Please provide an answer to all these valid questions in these threads. Why the new manager and director positions while layoffs are going on? Why promotions and no bonus reduction for mgrs but yes for rest of staff? Why does Cenovus need two Directors for well delivery and drilling while other companies make do with a single mgr for both combined? Who’s being held responsible for these morale s---ing decisions?
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And just before Christmas. Sounds like CVE HR or mgmt for sure
I sincerely hope the person below me grows up and attempts to act like a sympathetic human being, but I am assume they are a HR troll. Anyone who wishes someone else to be unemployed is an ugly individual. I don’t agree with a lot posted here but I respect that employees feel the need to vent somewhere safe. It’s up to CVE to develop a culture where employees feel safe to voice opinions internally then sites like this would fade away. Do that and then everyone wins.
I genuinely hope the person below me is kicked to the curb of the Bow and laid off from Cenovus. Lights out at your household with your wife leaving you for a younger and employed gentleman and your kids stacking shelves at Safeway for a living... alongside you. Haha.
Oh yes you cowards who have mortgages to pay and children to support. Be brave and ask your questions at the town halls or whatever. And be gone with you. CVE constants:
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mgmt looks after mgmt.
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mgmt doesn’t want feedback just affirmations of their greatness
Call them names or whatever but er all know this. Staff in the field who have done so are gone.
Lol. You were laid off. Let go bro. Let it go. Move on.
I agree with the posts here. To the post below, I for one did express my thoughts in a respectable manner to Alex and then got laid off two months later....
No one is a chicken if they aren't rdy to be laid off. Learn from my mistake.... No pt giving feed back to clt except to tell them they are doing a good job.
I wonder if other companies get such bad “reviews “ or feedback on here or if it’s a CVE thing. If so man, that’s bad, I mean really bad. The HR dept should be wondering what’s going on and driving such negativity. Hint, it’s pretty easy to do some reading here. I figured out in two seconds that promoting mgmt while laying off regular staff tend to piss people off.
Watch a townhall of any EVP and most people sit there and don’t even think of asking a question. No one wants to risk asking the wrong one. Everyone puts heads down and doesn’t make eye contact. You would think the mgmt might wonder why the vast majority of staff don’t ask questions or act engaged but I’m sure they don’t care. I don’t go to the town halls anymore, no point. I used to believe in Alex turning CVE around but not after seeing all these promotions while we get laid off.
Even at the cgy head office, it is unfortunate honesty is punished with getting a package (though may not be a bad thing).
Seen it happen to many of my peers. Now we all just keep to ourselves. It is pointless to speak up unless we are ready for retirement. Blend in, count down the 8 to 5, and look fwd to next pay chq.
No. Don’t ask Alex directly. Let’s do another survey!
It’ll be confidential just like that safety survey 😉. Where do you work, which department, what level? (But the head of DCE says you’re doing it for the right reason. It won’t be used against you). Where did you find that Luddite Z?
Let’s do another culture survey! That’s made a huge difference! You paid lip service before - let’s do it again!
Oh and wait! I’ll wear my button ‘I’m happy’ because I work for id--ts.
Agree. Ask the questions and give your honest feedback, expect your package. All they want are yes men (no women btw). Are you Z’s golfing buddy - a promotion for you! Do you get invited to his house for poker night? A promotion for you! Tell him how smart he is and be his personal ‘coach’? He will make sure you’re on his leadership team.
And don’t expect any help from HR. Confidential - ha! They’ll back up that trouble maker claim and say whatever they need to say to stay alive themselves.
Alex can’t do a darn thing to change anything, until he cleans out that operations leadership.
A package is exactly what would come out of that question. Here at the field locations they lured us into meetings requesting honest feedback about low morale and low engagement, those people who still cared gave their honest opinions to the managers and now most of them were labelled trouble makers and let go. Now no one says anything, just trudge along with your head down waiting for the next axe to fall. All the while the managers and their selected yes men walk around smiling and laughing.
Why don't you ask these very valid questions directly to Alex or one of his goons at a fireside chat? Seems to me it would be worth the package that would surely follow.