continued purging of 50+ and experience, sprinkled in with a few sacrificial youngsters to avoid appearance of age discrimination. so clever. the end is near.
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I’m still fairly new, but I don’t understand all the “power” people posting on this site think HR has. Every place I’ve ever worked, it’s the leaders who decide who stays and who goes and HR does the transaction. There is no way leadership lets HR make those decisions for them. That doesn’t even make sense. And not to be a bummer to your angry parade but HR people who hired me and who I’ve worked with so far know more about the petrotechs in our company than anywhere I’ve ever worked. Is everyone blaming HR for senior leadership changing the strategy and HR and other support groups doing the work to make those changes? You do realize that is their job?
when can we start wearing designer ripped jeans to work?
The "purging" that we have seen during this last downturn...and that is continuing...is why I am not an advocate of any graduate or professional to enter the oil patch for a career. When asked, I steer them in another direction and suggest they look to another industry.
The throw away mindset of HR and senior management to layoff/restructure/fire/throw away experienced professionals, while continuing to reward the C suite outlandish income and perks for short term gains, is a symptom of the short term investment culture that is undermining the foundation of the USA. There is value in experience and wisdom of the professionals that have been kicked to the curb for no other reason than >50+experience+work ethic=higher salary is not valued in relation to <30+in-experience+what's in it for me=bottom level salary.
The corporate bottom line is ultimately decreased due to the in-experience, no knowledge of lessons learned and the increased danger at the worksite from these individuals that have been promoted too quickly and the lack of experienced personnel to mentor and to train them.
Looking forward to the day whoever wrote the first response gets restructured.
we've also lost some good people who did ten times more work in 20 hours than some of these kiss a** people do in 60. what thought process goes through the lay off procedure? I work 36-40 hours at the office but I put another 10-14 hours of time in working on the weekend and after hours. do I need to worry about my job because HR is looking at "punch times" and not the actual hours worked? meanwhile people take every single friday as a flex day but still have a job? others do nothing but go to meetings all day but they do zero work?
If they want to "restructure" they should remove HR and upper management from the equation when it comes to hiring and "letting people go". I can't tell you how many people I've seen hired or transferred to different departments by HR who don't have a clue, the manager had no say in the hiring process of their own employee and their peers have no say in who they work with? It's a joke. The entire upper management in IT need to be fired, they have no clue, they're such a waste of company money all while they push and demand for unreasonable timelines. Then they wonder why everything implemented looks like crap or doesn't work right? What do you expect when you tell 5 employees to do the job of 15? Oh, by the way, make sure you get the job done within 3 weeks when it takes a normal team of professionals 6 months. Ha!
That’s what she says (probably a she as it is an obvious HR Troll)... restructuring sounds a lot better than admitting that dim witted HR goons, incapable of independent thought, are given power to decide the fates of people to whom they are intellectually inferior. Yep, it’s restructuring...
Is that what you call layoffs now, restructuring?
How and why do you make this stuff up. Simply not true. Last week wasn’t a “layoff”, it was restructuring of ONE departmdnt. Stop spreading your ugliness and go find something useful to do with yourself.