Thread regarding ExxonMobil Corp. layoffs

@won+1e5Cp5Xh
I’m RE and soon to retire comfortably, but I have to say that I have enough of the endless a$$h_oles like you, who started 30 years ago, retired recently and post here about how good they had it and how great they’re doing, knowing fully well that none of the younger employees will ever get what they got in the last 30 years.
So take your gar_bage and go post your managerial opinions on LI, where everybody else has to take your stin_king brown stuff, just like in your campus meetings.

@xuy+1e5Cp5Xh If you started today, where do you project to be 30 years after? This EnronMobil is not same as 30 years ago. That's why it's sinking ... hopelessly fast.

Best company around! Put my time in, still employed by EM, rewarded well with a good pension, over $2 million in the 401k, 3 rental properties as an income stream, zero debt and loving life! Cannot talk cr-p about EM to all, we are not all singing of the negativity hymn sheet.

After working in EM for 30-over years, and when I do decide to retire, I will have with me, up to $6-8M in cash, savings and liquid assets.
That’s not too bad, for a single-employer employee of EM, who had joined the company straight from college!!
Am looking forward to a good and enjoyable retirement!

I’m RE and will very soon retire comfortably. I see here a bunch of very content answers from people who seem to be in the same situation. You might remember that your situation is privileged in respect to younger colleagues; it reflects the realities of the company as it was from 30 years ago to 2019.
The bulk of our colleagues have now 5-10 ye, 15 at most, and live in a scary, toxic environment with benefits cut under the table in the most dirty and imaginative ways by a management who has essentially declared war on regular workers. Most of them have absolutely no shot of getting out of their careers what you got, regardless how good they are and how hard they work.
Keep bragging about how well you’re doing and how lucky you are and you’ll show everybody how underserving and low you are from a human point of view.

@mej+1e5Cp5Xh
If you’re not a despicable brown noser your list really looks like that:

1. Pension plan - gone because you’re going to be thrown out before you get to 52, unless you still have a powerful sponsor
2. 401K Match - can be taken away from you any second, as they have already done
3. Above average pay - big fat lie underlined by raises that are way, way under the cumulated inflation since the last raises
4. Flex Your Day policy which basically allows you to WFH when desired - use it for real and you suffer the consequences, remember if your supervisor dislikes you for whatever reason, it’s immediate NSI for you.
5. Ability to change career fields - sure, go somewhere new, they’re just waiting for a newbie to fry in their next PIP.
6. Ex-pat assignments - everybody knows they’ve cut the benefits to the bone and it has become a money loser.
7. Most who retire have >$1M in savings. Only 1% of global adults are millionaires - that’s the people who were lucky enough to retire before 2020, when forced retirements became the norm. Back to the top - no more retirement for the regular workers.

1. Pension plan
2. 401K Match
3. Above average pay
4. Flex Your Day policy which basically allows you to WFH when desired
5. Ability to change career fields
6. Ex-pat assignments
7. Most who retire have >$1M in savings. Only 1% of global adults are millionaires

Unlike my poor technical career colleagues who were stuck in Eckett, Malabo, Port Moresby, Luanda, Basra, Bodjonagoro, N'Djamena, my GPM career has comfortably brought me to all the nicest assignment location eg. Melbourne, Perth, Doha, London, Singapore. I guess it pays to have an MBA after an engineering degree.

In the past five years I've been on expat assignments (rotational and in-country) and just started another. Only have stepped foot on the Spring campus a few days in between each. The assignments are great with excellent money and time off. I'm RE with no plan to retire for some time. If I had to work only on campus I would definitely retire ASAP. Company doesn't want me to.

5 weeks vacation.
Nice paycheck.
It’s been good sometimes and bad sometimes. What job hasn’t. The future definitely looks a little shaky. I’m glad I’m close to the end (work not dying).

Yeah, 1 Click was my only upside of the last 5 years. Legend.

One click.

1. Fun Fridays
2. Cutsie video with our beloved Bill K.
3. Cut down the awful Rex tree

Pay the monthly salary punctually every month.