What ever happened to running a steady ship?
The need for adjustments and tweaks is always necessary to react to external forces.
But is it really productive and healthy for long-term corporate health to keep hacking at the organization?
We don’t ever seem to let things settle out and function long enough before the basket is turned over again.
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I has sooo much ang-i-sty cuz I is a DEI hire an' I don'ts deserves my monies!
it doesn’t matter how bad or good you are anymore
that only determines if you’re cut after 3 years or 7. there is no such thing as a shell career anymore. this is YLs shell. it’s not even “up or out”. it’s mediocrity velocity.
My uncle retired from here. He worked 40 years for Shell if you can believe that. I will not retire here even if I wanted to. No matter how well I perform or how talented I am, I am a number based on my job grade and salary. They will cut me. If I don’t perform they will cut me. It’s a losing situation for the long term. Waiting for tje market to improve a bit before I venture out of the pecten. I have resigned to the fact my stress levels will be high until I do.
100%
it is now obvious that at least 10 years of senior leadership was doing nothing but riding someone else’s bets and firing the shots they lined up
Shell was able to rest on its laurels with some prolific assets. Those are starting to come to the end of their life and pretty soon there won’t be enough food on the table for everyone.
i can tell you this much - the west is shamed when they hire their own and the east is celebrated for hiring their own and nobody calls them out on it. you claim they’re upfront about doing it but the thing is that it’s easy to be upfront when you have zero consequences. can’t do that openly in the west.
the inevitable result is mass outsourcing and teams that are all from the same villages in india
The difference I see between the West and East, is that the East accepts they use favoritism, nepotism, and cronyism openly. The West likes to act like we do things the right way and then turn around and use favoritism, nepotism, and cronyism to benefit a small group (politicians and c-suite execs) of people. I would rather the institutions, organizations, and people be upfront than lie about their intentions. I don't want to support anyone that champions these three 'isms. They want us to follow the rules while they cheat.
indeed. though i challenge the idea of hiring friends being a strictly western phenomenon.
hire enough buddies and DEI people and eventually they make it up the ladder and their incompetence shines. they do stuff like sell profit centers without making new ones and destroy the whole thing
The company internally has been going in the wrong direction for a decade now. There is too much emphasis on favoritism instead of actual value delivery. I think it represents a larger trend in how the western countries have operated. Focusing internal hiring on personal connections rather than hiring the best fit has it's consequences long term.
It’s a sad sad company from what it was
it’s simple
they don’t care. nothing matters except wael making bonus. not even the long term health of the company or the careers of its employees. nothing. but waels money.