I think you all suffer from occupational mental illness. You spend 40 hours a week, sometimes more, at jobs you don't like, surrounded by people you also dont enjoy. Then some of you go home and spend even free time thinking about how much you hate our job. Now imagine if you LOVE your job. You wake up excited to go to work. "Good morning, everybody! How are my favorite peeps today?" You love your coworkers. You love what you do. You go home happy, enjoy your evening, and can't wait to do it all again tomorrow. You'd be happy at work and happy at home. Every day would practically be a blessing. Instead, you normalize spending half your waking lives somewhere you wish you weren't. And you call this being a well-adjusted adult. Its not.
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I left exxon and now work where I enjoy my work. I do not get paid as much but the environment is a million times better. I am appreciated for the great work I do. My reviews are positive and uplifting. There is no you need to do more or what makes you stand out. I dont have to show visibility or play the popular game with the managers. I simply do great engineering work and go home. Exxon su-ked all the time I was there.
@e1 It's a great place to work for those of us with some perspective. I mean, would you rather work in a hospital, or 12-hour shifts in an emergency room? Would you rather be a dentist and scrape plaque off strangers' teeth all day? I mean, seriously. Of course it's not a perfect, happy place, but it's hardly the coal mines. We have it pretty good.
@OP I don’t know why people are so miserable at EM, I think it’s a great place to work. Excellent leadership, very competitive compensation and a long term career.
Happy every day I am here.
@OP whew, seems you touched a hot nerve there, but I agree you’re spot on. What a miserable bunch we work with. Most have been in this miserable environment so long they don’t even realize it, they think it’s normal or even good, and clearly get VERY offended when you point out what’s obvious to any normally adjusted person.
@OP DW go fu-k off
@a4 And the lead times are on the order of years. It’s one of the few industries that actually moves slower and uses older technology than O&G.
Salaries aren’t great at the big defense contractors either. Raises are $hit and so are bonuses. Boeing is a good example. Lockheed is another. Hard pass.
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I don’t know about all that, but I hate YOU.
@OP I hate my boss. I hate my chair.
I hate the people sitting there.
I clock in mad. I clock out blue.
And take my grudges home at two.
At home I rant. At night I stew.
At dawn I start the whole thing new.
Five days a week, year after year,
I nurture every grievance dear.
I count the days till I retire,
While feeding my resentment's fire.
And proudly claim, with practiced style,
"I'm well-adjusted!" Sure. Nice smile.
@a5 I'm conducting field research.
At least I didn't make this mo--nic thread.
@OP, Why are YOU on this board?
Thats my job. Of course I work in the defense industry, where its raining money