Please share you’re favorite “episode” that fully encapsulates the XOM unconventional experience.
Bonus upvotes for subtly pointing out mid/upper level management unconventional incompetence
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EM wrote the playbook on how not to succeed in UNCON.
Easy to make fun of UNCON. But at the end of the day who is over UNCON?
Sounds like BatonRouge
@tlg+1cFppTY0 , it is looks like you worked at the Midland office.
They hired me straight out of college to replace the jobs of 3 people (2 contractors and 1 employee), didn’t give me software access until three weeks in, and ended the contract with the contractor that was training me (who hadn’t been trained themselves mind you) one month in. The second contractor that I was replacing was actually supposed to train the first contractor that trained me but they slept at their desk every day instead. Obviously, they did not train me either. Luckily his process was documented, albeit poorly.
They then left me to train with the third person. I was training with for two weeks having 30 minute sessions that happened were frequently canceled before I found out they PIP the employee forcing them to retire. This taught me basically nothing because the contractor wasn’t trained themself and the employee was tying up loose ends and had no time to train me seriously or document their process since unbeknownst to me they were on the way out. The employee originally planned a month to train me since the task at hand was an annual process that took a month or two to prepare. This all lasted about a month and a half and pretty much taught me what software I’m supposed to use and nothing about how to actually use it to do my job.
I could tell when I started being set up for my ranking because my manager would rewrite my emails and correspondences to with her own twist as if I wasn’t able to articulate myself properly, showing that she didn’t trust me anymore. She began questioning and nitpicking everything which I could tell was to stack the cards against me. She would question things that weren’t wrong and clearly did not need to be changed but she would do it in front of other people as if to undermine me. She would also change the way she reviewed my work to have different expectations to make it look as if I did it wrong when in reality, all of the prior months, it was considered correct. And instead of taking responsibility for not being clear with her new expectations, she would make it seem like I was the one who didn’t know what I was doing anymore.I made it a point to always pull up the work that I did the prior month to prove my point and she would eventually concede. This became very aggressive in the mouth before ranking.
I powered through and never missed a deadline. My feedback throughout the year was how much better I was that my predecessors and how I was able to solve issues that they weren’t in very little time with no experience compared to contractors and 20+ year employees. These issues were mostly costly over payments that we were making unchecked for years until I got there, so I recovered money for the company in the process. A year later, they then ranked me NI because they claimed i relied too much on my predecessors and I’m overly analytical…even though I was an analyst haha. I immediately PIL and now I’m self employed. No regrets, I know my value.