Now I wonder what they will find to say that my performance was not good enough. Even if I did all my work perfectly, Exxon would find something wrong with it. That's how it goes here.
They do their best to come up with one such little thing to justify what they do to their employees. This is what I find the most frustrating here, the fact that whether you work hard or not is often irrelevant.
You staying another year at Exxon means you tolerate what’s going on.
@1qnk - did I work with you in 2020? In my last two jobs with the company, I single-handedly conducted 3 cost cutting programs that involved 24 months of intensive work through to June 2020. I saved the company an estimated $5.8 million over that time (including $1.2 million in 2020, when R&D was asked to return $8 million to the business due to the economic impact of COVID). Then in July, found out I was NSI'd (just after I wrapped up my project) because I was RE - expensive and easier to push out of the door. Told my boss to stuff the PIP and walked out with the PIL.
@1obf. Your triathlon analogy is far off. A better analogy is having athletes compete at a track and field event and then awarded ribbons by a ranking of the whole team across all events in one seriatium. Then telling the athlete who was just edged out of first place in a 400 m run that he really sucks and is ranked in the bottom for reasons like poor team player or some trumped up charges on being late for practice. Get it?
It’s not a Marathon - it is a fixed race. Not based on work accomplishment (or timing in race). In school, everyone that worked hard and studied could make an A. That is equality.
The Executives with enough power to change the Ranking System are Executives because they mastered the Ranking System therefore see absolutely no reason to change it.
You need a sponsor.
A low ranked person will be justified to keep low ranking because not put forth special effort to achieve more.
A top quintile sponsored person with exact same PDS will be justified to keep in top quintile because EM Management “did not provide a sufficient challenge”.
I have seen a sponsored useless person whose only accomplishments were 6 PowerPoint presentations packs for a VP go from 81 to 84 while another person that put forth superhuman effort and saved EM millions of dollars stayed at 19, not even lifted out of bottom quintile for such an amazing effort.
Find a sponsor is key to success at EM.
EM puts thousands of man hours into defining a level playing ground and promoting the ranking system as fair, then VP’s and HR abuse the system by moving certain chosen people to the top despite lack of knowledge and near zero performance.
Move them every 2 years before they are expected to master any position. Move them quicker than 2 years if any catastrophe could be blamed on them. Inform them that they are chosen and have a sponsor just to increase their arrogance.
Frankly the facts are the HR empire has created an administrative process that has become so massive it has to have victims to justify it's continued growth and dominance over the company! Great sales pitch for self justification! Until Darren or some other upper crust calls out the HR REGIME it will not improve. It's very much like the federal government at this point in history.
Have you ever Competed in a marathon, MS150, triathalon, etc? Did everyone come in first because they were “fast enough” or was there a 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and so on until last place? Same idea as our ranking system. Doesn’t matter if you finish the race. Why is this so hard to understand? That is the system. Your supervisor can’t award everyone a first place Trophy. If you don’t like the rules quit and go work somewhere that has a different system instead of complaining about your supervisor who is just doing their job.
Annandale at its best if you’re RE brace……so sad
If they are playing games to bring you down to NI/NSI, that means that they can bear to lose you. It's time to job hunt buddy.
They already have a canned list of “development opportunities” just waiting to give you. Spin the wheel and find out.
The best is when your strengths are also your development needs.
The best are also “well it’s clear you’ve already overcome this development, but we’ll still leave it in there”.
Gas lighting at its finest.
Your little SLS and FLS are charged with making the data fit the intended answers. Hard to get away with in science class. Easy to do in a charade of an evaluation system of human ability and behaviour. Stop working so hard and pounding your head against the wall, it only serves to betray your lowly status. No one else is.
You can reduce your stress and take back your power if you never stop looking for the next job. Seriously. Good luck.
Looking forward to being comfortably in the bottom quintile... 😂
It is relative performance...they will say that your everyone is performing better hence it is not possible to put you in higher ranking group....
You have to decide if you could live with it...otherwise my advise will be to look elsewhere...
Why do you work for EM?