Has your office/company laid people off or is it picking up? PART 7 (Redesigned Poll)

[flipstah]

What's wrong with "safety moments"? When I was working for an EPCM, I used to do them in the field and whenever I'm at HQ, I felt right at home.

Then again, you can only do paper cut for so long.

[riander5]

Originally posted by Zhariak

I dont know if i agree with you or not, but i respect that you have put a picture of yourself on the public forum where everyone else is a stormtrooper or morpheus

[Zhariak]

Originally posted by riander5


I dont know if i agree with you or not, but i respect that you have put a picture of yourself on the public forum where everyone else is a stormtrooper or morpheus

Hahaha

[XylathaneGTR]

Originally posted by flipstah
What's wrong with "safety moments"? When I was working for an EPCM, I used to do them in the field and whenever I'm at HQ, I felt right at home.

Then again, you can only do paper cut for so long.

I like to make them stories about myself and the dumb shit I do.

I once told a safety moment to our COO, SVP, and VP about my recently adopted kitty cat, making it a tale of awareness and applying it to my site. Fun stuff!

[killramos]

^ See telling a story like that is how I would expect to get a nickname like "kitty cat" at work

[Marsh]

Originally posted by ExtraSlow
We bitch and moan when foreign companies buy our natural resources (remember Nexen and Talisman?) Why wouldn't we cheer when those same multinationals sell them back to us?

I know we're all pretty depressed about the political situation in this province and country, but let's have some perspective.

As the old guys at CNRL always told me, "the assets will end up in the hands of the lowest cost operator over time". Seems to be true for these two blockbuster transactions.

It's hard to say if its good or bad. Companies like CNRL led by Murray Edwards have made their nut by expanding and growing their companies at market bottoms, not at tops. So its a good sign in a sense from there.

On the other hand, the global oil marketplace has changed. The last decade or so was simply about producing as many barrels as possible, because the market was rewarding top line growth. Now, the market is rewarding those companies who can keep costs low and improve margins, not topline growth. So for major global companies like Shell and Conoco who likely have a higher cost of capital then local companies, it makes sense for them to unload the higher cost projects in their portfolio and shift that capital to more economic and lower cost areas ( ie Permian).

So there are two different dynamics happening here...Cdn companies "doubling down" , which makes sense since the majority of their assets are here anyways. And global players leaving, as their money can be better spent elsewhere.

[flipstah]

Cramer says he'd rather pay off debt than roll the dice on oil sands. Which means, it won't bounce back anytime soon.

[ExtraSlow]

Cramer is about as trustworthy as the onion for stock tips.

[flipstah]

His yelling makes me wanna buy more.

[Sugarphreak]

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[FraserB]

Does anyone know what happens if you submit an EI claim more than 4 weeks after the termination date?

Old company submitted an ROE that puts my last day of work a few weeks earlier than my termination letter is dated for and this puts me outside that 4 week window.

[duaner]

Was laid off January of last year. This is my last week of EI. I've applied for school for the fall and will have to take out student loans if I get accepted.

Why the government is willing to pay some $20 million (last I read) per year for a company in Ontario to change our lightbulbs instead of giving unemployed people a shot at going back to school to get re-educated and working again, is beyond me. Even Ontario has such a program.

[riander5]

Originally posted by flipstah
What's wrong with "safety moments"? When I was working for an EPCM, I used to do them in the field and whenever I'm at HQ, I felt right at home.

Then again, you can only do paper cut for so long.

Lol safety moments. What a waste of fucking time.

[riander5]

Originally posted by XylathaneGTR

I like to make them stories about myself and the dumb shit I do.

I once told a safety moment to our COO, SVP, and VP about my recently adopted kitty cat regarding how she likes to ambush my legs from behind furniture while I'm walking around (leading into how its important to maintain an active awareness of your surroundings; in this instance I thought the coast was clear and failed to re-check my surroundings when I moved from one counter to another in the kitchen while cooking, leading to an ambush and a slip-trip incident).

You really said this to senior management? Were you high?

[HiTempguy1]

Originally posted by XylathaneGTR

I like to make them stories about myself and the dumb shit I do.

One of my co-workers is on the company safety committee. They have a "safety moment" every meeting. His first one?

Checking for breast cancer (and how men can get it too)

[XylathaneGTR]

Originally posted by riander5


You really said this to senior management? Were you high?

Yes (to senior management) and no (to being high). Guess the place I work with has a bit of a better environment than yours?

[flipstah]

Originally posted by XylathaneGTR
Yes (to senior management) and no (to being high). Guess the place I work with has a bit of a better environment than yours?

You're a hero.

[Xtrema]

Originally posted by riander5


You really said this to senior management? Were you high?

Depends on the company, antics like that may actually go far.

[03ozwhip]

I asked my CM if there was someone hiding under his desk after some other guy dropped off his lunch....that took the guy 2 hours to get.

I think sometimes the things you say have to have good timing with the right people. this comment made him roar and he'll remember me for it.

[know1edge]

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