I am from CS organization at low cost GBC. Joined as experience hire, have been with company for 5 years. Total working experience is 10 years, age 33. My sup told me I just have been marked as hipo and she will raise my CL to 25 at the end of this... — read more
Does the high attrition matter?
Does the high attrition matter? To workers yes, to the company, probably not. After 38 years at XOM I rode some bo-m and bust cycles. During the busts there would be layoffs and high attrition. With the brain drain and low morale of the overloaded... — read more
Worse CEO: Darren or Rex?
I think both will compete for the worst in Exxon’s history, but who is worse among the two? I would vote for Rex because everything he did was horrible, including selecting the second worst CEO - Darren !
Do Company even trying to retain people?
With all these many resignation is there anyone who was successfully retained by company?
Let's talk about ExxonMobil Research Company
Why has there been no mention of this poor excuse of the business? Will it be outsourced? Why have there been no redundancies here? What are they researching? They're just hiding out collecting a paycheck. Not to mention they are not the brightest... — read more
Chemicals and F&L
Why are so many people saying XOM is gonna sell of chemicals and F&L facilities? Chemicals is extremely profitable right now. These claims don’t make sense to me, XOM being more diversified compared to other majors has always been a good hedge when... — read more
EMIT BCJF Manager
Did they seriously try to insinuate that there is no separate advancement path for management vs. technical? I don’t think there’s anyone left who believes that story by now.
Future of Fawley
FAST happening?
Constant reorgs
Can somebody tell me what's the point of constant reorgs? We've had how many in the past five years? Has any one of them done us any good? Let's be honest, it's just pointless shuffling and reshuffling done to justify the endless reductions in force... — read more
Does management not realize the impact of keeping an 8% pip continuously? Do they just not care?
In my view, if we really wanted to reduce headcount, we should have just done it in one fell swoop. Instead of a 15%, lay off 25% or whatever it takes to get to the ‘target’. By doing this continuous 8% pip, a lot of people are on edge all the time... — read more
More re-orgs in 4Q2021?
Can someone help provide reliable insights on the upcoming re-orgs in major US-based organizations (UIS, Chemical, EMRE, EMIT etc.)? Structural changes aside, what scale of movement (out-sourcing, relocation, layoff, etc) are we talking about? With... — read more
Stock of ExxonMobil
The attractiveness of ExxonMobil stock over the past many many decades is that it was the King among the dividend aristocrats. How come now, the rest of them are now larger in market cap than XOM? You know the usual ones that have also been around... — read more
Permian Town Hall
Key takeaways. Questions posted to Slido, Mgmt did not answer Slido questions. Mgmt is not concerned on attrition rate. The word “Care” was used 25 times, no actions to back up the words. Mgmt is here to help, but they are not decision makers-... — read more
Nobody cares
I resolve not to waste a minute more of my precious life on being gaslighted after the last forum. many of us who are young are actively looking for better jobs. we have mentally switched off from all these nonsense safety, process trainings and... — read more
Pegged as high potential?
I’ve heard in order to make it far in this company (CL 34+) you have to be pegged. Typically this only happens when another high potential leader pegs you. My question is how do I get pegged and does it hurt?
Raising concerns about middle managers
New Hire here, excuse the possible naivety… A new manager has been put in place to run my team, they give an attitude that they don’t care about the business/team, permanently WFH, provide no pastoral support or otherwise to members of the team -... — read more
So many open positions and the number doesn't seem to be going down
Look around, there are new job openings popping up daily and I don't see many of those disappear as quickly as they used to anymore. Could it be that people are tired of this cr-p and are walking away in droves while others are realizing what XOM is... — read more
I just quit XOM and I feel liberated! Who else?
I have not been happier during my time in ExxonMobil and finally on the day of leaving the company, I feel amazing. Who else is with me?
KLTC 2 YEARS HIRE GETS AN EXPAT ASSIGNMENT? (KLTC folks please comment, may need VPN)
KLTC is sending someone who is less technically strong and has only been ranked once to an expat assignment whereas there are engineers who have been around for >3 >4 years and are moved into local roles?? Yes, these people might be ranked... — read more
What if no one showed up..
at the next BK meeting?
ConocoPhillips buying Permian assets from Shell
At least someone is Winning!
Blog owner thank you
That’s for deleting the post regarding Guyana and Brazil Leadership. I’m sure this blog is owned by Exxon f … k
Why is Uncon is called Crown Jewel?
Just noticed an Uncon "Crown Jewel Award" being given and posted on LinkedIn.
Use XOM to get a better job
Then hightail it out of here as fast as you can. That's the only thing it's good for these days.
EMIT Staff Development Manager Model
This ba----dized Agile version of EMIT is a complete train wreck. Can't believe this is still on-going and all the managers are completely in-love with it. What made them think that having a "manager" who doesn't know their direct reports do can... — read more
CS&I coming in 4Q
CS&I to consolidate Downstream and Chemical into one manufacturing business line. Implementation will start to roll out next quarter. Happy monday!
Can we put managers who don't meet our standards on PIPs?
You know the type of manager I'm talking about. Got where they are through brown-nosing, have no idea how to do their job, take credit for things that had nothing to do with them, resort to yelling and throwing a fit all the time to hide the fact... — read more
Layoffs by November 2021
Potential layoffs by November 2021.
Good By
I accepted the exciting chance almost in a trance to have this one last dance I lifted my chin with pride because this will be my last ride with all the opportunities being wide I'd get to work with the very best while saying no to all the rest oh... — read more
Town hall talks
I have been to the last few town halls. Some interesting information was let out. First they expect more work from older more experience workers. There are different standards for new employees vs older ones. PIP ing has not resulted in anyone being... — read more
Prognosis
The future of EM is not catastrophic, but it is also not bright. I think this is due to a few reasons. Significant transformation and innovation is very hard. Historically, most businesses are not able to completely transform their business... — read more
Exxon and BP called to testify on climate after ‘troubling’ new documents
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/sep/16/exxon-bp-congress-climate-crisis
Tribute to best and brightest
Below is a tribute to XOMs best and brightest, back stabbing, lean and mean managers and mgmt. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/09/bad-bosses-workers-fought-back-asshole-managers-nurse-guard-amazon-microsoft/ Sincerely, Hardworking... — read more
Layoffs by December
I’m middle management and got word from my manager that there will be layoffs of middle management (actually lower management SLS) by December. He gave me a heads up that I should be looking around as he can’t save his job or mine. He said that... — read more
DW summoned to DC
Well, this should be interesting. Congressional investigators say they’ve found ‘very concerning’ new documents about ExxonMobil’s campaign to discredit climate science. Yesterday, they summoned the CEOs of Chevron, Exxon, She’ll, and BP to testify... — read more
6 Reasons Why Your Company Is Not Your Friend
https://www.thejobnetwork.com/6-reasons-why-your-company-is-not-your-friend/ Any truth at EM?