Set In Their Ways - Anonymous employee Phillips 66 Employee Review

Most of the employees that work there are known as "Life'ers". Most have worked their entire working life at this one company. They do not like to embrace process change at all. As a professional office contractor, I have worked at many companies, large and small. With regards to office processes, there are many avenues that you can take achieve the same ends. We, as contractors, while working at Phillips 66 might suggest more efficient, easier ways to do something. But, we always get the same push-back no matter what group within Phillips 66/ConocoPhillips we are in: "No, we've always done it this way and we get by." No matter how risky their old approach is they do not want to have to put in the effort to learn a new way of doing something even if in the end it would be easier on them. It's almost as if there is a wink and nod going on between management that is conveying the message that if you don't rock the boat then I won't either. <Wink> Then, when an internal disaster happens and costs the company millions of dollars every one can deny that they had been forewarned. Bonuses will continue to be paid and that is all that matters...