For the PR people to say that the Phase 2 Investigation into the proposed take-over by Haliburton is "standard procedure" is a bit of a fabrication. Betweeen 21/09/1990 and 31/01/2016 there have been 6096 mergers/takeover considered by the EU. Only... — read more 

Everyone around here sucks except for me & maybe a few others

Hi everyone I am new to here and was wondering if anyone else has been noticing some safety concerns to their work. Be it offshore or land . I have noted it's more difficult getting Ppe and safety training renewal coarse's . Just now its like no one... — read more 

Whoooaaa Whoohoo dudes. The amount of moaners i work with struggling to pay the mortgage with no overtime for months now . Serves you bragging think you are better than everyone else "look at my house " attitude. OVERTIME is not a right. Get over it... — read more 

I noticed there's a ton of curry Indian resumes from BHI on Indeed. com. What gives?

Good luck getting employment... Well I was lucky. I started looking for a job last spring and got one in late fall, outside of O&G. I was with Chevron for 4 years (worst company I have been apart of) and 8 years with a service company. The other half... — read more 

Whats going on there ?

I'm sitting st my desk eating pringles , drinking a mountain dew while watching my stocks..... HR taps me on the shoulder and tells me to pack up my things. I turn around and tell her to give me 15 minutes because I'd like to surf porn hub one last... — read more 

numpties that run this place have LB guys on a string, rest of shop bagging cash right left and centre with OT while we are struggling and getting pushed around, sent through for TRAINING!!!!!!1, its not training i need , its cash.Dont tell me to see... — read more 

We should strike. If tool hands and workers refused to come to work for even 1 day, all together, upper management would be forced to change their 'strategy'. Our request are simple and humble. Start laying off the multiple layers of managers who... — read more 

How many will get rifed?

Just seen a stack of sevrence packages on the HR office. Good luck friends.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-03/halliburton-baker-hughes-buy-time-pushing-eu-deadline-to-june-23?cmpid=yhoo.headline

Aberdeen has started layoffs again . Some folks got letters on Monday. Braced for pending bad news over the next few months. (AGAIN)

http://www.wsj.com/articles/why-an-oil-price-rally-is-so-slippery-1454519662

ALICE (Kiii News) - Baker Hughes, an Alice-area oil company, confirmed Monday that they will be closing down their facility there, and some losing their jobs will be relocated to their facility in San Antonio. Some employees were laid off Monday... — read more 

I see your boy Craighead was given (acquired) 240,000 stock on Jan 27th. Even at todays rate of ~ $43 that amounts to the pitiful sum of $10,320,000.00 Hope the poor bugger and his family can find their way clear to hold on for the rest of 2016, and... — read more 

Many senior management team members of DCF recently moved to integration team

Looks like they are about to announce more divestitures to appease regulators. Anyone have any knowledge as to which baker product lines? I've heard a few rumors myself from a reliable source.

Same characters doing the overtime when long bay guys and other areas struggle to get a job! Egregious indeed!

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