The degree of favoritism and incompetence is stunning. There are so many “untouchables” who are management favorites. Middle management has a bunch of bad managers with consistent bad reviews by employees and nothing is done about it. If Greg and HR are frank in cutting the right people, it should be the many managers who are misfits! Look at the recent SPS results, HR files and feedbacks from folks. The business is not making any money and you keep paying these guys huge salaries while the real hard workers are shown the way out.
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The first post is spot on! The Shell unconventional managers from team leads to VPs WILL get a pass because they will now be able to use depressed global oil prices as a convenient excuse for mismanagement.
Last year two dozen US shale oil companies defaulted and 15 filed for bankruptcy. Standard & Poor’s puts junk ratings on three-fourths of the oil and gas producers it monitors. U.S. Oil and gas companies combined have been losing an estimated $2 billion a week. But the physical and intellectual assets don’t evaporate in bankruptcies. There will be a bounce when prices recover above $40.
It's global, not personal.
Da hell with Shell and its unconventional a leadership. A failure by excellence at royal scale
I worked for both Shell, Chevron and XTO/Exxon as a directional driller. Chevron is by far the worse. Shell at least got out of the Marcellus. I can say Shells well site managers are probably the most incompetent I have seen in the unconventional game. A shell manager on a fraction not knowing what flow back equipment is.....but as bad as you think you are, your not close to Chevron. And the majors will never be close to the independents. By structure, design and culture they can not be...those processes do not bring repetitive and efficiency, they bring over employment and confusion.
I think uncon is doing just fine. Stop complaining.
could you elaborate more?
Things will improve in three months
Well.... Deep water is no better! But for some strange reason no one talks or spills the beans.
Sadly enough I have actually seen a S.G. 1 manager threaten employees about stupid crap like taking a postit note or pen home is stealing from Shell. How much does this assclown make? God help us all. Another thing choking the life out of our profits in high oil prices and making it much worse in low oil prices is out outrageous amount of HR overhead fees. Now let's think about this for a minute, we have directors, EVP's, VP's, Managers, leads and HR reps. How ridiculous and stupid is that if we are actually trying to make a profit. Another absolute farse about being fiscally responsible is in the amount of managers there are in the technical/management hierarchy. Engineer asks advice to Sr or Staff Engineer to Team Lead, to Manager to Manager to General Manager. Then to VP to EVP to Director to CEO. You wonder why the independents eat our lunch in Unconventionals, not to mention Shell is asleep when all the good acreage is being discovered/acquired and you wonder why we have had so many layoffs.
This is pretty much the flavor of the day across a lot of companies oil and gas related. Terrible management that has no interest in really developing talent for fear of them being the underling one day. It's rampant. Worst part is the cycle will continue as when/if oil ever comes back those people will still be in their position and perpetuate the cycle.
+1 - it's pretty bad