I can tell you right now that I can't. I'm lucky if I can be done within 50 hours, I consider that to be a good week. Most of the time it's 60+. It wasn't always like this but with the high attrition and lack of good replacements, things have just been getting worse progressively. I'd like to get a full weekend off outside of the holidays one of these days...
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DW has the easiest job. Just shake his Magic 8 Ball a few times per day and read the decisions.
There is huge disparaty I agree. I do 10 or 15 hours per week tops. What is all the work that office people are doing???
This thread just displays the disparity between EMHC personnel and employees connected to the real work in this business.
Get real. Are you sure you can really work 40 hours productively a week? The work I see most of you do can be done in a day each week:m. The rest of the time was spent to politics and non work related matters!
I have had jobs on campus easily done less than 40 hours per week. Had jobs offshore that were challenging putting in 110 hours per week.
Most discouraging concept was that the new hire on campus that read my offshore job weekly report to management got ranked higher than me with no effort while I worked my bu-t off 110 hours per week.
“How many of you are able to finish your weekly work within 40 hours?”
This post has to be a joke.
Nobody, nobody working in any large O&G operating company has more work than can be accomplished in a 40 hour week. Excluding meetings, most have (at most) two hours of work per day. Anyone who has more work than they can handle is getting it wrong. The whole point of working in O&G is to get a fat paycheck for doing practically nothing.
People in the industry tend to have a hugely overblown view of their productivity and value. Most of you don’t work very hard, aren’t very good at what you do, and are behind the technology curve. Sit back, and enjoy getting a nice paycheck for being mediocre, because it isn’t going to happen anywhere else.
A character flaw I had when working was a desire to do a quality job. This took many extra hours because of the workload. I was unwilling to do things half-a$$ or leave something incomplete. Old-timers might call that having pride in your work. I suppose that has become a casualty in today's corporate world of pure survival.
I was working 50-60 hours week. Managers will never staff jobs properly. Impacted my health and my relationships with family. My advice is to be careful about how much you give. A company will take as much as what you are willing to give. So don’t get burned.
I try to do my work within 40 hours, but I can’t do it. Ever since the mass layoff/forced retirements in 2020, I have been given a ton of extra work. Right now, I’m doing the work of almost 2 1/2 people and I’m burning out quick. Despite all the work I do, II’m prepared to be NSI. I had an illness last year and they almost admitted it would lower my rank.
In spite of the cowboy rhetoric, sh1t is falling off the sled and we ain't getting things done right. That's the f n truth of the matter.
Basically you cant. On average I work 45
I am able to finish my job tasks in BTC. What I am not able to accomplish within 40 hours is to improve the low quality of work delivered by BTC. But we don’t care about quality, do we?
Agreed.
Giving this company your all back in the 90s/00s when it was in its prime and an excellent company to work for? Fair play
Now? You’re an id-ot. You’ll work 60+ hour weeks and still subject to the spin the wheel performance assessment game. While you do said hours, you are likely gaining no tangible skills which are marketable outside of XOM - you are becoming more unemployable by the day, whilst also working to the bone.
It's always weird to me when people talk about working at all hours like it's some sort of flex. You do know you're the one getting taken advantage of right?
Imagine working more than 40 hours at this dumpster fire, seriously couldn’t be me.
What are they going to do, fire you?
@dwk. Operations here. I admit what you say is true. However, we refuse to work like you American cowboy roughnecks. It's undignified and management will think it's normal. We also have a strong national union.
This is the common problem now in the company, there is such wide disparaty between functions, locations, business lines. Yet we're told that bringing us together is paying huge benefits...
Operations, part of your job is 24/7, but your answer sound like you are shorthanded and a kiss@ss.Most of time when operators answer in that way it is because they always wears knee pads after hours.
I work in Operations at a very large affiliate. We are grossly shorthanded, can't meet our OIMS requirements and are basically in a breakdown maintenance mode. Trying to keep up staff hiring and training, but,......
Apparently you are not involved in operations. We who are work 24/7 365 days. Weekends and holidays included. And we work on some of our vacations. It’s part of the job. No complaints.
Seriously? I'm lucky if I can drag myself up to 15 hours per week. Been told to do less with less... That's the easy bit, trouble is there's no extra work demand to fill the released time with higher productivity.
Efficiency is massively over rated!
Seriously? I had a lot of personal time when WFH. Much lesser now that we are back in office.