Thread regarding Schlumberger Ltd. layoffs

Boghus was laid off without any payment whatsoever as he didnt believe in paying money to laid off employees and became a victim of his own policy and will need to sell many trinkets to be able to afford the flight ticket to go down there. He knows he is not popular with employees and would be a huge risk for him to go there anyway.

This is what anoyther Indian guy writes.

Send Boghus Nubar down there for a few weeks to see first hand how his improved productivity techniques work in reality.

I think the Indian guy is Deepak Shivangi and he is a good guy - he was the only Indian there and recently promoted to project manager

I know this because I worked for the rig contractor and we could not believe that SLB would have you guys work in such terrible conditions - jeez the stench from those SLB trailers was horrible and we would not let our people go anywhere close to them in case they caught a disease

I think the Indian guy is Deepak Shivangi and he is a good guy - he was the only Indian there and recently promoted to project manager

I know this because I worked for the rig contractor and we could not believe that SLB would have you guys work in such terrible conditions - jeez the stench from those SLB trailers was horrible and we would not let our people go anywhere close to them in case they caught a disease

I had just came off an 18 hour shift after working more than 5 weeks like this and was very tired. The Indian engineer was very apologetic and I accepted his apology as we were both working our asses off.

You should be angry with the people who make us work like slave labour and not the field people who are simply being abused and don't have much options. I did quite though after that hitch as I couldn't eat any more dried camel meat or sleep in a wet bed. My health was starting to suffer.

In Alabama they can legally marry their brothers and sisters, is this why Alabama was mentioned?

So, an Indian guy pissed on you whilts in the same bed , yet you stayed, which for one would be a triple insult. And you quit only after he stole your food and gave you instead dead camel's meat. You deserve to die of shame for yourself whilst this Indian does it to your other teammates. He is a typical SLB career-seeking schmuckberger and you are a typical polite suburbian Kentuckian or even worse - Alabamian, not even Alaska eskimos because the latter would at least have bitten him in the dick. Shit on you!

I would be interested to know what level of field margin % you guys were making on that project?

I worked on a rig in Egypt where they ran a pilot test for this guys working techniques and the experience was terrible and caused me to leave the company and join a competitor. They asked us to work 18 hours shifts instead of 12 and we had to do a 6 week on 1 week off rotation with no change in bonus. We were told that just the pride and reputation of working in schlumberger was enough to pay for this extra time working. We also had to share coveralls and boots with the people who relieved as this was also saving money. Another cost saving was sharing beds with other employees and this was terrible as the Indian guy I had to share with snored all night and actually wet the bed and I was all wet in the morning and didnt have anywhere to wash our clothes. Food was terrible and everybody was served out of a huge pot of a cheap tough beef stew although some others who had been there longer than me said it was camel meat from old dead camels that could be bought cheaply. When I complained about all this I was told by my manager that it was a very competitive market and we had to learn to operate in these conditions if we wanted to keep the contract and out jobs. It was too much for me and I had to quit however some of the other Arab employees were happy to do the job as it was a way to make some money or not have anything at all.

Why would Schlumberger be interested in a guy like this???

What does it matter if Chinese people jump to their death from the Foxconn building? They can always make more Chinese.

He did some consulting for Chinese corporations about 20 years ago after graduating from university and thanks to him the Chinese went on to become the lowest cost people employers in the world and still use his techniques today. They recommended him to North Korea and that's how he was able to get into that market.

He is held in great esteem by the Chinese and was awarded the freedom of Shanghai for services to the people's republic.

Even worse - he forgot to include his superiors in the patents.

One of his references is from the government of North Korea.

I understand ISIS is one of the branches using his motivation techniques.

Bogus was surprisingly laid off this morning sadly. A victim of another unexpected resizing initiative.

He has set a up a small stall selling trinkets in a bazaar in downtown Cairo. Just goes to show even the smartest guys get laid off.

I heard that SLB were looking at some big corporations in China to learn more about how they manage large workforces and get higher productivity and how this may be applied in the Oil and Gas industry via the transformation initiative. Sounds like change is coming again.

His real name is written if Farsi so you can write it however you want since it is phonetic anyway. Most people write it with the "H" in the name because they say it with that deep throaty sound that westerners can't actually make.

is that his real name or is it bogus?

He wrote that paper to keep his boss happy. It has no academic merit whatsoever.

Boghos has been positioning himself for a job in HR for some time now as he knows its an essential stepping stone to become a President of a segment or function.

Everybody knows his ideas are way out there and pretty radical but they won't be able to implement this anywhere outside of the middle east - it aint gonna happen

who is the "World Society of HR professionals" ?

This smells of a bogus organization perhaps designed to justify the implementation of new draconian HR practices as part of the so called transformation??

Zaleshepifu will be loving this

This type of research is totally unethical and should be banned. It belongs in the garbage bin.

I don't know why he gets all this credit. His so called "techniques" were invented in Aragon in 1482. His research is outright plagiarism. Can't he be terminated for that?

Well done - what a great achievement and so proud to be part of such a great company

why is it here?