Thread regarding Schlumberger Ltd. layoffs

We never needed them in the first place. It's a big consulting scheme where the biggest HB1 holders get commissioned off of each one they place...so for each American head that gets cut, the difference in salary between them goes primarily to the consulting firm. The fat guys at the top make loads of money by displacing Americans with robotic foreign talent. Only those in charge of the budget can put a stop to it. Cut your losses in the same year and don't be afraid that you already invested. Send em home and start fresh with American talent that was already here regardless of age or creed.

First of all, schlumberger is originally a French company so it's kind of funny that you're telling 'foreigns' to go home. Secondly, I'm one of those foreign scientists you're referring to. I can assure you my parents didn't bribe someone with donkeys to get me this job. I worked hard in highschool and luckily, university is free in my country despite the fact that it's a much poorer country than the US. Would you like free university education for your kids so they can get a leg up? Vote for Bernie Sanders then. I'm gonna bet you're a Trump supporter though. It's kind of sad that you feel like you can't compete against me - you were born in the richest country in the world and English is your first language. English is my second language. On top of that, I went completely deaf in my twenties due to meningitis. Despite the obstacles I faced, working hard in university earned me a scholarship to do a phd. And now, 15 years later here I am in your country on a H1B. I'm an expert in my field and have over 40 papers published in scientific journals. Tell me again I don't deserve this job. I feel sorry for you because you're wasting your energy being angry towards the wrong people. How about questioning why you can't compete against a foreigner from an impoverished third world country like mine? How about asking your government why they aren't giving American kids the solid foundation in STEM subjects that would enable them to compete against people like me? Instead you are all too busy believing the lies that Donald Trump and his like are spinning to make sure that they stay in the top 1% and get to feed off the lifeblood of ordinary Americans like you.

So should we send back the Americans in other countries? Cos there's more of them working out here than there are foreigners working in the SLB offices in the US. What do you say? We'll trade you.

How ignorant!

Yall need to stop hating on each other. Get your two weeks ready and slam it on Jims office and go find you another job. This is America not a 3rd world country.

I already quit what so called DM NGC. No honor neither respect of working with them... can't find a word for them. If you still there don't trust anyone. I repeat, no one is trustworthy. Especially the team leads over LWD and ADS. Paranoid dudes.

185219 I am with you. America is attractive because of forward thinkers like you.

Omg. Heap of ignorant racist trash which unfortunately is embarrasing so many Americans. For all the visa haters- guess which nationality Slb employs most.

American. And they are not all here locally. So who is taking away jobs.

Only if your pop gave you good math training instead of flippping burgers. But poeple in America who really matter more are all in favor of progress and globalization.

So sit tight on your couch and keep hating. Soon you will get your obesity disease and then you will blame obama for it too.

Fing Shame on earth!

If this is true, then the proportions of races and national origins in the field of O&G would be equal to the ratios or per cent-wise prescribed by the US DOL but it is not. Now that bisexulas transsexulas, gays, Middle East wars veterans, obese etc. almost complete this picture, you would have a better picture but this is not not what happening in the field of O&G. Where do see gays working for SLB except some SVPs and perhaps the president? Who gives a shit about war veterans when there is guy somewhere in Bombay whose dad had sold a 100 donkeys and 50 goats to bribe one of these SVPs for the son to become a senior science advisor or a fellow? All this a BS.

To 185218, you may be educated but you have no idea about contracts in foreign countries. The contracting country determines the percentage of nationals to be employed for the contract. The remainder is made up to foreigners. Many races are kept apart for several reasons. If you have not experience d this I doubt you have been in the field.

to Anonymous 185219 from Anonymous 185126 - I am the one who misspelt illumination instead of elimination because I rely on the spell check withiut using my eyeglasses. My point is well understood albeit. This is not 'xenophobia' as you said. This is to protect my family from foreign invasion by many that came and taken my jobs not because they are smarter or have more experience but because many (I did not say all) had used their connections and paid bribes to come to the US for an order of magnitude higher paying jobs thus taking these jobs from my friends and family that did not bride anyone. We and the whole world are well aware theat Oil and gas is the most corrupt industry in the world! Have you persinally examined their knowledge in any of those fields including drilling to state that they are better drillers that some one e.g from Texas or LA? You are one of those retirees who got from several hundtred grands from such companies only to retire and you dare to open your mouth here to accuse others in 'xenofobia' and misspelling. Perhaps you are one of those on H1B visa who came to realise the American dream! You did, thus sit tight staty awayand don't blame others who perhaps deserve thia more than you

Anonymous185219

As someone who is not affiliated with this company, but who is a tax paying US citizen I would rather have companies be forced to fire a visa holder who would then be deported before firing a US citizen or permanent resident who would then collect government welfare. This is simple cost cutting math, not xenophobia. Very similar to the calculations that companies use when deciding who stays and who gets laid off.

