I’ve got too many bills, too many people counting on me, and zero energy left to care about work. Some days I’m scared I’ll snap at the wrong person and regret it. I used to like what I did, now I’m just trying not to lose it.

This place checks all the boxes for toxic workplace. Negative communication: Excessive gossip, rumors, and backstabbing are common. Poor leadership: This can include micromanagement, favoritism, lack of transparency, and fear-based leadership. ... — read more 

Funny thing is, everyone at EM hates being here so much, that’s the only thing that seems to be holding us together. No shared pride, no excitement, nothing, just collective misery. Somehow surviving the place feels like a team effort, and that’s the... — read more 

ExxonMobil has a person who specifically works with functions to help identify opportunity areas (GBC, MSP) and develop execution plan. So there you have it, a chief leading a team whose sole job is to find opportunities to ship out your jobs. The... — read more 

.. along with Boeing, GE and other dinosaurs who thought they were cleverer than anyone else and then dropped off a cliff. In my 30 years with the company. We are the next Boeing; too big to fail and then we fall. I have never ever seen us treat... — read more 

Shareholders care about capital gains. Is XOM going up? No. Hardly keeping up with inflation. Then what the f is the management doing?

so it’s almost 1year for D Amman now as the Upstream President; how has he done so far? Nailing it and ready for the CEO or all talk and no trousers

Is this good or bad. Also I know this place is toxic but how can a manager save a person from a bad cycle and move them to a whole other group to be a faulty first time suoervisor?!! This is junk people.

Anyone know what they are working on below the bridge on Energy when entering campus? I didn’t see any announcements made by E&PS, but maybe I missed them.

When do we think they will close? Also, is NA doing a package deal on some other European dog?

I can’t believe how much talent will be forced out over the next year through the country studies. We are struggling for good people already and we are walking off the edge off a cliff blindfolded. It’s not if but when this will blow back.

Team of the usual suspects working on a plan to fully outsource Permian operations. Similar to Guyana SBM Model. Being close to the wellhead to be safe was never true. Timeline for change is unclear. Those in operations will be offered to switch over... — read more 

We know leadership at a certain point is about potential- not actual merit or experience/ qualifications. Who would you say our great leaders would be if it was really up to merit and qualifications?

What in the world is a Senior President? DW making up new titles now?

Someone had leaked this year ahead of the Sept 30 transformation announcements. Their info was good haha. EMPS and Upstream to merge

Does anyone have any insight to what the email Pam sent out to the Americas and Danbury groups is trying to convey?

Story by Justin Lahart Corporate America has ended its firing freeze. Companies scrambled for years after the pandemic to build back their workforces, learning a simple lesson along the way: Keep the workers you’ve got, because if you lose them you... — read more 

U.S. oil major ExxonMobil (XOM) will not be able to continue doing business in the European Union if the bloc does not significantly loosen a sustainability law that would penalize companies with fines of 5% of global revenue, CEO Darren Woods told... — read more 

it’s all of our fault for picking up the mistakes, flaws or fundamental errors from the BTC. stop, Stop, Stop before they take all our jobs. If it’s wrong, send it back and ask for the rework. Don’t fix it for them and unless it’s dangerously wrong... — read more 

I'd like to volunteer, but I don't want to risk it if we're done for now. The last thing I need is to be PIPed and kicked out without anything because I put a target on my back for no reason.

Ok the pip plan was to improve me so me could stay supposedly. At my pip meeting last week I was told I was failing and I could take the PIL for one month that is left. I asked if I worked real hard and tried could I pass. I was told there was no... — read more 

The Seven Species of LinkedIn A field guide for the modern professional jungle. Bring your coffee and your sense of irony. ⸻ The Drum Beater “Achievement unlocked: updated my email signature.” Celebrates everything — from finishing a webinar... — read more 

I am sure other posters will share many examples, and yet the reader will still not be able to grasp the extent of incompetence they are gifted with and waste they lay all around.

Look at his left hand. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/exxonmobil-mozambique_this-week-we-had-the-honor-of-welcoming-activity-7389677374436646912-dF8N?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAAAghr0EBxYrvlW41szMwjPB1N_b7_qJtMYI

New car sales in America are almost at 10 percent EV what does this mean for Exxon and refining in the next 10-15 years

October 29, 2025 BY U.S. EPA U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued three final Underground Injection Control (UIC) Class VI permits to ExxonMobil for a project in Jefferson County, Texas. Under the Safe Drinking Water Act, these permits... — read more 

Could we start a SWM 40+ club, of course all would be welcome to attend. Seems like a reasonable request, whose interested?

Interested in the gulf coast area- Texas/ Louisiana

I quit a while back, but it seemed like BTC was gearing up to be a sh-tshow. Just curious how that was going now.

Can my supervisor move my weekly meetings to bi-weekly while being on PIP?

Ok here are the facts and if you don't care then leave when the push you out. The medical alone is worth 22 to 25k per year exxon's part. The loss of lump sum at 50 years of age is 50 %. So lets say 500k for a 20 year service. So the medical would be... — read more 

I saw a few roles open up there? Whats the story is there a reorg in the chemical plant and those are reorg jobs or are those really positions where they have a demand?

Been following the latest crude oil forecasts and noticing some mixed signals — demand projections softening in parts of Asia, geopolitical risk premiums fluctuating, and inventories looking tighter than expected. Some analysts are projecting a... — read more 

Any folks moved from EM to Chevron yet?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/climate/exxon-california-lawsuit-free-speech.html The oil giant said requirements that companies calculate new details about greenhouse gas emissions and climate risks violate Exxon’s free speech rights.

Are there any particular CL levels at which you are safe for life? Might give something to aspire to..

Any information on severence?

Aramco and ExxonMobil Plan Major Upgrade to Transform SAMREF Refinery into Integrated Petrochemicals Complex Saudi Aramco has recently taken significant steps toward upgrading the SAMREF refinery, a 50:50 joint venture between Saudi Aramco and... — read more