Williams reviews

The positive company culture has utterly been destroyed in the last 5 years. The company does a lot of things with good intentions without regard for pragmatism or real life consequences. For example, it implemented a system and process to speed up decision making in 2012. The real life result has been that decision quality has not improved and decision timing has worsen. There is no managerial courage at any level to admit to failure and make improvements. So there are added processes and bureaucracy, increasing workload without any measureable benefit. However, it made management feel good that they "did something" to combat decision paralysis. The company had a handful of safety incidences in the past 5 years. The incidences were attributable to the rapid increase in the amount of work and the drastic decline in experience and skill level. To address the safety incidences, they re-organized, promoted a bunch of new people into the management, implemented more work processes and bureaucracy, and decreased the total headcount of people who will be doing the work. Employees are overworked and overstressed. Safety metrics worsened. But it made management feel good because they "did something" about safety. There are so many more examples of feel-goodism that do not have positive consequences.

Williams used to be a good company when many of the Transco managers were still there. The current CEO is a complete joke who does not care about the employees who make up the company. They used to promote within in their current pool of talent but now they consistently search outside the company giving a clear sign to the younger employees that there is no room for upward mobility. The new accounting controller is exactly that, controlling and does not trust in the knowledge and ability of her employees. She must not have enough to do because she is known to clockwatch her employees.