I wouldn't even try to survive PIP because I feel it is a great injustice, judging by some colleagues who are going through all that.
What do you think is the reason why you were put on PIP:
Perhaps just animosity on the part of the manager?
Age 50+?
I was told that I was twenty steps ahead of most of my peers in my global business unit but that I did not have the "cultural" patience to wait for the rest of my peers to catch up.
My response was, "I thought that ExxonMobil wanted and rewarded employees that were twenty steps ahead of the average employee." As a retirement eligible employee, I was told that I was not a long-term cultural fit.
Translation: "Culture and Executive Sponsorship is more important than insight, facts, technical expertise... etc. in our new 21st century We Are ExxonMobil organization."
The "reason" I got PIPed - "need to be more visible" -- even though I received great feedback from others. Isn't it the job of the supervisor to highlight those so I am "more visible"?
Why was I PIP’d ? I was RE, knew more about my subject than my young, hot-shot experienced hire boss and he made himself look stupid a couple of times by contradicting me. I did nothing to help him out of that ho-e and also pulled him up - in private - for claiming to have done the work that I and the rest of his team had done.
And yes - I do mean that he claimed to have actually done the work himself. We weren’t allowed to know who the work was reported to until one day, he slipped up and accidentally copied some of us on an e-mail to the Executive involved.
His reason for me being ranked NSI ? “Senior Managers don’t know or understand what you do.” Well, hang on - isn’t that YOUR job at the ranking meeting ????
“What is the reason you got PIPed?”
From the bosses mouth: 1. I did not lead a Zoom meeting, 2. I make more money than he does.
BTW. I was 55 and took my money and left. Enjoying life with no stress now 🥂
Medical leave of absence at the wrong time of the year. Yes, I was two month out due to a health problem the two months prior to the performance review (March-April).
Upon my return, I had to deal with the PIP as well as my health recovery.
This experience left me completely depleted and demoralized. I have absolutely checked out. I am the definition of quiet quitting, I make an effort to do the absolute minimum.
Don't judge me. It is not action. It is reaction.
Age. What would be more interesting is to find out what reason was given to people who were Pip’d. I bet that is deep BS.
My PIP was knowing my job and my department far better that my boss.
PIP used by my boss to eliminate me because I could easily expose his minuscule knowledge.
PIP a tool but also a we-pon.
Who the heck at EM is old , coasting and overpaid? I am not seeing it. If there are folks like that within EM they need to go. But, in my small world, I was not seeing it.
By the time I was 65 years old, as an EM subsea installation engineer, I had set +40 subsea trees from a vessel in deepwater (Maersk Winner and Maersk Nomad) over a 15 year period ( Nigeria - Erha and Australia - Janz). I worked myself to the bone, in sometimes very harsh open-sea conditions, right up to the time I took the EM retirement at 65 There were plenty old (experienced) EM engineers working within my construction team making high level field contributions.
Yes, we got paid well but we pulled our weight. Anything less than a 110% contribution and I would have been let go, which is the way it should be.
To the 53yr old who talks about ‘taking one for the team.’ I commend you. You are a good person. I am sorry the situation sucks, but thank you for looking out for your coworkers. I wish you the best at 55, and please fight to stay. We need you.
To the guy who hates 45+. Dude what? Daddy issues? I see you post again and again. We know you are not a hot-shot. You are one of those guys that dangerously ‘doesn’t know what he doesn’t know’….and it will catch up with you. For everyone’s sake, I hope the consequences of such a closed mind are contained to your career alone.
@1ajr The bottom line is that the senior employees, managers included, have stayed well-beyond their working prime and should move on. It’s best for them and it’s best for the business.
These are not people who are learning or developing new technologies. They’re not even passing on what they already know. They have either failed or outright refused to adjust to industrial, technological, and societal change. They are set in their ways, hence why they keep making the same mistakes. It’s not just ExxonMobil either. The result? A company and an industry that could have been both profitable and sustainable for decades to come is now operating in a state of self-imposed stagnation, decline, and all-around dysfunction.
Want to see real change at Exxon? Move on. Change is never going to happen while the same people who made the mess remain there.
Picked up the last shrimp poboy at a business lunch a few years back.
My future manager was next in line.
@uhk+1iXegxrh
You pretend (as in many, many post before) to ignore the fact that the “senior employees [that] do very little, are paid very well, benefit from nepotism, and should probably move on” are management or technical management. They are NOT and will NEVER be the targets of PIP - you know that perfectly well. Aren’t you one of them? Aren’t you the one who in another post are bragging - with good reason - that you will never be PIPed?
Since even you can’t be that stu_pid to believe that you’re going to influence anybody with your absurd posts, what kind of deep pathology in your brain makes you come here and post the same thing again and again?
53yrs old, You have to have the right mindset to 'take one for the team' because it's a real depressing process after 20+yrs and great contributions. But a PIP for an RE is not a real PIP until you are 55yrs.
Your personal opinion is not the truth.
You sound like EM management, they also believe their opinions are the truth.
It sounds like you are being brainwashed pretty nicely by EM. Keep it up, you'll make it to supervisor one day.
@jpe Nobody is defending EM.
EM leadership is an entirely different level of disgusting, having knowingly caused enormous damage to the environment and society in the pursuit of narrow profit margins. Apparently nobody told the executives that they have to live on this planet too.
I’m merely pointing out that many, if not most of Exxon’s senior employees do very little, are paid very well, benefit from nepotism, and should probably move on.
What’s the problem? Can’t handle the truth?
Here it is, once again, the EM defender, EM crusader, EM warrior advancing his theories about "overpaid boomers way past their prime time".
What's going on dude? Are you being outsmarted by and envious of your seniors that make more $ and work less?
Go to complain to LinkedIn or Yammer.
“What is the reason you got PIPed?”
There’s a lot of people in Exxon and in the industry in general who just don’t know when it’s time to move on, or if they do know they stay anyway, just to make a point.
I’m sure a lot of think you’re the best at what you do (I hear that a lot), but the fact is that you’re probably not, at least not anymore.
Many of you openly muse about laying flat and coasting. Many of you benefit from the same nepotism that you denounce. Do you think any of this might have something to do with all of the safety incidents piling up?
I’m sorry, but I just don’t see the value in keeping senior employees on the payroll and paying them premium money for mediocre output.
Working in remote location seconded to other operator with no visibility in achievements or absolute insurmountable daily struggles in that seconded work environment.