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The upside: When I first started working at Baker, I only had a class 5 drivers licence, I was flat broke, and wasn't expecting much. After the first month, they put me through training and paid for my class 1 licence, dozens of safety tickets, and all of my ppe. By the third month, I was making good money and after getting laid off, Baker gave me a huge amount of money for a severance package. I learned A LOT working for Baker. How to work safely, work on the trucks, even how to act in the field - It was my first oilfield job. Lots of heavy lifting. Managed to lose 10 pounds working for them and my arms got huge. The management at Baker was great. Really good guys (and girls) working in the office. Very well mannered, professional, and fair. A lot of the older guys I worked with had a great sense of humor

The downside: There is a kind of "boys club" going on at Baker Hughes in Red Deer and if you're not "one of the boys", you get picked on. Some of the guys working there are just awful people and there's nothing you can really do about it because they've been there longer. Lots of gossip in the company, if you say something or do something off key, everyone knows about it across north america within a week (for real). Field supervisors can also be really nasty - if you make them mad, they work you like a dog until they settle down and they always try and rush you during rig-ins and rig-outs. It's very difficult to move up quickly in the company because there are so many guys working there, all after the more senior roles. Baker also had 3 massive layoffs in the 11 months that I was working there.

There were a lot of good times at Baker but there were also a lot of bad times in terms of some of the guys I had to work with in the field. All in all, I will never work for a large fracing company again. If you're looking for first time oil field experience, a class 1 licence, lots of safety tickets, and fat pay checks, Baker is a great company to start with but don't under estimate smaller oil field companies.

As a process field specialist and account manager a typical work days require a large predisposition toward on-site client management, constant "after-sales" support, and process troubleshooting. This takes place at site-specific facilities in a common effort to produce adequate sales-grade oil in the most cost-effective and efficient manner.

Learning curve has been significant, largely due to the intimate nature of living and working at your customer's facility (Cenovus predominantly in my own case, with similar exposure elsewhere). Managing expectations, logistics of chemical supply, project-focus demands, process upsets, chemical field trials all form part of the learning curve.

Management has been a little trickier in my case largely due to an extensive 'on-site absenteeism'. Makes it difficult to progress within the company as, being a large organization, inherently relies on a bureaucratic hierarchy; sticking points can occur with ineffiective middle management. This has prove difficult to surpass internally.

Co-workers are great for the most part, generally an inherited commonality of purpose, however often working remotely can prove lonely, and co-workers are often also your client. Many wonderful friendships can develop in this scenario, which add to account stability.

Hardest part of the job is the amount of travel and remote setting. Makes developing personal routine and structure almost impossible. Long shifts whilst at work can be stressful and draining.

Most enjoyable part of the job is growing with your client; sharing in week-to-week process triumphs, building friendships, and working together toward generating satisfying results to day-to-day problems which come hand-in-hand with oil and water separation and subsequent purification.

I have been employed with Baker Hughes for almost 6 years.  When I was hired I had absolutely no industry experience but I soon realized the potential I had to make a difference.  I was given my opportunity as a shift lead that soon progressed to a titled position as a supervisor.  Not ever being in a leadership position I struggled at first but my manager, and my mentor reduced my responsibility and realigned me to help me succeed.  
After a few years I was recruited internally and in my current role I have had the opportunity to show my worth with upper management in Houston and I made a name for myself.  
Without hesitation, I can say that the guidance provided to me early on in my career helped me gain the confidence to make it to where I am today.  
Don't get me wrong, part of my success was timing as well but if you put in the effort and are willing to take constructive criticism, if you are able to separate "business" from friendship you will succeed.  
The industry is has changed so much in my tenure with Baker Hughes and the company as a whole has increased their Safety culture hand-over-fist.  They care about the employees, their health - both physical and emotional - and it is showing by the performance increases made over the past 2 years.  
I can't imagine working for another company.  As large as this is there is still the "family" atmosphere within the company.  I have made many friendships here that I feel will last for many years to come.

This is the proverbial old boys club.  Management is so focused on appeasing the overlords in Houston, they have lost touch with their  customers and workers.  Any thoughts about progressing in the company should be dismissed.  They promote their friends and neglect those who show potential and talent.  I personally saw someone (friend of manager and team lead) quit, only to be hired back - promoted.

Work is challenging at first but becomes predicable and monotonous.  You are hired to do a job and that's what you do until you get laid off or quit.  The co workers are good but most are unhappy and searching for a way out, unfortunately, BH pays well so that keeps most people in their meaningless roles.  I like to think management sucks all ambition out of their workers.  Team leaders are abusive or unattached. 

