Thread regarding ExxonMobil Corp. layoffs

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Syrup at CSR?

They treat their distributors poorly on the sales side. Managers will smile in their face and then talk about them on team calls… it’s disgusting.

Creepy old high CLs getting flirty with the young females. Extremely cringe

OP, you just described EVERY, SINGLE, COMPANY in the US. So let’s be honest, what you are really saying is that you want to “someone” (i.e. the Government) to correct all those bad things.

What could possible go wrong with that!

We have a guy here at RTD who is a complete fraud and a psychopath. We all pu-e when we see his worthless LinkedIn posts that tag every manager and bosses. Fake degree holder from a foreign country

@frs+1dBMtsSZ
Shameless corporate troll vomi_ting here serial lies. Must be a manager adding value after hours. Your time will come and you’ll sing another tune then.

what's all this got to do with me?

While I don’t disagree every company force ranks people in some way and in every company lining up your stakeholders is important, it shouldn’t mean unemployment or humiliation if that’s not something you’re good at, or chooses to focus on. That’s the problem we are having right now, is that a regularly contributing, decent employee may be PIPed, negged and black-marked for life while they are contributing just fine within reasonable boundaries.
When people see that, the environment tends to become more toxic, and the inward competition poisons the culture. Unfortunately that’s what happens in a shrinking organization.

All of these complaints about sponsors and brownosing and budget fighting is literally how the world works. Learn it now, if you want to advance in a career anywhere, you will need to learn these soft skills. It’s who you know not what you know.

Forced ranking at the end of the day is how every company works. Some hide it better, seeing as how we openly back it, but at the end of the day companies end up ranking employees, the ranking is bias towards the ranker’s friends, or those the ranker has heard good things about from respected people in the org.

The age discrimination is a lie being told by those closer to retirement who don’t like that they could be let go of tomorrow. The number of people who were let go of age wise matches the employee population.

Everybody is your competition except your sponsor. And of course, if you don't have a sponsor, you're doomed. Also, make sure that your sponsor don't leave and your sponsor has a sponsor as well. And if the sponsor of the sponsor of the sponsor leaves, everybody down below are doomed.

Recipe for disaster:

Forced ranking
Sponsored id--ts
Racial adjustments by HR
8% PIP requirement
Age discrimination in ranking

Many studies have shown that Forced Ranking leads to an unproductive workforce yet EM magnifies the impact of Forced Ranking with the ingredients listed above.

#winning is impossible with this system

Haha @ #8… imagine believing that results are driven by number of hours worked. I’d rather have someone with the aptitude to do the same job in 30 hours than in 60 any day.

Once we start down a road, we can never turn back no matter how bas we see it will be.

If $10 can be saved from one budget but it cost the company $100 out of another. We choose to save the $10.

I observed people with 8,910,11 behaviors ranked better than those who mind their own business and spend most of their time solving real business problem. EM is not a place for introverts.
Positive and negative experiences are also role dependent. Lot of the coordination roles are valued more than technical roles. Engineering and problem solving skills not valued.
Also saw people spending lot of time building relationships with boss’s boss because they know it’s all about managing up.

OK how about the ugly truth of Exxonmobil. If these defects did not exist at Exxon it would be a great place to work. It is quiet a dis functional place to work at. I don't care if other companies are this way as well it doesn't make it right. It is the primary reason workers are leaving Exxon. I just heard of an employee leaving to Microsoft. If the leaders read this then they should changes things. I don't think they care because they like it the way it is. They talk a good game about diversity, teamwork and collaboration. They continue to hire the same type of people and like the in fighting and brown nosing. I have heard it for many years the constant re orgs, new programs and plans. It always stays the same or gets worse like the outsourcing to other countries. IT, HR and Engineering is all outsourced. More distance and inefficiency because of this. Our jobs get harder because of this but the management goes not care. They only care about the bottom line money.

The main thing I experienced / saw when I was there was supervisors more concerned about their safety numbers than anything. I was umm highly discouraged by my supervisor from reporting an rsi issue with my wrist.

2019 and 2020 PiP/Layoffs targeted ethnic minorities/females/near retirement age folks at EMHC

80% brownnosers and 85% snitchers. That's what EM is.

There are good things like pay, benefits and sometimes the work but there are a lot of bad things mentioned. Protected, favorited employees would say that they like it at Exxon and have not experienced any bad treatment. One employee who sat all day at their desk on the internet and phone sleeping loved Exxon and said "this was the best job they ever had". This employee was lazy and unproductive and of course management loved him and protected him.

A place for talented and hardworking engineers to thrive.

Are you wanting any truths or just negative truths? My positive experiences at XOM have outweighed my negative ones.

Of OPs list, I’ve only witnessed 5 and 9. I’ve seen a lot of people PIPed who weren’t talented. I did see old people be PIPed, but I saw the same amount as middle age and young employees. And I guess in the US I haven’t seen minorities PIPed because we mostly hire white. But that’s a separate issue.

A lot of OPs list I’m sure exist in some capacity in some part of the company, and I’m not saying it’s right but it’s expected unfortunately. That’s the nature of being a massive company. It happens in big tech (Facebook and google are atrocious at it. Same with Amazon). It’s bad with banking, consulting, healthcare, even when I worked at a charity it was crazy what people would do to get money diverted to their cause vs someone else’s.

Too much red tap and many, many processes to accomplish the simplest of tasks.

A managers approval is required to add an account to the systems used for keeping up with accounts and passwords.

Unfair ranking process, used to keep and promote managers favorites and ridding the company of talent and good, but introverted employees.

Do not accept employment at ExxonMobil as it’s a toxic culture.