Decide now what you expect your ranking to be. If you don’t receive what you deserve resign and go elsewhere. Complaining on this board without action on your part is not going to lead to different outcomes for you.
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It’s been happening for a lot longer than the last three years.
@1pek+1msBWwLO
I hear you and you have every right to be angry. What really matters is that you know you performed your job to the best of your abilities.
I wish you well as you move on to something better.
@1tch+1msBWwLO I never saw it happen to my friends or colleagues. Had I seen it, or had any inkling that was the company’s MO - I would have bailed. From what I gather, it didn’t really ramp up until 2020/2021.
Funny enough, I needed that kick in the teeth to leave and my life has drastically improved. I should probably be grateful and not so bitter, because it worked out to be the best thing to ever happen to me. But i’ll never forgive the underhanded
treatment and dishonesty by management. Still hope the cube crashes and breaks.
This is a very true statement. Once you are ranked low. Move on.
It is always easy to push the blame to the black listed candidates. Like a criminal record that sticks and it’s nasty.
For your family and mental health. Please move on. It ain’t easy but trust me, it gets better if you are willing to put in the work.
@1pek+1msBWwLO My last post still holds true. Everyone is fine with watching their colleagues get burned until it happens to them. You think for 24 years people weren’t experiencing the exact thing you went through? Nothing more common than people being thrown out when they hit 50.
@1dcq+1msBWwLO You don’t have a clue who I am or what I went through at EM. Yes, I was once in top rank groups, and realized the “slide” to lower ranks had nothing to do with a decrease in my performance, but an increase in my age and a function of new managers that quickly passed through our group, possessing little knowledge of what we did, but complete control over our careers.
I never received RSUs. I never received significant CL bumps. In talking with people since I’ve left, I realize only now how underpaid I was for the value I brought to the organization as an experienced hire. Why? Maybe I didn’t advocate for myself well enough. Or know how to play the game.
My job at EM wasn’t just about the money for me. It was feeling like I was a part of a great company that sincerely cared for its people and its communities. I believed I was a part of something bigger than me; I loved my role and gave everything to it. Despite a few TOUGH years and TOXIC bosses. I stuck it out and thought I was better for it.
The company could have told me in 2021 that there was a salary freeze and no raises for the foreseeable future. They could have told me that they had to DECREASE my salary and continue to withhold 401K match. But to tell me in April I’m great and then to blindside me a couple months later and say I “Need Significant Improvement” when I was lapping everyone on my team, leading the charge on multiple initiatives, cross-pollinating with various groups, and unlocking shareholder value at every turn was bullsh-t.
B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T
It was the most demoralizing kick in the teeth I have ever received and I will never get over it. It rocked me and my family to our core. It made me realize how misled I had been for years; there was nothing genuine about it: there is zero loyalty to the employees and the people I honestly believed were my family vanished.
We Are ExxonMobil is cr-p.
So yes, I hope the whole place burns to the ground and the cube crashes in to a million pieces. All the money grubbing souls left behind can go straight to he-l, although I think they’re already there. Give your entire life to something for 24 years and let it sc--w you completely over. Maybe then you’d feel differently, too.
@lgh+1msBWwLO Great post. So you were all in and loyal when ranked high and receiving RSUs but the minute your ranking dropped you quit and want to burn the place down. I guess you turned a blind eye all those years when you were ranked high.
@1sao+1msBWwLO It depends on your persuasion lol
@1iem+1msBWwLO Another post implying that you can sleep your way to the top. Yawn. I think in a company dominated by males who are heteros-xual that isn’t a winning strategy for most of us who are male and heteros-xual.
Or, if you do the wild thing enough you can be OWD. I'm pretty sure that's the secret sauce 😂
Management must really hate the bad PR this board is giving them and the company. Either that, or we've got trolls. Point is, we all collectively must have gotten under the skin of Warren Doods.
Keep up the good work my fellow whiners and "losers."
@OP, must be nice to be young and have opportunities galore! But please educate yourself about how EM operates. What @gqx suggests will happen is wishful thinking. @lgh speaks truth, and O&G industry isn’t the only one conducting layoffs under the guise of “performance based dismissals.” All kinds employment bias and force reduction shenanigans targeting older workers occur in the US.
https://www.propublica.org/article/older-workers-united-states-pushed-out-of-work-forced-retirement
What a DREAM it would be if what @gqx is writing were to actually come to fruition.
Imagine a congressional subpoena to the CEO as to why a layoff was disguised as “performance based dismissals.” What a spectacle that would be. Then, imagine, those of us who were snagged in that shady scheme by management (who are making money hand over fist), were compensated for the severe emotional trauma, pain and suffering incurred. We receive what we are due from the company had this been handled as an actual lay-off / downsize, which is what it was / is.
Not sure about others, but I feel so robbed and am really bitter. I bailed a couple years before I was retirement eligible, but after 22 years with the company due to a fu----g blindside NSI. Reading these posts, there is a part of me that thinks I should have stayed and made them fire me - which I really don’t think would have ever happened.
The way they conveyed it to me, “someone” had to go in the slot and several older (50+) employees they thought were the lowest flight risk were chosen. I left because I felt so demoralized, what a sh-t company. Rankings in thirds - where your increase / decrease each year was closely controlled. To, all bets are off - you can now go from very top to very bottom in one rank cycle. WTF?
I went from being the most passionately loyal employee that would do anything for the company, to being the most passionate ex-employee that wants nothing more than to see the whole GD company go down in flames. 🔥
In reality, it’ll never happen. And, EM lawyers are so crafty, they have made sure everything is iron-clad to protect the ugly behemoth. Still, I hope.
Never look a gift horse in the mouth. Wait until your ranking is announced before making any decisions.
The employees generated these types of posts are hoping people will quit so that they can be flagged as a "regretted loss" instead of a "performance related dismissal".
Too many PIP's / NSI's may result in a House or Senate subpoena issued to the CEO to testify before Congress on why our excessive performance related dismissals appear to be a disguised layoff.
A thirty percent regular employee staff reduction in three years in HC10 countries with a significant offshoring of jobs to lower cost countries is a "layoff". Surprised that our management committee did not learn the definition of a "layoff" in their MBA degrees at Wharton School of Business, Harvard, or Northwestern University 's Kellogg School of Management.