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Originally Posted by DiracSpike
Crappy news for Imperial employees affected. This kind of garbage happens when you’re tied to a mothership American or European company, luckily there’s lots of strong Canadian companies like CNRL and Suncor that are always looking for good people.
Also a warning, to everyone, except I guess government employees where anything goes and nothing matters: A lot of the layoffs include offshoring jobs to these global business centres in India and elsewhere. This is becoming increasingly popular with big American firms (Exxon influence over imperial at work here). I’ve heard from a bunch of ex chevron and Exxon people that this is what they’re doing, and it’s not just oil and gas. This is a very predictable logical follow up to the work from home trend over the last 5 years and it’s only going to accelerate. If you’re able to convince your employer your job can function as a voice in a box from wherever location, don’t be surprised when they go seek out voices in a box for 1/10 what they have to pay North Americans. This should have been easy to see right at the very start, a lot of people seem to have had difficulty with that, but now that there’s concrete proof this is actually a thing there’s no excuse any more. Your biggest advantage is that you’re physically located in Canada where our companies operate
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This was happening long before wfh was popular. I know people who were impacted by it in Fort McMurray. There should be rules in place about taking our resources and outsourcing jobs to other countries to do it.