Has anybody from the 2016 terminations been rehired recently?
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I was laid off. Tulsa recruiter told me that Williams said I was not eligible for rehire and this limited what they could do for me given companies would check, very much blindsided me.
WIPRO adding people at Williams early next year to cut IT costs.
A Black list is perfectly legal - unfortunately.
I think we need to file a class action suit against Williams for not recalling the laid off employees. I mean how can someone have a rehire status and still not get rehired after applying for 94 jobs doing the same thing he was doing before the lay off.
Many ex-employees black listed, they want younger people in there.
Yea you would think they would do the right thing and recall the people they laid off before they hired new people. I have applied for 87 jobs with them trying to get rehired. This is sad.
Of course have you seen the news lately, all over the place in the workforce.
Believe me, back listing is alive and well, especially considering how tight knit this business is. There isn't a formal list, its all word of mouth. If somebody at a high level decides they dont like you, they can at the best case make things very difficult for you, or in many cases force you out of the industry.
That's Life, adapt to it and deal with it! On other way of saying the same thing is, dont burn bridges.
The poster who said they got rid of high paid and poor performers is a real piece of work, probably gives part of their pay to united way as well. I suspect this is the company line as well, the employee is just repeating what they hear in the toilet stalls.
Nobody cares, s--- it up, learn from it and move on!
Better yet, keep them employed in the first place, lots of power struggles going on between various regional headquarters. My contention is that with a little more cooperation between operating areas, the layoffs where not even necessary in the first place. That is where the real inefficiencies occurred, more realignments and better strategic planning could of easily avoided the need to have any type of mass terminations and the large costs associated with the termination packages, negative publicity and the additional large costs with rehiring and retraining employees in such a short period of time.
What is offensive to me is all the PR about Williams providing employment and jobs on these big pipeline jobs, when they refuse to take care of their own and do nothing special to rehire terminated people.
I agree the ones that terminated for the most part where the ones that where a threat to management, poor performers. or older employees that they where cleaning out to make room for younger ones. Management also hired way too many people and they had no choice to purge some of the excess employees. They are now replacing them or filling different types of positions. This type of stewardship doesn't save costs, it is well documented.
The lesson learned is to move on to a different opportunity. if you think you are going to be terminated. Once you are terminated it will be difficult to find re-employment. Nobody will tell you directly but just go with your gut.
As Williams Managers and Directors would say in meetings, outsourced workers are able to get IT work done significantly cheaper than Williams employees, ignoring this option is not doing the stockholders right. You cannot dispute the numbers.
Those that continued to fight logic were eventually let go. Had those employees embraced change and attempted to do things more efficiently, maybe they would still be there.
The comment about high paid and poor performing people being terminated is exactly what blacklisting is all about, makes it hard to get rehired at Williams, as well as hired anywhere elese.
Not disagreeing that some poor performers and high paid people where terminated, on the other some where not terminated as well.
i think they kept most of the high paid and poor performing people.
Williams got rid of high cost people that didn't perform, period.
Blacklisting doesn't require an actual physical list. It occurs when a company or someone intentionally tries to force an ex employee out of future employment in their profession or living with malicious feedback and comments through a network of contacts. It could be a criminal act in some states, depending on the seriousness of the actions. It is more common than you might think.
There is no Black List.
Black List alive and well, unfortunately.
They are taking plenty of PR credit for employing people in this natural gas boom, unfortunately not former employees that where tossed out last year.