Ever since I joined this circus of a company 15 or so years ago I have been treated badly. From day one I had haters ploting and talking bad about me. One if the engineers told me wow you really are helpfull and nice. I asked why he said that and was told someone told him I was bad news. Every thing I did was questioned and challenged. I had to fight hard to improve things and inovate. I fought back and was labled a trouble maker. I was piped in my ninth year and I believe it was for pointing out mistakes the group was making. I barley passed the pip and was warned not to make any more waves if I knew what was good for me. I bit my tounge for the past few years and managed to stay afloat. I was offered a move that was supposed to advance my caerer and I had no choice. I was moved into a more dysfunctional competitive group that was pure he-l. No one helped, conversated or interacted with me. It was very cut throat and evil. I dropped to ni last year and to nsi pip this year. I was told bluntly by the supervisor there was no way for me to pass the pip and I should take the pil or retire. I told the sup I wanted to try the pip and they reluctatly started it. The pip was impossible with changing metrics and objectives. I have till early december to complete the pip. I will retire and leave this he-l hole before then. I found out that I was moved in oreder to get rid of me. My former supervisor conspired with my new group to set me up to fail. It was all planned from the beginning. Exxon is an evil corporation and the employees are the worst types of humans. I barely made it to retirement and my enemies did not want me to make it. My 15 years at exxon have been the worst experience of my life. Itv was even worse than my divorce and battle with cancer. At least my lawyer and doctors were on my side. Exxon has been nothing but misery to me from the start to the end. My payout is a measly 310k from the pension because of the intrest rate. I hate exxon with all my heart and soul.
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I stayed to get the medical and my lump sum. The discount rate is really bad right now. One of my old friends was piptired this year and lost almost 50 percent of his lump sum. Good luck to all and wait it out if you can. Hopefully the interest rate will drop in a few years. The best time to retire was 2022 when the rate was .75 percent. I know many employees who left then.
@my my plan is to get a salaried position in my last 5 years to bump up my base salary for my pension.
@my I am an hourly employee so I make around $270K with my overtime, but you are correct I am capped out in my current role for my base salary.
@gc comrade, no offense but age 42 and 15 years at that salary to me indicates you have capped out. Either plan for a slow decline in real wages and stick it out to age 55, or if you have any professional aspirations at all, you need to get out.
@f2 I guess you are right, I’ve been with the company almost 15 years and I’m in my early 40’s and it only shows my lump sum if I leave now at $82,000 with a base salary of $142K.
@df or just really high.
@df that has more to do with being retirement age. Each year older is another year it’s don’t discounted.
I was on a project team overseas and our SPM sent in the rank list with me as number 1 out of 14 expats on the team. SPM received a phone call instructing him to resubmit the list with me no higher than 7, preferably lower. System rigged.
Omg, i feel you! For my current department, we know that there are headcount reductions coming next year as part of AEST. My prev supervisor conspired with the current supervisor to move me here, despite me doing the job of 3 people in the previous department. Now as a newbie in my current dept and under a forced PIP, I would be removed even if i passed PIP. This shrewed and deceptive people management needs to stop! the company is losing valuable talent, but all the management cares about is HVWF and settling their own agendas and KPIs. They are no interested in people growth, the company doesnt foster the career long retention anymore! Best to look outside now, than suffer from all the divestment chaos later.
You must be really high paid if you are getting that much after 15 years.
I've experienced something similar for around 3 years now, can't imagine staying 15
@OP if your careers progresses stay, if not look for other opportunities. It’s as simple as that these days at Exxon.
Seriously, not trying to mean or a smartazz, but why did you stay so long?
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