I've never worked for a company with more inflated egos. There are lots of them in other companies in the industry as well, but far fewer than here. I apologize if my comments might hurt someone, but almost everyone thinks that they are an expert, and the mediocrities are always those others.
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You hurt my feelings. Actually I am an expert in my field. Been doing this sh-t 15 years. Probably got out of the military before you went to high school. Go play with the stress dogs and talk with the counselor while I finish you work sister.
This is a direct result of their pi-s poor performance evaluation system. People who create disasters because of their short sighted decisions, then brag about how they saved the day. They almost never run good day to day business and spend their time inventing ways to “better” the business. All it does is make more work for people already picking up their slack.
The performance evaluation system there will never change because those who gamed it got to the top with it.
@OP How long have you been in the industry?
Almost everybody working in O&G has a totally over-blown view of their qualifications and contributions. It doesn’t show up because O&G employees usually apply to other O&G companies, who all have the same mediocre standards.
Most people (especially technical professionals) don’t realize how far behind the skills curve they are until they apply to a non O&G job. Some of it is their fault, some of it isn’t.
It's always been that way at Exxon. The biggest identifier of an early hipo has been natural overconfidence. It works for those who do wind up in the senior management ranks, but, it's not necessarily a good trait for technical discipline, hence the reason we've always been a "management" Company. Those lacking overconfidence and inflated egos are deemed deficient somehow. Hopefully, the impending cultural shift will sort this out.