Employees at Engen GB are worried about their situations and they raised some issues during a meeting with Mr Hassen Zalgaonker.He told them that Engen would keep its promise and give a 3 month salary bonus 6 months after taking over the company,i.e May 2009(as agreed before).
However the employees see no sign that there will any compliance from the local management.
Mr Badarou,then answered in creole(the local language)to Mr Zalgaonker.He said that Mr Zalgaonker was not his line manager and therefore does not have the right to answer those questions.
This gives an idea on how Mr Badarou treats his subordinates,colleagues and line managers.
Engen GB is in fact Mr Badarou´s private playground.

Court summons Mr Bastou Badarou

The manager of the Kalliste Hotel went to Engen GB office to meet Mr Badarou.The main issue was related to some unpaid bills.There were some misunderstandings and Mr Badarou insulted the gentleman and had him expelled from the premises.
The manager then filed a complaint against the company.Mr Badarou was supposed to answer at the court last week (19th to 24th May).
This is another stain on Engen reputation in Guinea Bissau

Witch hunt at Engen GB

The management of Engen GB,in the person of Mr Badarou is not happy about the news on the net.Recently a staff member was appointed to discover who is behind all this.To punish or to have an idea on how much the person knows about him?
There is a disciplinary process against the head for the trade union and he is accused of arrogance,disrespect fo his superior and the company procedures, not working on Sundays and not doing his work correctly.However can anyone have faith when the defense is heard before the accusation?when the person accused is punished by the management even before the conclusion of the disciplinary process?
Does the Engen vocabulary really include words like:justice,equity,respect?Maybe.But not for Engen GB.After all Mr Badarou said that the international employee (from the integration area) who recently visited the branch in Guinea Bissau did not have the right to tell him how to run his office.
Maybe this is a "TOTAL" culture ,Mr badarou is trying to import into Engen as the same thing is happening in Burkina Faso where all the TOTAL employees are on strike.
Is Engen GB going in the same direction?
Can Engen afford strikes or lawsuits at this critical time?
Only Engen can give answers.

Engen GB getting rid of employees

On the 15th of April Mr Edgar de Jesus Pinto Vieira Reis was told by Mr Badarou that his contract would not be renewed.He was on a one year contract with ASB a company owned Engen GB and Petrogal with 50% shares each.
Engen GB had told the employees that their contracts would be respected and realigned even the fixed term ones.
Did Engen change its position?
Is Mr Reis a scapegoat?
is the new management trying to show that staff what will happen to them if they continue to challenge them?
At the Mr Badarou is putting pressure on the staff,suspecting them of telling on him.
Who will be the next victim of Mr Badarou´s "folie des grandeurs"?
No matter the answer to these questions,one thing is sure:all the employees of Engen GB are worried about their future.

Conflict of interest in Engen GB?

Engen GB has a new financial manager Mr Aminou Abache.This gentleman was part of all the auditing mission in Guinea Bissau even when the company was still called Total GB.He became friend with the current director.There was later a need to recruit a financial manager when Mr.Badarou was promoted as director.The reason why Mr.Abache was recruited is not very clear to many people.
Were there no suitable applicants?
Is Mr Badarou trying to reward Mr Abache for all the good reports he wrote?
The truth is that the other managers are being pushed and those in control are the 2 gentlemen named above.

Engen Guinea-Bissau harasses employees

A trade union was created to fight against the way Engen Guinea-Bissau mistreats its employees.The main issues were about a salary survey that was supposed to be conducted by the company.Mr.Badarou ordered a customized survey from an audit firm.The trade union tried to have more information but the resultat the suspension of the trade union president.The president has been working in that company for almost 2 years and has never received any blame.The new financial director started on the 18th March and he is a former auditor of the firm.He blamed the president of the trade union of not respecting the procedures and not doing his work while no employee has ever received any information on Engen HR procedures.Another thing is that the current director of Engen Guinea Bissau has forbidden the local from writing to any other Engen international staff without his approval.
What has really caused the suspension of the president of the trade union just 4 months after the creation of the organization and his appointment at its head?
Is Engen not interested in listening to their employees´ concerns?
What is the future of Engen Guinea-Bissau?
No matter the answers to these questions,the population of Guinea-Bissau now sees the other side of the Engen coin.

Engen Guinea-Bissau challenges Nino,The President of Guinea-Bissau

The president´s service requested for fuel for the plane that had brought Nino back from abroad.The director of Engen,M.Bastou Badarou gave the order to refuse supplying the presidential plane.The president sent a cheque to prepay for the fuel.The cheque was also rejected on the orders of the director,asking the president´s services to go and certify the cheque.The director of a local bank had to call M Badarou and act as a collateral.
Mr. Nino,the President of Guinea-Bissau summoned Mr.Badarou who refused to go saying that he had another meeting.He was summoned again for Monday 2nd March 2009through the minister of transport.We all know what happened that day in Guinea-Bissau.
The President is dead,but what will be the relationship between the government of Guinea-Bissau and Engen Guinea-Bissau.