I’m hoping someone in management will read this and wonder why we have Refining PCN doing the majority of IT infrastructure, and IcS staff at sites are pretty much useless and do very little of the core business.
It’s the biggest waste of resources at the sites. If you look at the top 2 incentives they implemented ClarOty and SolarWinds are totally a joke. ClarOty isn’t doing anything and ICS management is projecting the benefits. Ask any PCN Team lead they will laugh!
Please help us at the sites!!!
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@b1 Thank you all for sharing the insights. Hopefully refining leadership sees it and takes actions.
Ho-k ho-k. Didn’t know what a packet is while talking about technology.
@hh Packets??? LMFAO that's such a perfect example of the small brained ICS mindset. The PCN Engineers operate with barrels, MINIMUM, because the work we do guarantees MAX throughput. At least you can use your little IT parcels to ship us more keyboards since we keep blowing through those with all the MASSIVE optimizations we are making.
The support needs to be at the site, not IT. IT is ever expanding and over reaching, more and more out of control every day. Has anyone asked how much money is being pumped into SolarWinds and Claroty to understand how much is being pi---d away??? IT will use whatever they can to justify their existence. Keep the PCN where it belongs, at the refineries.
Lmao the PCN networks at the refineries are so bad every day without an explosion that harms people is a miracle of divine intervention.
Bunch of clowns that don’t know what a packet is just saying things..
@cy, be careful what you wish for.
Anything Corporate is garbage!!!
They should just outsource all of IT.
WEP them all.
So true, finally said what we PCN engineers ask ourselves all the time. Corporate ICS is a joke and the staff at the refineries are useless. Get rid of the entire group and you wouldn’t even know the existed.
Here I come to save the day!
It's because ICS is ran out of corporate IT, and that puts a ton of baggage on the front-line workers. Corporate IT management is full of low energy dweebs. On the flip side the PCN workers have strong refining backgrounds and have a much stronger understanding of how to manage business critical infrastructure while also aligning with the Operations organization. The PCN workers are more technical, more involved, provide significantly more value, and are much harder to train and replace. They are also on average more than 3 inches taller than ICS workers.