The Rising Influence of Rising Affluence

[OakesCS]

to give an example of 1 symptom of the disease i referred to in prior post:

https://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=project%20manager%20schlumberger&l&vjk=498fd9be74dfc16f

No where in that job ad do they state what kind of project is to be managed. The 1st item in "Main Objectives" of the job is "Drive Safe"! "Drive Safe" is one of a bazillion dysfunctional SLB "life-practice" training programs that probably falls out of liability law/insurance. The point is not about the functionality, or lack thereof, for such programs but that they are perceived by upper management as being of higher priority than the actual job. No respect is given to management of projects by people that actually understand the subject being managed. Management is seen as a job function that is independent of what is being managed. SLB is far from being alone in this delusion (the US gov't and gov't contractors make SLB look amateurish on that front).

In the LinkedIn version which seems to have vaporized, SLB states far down in the ad that the work involves hydrology and geochemistry. i believe that the job is to manage an analytical chemistry/geochemistry lab so you might expect SLB to target, with some specificity, people with that kind of skillset but noooooo.....