Best and brightest can’t resist replying to all, clown show

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/exxon-ceo-floats-pay-hikes-162851186.html

This company have some of the worst managers I’ve ever encounter in my 30 years of experience. The last one is the all time worst. This piece of sh*t manager saved his own hide by adding my responsibilities to his job description during a re-org. ... — read more 

More than 20% attrition, layoffs through unfair ranking continue, raises in Indian companies is around 30% as a norm plus bonuses based on performance (even Shell does this in India, their pay is still competitive with Tech companies). ExxonMobil... — read more 

Familiar with the general robotic feeling here on this LO board, let us all get Positive for a minute. This site is about people keeping their jobs (or losing them). This post is about ExxonMobil, not some generic, and about Admiration, not... — read more 

So many people on this site need to get out of their bubble and go help some less fortunate people. An attitude of gratitude goes far in life. Much further than the victim mentality on full display here.

No thanks.

An article by Bloomberg referenced in Seeking Alpha. Does Mr. CEO start feeling the heat? Future will tell... Place your bets. https://seekingalpha.com/news/3757641-exxon-ceo-considering-pay-raises-to-fight-employee-attrition-bloomberg

It's clear the company now has people working on this site to change the tone and take over the narrative. It's like EM is afraid of the truth coming out. And it's not just HR and PG&A employees. It looks like they have hired outside consultants to... — read more 

If I hear another person in Uncon act like raising approval levels in OpenInvoice will fix everything I will lose my mind. Seems to be the latest sport is complaining about OpenInvoice. Get over it. Oh and the BTC invoice coders do no worse a job... — read more 

A lot of people are pushing working from home full time not just because of COVID but a more permanent arrangement. But do you realize companies including Exxon Mobil gather data and evaluate if these are positions that should be transportable to... — read more 

Ever notice the company touts our people as our most important asset. But they don’t mean you as an individual. You are no different than any other asset that needs to be managed and controlled. One of the goals of management is to commoditization... — read more 

A good thought exercise for everyone complaining about their supervisor. Rank your team. Meet the distribution. Provide feedback to the low ranked team members. If you are as caring and all the things your supervisor is not the next step is to share... — read more 

So many people get hung up on a low ranking thinking it means they are a bad engineer. All it means is the other engineers were better than you. It is relative not absolute. If you are part of a group of really good engineers and are ranked lower... — read more 

So many posts on this site go like this: Every single one of the thousands of supervisors and managers in the company are the same and are bad. Those bad supervisors didn’t do my ranking right or treat me right. They should have ranked me high and... — read more 

It seems management is focused on RIFs through PIP cuts. Does that mean layoffs are off the table from now on?

Looks like the company has learned from its business partner, comrade colonel Putin, that dissent is better suppressed with a troll farm than through direct interdiction (anyway, not yet available in the US). Well scripted trolls can mess up any... — read more 

This is a fitting new title for the Ranking Process with mandatory 8% PIP Your friends drop on each side of you for seemingly no reason and you just look forward and try to comply with the rules and live to compete in the next round. What are the... — read more 

Many seem to be pretending the burning dumpster fire train wreck driving off a cliff that will be the 2022 ranking won’t happen. It will happen. What are you doing to be prepared for a drop in ranking? A drop in ranking means smaller raises and more... — read more 

So many people on here post like they didn’t realize the way the company / world work. If you didn’t realize within a couple of years how the ranking system, HiPos, etc work you weren’t paying attention. I am not justifying it or saying it is right... — read more 

Reading all the BS posted on LI (and some arrogant ba----ds here) by all levels of remaining XOM employees (primarily by those with authority) I am thinking are these XOM posters really naive, ignorant, or have they become cunning because of the PDS... — read more 

I vest my 401k match next August. If I get the PIP next July do I still get the vesting?

Did anyone else hear the crowds chanting when DW came to Houston for the employee forum. I thought I heard them saying, “Let’s go Darren” but I can’t be sure. Anyone else hear it?

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/equinor_robots-can-help-increase-safety-for-employees-activity-6856598657240748033-H4Tn Snoop is looking pretty far behind the competition.

Company no longer offers opportunities for worldwide travel. This was why I stayed in the past. Anyone know of companies or industries where world travel is a big part of the job?

Last year was a close call: if the company would have not borrowed money to pay the dividend or if the dividend would have been under threat from the pandemic for another year, the share price would have tumbled into lower single digits and EM would... — read more 

Is XOM really looking at re-hiring those who got laid off? One of my previous manager who I am on neutral terms with reached out to me unofficially told me that the company cut too many people and just now realizing that and then asked me if I would... — read more 

By Carly Fiorina Source: LinkedIn Over the last couple of weeks we’ve been talking about why employees leave. Over four million employees have left their jobs during the Great Resignation of 2021. This is a historically high number. The reasons... — read more 

From the NYer interview of Trader Joe's ex CEO/founder (sold to Aldi): After he left Trader Joe’s, Coulombe spent a couple decades serving on corporate boards and helping clean up companies in distress. Many of these efforts were successful, and all... — read more 

By Olivia Pulsinelli – Assistant managing editor, Houston Business Journal Oct 22, 2021, 4:06pm EDT Irving, Texas-based Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM), which employs thousands of people in the Houston area, reportedly is closing two of its local... — read more 

Lots of talk around people waiting until the January salary treatment to make a decision to leave or stay. I just can’t see any large raises taking place, my guess is 6% or less depending on the rank group. Thoughts?

https://www.worldoil.com/news/2021/10/22/exxon-to-close-two-houston-office-towers-following-worker-exodus “The assessment process is not a headcount reduction exercise,” Exxon said in the statement. “It is an annual process for performance... — read more 

DW deserves to be PIP’d more than anyone in EM. Prove me wrong.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exxon-shutter-two-houston-office-171907694.html

I spoke with Aetna yesterday and they have made it clear that ExxonMobil HR has sat down with them and removed several covered benefit from our health and dental insurances for next year. For some, this may be no big deal, but for those of us that... — read more 

Attrition warfare is a military strategy consisting of belligerent attempts to win a war by wearing down the enemy to the point of collapse through continuous losses in personnel and materiel. The word attrition comes from the Latin root atterere... — read more 

The U.S. Energy Landscape Has Changed. What That Means for Inflation. Source: https://www.barrons.com/articles/why-todays-energy-inflation-is-different-51634677139 No paywall: https://archive.ph/N2E2h In only six months’ time, the script on... — read more 

https://247wallst.com/special-report/2021/10/13/companies-that-produce-the-most-plastic-waste-around-the-world-2/11/ To identify the company generating the most waste from single-use plastic manufacturing, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed data in "The Plastic... — read more 

DW wore his Effie Trinket dress and wig and announced that the third installment of the Hunger Games will be in 2022. You can be excused for not knowing about the Hunger Games in 2019, but not anymore. We need to hire additional people to have... — read more