Has your company / office laid people off?

[trickyone]

When I was working as a coop student, i used to be on youtube (watching tutorials and lectures) all the time, never received any warning or anything... Most likely they check the content of youtube videos

[schurchill39]

Our CEO told us on monday they we have terminated around 350 people company (world) wide. 4 people from my engineering group got let go on Thursday, 10% salary and manual bonus cuts were put in place Feb 1.

[XylathaneGTR]

Originally posted by Canucks3322
Wow I can't believe you guys stream videos on YouTube . Id be to worried about the content of some of those videos being nsfw more than anything.... not very professional at all either. ..

How is it unprofessional to stream some tunes with headphones while I'm at my desk gettin' some big shit done?

[Canucks3322]

^ no Im talking about the music videos showing that's unprofessional. ..in my work environment anyways. ..Im just surprised you guys do this in yours but i work in a pretty old fashioned office not some hip young engineering firm or O&G office maybe it's pretty uptight but I wouldn't even go on youtube on my phone if i was in our break room. ..

[HiTempguy1]

You know, growing up, I always envisioned a "professional" work environment as you describe.

I've either worked at some pretty lax places (even though they've been large companies), or shit is just a lot more chill nowadays

I mean, I think a lot depends on the specific industry you are in. But technical services/r&d/sales in o&g doesn't strike me as being very "formal".

[The_Penguin]

Originally posted by killramos
I got a "kindly refrain from streaming media as it consumes a lot of our shares bandwidth" this morning.

I think I watched a 4 minute sounds of F1 cars during testing video yesterday ,

Will just browse beyond via lte for a week or two to stay off the radar.

IT can mind their own business lol, they must have something better to do. Maybe not.

Hmm we sent out 2 of those recently. Did it come from someone with the initials G.B.?

We did the stats on bandwidth, and over 2GB/day just facebook alone.
Last month's overage bill was a bit much, so we started looking. Normally we don't care as long as it's not hogging bandwidth, or creating a security risk.

[Feruk]

Originally posted by Canucks3322
maybe it's pretty uptight

You are correct. Difference between looking busy and being busy.

[Freedom69]

I figured I'd wait to post to see if I could give an accurate summary.

Large Contractor on a Large Oil Plant North of Fort McMurray.

80% cut in staff since January 19, 2015 which translates to approximately 90 people let go. The cuts included Direct Field Labour, Administration, Safety, Supervision and my second in command. All future projects have been put on hold and we are working to complete existing contracts with the hopes that they release the work on hold once complete, otherwise we have been told to prepare to demobilize most likely in May or June. Fingers are crossed very tight 24/7...

As the PM, I had the responsibility of informing everyone they no longer had jobs, some had been off since mid December and weren't even given the chance to return to Site to get their things. Very sad and depressing last few weeks.

That is within the company I work for, the situation Site Wide outside of my company is fairly bad too with extensive cuts and layoffs across the board that included Engineers first, Operations and Trades, Safety and other skilled labour. The irony of this is that this Oil Company did a Press Release stating they would not be making these drastic cuts, yet they did so almost secretively to save face in the public eyes I guess.

The Oil Price bouncing back a bit this week calmed things down and if it levels off and continues to rise, we'll get through this as we have before.

For those working in Industries that think aren't or won't be affected by the Oil Price plunge, you might want to monitor what you say right now because although you may not be affected right now, if it continues you will definitely be affected eventually...

[Tik-Tok]

Originally posted by Freedom69

For those working in Industries that think aren't or won't be affected by the Oil Price plunge, you might want to monitor what you say right now because although you may not be affected right now, if it continues you will definitely be affected eventually...

Says every single person in the oil-field as if it's the only industry in all the world, and nope, my job is 100% not affected.

[Joe-G]

I wonder if its a coincidence that I somehow have access to youtube now. It was completely blocked before, but has been unblocked for a couple months now. It takes me to a "Caution" splash page with all polices, etc. It does give you the option to continue at your own risk though lol... Entrapment!

[Freedom69]

Originally posted by Tik-Tok


Says every single person in the oil-field as if it's the only industry in all the world, and nope, my job is 100% not affected.

Good for you, you're lucky.

Just curious, what is it that you do?

[spikerS]

And this is why I like working for a big telco. Even in a downturn, people still keep their phones, internet and tv, so our bottom line doesn't feel the same impact.

[Cos]

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[01RedDX]

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[CaptainReboot]

Originally posted by Mibz
Different team did it so I can't say for sure. One guy one my floor who uses it to stream music all day was not let go, but is trying to figure out who to talk to in order to explain his usage. I strongly doubt they're looking at actual content, simply data usage and, maybe, number of URLs.

Music on YT usually has a static image on it and those "videos" use something like 30% the bandwidth of an actual 720p video. I imagine people who are just listening to music are outside the top 1% of YT abusers. I don't have the data in front of me though.

That said, it's not just about whether or not you're doing your job, it's the fact that you're taxing resources that cost money. At least that's what the person handing you a pink slip will say.

The guy who I know was let go was helpdesk. I guess now he can spend 8 hours a day on YT at home :P

This stuff only happens when the order comes from on high. Nobody in IT gives a shit what other people are doing unless it's breaking something or their boss tells them to give a shit.

Lol, unless this is a coincidence, I'm sure we work at the same company.

[HiTempguy1]

Originally posted by 01RedDX


I think he's an aviation technician. Gonna be pretty busy with all the O&G people leaving the province.

I am also not really affected, nor is my wife or anyone else in my close circles for the foreseeable future. This includes sectors like telecom, banking, healthcare, education.

I honestly don't think this is nearly as catastrophic as everyone thinks it is. All this is doing is cooling down an insane job/housing/everything market in Alberta.

Oil is at $52 a barrel. I think if it gets up to ~$60, things will stabilize at a new normal that regular people earning "only" $60k/year can live reasonably in this province.

[pheoxs]

Originally posted by HiTempguy1


I honestly don't think this is nearly as catastrophic as everyone thinks it is. All this is doing is cooling down an insane job/housing/everything market in Alberta.

Oil is at $52 a barrel. I think if it gets up to ~$60, things will stabilize at a new normal that regular people earning "only" $60k/year can live reasonably in this province.

But what if we don't want to take a pay cut to a reasonable level??? THINK OF ALL THE BMW AND AUDI OWNERS!?!?

[ddduke]

Originally posted by Tik-Tok


Says every single person in the oil-field as if it's the only industry in all the world, and nope, my job is 100% not affected.

What is it that you do that is not affected in any way?

[HiTempguy1]

Originally posted by pheoxs


But what if we don't want to take a pay cut to a reasonable level??? THINK OF ALL THE BMW AND AUDI OWNERS!?!?

Didnt you just have a brz... And now a fiesta st?

[Tik-Tok]

Originally posted by Freedom69

Just curious, what is it that you do?

Originally posted by ddduke


What is it that you do that is not affected in any way?

As said, aircraft tech.