadership - JC, JJ, MM, SR I'm looking at you. APA is the one family member that shows up completely drunk, smoking Marlboro reds at grandmas house for Christmas breakfast picking fights with their cousins.

It's just all disgusting but you no longer have to go through Sundays dreading 8am Monday morning. You are better than the "company" you worked for.

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Post ID: @dz+1jmgve491

No big cuts in accounting? Half of them literally only click buttons in SAP. Not to be rude but half of them are clueless. Non working SR Mgrs included. Can BH leave? No dance video needed on the way out

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Post ID: @dd+1jmgve491

The Business Excellence group as a whole had nothing to do with the RIF. They were impacted as well…

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Post ID: @cx+1jmgve491

Are layoffs finished or are they still ongoing?

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Post ID: @c3+1jmgve491

And why there are still so many directors and sr managers in supply chain? Are we in the oil and gas business or running a supply chain outfit.

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Post ID: @bx+1jmgve491

Y’all have been given a gift. Once you’ve accepted it, you will wonder why you stayed so long. Best wishes for a great new adventure!

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Post ID: @bv+1jmgve491

Anybody know what teams were affected yesterday and how many?

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Post ID: @bp+1jmgve491

Bean counters and alcoholics running the company … abandon ship … no future

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Post ID: @bn+1jmgve491

Rumors are very very friendly and closely guarded. Check her last employment and facts show very very friendly with her boss.

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Post ID: @bk+1jmgve491

Business Excellence should have been the First to go!!!!!! However their boss is “friendly” with MM. soooooooo

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