Management comprised from the inexperience that had never been off shore or in oil and gas industry to the very experienced but did only the least amount to help. subordinates than for themselves.. It favored some and made the work environment hostile for the rest, with far and few in between. Management could lie to colleagues of same capacity or grand stand for their benefit, then turn around and say it did not mean a word it had spoken..
Management would intimidate employees into changing progress reports from good to bad and punish through wage manipulation by not sending employee on jobs. Clicks were very evident and power struggles between training supervisors and assigned management were stressing on the employee. Other management styles were better but not by much. One could not establish a rotation unless in the click of said project and rotating employees out to different ones to keep them fresh and knowledgeable was nonexistent. Fabricated reports, files being secretly, accumulated, and an HR fragmented as well, made you feel you had no life line for help except during the two day training to be more sensitive. The so called open door policies with no retaliation from your superiors or fellow employees did not exist. Salary changes to hourly to then hours cut but per hour wage raised depressed and confused. Moving half the shop to out of state with a mortgage gun to their heads did not help. Even country managers calling subordinates chicken and baby because the NORM levels were above company policy but would play the race card if challenged not to mention taking of stipends and depositing in Wells Fargo to get that money out of country & into their accounts down right illegal. Once a well established individuals get to were one felt safe. It was an island in a stream. FMC with so much potential, such a great reputation, the best technology on the market, and such fine quality personal from earlier days and now is a sad shadow of the former. I do wish growth, success, and a return to the glory of the luster of the pioneers of old.
