Eskom engineer exodus

[Jan]

Exodus of engineers at Eskom

Eskom engineers and technical staff are leaving the power utility because of affirmative action, a lack of career prospects, cadre deployment, nepotism, and a toxic work environment.

This is according to an article in Rapport, which highlighted problems in retaining skilled technical employees at Eskom.

 

[Cactus]

 

[R13...]

Interesting article, the primary reasons given have always been there yet the latter reasons are secondary when those are new and should be accounting for most of the drain. And they also seem to both resign without a job in prospect but at the same time going to Europe and the East? I'm sure there are issues at Eskom affecting staff but politicizing the reporting doesn't help

 

[Scooby_Doo]

Africa gonna Africa. Well done bois you stick it to the West, I am sure any day now someone will recognize you as a real country.

 

[Gazg]

Africa gonna Africa. Well done bois you stick it to the West, I am sure any day now someone will recognize you as a real country.

Don't worry........one clever arsewipe will suddenly come up with a brain wave and change SA's name...........and that will sort out all the problems!

 

[TheChamp]

The only thing worse than a pay walled article is a pay walled article in Afrikaans.

 

[rietrot]

How many did they have for them to still be leaving 20 years on.

 

[Solitude]

A friend of mine is an engineer at Eskom and he will be leaving for Australia next month. Eskom does not sound like a nice place to work at.

 

[TheChamp]

A friend of mine is an engineer at Eskom and he will be leaving for Australia next month. Eskom does not sound like a nice place to work at.

Some say De Ruyter's broom is sweeping too clean and many people don't like that.

 

[John Tempus]

The article writer sure loves to create fear.

Even if there is no engineers on site and Koeberg breaks down so bad it will simply shutdown assuming those in charge did not disable all safety features because the buttons were white or some sht.

 

[John Tempus]

The only thing worse than a pay walled article is a pay walled article in Afrikaans.

Racist.. and erm, languist. <insert random assaults>.

Lets all cancel @TheChamp from the interwebz. ;-)

 

[John Tempus]

Is that his O face ?

Asking for a friend.

 

[mojoman]

#ShockedFace

 

[mojoman]

Some say De Ruyter's broom is sweeping too clean and many people don't like that.

I doubt they are using those R200,000 brooms....

 

[Cactus]

I doubt they are using those R200,000 brooms....

5 Brooms worth the same as my house? Are those magic brooms? (For one's mother-in-law as an example)

 

[Stevewarren]

Man this was news 20 years ago

 

[The_MAC]

1 ex-Eskom engineer friend is in the Netherlands, the other one just took a pay cut to get out of Eskom, he's still in the country though.

Eskom's generous salaries can only satisfy for that long..

 

[j4ck455]

Eskom COO Jan Oberholzer said he was “absolutely horrified” by the number of experienced staff lost at the Koeberg nuclear power station.

A quick googling did not list any sources for that quote and the MyBB article doesn't mention "the number".

There are two main obvious and expensive solutions to the eSkommel problem in SA: emigrate or stay and go off grid.

Those aren't the only solutions but the reality is that this government is only capable of stealing and breaking stuff, the country passed the point of no return from destination f'ed a while back.

 

[Iwojima]

Have heard the same from a few connections I have at the utility.

Large scale poaching of technical teams by foreign companies giving free rides out of SA for entire families, skilled technical staff leaving to work for the same contractors Eskom employs and a general exodus of those who can leave (i.e. those with something to offer outside of Eskom) choosing to do so now.

Besides the prospects of leaving for potentially greener pastures in another country I'm told that the treatment of staff is a major contributor to the decision to leave.

All of which will lead to the "dead wood" being left behind.

1 ex-Eskom engineer friend is in the Netherlands, the other one just took a pay cut to get out of Eskom, he's still in the country though.

Eskom's generous salaries can only satisfy for that long..

Apparently not as generous at all levels.

Some are, again from what I can gather, well below market value and if you must put up with the type of kak that goes on there I'd imagine you'd want to be well compensated at least.

 

[R13...]

Have heard the same from a few connections I have at the utility.

Large scale poaching of technical teams by foreign companies giving free rides out of SA for entire families, skilled technical staff leaving to work for the same contractors Eskom employs and a general exodus of those who can leave (i.e. those with something to offer outside of Eskom) choosing to do so now.

Besides the prospects of leaving for potentially greener pastures in another country I'm told that the treatment of staff is a major contributor to the decision to leave.

All of which will lead to the "dead wood" being left behind.

Can believe that. Eskom isn't a good place to work. First they had to live through the era of super corruption with the management to go with it.

They must now live in this era where top management seem comfortable to blame the lowest of workers for a national problem. And the COO is shocked at the extent of people leaving Koeberg? He's the COO why the hell does he not know that engineers are leaving and they have a crisis? That COO seems very clueless of what goes on in the company.