When I was in school many years ago, Shell was a magic name. Since then I have worked there several times as a IT consultant and I can tell you that your IT folks are well below average. I assume the rest of you are as well.
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You are all mediocre to me. So there.
BTW: Chuck Norris works at Shell
Shell was never more than a "shell" of a real oil company. A figment in their own imaginations until reality and accounting caught up with them. As beaten up as Exxon, Chevron and even BP are they always did, still do, and always will out perform Shell.
Interestingly enough, I have had quite a few IT consultants come through over the years who didn't know their ass from a hole in the ground and our entry-level IT people put them to shame. However, they claimed to be elite, know everything and had over-inflated egos. What was your name by the way, I didn't catch it?
Shell was never elite, sub par performance by sub par employees with over inflated egos who could tell you all day how much money they made (less than Exxon, Texaco and Chevron) and work actually done by contractors.
At well site no one can hide from the truth. If you mess up it'll bite you right back. In the office everyone can make shit up and hide behind the uncertainties.......field is really made for people with the keen to deliver work.....
I am a 3rd party on the wellsite, and can tell you first hand that nobody I have worked for plans their business as well as Shell. They are true professionals and are efficient at what they do. Now in the IT world, I don't have a clue, but at the well where the money is made, Shell is still the magic name.
When I say mediocre, I am speaking of Shell employees. The contractors do the work.
Not sure why all the IT posts. Who cares. Outsource and work for IT companies. Your degree is not in IT - you chose to work for an oil company. On the other hand we have subsurface staff and engineers being let go - we can't work anywhere else.
Yeah, the IT contractors are generally sycophants, big mistake to outsource IT.
Shell at one time was very elite, but we turned to the left, put patches on a lot of people who should have remained as contract servants, and the rest is history. now we're a Shell of what we once were, never to be again, never more, never more.
time to honor yourself will soon come to an end.....
This is me
I'm not mediocre
I'm still in a job.
Be like me
Fully agree and confirm Shell workers are mediocre.....at every level of the org
That's really funny. We in IT think the consultants we hire are below par, especially for what they charge out - they never know the depths of the business like an employee does. The only reason that we have to hire them is because upper management doesn't respect a decision made from an employee, they feel it needs Accenture or some other Big Co stamp of approval on it. shrug we get paid too well to really raise a stink about it.
Shell likes to take the best from university and compartmentalize them into tiny cogs in a process-centric machine. Most IT people have had the skill set and any sort of "joie de technologie" driven out of them as a result.