Micro managing, political correctness and Engineer's kill a great company. COP needs more business degrees and less engineers. Sad
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Engineers and 90's, get enough in any process and it will come to a stop.
Moved on is spot on. Just keep on trucking!!!
Hey now, let us not forget our SPIRIT Values. "P" is for People and "T" is for Teamwork. None of us alone is as stupid as all of us together. For those who are laid off, I can tell you, it s---s. For those who survive I can tell you, it s---s but at least you get paid. Whatever situation you find yourself in the only thing you can do is survive, and work hard to find happiness. I truly wish all of you the best, even the folks I really didn't like, regardless of discipline. Good and bad everywhere.
Engineers and geologists run intellectual circles around people with business degrees. Technical people pick up the business aspect with relative ease, while the the "business" guys are and always will be completely lost in the technical realm.
ha! business degrees...the fuktards that couldn't cut it in serious disciplines and took the easy route to a degree...yeah, you special needs, short bus dipshits need to be running this company. sounds like a plan, biff!
I find it funny that at a time that petrotech skills are being reduced, they believe they can perform the tasks of BPs. They don't realize that they cost 4 times as much, and when the industry comes back they will be the first to cry they need to move. In down times cost accounting and maintaining production is important, in booms D&C is important. This is the O&G world - boom and bust - always has been, always will be so get used to losing your job every 3 of 10 years.
@bbm: too bad there isn't a like icon here. Although a number of the top dogs at COP are Technical people, the company got itself in trouble with under-performance on Projects, projects led by BS'ers
Your comment on doers summarizes everything wrong with the company. I left COP Canada on my own in 2014. At the time purchasing/finance outnumbered the technical people in the company at least 2:1
More engineers/doers, and less B.S. talkers
Hmmm, ok - an E&P company needs fewer people who know something about producing the product that makes you money? Jesus, you should be promoted straight to the top, that is, if the company wants a bankrupty acceleration plan
*fewer engineers