There's no such thing as job security here anymore. Just the illusion of it until the next email.
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@211 is shell laying off people again they already did in 2024 and 2025?
@1ta I almost laughed but this screams frightened. Mid aged millennial here and sorry you’re struggling. No sarcasm, it’s okay to ask for help. I got happier when I found humility and asked for help in a counselor.
@1he Generation Jones is the generation or demographic cohort between the Baby Boomers and Generation X. The term was coined by American cultural commentator Jonathan Pontell, who has argued that the term refers to a distinct generation born from 1954 to 1965.
Media coverage of Generation Jones has typically described it as a distinct generation, using Pontell's dates of 1954 to 1965. Others see this as a subset of the Baby Bo-m Generation, namely its second half. A third view is that Generation Jones is a cusp or micro-generation between the Boomers and Xers. Dictionary.com defines Generation Jones as "members of the generation of people born in the Western world between the mid-1950s and the mid-1960s".
The name "Generation Jones" has several connotations, including a large anonymous generation, a "keeping up with the Joneses" competitiveness, and the slang word "jones" or "jonesing", meaning a yearning or craving resulting from the huge expectations left unfulfilled in this generation's transition from the economic bo-m of the 1960s to the souring economy of the 1970s
They need us boomers you young ones don’t know sh-t .
I’m over 60 and still working
@1be Ummm….the youngest boomer is 62 and very possibly still working
@mp No, you didn't. Boomers are ALL in their 70s now (and some in early 80s). They would have been gone anyway, and most have retired, not been removed. Millennials and Gen X did not do most of that. And their leaving would have happened by now anyway.
@mp it seems every social group needs to have a punching bag to blame, be it boomers, x’ers, y’ers, etc.; if you’re looking for fault for your life’s dilemmas, try looking in the mirror.
@ma Nah, Boomers are all gone. You X and Ys can thank us Millennials'. We finally got rid of all those stupid dinosaurs for you.
The company is changing and not for the best. All I can say is do what is best for you if you see the writing on the wall it’s time to bail out.
@de after leaving Shell and being at another company, I would say Shell does not care for its people and many of the things Shell says it stands for it does not compare to its competitors
It’s a sad sign of the times. Shell was once a company where you could spend 30+/- years working different assignments, traveling for industry-leading projects, maybe get an expat posting for a few years and retire with a funded pension, a fat Provident Fund, continued life insurance and family medical benefits.
We don’t get to choose the times into which we’re born and random good fortune is usually only apparent after the fact.
And when it comes to caring about staff today, Shell is far from the enterprise it once was.
But maybe working here would look a lot better after leaving, then firing off endless cvs and depleting a pkg.
You’re just realizing this now???
It's just one continuous re-org. Plan your life accordingly.