Working at Exxon has turned out to be one of the biggest career decisions I regret. Nobody seems happy here. Half of my teammates are currently searching for new opportunities, and I’m right there with them. I just want to move on from this experience.
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DW will be so happy to read this post and see that his strategy is working
It is not so bad if you get a Sponsor and are put on HiPo circuit.
Indeed... This company is the textbook example of a toxic place. Every day is a bad day, even the good ones are permeated with half-lies repeated ad nauseam.
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Says the Jacka$$ that comes to the layoff board to read what everyone’s whining about
@1utx+1uEe7HJ9 i’m not the poster you are referring to with your reply. BUT, I did want to attest that I took a 100% pay cut to leave. Absolutely zero BS here.
I was not yet NRE, but had more than two decades with the company and walked away without a new job lined up. Was away with my wife and family on a great vacation in a beautiful spot and called in to a particularly terrible meeting with a new supervisor and our dysfunctional team that made me realize the worst is yet to come. Resigned that afternoon and never went back. Moved the entire family out of Texas within a month before my 9th grader started high school.
I knew another job would eventually come through and even though I’m making less money, leaving XOM when and how I did - has been the BEST DECISION of my career.
What price tag are you willing to put on your mental and physical health? The increasingly toxic environment XOM had created for me (and by extension, my family) wasn’t worth it.
There’s a lot more to life than money. The fact that XOM throws so much of it at people I now think is so distract them from what’s going on. Keep ‘em numb, until they’re trapped.
Only half are searching? I don’t know a single person who isn’t actively looking or counting the days until retirement and miserable.
Just a little perspective here. Joining ExxonMobil was one of the best choices I ever made. I learned a lot of hard and soft skills, I made a lot of money and saved the vast majority of it.
Leaving ExxonMobil was probably the single best choice I have ever made. I make decent money (but definitely less than with ExxonMobil), I was able to move out of Texas to a way better place and am enjoying a better overall quality of life. It’s great.
If you are desperate to leave the company, then do it and don’t look back. Don’t settle for Good, NI or worse. Leave. Things can get way better. This is your future self thanking you for making the best decision of your life. LEAVE!
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willing to take a 30% or 40% pay cut just to get out? Calling BS on that bluff. 🤡💩
Ex-Pioneer here, happy to hear these. We're hungry.
@hke The only time someone is desperate is when they have no choices.
The OP can get up and walk out whenever they want. So can you. This is not a hard problem to solve.
Desperate to leave? Then why don’t you?
- You are unemployable and have no technical or people skills
- You can’t make as much money anywhere else
- You are lazy
- You just want to complain and whine and will complain about any company that will make the mistake of hiring you
- You have an unjustified high opinion of yourself that other companies see through
- Due to all of the above, you are unemployable
Do all of us a favor and quit today, then you’ll have more time to find your dream job.
Good luck to you.
Heard about the denbury transition. Didn’t they cut healthcare for a whole day?
Important fact is that you are at exxon by choice. You can leave at any time to address your feelings. It's up to you. Exxon will treat you the way it does until you do something about it.
@xet+1uEe7HJ9, good observation. Sharholders are happy because they don't care how a company continues to pay them. And the only way the DW gang knows how to continue to pay then is by cutting every little thing they can. Forget about investing in anything innovative that we can actually sell and make money. Exxon has nothing at all they can call it their own (other than the stupid red pipe design around gas pumps and even that's rusting out). Oh and Mobil 1 was invented by Mobil. It is a sinking ship. The id--tic mgmt. committee and DW has ruined this company and continues to drive it into the ground.
@jnt+1uEe7HJ9, you sound like a Dirtdwood or one of it book licking minions.
A lot of pioneer people accepted the offer but are just using the next year to find a job elsewhere before having to go to Houston
Ex-Denbury here. I saw enough of XOM’s incompetence during the takeover and retired before we went on their payroll.
I guess you don’t want to leave before the Houston Open house on Dec 3?
Not sure what’s stopping you OP. It’s not like they’re holding you hostage.
I think many of you have fallen into a complacent, self-defeating pattern of thinking. You need to break from that before anything will ever get better. The artificial sense of helpless often articulated here does no good for anybody.
Agree, Taking the job with “the great Exxon” is a decision i regret every day i walk in the office. Absolute carnival sh-t show joke of a
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OP, this is happening everywhere in ExxonMobil Corporation, even in India (I was there recently). Every employee in every site that I've visited is very unhappy and feels exploited. A lot of people are looking to leave the corporation even in low cost countries. In my division here in the HC10 every single employee's looking for another job and they're willing to take a 30% or 40% pay cut just to get out. We've had two resignations very recently. The team has basically disappeared and it's dysfunctional at present. Nothing gets done. But Darren and Kathy Are ok with it and the shareholders are also happy. So there's only one option for employees and that's the door. There's no other choice for us. Or wait to be PIPed. It's your choice.
This is really sad and not the way it used to be. When I took a role with XOM in 2001, it was the dream job and work environment. The first 10 years of my career were incredible: great manager(s), great team(s), great assignment(s). Could not imagine being anywhere else. It wasn’t work, it was FUN.
Just goes to show how important a manager is that leads by example and sets the tone for the entire team.
The next few years I had miserable supervisors that were technically inept, loved the sound of their own voices, and gobbled all positive attention away from their team(s) and to themselves - which effectively demoralized everyone. It was a slow, pitiful, agonizing spiral downward.
As for me, I realized that it was time to go when instead of springing out of bed, ready for a new day, I would contemplate how a disease that could allow me to take an extended medical leave or better yet, early retirement would be warmly welcomed.
When you start having those fantasies, you know it is time to move on. Came to realize it didn’t matter HOW HARD I worked, the more wood I chopped for the pile - it just burned me. Your life and health are more important than trying to climb some mirage of a ladder @ XOM.
If this sounds familiar: It’s not you. It’s them. The fact that XOM continues to identify - empower - and promote the most toxic and psychotic sociopaths, must be part of some new formula that I expect will eventually lead to a serious reckoning. Or maybe not, and that’s just life in the business world.
Either way, move on. Seek happiness. Life is too short and your mental and physical health (including feelings of self worth!) are far too precious.
Another one bites the dust, and another one gone
Same with me
My biggest career mistake!
I understand. Right there with you.