It has been suggested by a knowledgeable source, that the Shell Blog posting below may have been made by Tom Purves, the Shell/Motiva Regional Vice President for Downstream Manufacturing on The Gulf Coast, sometimes referred to as “Uncle Tom” by a few contributors?
Uncle Tom
on Jul 17th, 2009 at 11:37 pm
Well Boys, you found you a web site!
Everyones got an opinion . . . . . right!
Seems like theres some good comments here and some whining! Not surprised to see both, we all have one, dont we.
We all make our own beds, and have to live in them!
Good people are leaving Shell, some wanted to, some didnt. Should some of them really be surprised? Not!
Good performers who didnt dog the Company still have a job.
Good performers (some) who dogged the Company are on the way out, no surprise.
Poor performers (some) are leaving the Company, should be no surprise to them. Some were good people who just couldnt cut it. Those people sometimes survived in the past, but with this darn economy, no one gets a free pass at times like this.
Can you fight it! Lets be real, whos got more money?
Whats the bottom line, Shell is a fairly good Company, but its the bad people in some positions in Shell that make things sour. Just like in any Company. Thats life, itll never change, not here, or any other Company.
If you dislike your job so bad, bite the bullet and jump ship. At least you might be happier? And that may be worth more than staying and being miserable!
And sometimes good people have to carry out bad actions, or face the music themselves. So who is really to blame?
Which of you would really face termination for not carrying out decisions from upper management that might not be very popular in the people you supervise?
Lets face it, were a foreign owned Company, and the direction is being set from there, not here. Every business is in business for one reason, . . to make MONEY!
Its Big Business . . . . . Dont You Understand?
Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
