Thread regarding ExxonMobil Corp. layoffs

Why is it so hard to draw boundaries?

Company will squeeze everything out of the talented one with no reward unless you know how to play the game or is sponsored. In one of my previous role, I did both my job plus my bosses’ job plus some more. Worked 10 to 12 hours per day for 2 years. So he got the promotion because of all that I accomplished. I was shipped off to a new assignment with no pay increase and an NI for not networking enough. My advise is to draw your boundaries.


I apologize for pulling someone's post - @2ryu+1ieOBRMm into a new thread, but I find this very interesting. Almost everyone here knows that they need to draw boundaries or they will be completely drained and burned out, but it seems that most people find it very difficult to do this in practice. I wonder why.

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Post ID: @OP+1ihxvrvQ

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@2kxh I don’t understand any of the commentary here.

There’s a bunch of people whom, benefits included, easily draw $200k+ per year in compensation to do almost nothing, and still find a way to complain about it. A few weeks ago there was thread with people complaining about the location of the water cooler. Really.

I’m not the one with the problem.

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Post ID: @2ipz+1ihxvrvQ

@2vep+1ihxvrvQ Sorry, I don't understand your argument. If you are posting here, presumably you work as an employee at EM and therefore you work in fossil fuels? You're therefore as useless and quietly quitting like many of us lot?

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Post ID: @2kxh+1ihxvrvQ

@OP No offense, but WTF are you talking about?

Office employees at Exxon do practically nothing. In what universe are you people overworked and in need of drawing additional boundaries? In what universe are you underpaid for the amount of work that you actually perform daily?

As I said on another thread: stay in fossil fuels, all of you. The wider workforce neither wants nor needs the delusional sense of entitlement most of you seem to have.

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Post ID: @2vep+1ihxvrvQ

Some of us love what we do and the extra hours were tolerated to see a job well done. The problems are the majority of the supervisors are incompetent to deplorable. Many don’t have any idea of the work but need to show their worth. When you don’t have any marketable skills outside XOM, it’s easier to squeeze the people who can execute. Good luck, because most of these people are gone.

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Post ID: @1tfn+1ihxvrvQ

They tell you "work place flexibility, don't stress out, don't work on weekends " but G-d Da--it, you better get your work done or you are pipped 2 paradise!

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