I'm American and am embarrassed at the xenophobia (and lack of basic English-writing skills) expressed on this thread. Americans... if you want to express your outrage that you or your buddy were released instead of "foreigner" (or "foreigns" as some of the more knuckle-dragging of you have put it) consider that SLB is a GLOBAL company. It will NEVER have only Americans working in the US anymore than it will have only Angolans working in Angola or Russians working in Russia. Accept this is as being as certain as death and taxes. Special shout out to Pissed Off Mannn, Sony is a Japanese company that damn near single-handedly buried US electronics manufacturing in the 1980's. And while the originators of many of the other companies you rattled off are American in origin..... do you think they have risen to prominence solely based on US talent??? Get real!!! Newsflash Anonymous185126; it's "eliminating", not "illuminating". If you're going to sow the seeds hate, at least do so with some modicum of intelligence. For the many of you who are so upset about "foreigners" working here... please jump into the nearest time machine and go back to the 1700s and ask some REAL Americans (Native Americans) about how thrilled they were with European foreigners. Then jump ahead to the 1800's and ask someone how awesome it was to have waves of Irish and Italian immigrants "taking American jobs". America as you know and believe to be so great would NOT be the America you have the privilege to live in w/o foreign workers. From the Irish and Chinese who built the Trans-Continental Railroad to the great scientists who fled Nazi-occupied Europe and helped the Allies win World War II, this country has developed and prospered thanks to, not in spite of, "foreigners". I've worked with both conscientious and worthless employees of all different backgrounds. Laziness knows no geographic, cultural, gender or ethnic bounds. Have great people (both American and "foreign") been released? Absolutely! Are there people still @ SLB who aren't worth spitting on? You bet! Chalk it up to luck, butt-kissing, connections, whatever. Anyone's individual perceptions of "fair" are irrelevant. It's business, and the business will do what it wants to do. And SLB owes none of us anything.

remember how you feel about H1B visa holders getting preference when you vote. It is about the only thing we can do. Companies saying that they can't get enough skilled workers are full of it.

to everyone hating on the foreigners - in a messed up part of the US immigration law, it is more difficult to fire an H1B visa holder than it is a US citizen. The increased costs of sponsoring the visa have already been paid. If they fire them they need to give advanced notice to the US customs and immigration office, provide for immediate transport home, due to the agreement the company takes over their apartment lease or home sale. Also the USCIS guides employers to give as much advanced notice of termination as possible as the visa holder loses the legal right to be in the USA once terminated.

It wouldn't surprise me one bit if they avoid firing these people just because it is more difficult than firing americans.

Concur. Get rid of the foreign management first, they are needed here as a fifth leg for a dog. The IT guys can do this job from their countries. My experience in the uS was such that they do get rid of the US citizens first and keep all these HB1 visa holders for years, perhaps for a fee of $10-15K as was indicated by several sources before on this site. Check on these freaks in Houston.

YES , ALL F***ING H!B VISA Holders must be sent back home. These MFs who are on H1B visas deciding the fates of our families must be sent back. There are illuminating all possible competition by layoff US citizens, DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY DO?

We can Houston if we all get same benefits. Y'all choose to come to the US why do they gave yall all this benefits? We need it the most.Cutting this benefits will prevent us from standing in the unemployment lane.

Americans are lazy and what they do is talk their way our of 8hrs schedule. Really!!! Who design them programs and put them in ur hands foreigns? ?? Did u come up with HP? MICROSOFT? INTEL? APPLE? MAC? CISCO? SONY. ....

Leave them poor foreigns, they only cost slb $$$$$$ per year per family.

Buying all new 4×4 SUVs(Paid by slb), their wives don't work but sure she has a nice house(Paid by slb) and everyday in a spot. Their children in the expensive private schools (paid by slb).

Americans lazy wives work and help their husbands and send their kids to public school and gets a spot one day in her birthday maybe if they can afford it after slb cuts.

Get a life foreigns

Can't we all just get a long?

Americans are lazy and lack a certain international thinking to their personality.

There is just not enough well educated smart hard working Americans for these jobs. Americans are good a BS and talking. When it comes to math, technology, design, or anything takes hard work and practice, Americans can not perform consistently.

Bye bye lazy ass. Hardwork doesnt come with passport. Go to momma

Send them back home until we need them again. This will save the housing allowance, flights and their base pay will be slashed significantly.

No foreigns techs/engineers were cut. Only US citizens. Especially the hard/smart workers. Suck ups are continuing to collect that check.

Most losers like you shall be laid off. Complaining and hiding behind your incompetence. You will be laid off soon.

Shame on your lazy ass.

I'm assuming DM NGC? Have they cut any of the foreign techs or engineers?

Send foreigns back. We have hard workers honest us citizens that can run the show better than them foreigns.

How many US Citizen running WS, D&M.. in another country? One? Two? None

Give it back to the Americans. I am all about equal opportunities, but not when u have most if not all hire ups foreigns.

All in sugar land running our lives with this transformation lie

Slb something else

100% agree. The real cost of visa holders is not at all a discount.

My best advice is to go work for yourself. Best decision that I ever made.