Thread regarding Imperial Oil Limited layoffs

Imperial has always had the facade of being a company that cared about it's employees. They only treated people good when there were many alternatives. As the job market shrunk and Exxon gained more control, it's true underbelly became exposed.

Kearl should have been the warning sign. From the outset, hiring management, maintenance and training with the intersections of the incompetent and incapable, employees from unrelated work fields and little of any experience. Spending money they didn't and couldn't earn. All for show. It was only a matter of time.

He doesn’t care about Imperial. He’s a sell out to Canada.

JW, and for that matter, all senior executives are merely puppets in the hands of the EM contact executive for Canada. They do what they are told if they want to continue their lucrative careers here. If you ever believed that mind and management existed at Imperial, then you don't deserve to work here. Who did we blame for all the sc--w ups e.g. Aspen, Kearl, the Calgary campus....?

The message, though eye roll worthy, would have been ok after the 900 ppl were fired "unfortunate but we are stronger blah blah blah"

To release that now is just insulting. Are we who are losing our livelihoods supposed to be grateful that it's all in the name of helping IOL?

“I really appreciate how you’re showing care towards one another, like basic human beings, in this undesirable situation that we’ve created for no reason while the company was profitable- now my big ask is for you to lock-in and work extra hard while we decide your fate behind closed doors. Happy Holidays!”

Taking care of those chosen? Anywhere from 3 to 3.5 weeks per year? Wow talk about short changing people! No wonder most have solicited a lawyer and betting some class action suits. Keeping it classy as always DW! Best of luck getting anyone to move from wage to MTP in the future. Not that they care!

Quite sad the way the company’s leaders think that by repeating words such as resilience, care and compassion employees will feel valued and respected. If the intent was to keep anyone focused on their job and ignoring the personal impact of decisions made by Imperial it has failed miserably.

Company is heading in the wrong direction. The offshoring to a fairly incompetent, and disloyal workforce, with different workplace ethics, will cost the company. The strong work culture and pursuit of excellence based on integrity and trust will erode and if uncorrected will be a business school case study.

The video was less unbearable at 1.5x speed. Thank you to the IT guy that enabled that option!

@de That already went to the inanimate carbon rod...

He should definitely be given the second annual Montgomery Burns award for Achievement in Excellence.

@av - Sure cutting costs was his job, so it is for any CEO of any company. Unfortunately JW did it with a blindfold and no long term plan. Folks who bought his speech of moving upstream teams into a live refinery for finding cross work efficiency with downstream are just flat out in dreamland and probably on same nightly medication that JW is on.

Start expecting from Q1 onward declining revenue and profitability. Cost creep on most projects going well past expectations. Plus prepare for skills mismatch - as all this layoff is now going to take place with an expectation that Houston and BTC ramp up their hiring on time to replace Canadian staff. This is classic shoot first and ask questions later approach...

Why would they fire him? He's doing what they want him to.

Cutting costs is his job.

He's the designated scapegoat. He'll stay on until the move, retire early to "spend more time with his family", and be replaced by DW with another American laser-focused only only hacking and slashing whatever is left of IOL.

And so is life as a Canadian working for an effectively American company.