Good luck to everyone who found out today. For many I suppose it will be a great relief. Keep your heads up.
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I’m all for being safe an all. But next time i have one of the 100+ green EHS bros tell me what to do on my floor I’m going to toss them into a pit. I understand y’all are book smart. But that means 0 out in the field.
When is the party starting today? Are we still having the employee/family fun day at Frontier City?
You are a wise man for seeing this as a turf war.
3 ehs professional openings under the current org chart and a supervisor. It was t about streamlining EHS and cutting dead weirht, well expect for vv, this was an all out turf war.
Oh yes, im trying to tell you that. Got rid of the highly competent, well paid manager and now replacing him with somone of VPs choice, i figure. This is a Manager position. Health & Safety, no environmental.
Im a shoo in.
Wannabe svp, the only way to know for sure the numbers terminated is if you work there. I heard the entire risk mgt group is gone. Thats 4 or 5.
A higher up manager is gone, and some misc. field ehs staff.
You rarely hear of Ops staff being trimmed in the field. In fact they invent s##t. Some years ago, a new position called Technical Superintendent was dreamed up for every field office. Why? Optimization Operator is a new category, as well as Environmental Operator. Put Operator behind your position and you get the gravy train.
If it is an ops position, the VPs bend over backwards.
Home plate is only 17 inches wide. No matter how many times you show a baby lifting a box! Let me see them hard hat stickers.
“It’s just the nature of the business and they know that they work in a dangerous job”, at least this is what we depend on as our primary means of protection. If they get hurt, we’ll fire their arse.
I fly a starship across the Universe divide and when I reach the other side
I will find a place to rest my spirit if I can perhaps I may become a highwayman again
Or I may simply be an ehs contractor hard hat sticker checker, but I will remain and I will be back again and again and again...
Devon leadership has made it apparent the direction will be that of a 1980s E&P company. Bring in a yes man VP who listens to the executive team complain about EHS trust. Meanwhile the same execs do not hesitate flying banners about the perfect ehs record. You can’t have both, however with the previous and current leadership in ehs, I certainly understand the misdirection. This approach will catch up with Devon likely sooner than later. You will get your Macondo, and the execs will cry “ How did this happen”. Actions have consequences, especially when you eliminate your entire environmental/ehs groups, all the while rolling back every industry best practice and protocol so you can run loose and fast. Good luck with that by the way.
Entire EHS risk group....gone.
really
con someone confirm?
what happened?
i left in 2015