While Shell maintains that it is not laying off people we have seen a drastic decrease in contractor pay and termination of contracts in order to save displaced staff jobs. Within the staff community they are forcing retirement and artificially combining roles while making personnel reapply for their own positions against applicants outside the discipline. We are even seeing forced performance improvement writeups over petty and many times made up infractions in an attempt to leverage terminations in the near future. It's a scary, unfair, and possible illegal practice that will come back to bite them.
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Looks like the contractors are outlasting the staff. I'm seeing forced retirements and recent hires disappearing by the butt loads, yet there are a ton of contractors still there.
yes, you are right. shell wants to eliminate the bulk of contractors worldwide by end of year 2015 because of the low gas prices and the Obama pursuit to approve relief of the Irranian embargo. this devastates the US energy sector. yes, lower prices in gas doesn't mean that the country as a whole benefits. In reality country as whole suffers along with the every day worker who is trying to make a living. Everyone thinks that the energy companies are taking advantage of the resot of the world, but in reality the U.S. citizens do not realize the devastation that this relief of embargo placed on Iran will have. Many people will lose their jobs because the market will be flooded with a market for the Iranian oil leaving the U.S. out to dry. We are looking at another catastrophic event that we experienced back in the 80's . Ask how many people were out of jobs back then. Obama didn't experience this. He is not an American Citizen and he will be the downfall of the U.S. if we allow it. Fight for America or watch us fall. It's your choice. Make a decision.
Boo-hoo! Don't take it personal, people. But you are losing your jobs. My advice to you is to give thanks for the time you had with Shell, and let your manager and their manager and THEIR manager know that if they ever need help to call you up. And thank them as you give them your post-severance contact info. Much better to go out positive rather than creating a one-way dead-end. And yes, I speak from experience, having been rehired twice over the past 35 years.... Remember - its a boom and bust cyclic nature for this business. Luck to all!
The company is calling this reorganization but they even said that $B1 is overhead. The are cutting talent and no even managers. The $B1 or more was loss last years for poor managers decisions. Eagleford, magnolia, unconventional in general but no one top manager is in line. Who is to blain about losing money, managers or people that is given their best effort to grow the company
Shame of them
Just making sure I wasn't losing my mind. I'm salary, never take lunch but may take 2-3 (5min) smoke breaks during the day. Last year I got a 1.2 rating (high performer) but it looks like this year I may not even make the cut. My manager of a few months tells me I am a poor time manager and they are treating me like a rogue employee and a child. I've been here 17 years and have never dealt with this. They are also writing people up for dress code, Internet use, and anything else they can find. This is both sad and detrimental to the future of this company. We spend $1000s on meals and first class flights but when it's time to cut cost they run off their good talent. We live a miserable life here.
completely agree