I just found out one of my old supervisors got piped and is failing it. This supervisor was a soul less evil person. She would ki-l her own mother if exxon asked. She piped out my old co worker a few years ago and told him he did not deserve it and he would easily pass the pip. She was nice at the beginning but during the midway meeting turned on him and told him he was not meeting the expectations. She was the hatchet woman for the manager. She got a new manager and he did not like her. I do not feel sorry for her a bit and she is getting what she deserves. I think she is in her late forties because she was pleading for her job to the manager. I love when exxon turns on the ones that feel untouchable.
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@fc Oh, I guess I don't understand how it works. But you on the other hand seem very familiar with the leadership side of the process. Interesting you may have revealed more about yourself than you intended. Tell me do supervisors and managers ever get PIPed for posting these insider baseball comments on anonymous layoff boards?
Bwahhaaaahaaa. Good f n riddins'
In a realitve assessment, even a team of all rockstars has some stars that rock more than others and some who's rock needs significant improvement.
@bv wrong. Every supervisor has to PIP someone if their team is big enough. The rank session isn’t going to let one supervisor rank their entire team high and then make another supervisor PIP their entire team. If a supervisor coaches their team and everyone doubles their performance guess what they still have to PIP someone because it is relative. You can’t get everyone over some magical line and then rank everyone Outstanding.
@bv You don’t understand how it works. In spite of what the training may say supervisors are expected to meet the distribution within their team. You aren’t competing against a rank group of 100. You are competing against your team of 10 in your workgroup. And each supervisor has to PIP a couple in their team each year.
I know several folks who work in NA/EU and their supervisors are in KLTC/BTC. When someone needs to be PIPed, will the supervisor select their subordinates at their TC or HC10?
@bv - I don't know if that is sarcasm or you have no idea how this works.
The supervisor of ‘the most winning team of all time’ still doesn’t get a pass. There is no scenario where everyone is allowed to win in a relative assessment.
Once a bottom ranked Supervisor is moved back to a technical role (often 50% RG) They are often technically obsolete (computer skills and tech skills). Frequently they drop to the bottom from 50% to sub 20% within 3 years).
If you work for a bottom ranked supervisor in a low priority area (everything except Guyana, Permian and LNG), then you are challenges are even higher
@b1 I hope so too. It sounds like there's an opening.
@bm Really, Dr. "Moral"? Apparently, ruining someone else's life is perfectly acceptable as long as it feeds your greed and helps you look good in the eyes of your masters.
Didn't know managers can be PIPed. My first manager (management ladder) told me they are never ranked below "good". That made sense to me because they sit in the ranking session and can protect their own spots
@OP If a supervisor has PIPs in it ranks, that's a reflection of their own poor leadership as they're obviously failing to set expectations, inspire, develop, and bring out the best in their team. Great leaders build winning teams. Poor leaders build cases against their subordinates. It's no surprise when a supervisor who PIPs others eventually find themselves on a PIP. Live by the sword, die by the sword.
Wishing ill on others shows more about you than it ever will them.
It is hard to meet the requirements of assessment no matter whats the intent of a supervisor.
Being uncon we have seen a lot of females come in to “clean house” when there wasn’t anything to clean up. We were just looking for good leadership not a bully. Thankfully this one left before her year was up. She was threatening groups of people their jobs were at stake.
I’m kind of shocked that the supervisors don’t understand that they’re within about 2-5 years of entering the PIP hellscape.
You think Naseem is being trained in Houston for four years to head back to Bangalore to do a bottom level IC job?
Every year I’m told my rank group is a global pool of people that I’ve never met and that they can’t tell me who they are. When Naseem is in your rank group, and there’s high up pressure to promote certain global work centers over HC10 employees, you really think your E and OS cycles will continue?
You see it happening to your solid IC’s right now, but it won’t happen to you?
OP. I hope you are told your next role is to be a supervisor so you can show us all the “right” way to administer the impossible requirements of the annual assessment.