Ok here's the deal. Smith was a great place to work until Muzzi was put in charge. Cecci is just his puppet. Muzzi said all of Ponca employees were over paid. He is the main reason SII Ponca City is moving. He has been fixing books for years. He is untrustworthy aswell as Cecci. The Italian cartel ruined SII. PONCA City. Just ask there fellow countrymen and women. Don't trust them they have done nothing but lie for personal gain. And has Muzzi moved up or sideways with SLB? No he hasn't because he is encompatant. Every other Manager for SLB has moved up but he is still in the same position. In short f $$#em
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Guys, his technical leader hasn't learned yet to take shower more often than once a month since he left India and you expect him to realize all the little "details" necessary to complete a move of that size? LOL
Surely management will see what a total idiot this guy is before he wastes millions of the company's money. A too small dilapidated building with insufficient power, no air lines or welding gas lines or water chillers or air conditioning? Really? He and his minions should have known this was needed. That's what happens when you think you're brilliant.
OK another well tought out plan by the brains of SLB/SII. Move is already over 2 weeks behind schedule. Insufficient electrical in the Houston buildiung to connect maachines. No air lines in the building to connect machines. And the floor is not thick enough to support most of the machines so pads will need to be poured. Way to go Muzzi . You are a real brain child.
Since these geniuses are in charge Smith product line had no major innovations. They have been living out the FMM2 bits design for a decade so far and failed to implement any breakthrough. Quality went to the sh--ter as well safety. They will fail, but they will gain another year or so for themselves while getting rid of few scapegoats.
Yes, it will fail. These machines are worn out. If the company would take the millions they're spending on this move and invest it in new machines, tooling, and other equipment, and let the employees do their jobs, we could be #1 again. Oh, and new management.
Very few are going to Houston. But these guys are so stupid they don't realize that it takes experienced and dedicated people to build a quality rock bit. They will move it regardless. Because they think they're so much smarter than any of us. Trust me, it WILL fail. Have no doubt about that.
There is a possible solution, if you all just stay together and nobody takes the package to move to Houston you might have a shot at making their plan fail. It depends on how much know how they already have in Houston to make the bits.
We all thought at first that it was the Italians who were to blame. We stopped the job when we had a bad part, our QA guys would scrap it, only to be reinstated by management. We complained to Houston. Meetings were held with HR complaining about the direction we were going. Nothing happened. Nothing changed. Yes, the Italians are Smith guys, but they are exactly what schlumberger likes in their managers. The same thing happened to Reed, and now to Cameron and no Smith people are involved. All you have to do is read these posts to see its the Schlumberger way of doing business.
Stop the job and get layed off. Disagree and get layed off. Get injured and get layed off. The middle managers began s---ing up to the Italians from the get go. Or, guess what? Get layed off.
You were made aware about the temperament of these guys in advance but your upper management in Houston did not believe it. You are blaming SLB about it, but I would like to remember you that Muzzi wasn't put in charge of manufacturing by SLB, he was promoted by Smith good ole boys in 2008. He even backstabbed his mentor to get there, and still, the Smith upper management just did look at the short term profits of cutting quality, resources, maintenance, while erecting a wall of expendable idiots around himself. You guys in Ponca had all the chances to make him fail, instead, you fail to support your managers when they did disagreed with him. Instead, several of your middle managers have seen him as an opportunity for easy growth because it's easy to work for him, you don't have to know anything, you can be a perfect idiot who kiss his a$$ and obey his orders to have a career. You refused to stop the job when it was wrong to keep going, you let him stop performing maintenance on the machines, while you could have lock them down and stop production.
Yes, these guys have no clue what it takes to build a 3 cone rock bit. They've reduced a company that was once #1 in the world to a mere shadow of its former glory. In the past, Smith management people worked their way up from the shop floor. They knew how much skill and experience it took to produce a quality product. Moving the plant to Houston will finish off a once great company. The machines are worn out and poorly maintained. All because the Italians won't spend any money to maintain them. It takes a skilled operator to make a worn out machine produce a good part. And a skilled maintenance person to keep that machine running on a shoestring, none of which are going to Houston. The employees of Ponca have had enough. They don't want to go to Texas and be subjected to the same treatment. Good luck to the few who are going. You'll need it!
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An accurate and well described statement of what is going on within SLB management. This culture is dragging the reputation of SLB lower and lower all the time.
Greed and self interest are ruining the technical ability of this company to perform well in the market place, it survives by buying out good successful smaller companies and then destroys them with the culture described above.
Eventually there will be no more acquisitions to make and due to having lost a large portion of good skilled people it will struggle to function, very sad for all the good , honest and decent people that have worked or are still working for SLB.
Only azzkissing thieves, liars, and crooks get promoted within slb. Knowledge and skill only make you get onto the rif list because you're dangerous to the ones not knowing or doing anything other than politics and brown nosing. Seen it over and over. Slb somehow identifies management as a technical skill, which in itself promotes nepotism and protectionism of the likes as they are fully aware that they are uncapable of producing or creating anything. So they have to use and abuse the accomplishments of others to promote themselves or simply staying put where they are. What those people forget is that the downturn will eventually turn into an upturn and people don't forget, especially the ones that end up in the client's offices. That's usually quite the show...
They are both a ##holes. Slb does nothing but ruin good company's with their culture and greed.