The job culture is to fend for yourself.  Their is NO teamwork culture here (although management likes to think so).  The management style is old school - like back in the 50's.  Management do not want to hear your concerns, so you tell your team lead - who filters it (or ignores it), so any real concerns NEVER get addressed.  Just shut up, do your job and maybe you wont get laid off!  Their is no leadership, just time managers working here.

The most enjoyable part of my job is going home at the end of the day.

I work in Pipeline Inspection, Calgary.

After having to wait all morning for a phone call to go at work you usually get the call by 1 pm to be ready to leave shop by 3pm after loading equipments on truck and trailer and had to drive for 12hrs to destination to realize that there was no communication between dispatch and the company man to let him/her know that i already been up for 20hrs  and by law needed 8hrs of duty before starting work again. In busy time its exhausting and tiring to work for a company that says that it cares about its employees and pushes them to work illegal hours to fit the needs of others.
I have learned after 3 years and multi national company don't cares about there employees and just care about there own money.
Our management wasn't the best and honest meaning that they lied to us from hiring till layoff. Hiding signed documents to fit the company better and hiding the fact they have made a mistake so they looked good to higher ops.
Neither to say that most people working were actually really good people.
The hardest part of the job was the unknown of the call for a job and prevented me to book or prepare a vacation for the family.
The best part of this job was that i had to travel a lot across the provinces and meeting lots of new people and seeing different things.

Everyday was a learning experience for me at Baker Hughes.  Managing a team of 7 throughout Alberta and Ontario had it's challenges. The logistics did not allow me to have a hands on experience with each of them.  I built the team up so they became self sufficient yet knew I was only an email or phone call away to address any problems, concerns and provide training and assistance when needed. I held a weekly conference call with all of them to just "talk".  I felt this was a good way for us to learn together and offer suggestions and support, not just by me, but by all of us.  Having the administrative team report to me allowed us to unify the way we preformed the daily duties requested of administrators.  Any one of us were able to cover sick days and vacation time at the other bases without any disruption to the business.  My co-managers coached me on becoming a strong team leader. I had a lot of respect for them.  I was able to take what they taught me and apply it to my team gaining the respect and support from them just as I had for the management that taught me.  My experience at Baker Hughes was invaluable and grew me in to a confident team leader and player.

I left the company for several reasons:
- Lack of autonomy; no room for individual initiative.
- Excessively stressful and hostile working environment (partly because of my supervisor and partly due to company culture)
- Not getting along with my supervisor (at this company people are not promoted based on their ability to work well with others)
- Below-Market Remuneration (my pay was roughly 20% below market; others left the facility for the same reason--there was 25% turnover in roughly a one year period)
- Minimal training (I had done no training for 8-12 months, though not from lack of interest)
- Lack of job variety (an issue specific to my position, your milage may vary)
- The conservative, top-down, hierarchical, and dictatorial nature of the organization (This should be patently obvious to anyone currently working for the company. For instance, there are 200 presidents and vice presidents)
- My job duties did not match the job posting (12 items were listed, I only did 3 with any frequency. 90% of my time was spent doing something that wasn't listed)

Day to day operations with a lot of webex meetings and a lack of focus on the business and industry. I learned that a large company  needs to work with the field staff - who have a better perspective on the market place in their area and a better understanding of customer needs. I found that in a huge company there is more focus on numbers than on strategy on how to achieve greater numbers. Management performance was almost inexistent and only contacted you when they needed an update on financials. I had a great team of co-workers who went above and beyond to help build our success. The hardest part of the job was to watch a new company come and take over and dismantle everything and everyone who made our previous company a success. The most enjoyable part of the job was interacting and meeting new people and building a successful business.

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Tool box meeting is set every morning. Supervisors discusses which drilling tools are needed for the day and set schedule. Also, everybody discusses any issues about safety. I learned how to manage my time due to time restraints. Some customers needs the tools urgently . When I first started training I was so green that I did not know anything about drilling tools. With some help of the senior technicians, I slowly learn so much about the industry. 

Work atmosphere was good. Most of the technicians are easy to get along with. Hardest part of the job is the constraints. Some times you need to stay late to finish the tool because the rig is waiting for the tools. When its busy, you can get called in in the middle of the night or on the weekends. That being said supervisors makes sure that you are fit to work and you are well rested. 

The most warding part of the job is when tools come back from the rig and the tool that you assembled worked properly.

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