Its crazy how you all have been trained to need! From birth you have been told to go to school so that you can get a good job. You did all of that and still ended up on this site bitching about what other men are doing to you. You put all your loyalty into this company and now you have been either laid off, waiting to be laid off, or in constant fear of being laid off. What really gets me is the people who are still in the company in fear of losing their job. SLB employees seem like nothing but robots. You guys are nothing but victims of greed and this is why you guys are so hurt about the company's decisions. Its not just the company that is greedy, but you guys as well. You put yourself through all of the crap that SLB has to offer for an above avg check every two weeks. The oilfield is needed for the many process of the world today but it represents everything wrong with people. You get laid off and now you're scared and in fear of the future and whats to come and how will I live now and I loved SLB and now they have let me go and its such bullshit blah blah blah. Move the f*** on with life it has so much more to offer than 16hr + work days. You all are nothing but robots!!!
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@Anonymous91007. Calm down, I was trying to be SYMPATHETIC to a poster's plight. My economics and business classes, are not redundant, thank you for pointing that out. Anyway, to every other poster, the idea behind business, is to make profit, sacrifices have to be made with expenditure and yes, Human Capital is very disposable. At the end of the day, the market is very volatile and for an organization to function in the black or at least, break even, cuts have to be made. Painful as it might sound, that's how business operates.
Anonymous89307,
Well, duh. When businesses have revenue generating work, they need employees and when they don't, they let people go. Take a business or economics class or two.
Jaye Jaye Johnson,
Don't you see how the statement "The blog gives people a safe venue to express their feelings after one of the most traumatic events of their lives has happened, next to death and divorce" proves the OP's point? Getting layed off shouldn't be a traumatic event. It only is if you make it one. Learn to be a little more dependent on yourself and self confident enough to see a layoff as an opportunity to find a better job and reevaluate your life; not an excuse to sit around and whine about how your life is falling apart.
Also, you do realize that the OP's opinion is just as valid as yours? They have every right to come on here and post what they said. I would agree that they could have been nicer about it, but it is their opinion.
Anyone who could possibly love working for SLB or feel any sense of loyalty to these pricks must also know how to pick up a turd by the clean end.
Well, the OP has a point. Most of us here, were loyal employees until the demand for our services slowed down. In other words, we were only needed when there was money to be made for SLB. Otherwise, we are on our own. What a shame.
you will never get promoted if u ahve no connections to pay or lick their asses all day long. this is the spirit. Moreover, u will simply be laid off. I used to work for MI-SWACO. if I were u, I would get out as soon as I have even a small chance somewhere else. I disdain them with every fiber of my being and am sure that there are many that feel the same way.
To Anonymous87613 who is calling everyone pathetic: put your name on your posting. It is people like you who hide behind anonymous posting, do half-ass work, are negative, have no view of a bigger picture; certainly no empathy of those loosing their jobs and the ramifications it that poses to
Schlumberger (yes, it hurts productivity and morale and therefore inadvertently impacts profitability short-term); the families affected, the local economies; I could go on and on.
The blog gives people a safe venue to express their feelings after one of the most traumatic events of their lives has happened, next to death and divorce. If you are not in accordance with it, don't post. I agree with HR, if you are still with the company, volunteer to be RIFFED. Too many good people are loosing their jobs leave someone with the attitude that you have.
The life experience you take from all this, no matter what industry or company you work for, is that a job is just simply a job. It could all be gone tomorrow with a diagnosis of cancer, a car that runs a red light, or a pink slip. So what is really important?
A good loyal spouse, the unconditional love of your kids, a simple life, as free of debts, materials, and stress as possible, is far more important and satisfying, even if that means a simpler life with out this gadget or that gadget. Go fishing with your kids down at the pier in Galveston. Give the wife a hug and say, "Well, even if we had to live in a van down by the river, at least we got each other."
Did you suffer permanent mental damage from only having one bathroom in the home you grew up in or just the three network TV stations? No. What do you really need to be happy? You are not defined by what you do to earn money, a skill, or a trade. Your worth is, how good a parent your are, a spouse, how honest, kind, empathetic, loyal, mild, loving, etc you are.
You all have skills. There are many other jobs and opportunities out there. You learn, your grow, you adapt. Most people will work for over 7 or 8 employers in their life time. Perhaps now is the time to re-think things. Have you let your responsibilities as a parent slip? As a spouse? I hear it over and over again from SLUM folks, "I sacrificed time with my kids, my wife, my weekends . . ." Yes, and that was your mistake. Those things are far more important then some corporation. I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one.
Perhaps change can be a blessing. Now might be the time to do something you want to do, rather then what you have to do. Was your life too based on your job, too dependent on it? Did it control you or did you control it?
I left in 2008 at the height of the economic correction. I have never regretted it. Yes, I was scarred at first because it is a change, and most folks don't like change. We humans are creatures of habit. But change can be good. I started my own small little business and slowly have gained independence from the paycheck to paycheck lifestyle. Didn't borrow money to do it, just purchased need things as I went. In three years, things are doing OK. 4,000% less stress. Some times I have a lot of work and other times things are slow. But I have so much more freedom and I have to say we are 3 times happier as a family No, I don't work in the petrol-chemical field anymore. I do a simple service related business that can be farmed out to Indian or that is subject to the ups and downs of the crazy world economy, which will only get worse as time moves forward. With Iran not under sanction; that's 1,000,000 more barrels of oil to hit the world market.
You probably have a 401K. Use that nest egg to start something new or cushion you as your transition to something different. If you are swimming in debt, then now is a wake up call that you have to change that.
"I would rather be a failure at something I love, then a success at something I hate." George Burns.
Hey Original Poster, you are a pathetic troll. Go post somewhere else.
HR here. Did you ever work for Slb or oilfield? If you still do please volunteer to get laid off. If not stfu.