Integrity, Valuing People and Collaboration at its very best!!!!!
This behavior is not the FMC I have grown to love for these many years.
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I absolutely love working for FMC, but I see the things people are bitching about on here, going on every day! I pray that I'm not given the 'your positions no longer needed at this base' speech, but I am also realistic in that the times in oil and gas are scary to say the least! What's even scarier than current prices, is that when it comes back-we won't have the strong core we once did from all the people that have been let go-and we'll be stuck with a lot of unworthy people who will most likely walk away when they're asked to sacrifice for the good of the company!
I've endured 120 hour weeks and sleeping in my truck so much, that I contemplated installing a bucket seat in my bedroom for a sense of normalcy! I know how it feels to clock out at 5 on a Friday, be pulling into my driveway as my kid runs out of the house to give me a great big hug and tell me dinners on the table waiting for me, when my cell rings and I'm told I need to come back to the shop and build a couple trees. I know the grueling pain of counting millions of dollars in inventory, for weeks on end to still get less than 95% and wonder if I'll have a job, come late August/early September. I know the stress of not getting paperwork signed because there was no company man on sight after a 40 plus hour job, as well as being the one asking for the paperwork to ensure its entered with in the 72 hour allotted window. I know the pressures of month end. I've been hounded and even wrongfully accused of not processing post goods issued paperwork the proper way. I've felt the pressure of expediting pieces of equipment, that need to be in house within less than 24 hours. I've had numerous occasions when I've had to run to the base in the middle of the night. All of these things I've done, and never complained like most do, because I'm happy to have this job that I love here at FMC.
I will continue to do this, even after things turn around-but as I read these posts and look at the people to the left and right of me still fortunate enough to be working, I wonder how many of them will be willing to do the same! I've lost several good co-workers, people I've worked with for many years and that I'm proud to call friends. Most have made it clear, they will never again work for the company they once loved.
I don't know if I can handle working for a company (technip), that says no more than 40 hours, or that forces a lunch when deadlines are needed to be met! What a culture shock that would be!
In closing, my entire rant is to say, I hope no more lay offs are going to happen-but if they do, let's be thankful for the experiences and knowledge this company has afforded us and let's hope that for the ones of us who ride out the storm, that there's still enough dedicated people who can carry on the TRUE FMC that we grew to love over the years (not this current facade of a once great company).
Good luck and God bless to everyone, especially the ones who are no longer with us!
If you don't like it at FMC...get out. Plain and simple. Quit ur bitchin.
That actually sounds like a dream job for me
You'll grow to love Technip. I hear they only allow you to work 36- 38 hours a week, offer 4 weeks holiday, and you have to take a lunch, no eating at your desk and working. I hope the rumor is true. Plus they hand out backpacks, shirts and jackets more than FMC does.