RE: BP16 Jun 2020 16:27
Yes I worked at Sunbury 'village'.
BP culturally is an echo chamber - it wants to be agile and forward thinking, an agent for change ! But it isn't because it struggles to accept any sort of constructive feedback that might be even close to being negative.
I have worked there a couple of times now as a Contractor and its been the same each time even though in completely different parts of the Group.
They like flat structures from an org perspective, they love agreement, group thinking and behaviour, they don't like challenge, they have developed a culture where its rewarded to have as little personal substance as possible and be just the thing they want you to be - which is to say, reinforce our view of ourselves or life's going to be reaaaaally hard for you here. So every day you have to jump through their corporate hoops to ensure you are all good corporate citizens however their actual values (i.e they ones they apply when no-one is watching) are wafer thin.
Its a bit of a head fk to be honest - they say one thing, but actually do another.
I remember being on one of their 'town halls' and they were talking about a sailor who went missing off the back of a tanker and how challenging it was that they had to go to High Court because the widow took them there for negligence.
Not one word about the loss of life. not one. Just what it meant for the company. I think that sailor had worked for them for over a decade.
Another example ! They love do safety moments at the start of scheduled meetings which is where someone shares an 'incident' they had so the group can learn from it and all be better safety ambassadors etc etc .
Some poor bloke woke up to burglars in his house with his wife and child asleep - got down there with a bat etc chased them off. Police out, interviews, no sleep, turns up at work just in time for said meeting. Shared his experience, clearly still in shock. Rest of the meeting spent 15 minutes telling him what he should have done better to prevent this from happening and protect his family in the first place. Shaming a bloke in shock was ok because it was the safety moment.
These are small examples but are an insight to the strange world that is BP.
They will be slow followers into the alternative markets that we are loving here - and they will achieve very little through their own innovation. They will buy other orgs out.
Which may be to our advantage after all :).
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