Company Benefits Down Payment Assistance* Employees who live within 40-miles of Loving and maintain full-time Delaware residency are eligible for down payment assistance on their primary residence. Quality of Life Incentives* ConocoPhillips offers... — read more
Hey Permian Check Out Generous Pioneer Benefits in Midland
As you complete your open enrollment ponder on what Pioneer is offering their employees in Midland: • Medical, dental, vision, and prescription dr-g plans with premiums covered at 100% by Pioneer for employees and eligible dependents • Life... — read more
Life long expats
Most of us know expats that have been on the circuit for multiple years or decades in some cases. These expats , for the most part, feel entitled to being on the circuit permanently and any discussion around returning to their home location is... — read more
BTC Expats plugging staffing gaps
Lately, every time I speak with management or someone based in Houston, it seems that the solution to resourcing shortages is for management to backfill roles with BTC staff and fly them over. Curious to hear from those BTC staff - I hope they're... — read more
The most common feeling: regret for not leaving earlier
When employees take home the same amount of money whether the company makes a profit of $10B a year or $60B a year, you have a massive problem. $17.9B 2Q 22 profit and XOM employees got a 3% one time inflation adjustment. Ridiculous. Almost all other... — read more
There goes the Neighborhood
When mentioning the new “Neighborhood” concept, must say “There goes the” in front of it. This innovative torture of employees is KM trying to justify her $18+ million in bonuses last year. Part of the justification is that this has been... — read more
Discount Codes
Anyone still have the hotel discount codes they would be willing to share?
US Surgeon General issues Workplace mental health framework
https://www.hhs.gov/surgeongeneral/priorities/workplace-well-being/index.html 84% of respondents said their workplace conditions had contributed to at least one mental health challenge. 81% of workers reported that they will be looking for... — read more
Permian Open Enrollment
Better sign up for and max out your accidental death and dismemberment and life insurance if you work in the Permian. We are blowing and going so fast and next year is even worse. Only a matter of time before you need that insurance.
Harvard and MIT Students Disrupt ExxonMobil Campus Recruitment Event to Protest Big Oil
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/10/20/exxon-recruitment-protest/ By Christie K. Choi and Carrie Hsu, Crimson Staff Writers 16 hours ago Roughly 30 Harvard and MIT students interrupted an ExxonMobil recruiting event at MIT last Wednesday in... — read more
December “Bonus”?
There was talk a few months ago on here about maybe getting another one time “bonus” in December. Anyone have the latest?
Exxon to sell Billings refinery, other assets to Par Pacific in $310M deal
Oct. 20, 2022 12:24 PM ET By: Carl Surran, SA News Editor https://seekingalpha.com/news/3893286-exxon-to-sell-billings-refinery-other-assets-to-par-pacific-in-310m-deal Par Pacific (NYSE:PARR) +5.3% in Thursday's trading saying it agreed to acquire... — read more
Guys we have F1 cars on the campus!
So much fun seeing the Formula 1 cars and drivers on campus! We don't have raises, desks, WFH flexibility, promotions, empowerment, a cogent strategy, or a non-dysfunctional culture...but we have F1 cars! Quickly, we must share this great news with... — read more
NRE and waiting to hit 55 is no way to live
I recently left, and every NRE/RE person I know has said that if they were my age (30s), they’d be doing the same thing. For those under 45 or so, do you want to be one of those people wistfully thinking if they could have been somewhere else? — read more
Just how long do you expect us to wait?
Change is needed. Management says as much and admits it. Yet there is no action. Just how long does management expect us to wait before we all walk out and leave them amine with no one to manage.
Compensation in total is down way down
Future is clearly that employee compensation will continue to decline and jot keep up with other options. Young amf middle age should leave immediately.
January resignations
How many planning to leave if January raises aren’t fu----g massive?
House of cards
We are to the point of holding our proverbial house of cards together with bubblegum and duct tape. Welcome to the sh-t show indeed! Wake up management! We are going to crash and burn hard.
