Up until 2015-16, I never heard of anyone with more than 10 years with EM being put on a PIP. Only 3 year or less that were not good fit were PIP’d. The PIP system was weaponized to target older employees in that downturn. Department... — read more
IT Career Day
This should be a short day. I cannot imagine what they can talk about all day, since the technical career track is so limited. I can see a future is someone is in BA or India, but there's nothing for the XOM Houston folks as long as the Fake PIPs... — read more
2022 EMIT Strategy overview
BK mentions we faced a lot of head winds in 2021 in his video. I wonder who blew them. But wasn't it him who blew what became all time EMIT favorite line "hotshot"?
Despicable company that they do not like their old personnel, but it is manage by old people.
How old is DW and their acolytes (brownosers and companions)?
What Was It Like to Work for ExxonMobil? - circa 2017? What Changed in Five Years?
https://www.quora.com/Why-did-you-leave-ExxonMobil The best part of working at ExxonMobil are twofold 1) Global Nature 2) Profitability I worked at ExxonMobil for 8 years in the Global Services Company (GSC). The global nature of the company means... — read more
why the culture is toxic, why impossible to make any progress
And why people are leaving Suppose you solve an important problem yourself, you will not get anything nor help you anything in your career, because everyone is thinking “what is this in me?”, and they will blemish your work or criticize when you are... — read more
Any updates on the next asset divestment (headcount reduction) for Nigeria and EG?
From CareerConnect, Nigeria can shed 1000pax and EG is 164pax which can absorb some of the target headcount reductions.
Irving be gone mid 2023, what's next?
Billings, juliet, annandale
Ouch! Gas Is Expensive!
I still pay $38 per month on my Model S and every morning I have fresh, 200+ mile range. Good luck to all of the gas dinausor SUV. Your pension money will go back to XOM 🤣
Exclusive-Brazil has oil. Exxon can't seem to find it
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Exxon Mobil Corp has bet billions of dollars on offshore drilling in Brazil, an area it once abandoned and now sees as key to its future. But five years into its comeback, the U.S. oil giant has yet to make a major oil discovery... — read more
$10 Billion for stock buybacks, less than inflation for us
I try to be zen about all the sh-t going on in our company, but tonight I’ve reached my limit. All it took was a trip to Target and one look at the bill. Inflation is rampant and eroding the spending power of the vast majority of us because our... — read more
Age Discrimination Class Action ?
It seems clear that the intent is to force out higher paying positions and people and these are the older experience people. No one individual can win against the corporation and their pile of cash and lawyers and political payoffs. But a class... — read more
Should I sell my RSUs now or wait?
ExxonMobil director sold 1.5 million shares of ExxonMobil at an average price of $80/share. The 1.5 million shares represents 90% of their ExxonMobil holdings. I’m conflicted, should I sell my measly 7,700 shares acquired from RSUs or wait? I don’t... — read more
Leadership Expectations
How many of leadership expectations below do XOM mgmt. demonstrate and live by on a day to day basis? I would say they fail on them all and multiple times and still get to keep their jobs for failing to act as per these. Set standards (what... — read more
Who are the new reorg execs?
Fellas, could someone please list the winner snakes that made it to becoming presidents and VPs in the new restructured orgs? Could you also list the Exec level losers who didn’t get the top jobs and where will they go? a happy concerned investor!... — read more
Makes You Wonder What Our Internal Emails Might Reveal Regarding Dinobaby Extinction
IBM Emails Show Millennial Workers Favored Over Dinobabies Josh Eidelson - Yesterday 9:04 PM Source: Bloomberg (Bloomberg) -- IBM executives discussed in emails how to force out older workers and derided them as “Dinobabies” who should be made an... — read more
Should We Buy Neste Oyj Since We Are Marketing Sustainable Aviation Fuel Supplied by Neste's Facilities in Singapore and Europe?
