Thanks again Larry, God knows your sh:t don't smell like the rest of us.
BTW :How's that stock you hold working out for ya?
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Woke up this AM and realized that the moon didn't fly into the sun. I get all the venting that folks are doing on this site. Some of it is funny, some of it comforting and some of it vicious. Over the many years I worked at Devon I have seen a lot of change. Obviously it is not the company that Nichols left behind but it is still a good company and I hope it survives. To my fellow dearly departed employees ensure you go thru all 3 stages of grief: Shock, anger and acceptance. Devon has no doubt provided each and everyone of us enough to get to through these stages- remember typically it will take a woman(your spouse) little longer. It imperative that you do, or else it will hinder your job search as well as your performance at your next job. There is only one reason people were let go - money!!! Devon is not the government they could not continue to spend more than they were earning. If it weren't for the current price of oil, we would all still have gone to work today! Contrary to what some say the people you worked with have not forgotten you, yes they they still have jobs but they are suffering a loss as well and get reminded of it every time they get up from their desk and see all the empty desks/offices/cubicles and must continue to work under the spectre of additional cuts. So put on your big girl panties and get out there and show the world what great employees Devon had hired.
Hager's sons manager certainly would have had more job security if they would have canned the CEO's son. Why on earth would the keep him?!!
You are kidding yourself if you think there was no nepotism involved with children of the powerful not being laid off.
1nln- That's not what was said at all. People seem to think that they were kept for no other reason than nepotism, but in reality they were actually good employees. There were many people let go who I would consider qualified, but it does not matter how qualified you are when what you are selling is worth less than what it costs to produce, specifically if your job is related to an area that was/will be divested.
My point was simply to say that it's not like they were worthless workers and kept on--I've been with companies who do that and this was not the case with them.
ktf- So those released were not qualified? A lot of good people let go were just as...
Actually, I've worked with both of them. Hager's son is more than qualified and Mitchell's was by no means inept--maybe not the best but better than most.
Daddy Hager let Jr. sit in the co-pilots seat but Jr. spilled a whole box of jolly ranchers all over the cockpit, gummed up everything!
Shocking
Typical of all these managers, worthless kids who get jobs thru parents connections. See it everywhere.
So did Tom Mitchell's... who was never qualified in the first place.