The tagging and survey teams are moving quickly through the Clinton campus. Have a few questions: What is the status of the new 6 story lab building in Texas they gutted and are rebuilding for the consolidation project? There is a lot of... — read more 

Puerto Rico suing oil companies for damages. Until this lawsuit settles, no oil products should be delivered to the island, and all non oil products shall be delivered by wooden sailing ships. Oil products include: medicine, plastic, gasoline... — read more 

What are the chances of PIP survival anyone have the numbers? Somebody asked this in another thread and I'd really like to find out the answer as well. Is there any way for us to know how many people survive their PIP versus those who are fired? I'm... — read more 

How’s it going? Think a lot of us hear next week? For those on second cycle think we know it’ll su-k if we didn’t have our photo in the LCS ads (no other way to separate the fake work). Good luck - but for over half it probably will be soul crushing. — read more 

A Japanese company (Toyota) and an American company (General Motors) decided to have a canoe race on the Missouri River. Both teams practiced long and hard to reach their peak performance before the race. On the big day, the Japanese won by a mile... — read more 

Buy an assessment bump by CLs How much would it go, over under by CL? CL20-22 CL23-24 CL25-27 CL28-29 CL30-32 CL32-34 CL34+

Are supervisors supposed to share? Lot of my feedback is framed as “from feedback”, I asked for it but was denied

Here’s the problem. Everyone is against you. Universities funded by your tax dollars want foreign students that pay full tuition to subsidize their overpriced socialist club which advocate diversity except political diversity. They educate this... — read more 

So do only what you agreed to do when coming onboard, never a thing or a minute more, and always be on the lookout for other opportunities.

NSI recipients or NI for new hires, reply with your CL, YEE, and location

https://youtu.be/K3gibPWnVZQ?si=5c00llIpslcVrNkb Feel the pride!

Intuit to lay off 1,800 employees, labels 1,050 as ‘underperformers’ Unlike many recent tech layoffs focused on reducing the workforce, Intuit cited that most of today’s layoffs were performance-related. When asked, the company declined to comment... — read more 

Remember when we had cups on campus. I always wondered who stole them all and what they did with them. Reselling on eBay maybe? Germany: Tesla factory missing 65,000 coffee... — read more 

I’ve heard rumors of a mid year cost of living raise. Has anyone received one?

For the biggest savings with the smallest effort, with zero risk due to current job holders being completely ignorant of the oil industry, EM should PIP the Executive Board members that pay each other millions of dollars per month. If Indian workers... — read more 

Some corporate cultures exacerbate employee anxiety to an unhealthy degree. Supervisors pray on workers who are overachievers, driving them to work unhealthy hours but it’s never enough. Then there is the unhealthy cut-throat culture to out-rank your... — read more 

CentePoint executives must hang out with EM executives When asked about the decision to not request more mutual aid workers from out of town after Beryl hit, he said money had nothing to do with that decision. "Money had nothing to do with it ... — read more 

I always find posts like this refreshing...anyone else? https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lorenzo-simonelli_wearebakerhughes-communityaffairs-disasterrelief-activity-7216894081434554368-idFP? This week in Houston has been challenging, to say the... — read more 

It’s part of the HR strategy to make HC10 leave without paying a package to leave. Yes, it’s a very short sighted and frankly horrible and should not be allowed but yeah this is America. They want to make life as miserable as possible including... — read more 

Where's the emergency protocols for employees to check in and the offer of resources or time to get your life back in order before returning to the office? I know the shareholders need their value but damn I need this tree off my house and power... — read more 

PIP season is upon us. This is just a friendly reminder that no matter how good you are at your job and how valuable you believe you are, you can still be affected. It's happened before. I've seen excellent employees receive performance reviews that... — read more 

Yikes ... Is someone in IT or E&PS getting NSI for this?

I can’t stand corporate speak. Hey, we’re engineers. Most of us don’t give a cr-p about some flowery phrases or ridiculous motivational speeches, but exact measurements. You know, engineering? Middle mgmt is too fat. I wouldn’t mind it if it actually... — read more 

I left XOM in late 2023 after about 10 years. When will the company send out the pension payment info? I thought it's 6 months after separation. But I haven't heard anything yet

While it might not help we should all write our representatives (us senate and us house) about the outsourcing of US jobs. There needs to be regulation to protect jobs here. This has to stop and its also a security issue since India is not really our... — read more 

HR has kicked off a study with EMTEC, GP, and the Business lines to maintain a 10,000 person center in Bangalore. What a coincidence, we used to plan on a 10,000 person center in Spring, TX! Target date is 2030. For any young engineer at the... — read more 

Nothing says Caring like "A hurricane is forecasted to hit our area with tropical storm force winds and considerable rain. Get your a-s to the campus anyway, but you are responsible for your own safety, so monitor the rain amounts". from the... — read more 

Anyone noticed that they seem to be handing out NSI/NI outcomes on the basis of some BS vague “behaviors”. Also it seems that supervisors are still hosting pre-assessment meetings and deciding who to drop before the official one with HR.

Although the EMHC overlords do NOT want us working from home on Mondays (or at all, really), I say "sc--w your dashboard!" With Tropical Storm Beryl headed toward Texas, I have NO plans to leave the house.

The wannabe HiPos and supervisors constantly spouting nonsense. Do they have some playbook of catch phrases? There is constant contradiction of what is said and what is done. What are some crazy things that you heard? I’ll start… It’s not... — read more 

What is this new drama of touting the everyday musical know-how with work or self-touted success at ExxonMobil? Why all these self-promoting gimmicks bringing meaningless connections of family, culture etc. to drown the fact that mid-level manager... — read more 

Qatar contracts come to an end over the next five years, Malaysia / Indonesia / Nigeria are on the chopping block; All we will have left by 2030 will be Permian, Guyana,Canada and PNG.

I had a supervisor that made my life he-l because I was a minority. The supervisor thought that minorities were inferior and would often vocalize it. Has anyone had a similar experience? Curious if this is common or an isolated experience.

For any folks involved in staffing; serious question - Does our long term staffing pipeline look fine for the future or are we going to struggle for talent. Keep hearing a couple of different messages with GBC attrition and inability to retain talent... — read more 

I think next week will the week of NSI

I predict, they are packaging up Product Solutions nice and pretty. And they will sell it. They will keep upstream, carbon capture (because it makes them look good) and Litium. The rest goes bye bye. Keeping the profits high is their main goal... — read more 

I'd not see a way for morale and loyalty that previously existed to ever return. They always talk about reputation and how quickly it can be destroyed in the business ethics training. Clearly that is a true principle.