Singapore Airlines to buy ExxonMobil's sustainable fuel in push to cut emissions February 11, 2022 3:21 AM CST Reporting by Sameer Manekar in Bengaluru; Editing by Arun Koyyur Reuters.com Feb 11 (Reuters) - Singapore's civil aviation authority and... — read more
If you want anything done, ask a busy man to do it
This is why so many of us are chronically overworked and keep seeing our work pile grow daily while others barely have anything to do. I can't even blame management for this, they recognized an opportunity and they pounced on it. They did their job... — read more
KLTC Competence
Does anyone have examples of issues with quality of staff at KL? Chemical Engineer who was looking at a product tank with a level on it and saying the contents were a gas. I still struggle with the fact decent engineers were laid off and replaced by... — read more
Why employees are leaving
This week the VP of my area did a townhall One of the items mention was that Exxon is trying to understand why employees are leaving and why we can’t retain new and experience people more than 3 years Besides that this just confirm they live in... — read more
Expats, good luck
I’ve noticed an upsurge of BTC employees getting expat positions and I bet the company is putting the screws to them in terms of expat compensation. For anyone else desiring an expat assignment in the coming years good luck. The company is hooked on... — read more
What Happens to Our Business and Staff in Russia If Russia Invades Ukraine?
Overview of Our Business In Russia https://www.exxonmobil.ru Over 25 years of continuous business presence across Upstream, Downstream and Chemical divisions. Exxon Neftegas Limited, an ExxonMobil subsidiary has operated the Sakhalin-1... — read more
Looks like the guy is describing EM...
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Off Cycle Salary Increase Chances?
After ranking E last year, I had surprisingly low and disappointing % increase. That made me wonder if any of the more experienced folks, who have lived through $100/bbl+ can share how possible an off cycle increase would be?
Supervisors and Managers Work for the People Who Report to Them
Corning’s David Morse sees his job as enabling his team members ACS Industry Matters Newsletter February 10, 2022 Source:... — read more
So long EMIT??
Rumor has it that EMIT will be entirely gone by end of 2023 and all IT will be outsourced. Seems this is BK’s way of screwing all of the hotshots that have already left.
Ban PowerPoint from Meetings and We Can Increase Productivity by A Minimum of 25 Percent
Jeff Bezos Banned PowerPoint and It's Arguably the Smartest Management Move He's Ever Made Make your meetings shorter and smarter with this absurdly simple leadership technique. BY GEOFFREY JAMES, CONTRIBUTING EDITOR... — read more
I need to leave O&G
I left BP after a year to join EM. That was six months ago. I'm now in the process of looking for a new job once again. I'm not sure if all O&G companies have the same problems or if it's me. I know this doesn't look good on my resume but I left BP... — read more
Why Dallas is moving.
I think Dallas is moving to Houston, so they can keep a closer eye on who is taking a selfie in front of the cube.
Exxon’s move to Houston is part of yearslong cost-cutting program
By Emily Burleson – Reporter, Houston Business Journal Feb 3, 2022, 7:38pm EST Oil and gas supermajor Exxon Mobil Corp.’s (NYSE: XOM) decision to consolidate its Dallas-based executive team and staff into its massive Houston-area campus will help... — read more
XOM SSHE
There’s a lot of info on here about the toxicity in EMIT, Upstream, and many other technical roles. Not much info on SSHE. I worked a SSHE role for a few years before being piped off in 2020, and I don’t think I’ve ever worked a more toxic and... — read more
Hotshot
Stop being paranoid for a moment and enjoy this meme you xombies https://imgflip.com/i/64n3py
Plan to put 2 people in PIP from team?
I heard even before the PDS season they have already decided Number of PIP = No of Excellent category from each team. Can supervisor can confirm this?
F&L forum comments?
How was the F&L forum today? It sounds like EMCC forum was bad - any similarities in the F&L forum? I couldn’t log in today - I’ll try tomorrow for the Europe one.
Patience vs. Excitement
ExxonMobil: Patience Pays Off, Excitement Doesn't https://seekingalpha.com/article/4485138-exxonmobil-patience-pays-off-excitement-doesnt ExxonMobil's stellar performance over the past year and a half has come as a surprise to many, given all the... — read more
EMCC Forum a watershed moment
This is the point where going forward is obvious to everyone that it’s a death spiral. LT has lost all remaining traces of credibility and that trickles down now to anyone who is d-mb enough to continue to toe the line in their defense.