If you are still employed by this awful company please don't fool yourself in believing that Lee and the powers that be are done with the cuts. The first phase was merely a payroll cut. If you made a certain amount of money or were at a higher pay grade you were pretty certain to be shown the door if you werent' in management. The next phase is the company selling off legacy assets. On Friday the ETNL areas in Fairfield and Haynesville were told that the company was putting the area on the market and that there was a buyer interested. Very few employees were offered the option to relocate within the company but the rest were told that if the other company doesn't retain them that they were basically SOL. The third phase will weed out the less than stellar employees through the restructure of the evaluation system. This is not the company that many of us went to work for many years ago. If you are left standing in the end you need to look out for yourself and no one else.
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Haven't heard of any new layoffs. What are the managers who no longer have worker bees doing? And now that there are so many less employees, why isn't HR being downsized? Letting HR run this company the way it does is like the tail wagging the dog!
None of this surprises me. Where did you hear about another round in May?
Rumors of another round coming early May.
Not only the above, I foresee a return to the model of the past of administrative & support services consolidation....Its all coming back to Houston The field offices will shrink to bare bones yet again.
Good post