Record profits = No action on compensation
WTF is management waiting for? Show me the fu----g money!
DW - stop treating us like C R- AP
DW read this - stop treating Americans like sc-m under your feet! Just stop it! Have some loyalty to those that either they helped build this company alongside you or their children have. Stop the woke, demeaning, demoralizing disrespect for the... — read more
On the Origins of Discontent. https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=62591
If you are an EM leader who cares enough to wonder why employees are disengaged and morale is low, read this paper.
Look at the data!!!! Extrapolate!!!!You
Too good to be buried in the comments. I too am an ex employee who regularly visits this site to see how much farther the company has fallen. I find it funny, but in a sad way because I still do have people there that I consider friends. I’m... — read more
Young people don’t want to work here
Many articles and evidence young people don’t want to work in oil and gas. Senior leadership continues to try recruit from the wrong schools. Go to where there are conservative students who understand oil and gas and the value it provides. Hire... — read more
Prospective Leaver
Anyone able to share their experience at other oil and gas companies, particularly in analyst type roles. Feels that all these sorts of roles at Exxon consist of highly procedural, repetitive and mindless spreadsheet activities while developing... — read more
How Many Employees Do We Have in our Bengaluru Technology R&D and Business Support Center in 2022? One source said it was to grow to 5000-6000.
Will Bengaluru evolve into ExxonMobil's Technology and R&D Center Similar to Shell's R&D Facility in Bengaluru? Source: Times of India 28 May 2015 BENGALURU: Exxon Mobil, one of the world's biggest companies, is making a $400 million-$500 million... — read more
Employee shareholder votes
I know DWW must hold many more shares than most of the employees all put together but we should all vote against him and all of the directors from hence forward. I hope institutional investors analyst read these blogs to realise that DWW is running... — read more
EMTEC sentiment survey.
Wow. If the catastrophic results doesn't ring any bells for upper management then nothing will. LD: why don't you just layoff everyone and shut the place down?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/simonconstable/2019/06/20/how-hot-desking-will-kill-your-company/?sh=5a113e8632e9
Hot desking blatantly says "We don't care about you" at the top of the list
We Made the Daily Mail
Not surprising such a trashy company made a trashy news service https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11319501/Exxon-employees-quitting-droves-companys-strict-culture-report-says.html
EMTEC Admins - Do they exist?
I am a recent experienced hire ( — read more
Responses to Bloomberg article
Any one have stories to share on how their management has responded to questions about the Bloomberg article?
goto/neighborhood
Yeah. This will definitely help with attrition at the Campus.
Exxon, BP ask U.S. Supreme Court to review Baltimore climate-change suit
Chevron, BP, ExxonMobil and other oil majors have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review for a second time whether a lawsuit filed against them by Baltimore over the costs of adapting to climate change belongs in federal... — read more
RSU and salary treatment
As we near that time of year again, any information as to what the newly announced RSU level will be? And salary treatment / budget?
Lump Sum Pension
A lump sum pension buyout was offered to more former xom employees. Any insights to share on whether to take the option? Thanks.
No more free coffee
Time for the free coffee to go. It just costs too much. Also half of the fridges will be unplugged to save electricity.
End of free parking at EMHC?
Does anybody know anything about this? I heard the idea is being considered as part of the benchmark studies. Chevron has been charging for parking for their downtown office for years now.
Remote work
https://fortune.com/2022/10/17/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-remote-work-problem-productivity-paranoia/ “And surveillance doesn’t just lead to bad data—it undermines trust, a critical factor in organizational success that, once lost, is incredibly... — read more
Exxon's Russian oil output collapsed after rejecting local tanker insurance - sourc
October 17, 2022 https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exxons-russian-oil-output-collapsed-after-rejecting-local-tanker-insurance-2022-10-17/ Exxon's Russian oil output collapsed after rejecting local tanker insurance -... — read more