Is it just your supervisor? Or their supervisor as well?

I see some notes here saying hot line is not HR. A few years ago, I called the company hotline to report an unethical practice. I left a message, and the next morning someone called me back saying they were from Exxon HR. They told me they needed... — read more 

What legacies did TG and other recent retirees leave behind? Better or worst?

Any old timers know why EM is so reluctant to be a player in deepwater GOM?

Today is the day where XOM lost an unbelievable amount of talent between our Australia friends moving to Woodside and the remainder of the Brits being made redundant. Sad day for us all and we will suffer the consequences long term. DWW should pay... — read more 

I’ve read some PIP experiences where people mentioned scorecards, weekly or biweekly check‑ins, PIP goals, and coaching.... Can someone explain the PIP process in detail? What are these terms ?

In the cold light of day, how can employing green employees with no experience in another part of the world, add layers of management, kpis, traffic lights, scorecards, layered fu--ing engagement , QC by expats etc etc , ever be better than... — read more 

To those people who somehow benefited from this broken system and still call it totally fair: of course, it looks fair when you manipulate the system to get the outcome you want. Sitting in that room and assigning a rank to individuals is the very... — read more 

There's actually a PIP week here? It's not a year-round thing? Haven't been here long enough to know, but if it's true, I like it.

More cost cutting planned. As a result expect no raises and no CL promotions again this year. Meanwhile as inflation eats away at your pay, the buying power of your compensation goes down further.

I will start Upstream: Worst to be part of big BU. Lot of work and no reward Best: Small BU, same distribution and generally worse people. Even better Uncon support groups. Do nothing but critic others work - easy for any Exxon people GP - Avoid... — read more 

Now that PIP week is over, I'm curious about one thing: Did anyone between the ages of 52 and 55 get placed on a PIP or terminated?

When I was still young and naïve enough to believe hard work actually pays off. After the initial PDS review and all the excellent feedback, money savings...I expected top rating. Instead, I got a VG “above average.” I was so disappointed I took a... — read more 

ExxonMobil is stacked with unnecessary layers of management, and too many people hide in those layers instead of doing real work. Flattening the organization would cut costs, eliminate pointless hierarchy, and force people to actually earn their... — read more 

Rex Tillerson recently visited LT with a very pessimistic outlook of market and economic prospects. He highlighted that factors leading to a black swan are highly probable. As we all know this will be a perfect opportunity for XOM to grow... — read more 

https://www.trefis.com/stock/xom/articles/603827/exxon-saves-billions-but-margins-still-cut-in-half/2026-06-22

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If you already have a job, keep it. ExxonMobil looks glamorous from the outside, but that shine is fake. I learned the hard way. I ignored every warning about the toxic culture and left a stable job just for the brand name — biggest mistake of my... — read more 

I don’t know how it is in other organizations, but EMTech is aggressively hiring in BTC. Either move to a safer department or keep your options open and look elsewhere. I know strategy advisors are always on confidential projects, so they can’t... — read more 

Why would Oxy pay its Petro Technicals a very generous one time bonus unrelated to yearly goals or performance. Some top onshore and offshore engineers received +60,000 for their efforts.. Your opinions?

The global economy now uses roughly half as much energy per dollar of output as it did in 1980, helping cushion oil shocks. Read more in F&D magazine. https://www.imf.org/.../2026/06/picture-this-shock-absorbers Oil prices have risen sharply... — read more 

For a company that earned multi billion$ per quarter, it seems minimal reward/high risk to transition to low cost and low capability workforce in a 3rd world country. The savings seems like it is not worth the risk and also not worth destroying all... — read more 

Let's do it, you've got to do it. but it's optional. It's anonymous, I promise, for real. Exxon Quarterly Employee Survey by VP of Sarcasm and Irony On a scale of 1 to 5, how excited are you to provide feedback that will be carefully... — read more 

Besides the US, which countries are actually terminating for 2 NSI in 5 years? I know a lot of the countries we operate in have labor laws that don’t allow termination based on relative performance. Was HR hoping people wouldn’t know their rights... — read more 

Is anybody safe when they start giving out PIPs like candy, more than obviously not based on performance?

3 weeks ago they warned of $140+ oil. Now we sit at $70.

I’m relatively new to the company and keep reading stuff about high potential employees etc. Do Hi-Pos know that they are that or can you just infer from roles you get. If you are told are you informed about career objective or other things. Curious... — read more 

I'm not only looking to leave EM, but the entire O&G industry. I can't find a single company that's better than this place, and I'm so tired of all the uncertainty, cyclical nature of the industry, toxicity, and everything else that comes with... — read more 

Some groups have traditionally received a special distribution so they can rank more people highly. This has been ended and the groups that used to have it are not going to be happy with this year’s results.

Anyone heard back from their supervisor yet?

Any employees injured or ki-led?

I still haven’t been assigned the "Advisor" role but maybe EM HR could take a break from whatever it is they think they’re doing and actually focus on the mountain of harassment, as--ult, and misconduct complaints piling up every single day. Or, bare... — read more 

PIL sweetening the pot in the way out the door

I've been hearing a lot of talk about more layoffs coming next month. At first I dismissed it, but the rumors keep getting louder. Does anyone have any actual information? Are these just rumors or is something really happening?

Every projects I’ve worked on had Manager/IC ratio > 2:1. The most recent one was 6:1. Does the MC realize they can cut the managers by 1/2 or 2/3 to achieve greater cost savings?

Why is ExxonMobil doing so poorly in Trading vs competition? What are we missing? Shell & others seem to be doing much better. Is our new trading organization, combined with the newly minted midstream company set to turn our fortunes around in... — read more 

How do you request leave of absence? What’s the criteria for it? Does it protect you from getting NSI if you are on leave of absence?

This is why so many hours are spent making PowerPoint presentations just the right color, etc. Oh the stories I could share about the board visits to the Delaware Basin in New Mexico. https://youtube.com/shorts/wPiwujPls90?is=MJ7kBe5mNJLcQdVo

Is “Advisor” the new Exxon retirement plan? Every week I see another Advisor, Advanced Advisor, Senior Advisor, Expert Advisor, Strategy Advisor, Effectiveness Advisor, Change Advisor, etc. At what point does a company have more advisors than... — read more