field engineer

engineer

equipment operator

senior field engineer

technician

ProPetro Holding Corp

ProPetro just bought part of the company I work for. I'm about to become a very unhappy ProPetro employee. 

The company I came from offered 100% paid health insurance for employee and family. We also had access to two separate free health clinics (also for our families). ProPetro pays nothing towards the premium for your family members (even the worst mom and pop oil field service company I've worked for has paid SOME of the family premium). Basically, my new benefits are going to cost $800-$1000 a month. 

ProPetro has told us they will "try" to renegotiate the price of our insurance soon with the insurer. Personally I don't care if they renegotiate or not, they should be paying part of this cost. Don't they understand when employees families are taken care of the employee focuses better on their job.

84+ two week on/on week off hour weeks run from Monday to Sunday where I am now. Apparently ProPetro starts workweeks on Wed in order to screw employees out of overtime pay. A completely ridiculous thing to do in an economy with 4% unemployment, I have no idea how they retain employees.

So far we are being told the workweek won't change for us, but how are they going to justify that to all their other employees? Especially since they are bringing those employees to this yard.

The onboarding process to come to this company is also a joke. I have to make an appointment with a benefits counselor to get my benefits instead of doing it in the meeting to come on board. We have been given zero information about the benefits other then cost. No materials from which to make good decisions. It almost seems they are trying to hide this information.

The one good thing is that if we stay with them for 4 months we will be able to quit and get full severance from the old company, but even then they won't pay it out until two months after the "one time" quit date. It is like being held hostage with the hostage taker hoping you get to the point you like them. I expect a mass migration out of here after April.

I went from a company with the best culture and benefits in the industry to one of the worst. Every employee talks about how they are getting constantly screwed.

I'll make this short. There's no formal training here, management neglects there subordinates but is happy to punish them should they make any mistake. Management has a tendency to withhold useful information until the moment comes that the information can be applied to solve a problem.  It's honestly a way for your manager to feel superior to you instead of just doing what it takes to get things working. Should you ever ask for help or material to learn procedures and equipment; management well kindly tell you to look at their database. The problem with their database is that it cant be sorted due to it lacking a proper search engine and it is filled with hand type documents that can sometimes be undecipherable do to others poor grammar skills. Overall, you're on your own.

No one mentors new people at this company, then they tell managers that your not helping when your not being taught what to do. They are rude to new employees and are always up their a$@. The managers go off of hear say instead of investigating themselves, if you don’t fit in with their clique they try to do or say anything to get you fired. Doesn’t matter how hard you work or how much your involved, if they don’t like you then they’ll say whatever to get you fired. They talk about people behind their backs. You get dirty looks and treated awful. Your on call for jobs and you don’t get paid, the cementers get paid salary so they don’t care how many hours an hourly person has they want to hurry a rush through the jobs because they are paid the same no matter if they are home or on a job. This is not a good place to work at all and is a toxic environment for most people. 

It’s an ok place to work if you are not an experienced hand. Treaters with little to no experience know more than hands with years of experience. You will be told your getting your raise then you will get it 3 or 4 months down the line. No housing offered but they give 75 per diem that is taxed so it’s really about 52 per day. If coil is on the well you will not be able to work with a different crew to make hours even though the crews consist of 5 people  you will get little to no hours when that happens.  Be prepared to be the fall guy because treaters are not to blame. If you have experience you will train everyone on your crew because nobody else will have experience. Benefits like the review above are free if your single but you will pay close to 500 a check if you have a wife and kids.

First lesson : All is great when company has plenty of work. Cut your throat when Covid 19 came around. Lay offs by the hundreds with no fellows, no matter how long you been with company. No warning. Just good bye and thank you for coming. No promises on rehiring either. Sad

Second lesson: Gave them a second chance. Should have learned the first time, right.  Work slow and had a lot of crews shutting down.  Terminated cause company didn't want to pay unemployment. They give out rules and policies to general. If you misinterpreted any one then you are fired. No verbal, no write up, just terminated.   

What is the best part of working at the company?
Love the people not enough hours

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Living in vernal Utah in a camper trying to earn a living

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Very compartmentalized. I was treated unfair from the start because everyone thought I was going to take their job since I used to work with all the previous bosses 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Show up at 8am and leave at 2pm depending on whether or not you were going on a job later that evening which made it hard with a cdl. All the younger guys got a lot of hours, but I was limited by DOT standards because I drove equipment to and from location.

Lots of hard physical work with good pay with advancement incumbent on worker relationships. Plenty of backstabbing or by hook or by crook advancement; if young and ambitious you’ll do fine. Has midmanagement problems, which seems typical in these industries: take care not to get injured because they do not like their safety record blemished, so stay close to experienced hand if new to this industry.. Very nice, clean building for headquarters and take care of their radios and headsets or your paycheck will be docked for replacements, so make sure it is in good working order before signing off for it. Good luck!

Management needs to step up and see who is a GOOD worker and who is NOT. Their motto is "Anyone can be replaced". A lot of people have been fired for dumb reasons. They need to keep good workers based on how they do at work and attendance. Some workers flat out dont pick up the calls when they are called out for a job, while other people dead tired still come and work. They really need to get out there and see who is doing what and who is actually working and busting their butts for the company. Those are the people that need a raise not the people who dont do squat.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The family atmosphere and the team I was on and supervised was next to none!! Absolutely loved working there!! Hope to return soon 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Getting the west fence line project under control 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Awesome culture awesome people awesome director in my department 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Clock in 7am do daily meetings at 9 did my walk through of each department and buildings took care of hey you details and service tickets clicked out at 5

Working for Propetro has its ups and downs. Some of the higherups feel no need to work, and some of them make sure to help out so you can be successful. There's a huge "cover your behind" mentality within the company, where many of them just don't want to be held accountable for anything that goes wrong and that's why they won't help. The pay is great when the oil field is up, base pay, overtime, and perdiem really add up. you wont get rich but its a good living. 

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