OK, I have been asked many times why I did
not advance in the Alyeska Pipeline “Organization”, as many knew me as one of
the “Best of the Best” SCADA/Instrumentation/Custody Transfer Lead Technicians
hired soon after “Oil In”, Valdez to Pump Station#1. Even with letters of commendation
from Owner Company “Field Auditors” who witnessed my work ethics in Valdez, it
did not help my future! Now I guess it was due to “competition” and I can only
compare myself to a “similarly situated” Alyeska employee, wherein time of
service from hire date finds comparison along with technical progression and grading
on “Performance Appraisals” from our peers in supervision. So, I can only compare
my time in dedication hoping-for-a-promotion with pay raise with that of “Daddy’s
Little Girl”, as we started on the same damn day and so close in age and
qualifications - that it will show no matter how hard I tried, there were candidates
much more likely to succeed and more deserving for advancing in this Alyeska company.
That said, I saw the writing on the shit-house wall, and when Alyeska’s Human Resources thought
it best I attend “Basic Training” again after what President James B. Hermiller
said was 11-years of “Valuable Talent” and that Alyeska benefitted from such “dedication
in service”, I finally packed up my bags and left for hopefully greener pastures,
as there was no way in hell I could compete in competence with “Daddy’s Little
Girl”. So since many are asking “why” I had no future with Alyeska, my
challenge is with “Daddy’s Little Girl”, that went from a “Technician” to “Training
Department Manager” to “Pipeline Civil Maintenance Manager” to “Pipeline
Construction Manager”, so valuable an asset that he skipped any supervisory "in-between the sheets" climbing,
Technician to Manager. Wow, I am sure Daddy Dearest was so proud that the “blues”
went away. So “Daddy’s Little Girl” was way up there on the “bar”. Be it known
to all “able bodied sound in mind” that Alyeska’s BPO Ted Owens said there was
a lingering “stigma” surrounding my wherewithal, and why after 11-years a
determination to send me back to “Basic Training”. I mean there was nothing in
my yearly performance appraisals that warranted that decision? Again, back to “Basic”
and then transferred without my approval from a gainful SCADA position to that of
a “Station Operator Rover”, wherein my status was reduced to Technician Level I
begin it all over again. I had to get signed off on things to progress “again”,
like on things that I could on my own change the Pump Station’s “Human Waste Shit
Bag”. Well Ted thought something was wrong when he received my “Qualifications
Matrix” from the Human Resources, which said I was rated as a 4.6er for my career - with 5.0 = "Exceptional" and 4.0 = "Well Above Average Chris" wherein a 3.0 maintains a "Meets Expectations", the of record rating which you can find below and I challenge “Daddy’s
Little Girl” to show his goods that he could walk on water, to see…that nepotism was alive and well in the
Alyeska organization and when a company resorts to this kind of preferential treatment, no different then that stench from a sewage treatment plant on overflow! So Chris, show US your ratings!
