Compared to Spectra and other companies I’ve worked for, Enbridge’s corporate staff appear to be mindless, thoughtless and clueless robots who simply do what they’re programmed by consultants to do or what they “think” AM wants them to do. They are on some kind of auto pilot without original ideas or regard for anybody or anything outside their bubble. I honestly think they forget that the oil and gas doesn’t flow by itself and customers and projects don’t just appear on our front door. I don’t think many in the shared services world know it takes real people doing real work to move oil and gas for our customers while keeping people and the environment safe in the meantime — and we’re doing it with shrinking staff and budgets. Corporate just pats themselves on the back for increasing Yammer posts and likes and continues to pump out this “endless” stream of information, notes, pre-notes, post notes, follow-up notes, updates, reminders, announcements, roll-outs, initiatives, programs, opportunities, events, requests, trainings, etc. (I could go on...). Who has time to read much less do all of this stuff — you can only hope either you or a friend catches the very few important nuggets of information buried in the gigabytes of data they send out. This stuff is becoming “the work” at the detriment of the “real work” and it’s unproductive... it’s amazing...everyone knows it and no one, including the ELT can stop it event if they wanted to. So we all keep trying to keep corporate happy because, to be honest, we’re scared we’ll be the next to lose our jobs if they think we’re uncooperative and not on board. No one (employees middle or upper management) has the courage to speak out so morale just continues to drop and people just continue to leave.... and I’d bet you that one of the Corporate Robots reading this is already dreaming up a program, communication plan and some kind of event to address this post (because they know it’s true) instead of even considering that there may be some non-value stuff they should be cancelling so people can simply do their jobs. Morale would improve if they would simply back off, hide and leave us alone until something important occurs. Of course they would never think of that because they don’t have the capacity to think along those lines — the consultant didn’t write a program for that. That’s why the painful truth is it’s not going to change until something changes at the top and they clean house....I honestly and sincerely believe AM truely wants something better — I also honestly and sincely believe AM doesn’t have a clue how to change it. His solution would be to assign it to someone who will only create another program.. Sad but true... Although l will soon be leaving to go to work for a competitor, I do hope something changes before it spirals further down.
Bumped from @TESRdOs-2ses.