Topics regarding layoffs at ExxonMobil Corp.

Topics regarding layoffs at ExxonMobil Corp.

Exxon plant sales

What refineries or chemical plants are up for sale? Surely it will happen before ranking. Don’t want to get rid of people at the locations Exxon plans on keeping. Anyone hearing about who is up for sale?

WAEM survey

So funny to see all levels of management trying to convince people to reply to this survey. Looks like their own career is at stake... 😀 Like in dictatures, the only way for people to express their frustration is to refuse to participate in rigged... — read more 

Vulnerability we-ponized

So it looks like after the great resignation of 2022 and the great demoralization of 2023, leaders have been called upon to exercise more "vulnerability", to soften their tone, to be more understanding for the regular employee and to conduct... — read more 

Need I say more

ExxonMobil - Brutally Brilliant Outsourcing https://www.piton-global.com/case_study/exxonmobil/

Glassdoor

Do not forget… Senior Management, HR, and Campus recruits all use Glassdoor as a means to measure ExxonMobil. It takes 3min to “assess” the company… why not give an inexperienced college grad a heads-up about what they’re getting into?

Returnship program

So the offshoring of jobs continue…. This opportunity only available in India. No such posting in the US. I’m sure I’ll be asked to flex my hours to train and mentor. “The ExxonMobil Returnship Program is a back-to-work program for experienced... — read more 

NSI is 5% this ranking cycle

Look around - 1 out of every 20 employees will be gone after this hunger games. Look at people with CL above, equal, and lower than you. If you can’t identify the 1 out of every 20 who will be NSI, then you are the NSI tribute. If you can identify... — read more 

Another lost benefit - Home Sale Assistance

Anyone interested in ever moving with Exxon: XOM has taken away your option to sell your house with the company… along with any repatriation/return assistance. Good luck to anyone going to W Texas, buying into high markets, and taking losses on the... — read more 

Has your attitude toward unions changed?

When I started here (EMHC), I only saw unions as a weird complication that were useful during the Industrial Revolution but didn’t serve much of a purpose anymore. After Covid and the continuous flow of anti-worker decisions being made by a clearly... — read more 

How to be happy at EM

In order to be happy in EM it is required to either be a Hi-Po. Once a hi-po, always a hi-po, regardless of how many times a hi-po fk-ups or what a hi-po says or does, he/she will be always ranked at the top, get top raises, and paid way above... — read more 

Hotdesking meeting

Attended a hot-desking meeting and now I am more depressed about the move than ever. if this is such a great idea to save space and money, why are VP and above not leading the way? if you are to be gone more than 2 hours, pack your stuff... — read more 

Combining CL for ranking

Due to the reduced workforce after years of layoffs, er sorry, low performance, we will be combining 8 CL levels this time to protect certain people and of course, minorities (just not the Asians, Hispanics, and Middle Eastern). So basically all CL... — read more 

Continued age-ism in ranking

So for the last few years many (all?) orgs have combined rank groups. For example, instead of ranking 28/29's separately from 26/27 like we used to do - those groups are combined. There is a separate rank list for each CL but then HR merges... — read more 

What does ChatGPT say about ExxonMobil?

Question: Where does ExxonMobil employees rank their management? ChatGPT Answer: According to a website called Comparably.com, ExxonMobil employees rate their manager a C+ or 67/100 based on 141 ratings. The website says that the score takes into... — read more 

Exxon Goes Lean With End of ‘God Pod’ Era

https://www.wsj.com/articles/exxon-goes-lean-with-end-of-god-pod-era-1f667ce7 Top executives to inhabit simpler office suite near Houston after move from Dallas area By Collin Eaton Updated May 14, 2023 6:44 pm ET After inhabiting a palatial... — read more 

I resigned a year ago.

It's been a year since I resigned. I can't believe it. A year ago I was miserable. Today I couldn't be happier. Remote work is an absolute game changer. Having a manager I actually respect and can learn a lot from is another absolute game changer... — read more 

WSJ: Why Employees Hate Hot-Desking

Hot-desking has some issues to work out. With nearly half of the prepandemic office population in some major U.S. cities working remotely on any given day, hot-desking—where employees don’t have assigned desks but grab an empty one on days they come... — read more 

Jealousy

There is a lot of jealousy on display here. Comments show some seriously warped thinking. Many of the people criticized or blamed are being unfairly treated by you. Your anger is understandable but the outlet for your anger is wrong. You are seeking... — read more 

Will resignations pick up again?

Will people react to their performance assessment by voting with their feet or will they continue to just complain via this forum?

Toxic Forum

This forum is so toxic. Simple solution is to leave the company. Most people don’t because they can’t find a job that pays more elsewhere.

How to fire DW?

Does anyone know what is the process to fire ExxonMobil’s CEO?

Survey

I typically pass on these opportunities to provide feedback but is there any way to leverage this as a tool? Not sure if it is worth it to be honest, are you all just as jaded? Discuss.

It will be a preferable option to be laid off

Many of the PIPs going around right now aren’t even for job performance, they’re for mysterious “culture” misalignment - which basically means you have failed to keep your big mouth shut about all the stupid you keep running into on the job. When the... — read more 

When will they tell the truth:

They are not offshoring work "so we can do more important things". They do not care about us, the American worker who got them their Billions. Review and PIP are ABSOLUTELY used as a way to lay people off. They absolutely know what your fate is well... — read more 

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