Does anyone have any idea when Conoco is planning to have the next "reorganization," also known as mass layoffs? I heard rumors that the company is looking to take advantage of the current environment when everybody is laying off so it's less noticeable and gets less press to downsize the workforce. Is there any truth to it?
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My guess is when either Cananda and L48/Alaska go-live with NextGen. That would be early 2024. When NextGen is done, what will all those people do.
The list of layoffs is long and many have been forgotten. Careers and lives have been ruined for many. For others careers and fortunes have been secured. Many involved in the decisions do their best to make fair choices but increasingly, the decisions are based on personal choices of management and HR. Competition is eliminated. Corporate memory is erased. The skeletons in the closet vanish. A unimaginable future of wealth is secured for the few. Paradoxically, in an age of inclusion, the outliers and non-conformists are cut thus eliminating approaches and viewpoints that don’t fit inside the increasingly narrow boundaries of what is acceptable.
Previous poster is partly correct. I’ve seen good and bad employees let go with no clear pattern. It’s like they get out a dart board, the org charts, and a couple of bottles of Jim beam and let the li---r fueled fates decide.
There is a "reorganization" happening in ABU this week. But we are told that we will end up with a headcount increase of one... The last comment may be true for other BU's or departments, but I've only seen good honest hard working people let go down here.
COP is the place you are least likely to be fired from. You may lose your job in a layoff if they are forced to cut, but those are the people (typically) that should have been on PIPs or cut due to lack of performance long prior. I mean, you have to suck pretty back to get laid off here. I have seen people that aren't more than warm bodies at work. . . people who regularly don't show up to work or who barely work core hours.
At some point there will be reductions in IT and finance due to nxtgen, but that time is not upon us yet.
We’re in an era of never ending “adjustment “ and it’s been going on since 2015. Sure there was a bit of a break after the big one in ‘21, but it’s never really over. Keep your office sparse and your options open my friends.