Thread regarding Schlumberger Ltd. layoffs

This will not end well

The problem with the company is that Schlumberger has never developed anything from scratch, instead relying on buying in technology or companies then singularly failing to evolve the technology or even beginning understand it and then dumping key staff who had the experience. From what I hear in the UK their foray into rechargeable cells is a classic example and Elon Musk they ain't.

Their 'managers' and I use that term loosely, are jack5hit scared of doing anything in case they lose their PIPs or even their jobs, so there is little forward thinking, positive feedback implementation or innovation there. Any firm that has to get an outside company to poll their staff about the 'Schlumberger Family' has made a very unwise choice in supervisors or managers as does a company which keeps creating buzz words and hiring staff to make sure the charts from these buzzwords are filled in.

Your highly paid managers should be already organising things so you do not need "transformation", 'blue shift', 5S, and all the rest of the modern c-ap. You should be expecting managers to be employed to do this especially at the ridiculous salaries/compensation they get.

I would bet that Schlumbergers'charge into the digital era ( 4/5 years too late as the ship has already left port) will be a disaster of Titanic proportions. The computer system they currently have are not up to much and are over-complicated.

Originally posted by @Znp5e1d-vmt.

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Post ID: @OP+ZoprF18

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Sadly nobody in SLB management realizes this. It’s really a terminal one way decline.

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Post ID: @2gpx+ZoprF18

A much bigger issue for the industry are all these former slb “managers” hired when they have failed to advance further in slb by other service companies who extoll their “greatness” as managers / leaders! They come in and try to create mini-me slb’s which end up being absolute failures! Worse than what happens when management consultants like McK....... come in and destroy companies with their Harvard MBA b---s---! Weatherford was a classic example that these guys came in, and with no understanding of the company, industry, customers, technology, services etc decimated what was left and drove the final nail in the coffin that now holds the remains of WFT!

Have worked with and for a lot of these guys over the years and while they may hold the title of manager none were even close to being a leader! They wouldn’t know leadership if it slapped them across the face!

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Post ID: @1rco+ZoprF18

Some people find the truth hard to accept, the Big Blue is no more, it's drifting downwards to a terminal decline sadly under the present management style.

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Post ID: @1jbh+ZoprF18

The poster can only do copy and paste.

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Post ID: @vaj+ZoprF18

The return of the Fooking Copycat

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Post ID: @qrf+ZoprF18

So very true, says it all, brief and concise, very well written.

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Post ID: @wyb+ZoprF18

Nothing to disagree with. Whoever wrote this should be on the board of Schlumberger.

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