What are your thoughts?

With so many people retiring those in their 40s are doomed. No more near retirement employees to take the bottom of the rank group to protect the younger employees.

If Guyana operated by SBM is as great as we are told then why do we operate anything? Why not outsource it all.

If you wonder why executives are paid so much apparently it is because they are very skilled at reviewing badge swipe data! Probably one of the new skill areas that executives need to be a level 4 in.

Going going gone!

So many people in their 50’s retiring now. This is going to hurt and hurt bad. Losing the few remaining experienced employees with deep understanding. Tough for those in their 40’s to pick up this load.

The number of skills have been reduced from 1,400 to 300. Clear signal that we no longer care about technical skills and want everyone to be a generalist manager. Question remains where will we get the technical expertise required to execute work?

Cracks are showing. Technical bench is decimated. We can no longer execute.

What’s the latest win from our amazing Exploration team?

Reason 5 million I can’t stand this place. People never solve a problem long term here. Low scalability then create the situation. To me it’s like a 36 month cycle of do the minimum on a resolution but we will revisit this in a couple of years. Sick... — read more 

What a joke

Just go ahead and leave, the pension is a fever dream that only the old folks will benefit from. I left and got a 30% raise and made back all the lost opportunity within the year. Not to mention I can actually talk to the people at work without the... — read more 

I just found out one of my old supervisors got piped and is failing it. This supervisor was a soul less evil person. She would ki-l her own mother if exxon asked. She piped out my old co worker a few years ago and told him he did not deserve it and... — read more 

Opinion by Ivy Grace A $20-an-hour worker has rent, groceries and bills to cover. A $10-an-hour robot has one big selling point for employers — it costs half as much to get the job done. As artificial intelligence advances, Microsoft co-founder... — read more 

All I’ve heard is Gibbs is destroying everyone and heritage Product Solutions managers are micromanaging and pushing out the Upstreamers

https://youtube.com/shorts/eoLQKlCUgHI?is=hdpU2d7NY6zUzdn2

EM is my first job out of school. I thought it’s a place where I can retire, until I discovered this site. I never stopped learning new skills and looking outside. I will leave soon a much better pay job. Thank you all for sharing the bad stories and... — read more 

What is this thing of departments having a revolving door of people coming in and going out in a matter of weeks. Why nobody holds them accountable of poor judgement, biased hiring and dragging everyone down with their poor decisions. What is this... — read more 

A lot of former EM at Crescent Energy. They are hiring quite a few people right now. Engineers, GIS, Lease operators, drilling, construction, operations, office staff, procurement, a wide variety of roles.

Heard some rumours

Avoid non-technical managers if you can, especially when you’re new to a team or XOM. Incompetent managers often lean on so-called mentors, usually people who’ve been around longer and somehow stablished themselves , and those "mentors" pass along... — read more 

Expect the economy to stall out. This will give power to employers and suddenly benchmarking will say you are Overpaid so no raise for you!

Ok I just quit this he-l hole after being told I was not performing up to exxon s standards. I was told that if I did not step it up I would be placed on nsi pip next year. I have been working 50 hours plus and doing extra work. My supervisor said it... — read more 

Has anyone heard anything about EOG resources? I’ve now seen 5 good people from Exxon leave for working at EOG and they have plenty of postings.

Any news on salary treatment?

More specific questions here What percent of people have senior leader objective and what percent have executive leader? Given number of available positions, how many will make it their CO? Will senior leader CO people eventually end up being... — read more 

Who can explain the truth behind Career Orientation and Career Objective. Should I see Career Objective as "Potential" and Career Orientation where thats achieved? Why are Leading LCS / EMPS / Upstream separate career orientations in that case....?

https://energynow.com/2026/05/exxon-conocophillips-seek-safeguards-to-return-to-venezuela/

Why do so many people not use the EZTag to access campus? Every morning I have to wait for 10 people all slowing down, opening their window, fumbling with their badge, then finally opening the gate. We need to start each year’s NSI pool with these... — read more 

And we are hiring people we PIPd as contractors after we PIP them! WTF! This is messed up.

ExxonMobil turned an oil refinery byproduct into a drilling breakthrough… then some wells produced 20% more oil - my take ExxonMobil has developed a new drilling technique that could significantly increase the amount of oil recovered from America's... — read more 

Exxon just reported $15B+ in quarterly profits, $16B+ in cost savings since 2019 and we're still talking about PIPs and people getting pushed out. remember those 2K job cuts announced last year? now more discussions about performance plans... — read more 

Who was the Exec responsible for selecting and implementing Ariba? It has been nothing but a disaster for contractors in the field. Nobody is getting paid and the training su-ks. They tell me that every other company is getting out of this system... — read more 

We keep delaying while others sign deals. We are going to let it slip through our hands while others tie up the best opportunities.

You aren’t safe because you are close to the wellhead. So sick of people parroting this. Just look at Guyana.

I keep hearing that Budapest and Prague are next on the country program list. Anyone have intel? What about Bangkok? They have become more expensive but quality is finally starting to improve after a years of post migration hand holding.

I've designed a new ranking system. Employees are ranked only during their first ten years. After ten years, they receive tenure and are guaranteed employment, benefits, and peace. Poor performance? Your salary stagnates. No raises. No promotions... — read more