@1tzpe+16zEvLP3 What with the DM spinning wheels, repeating exactly what was said in the last Comm session, and the DM going into an iteration loop, with no definitive solution for reducing work load!
No clear directions. No leadership.
Now how? Where do we go from here?
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it is just to show that they are working in setting direction, talking to people. scripted answers like #weareexxonmobil #winningtogether #winningbehavior and remember not to talk on the phone while walking
These town hall sessions are not meant for the employees - they are meant for the self-serving executives to feel good about themselves on the pretence of showing concern for the employees. You are correct - their responses to the Slido questions are canned comments which do not respond to the core of the questions posted and generally makes one sick to the stomach and a complete mockery and waste of time.
No. Every townhall just confirms senior leadership is just paying lip service to caring about you, being concerned about your welfare and putting on a mask saying how they appreciate your hard work, how talented the employees are. YET at the end of the day, they are applying 8% upon 8% upon 8% of NSI year after year after year. So why go and watch this $hit$how. I’m not interested and have skipped the tow balls altogether. Even the questions and answers are just the usual BS, which makes me sick to the stomach.
What about the regular Division Comm sessions? Anyone derived any satisfaction, or enlightenment, from those?
So boring and monotonous right?
Always the same old, standard (and most probably prepared) answers given!
Can we not have townhalls and lame committees being set up? we are just acting like bunch of jokers and clowns.
the world is growing, are you?
In US it is less than 2 weeks per year. 10 year employee gets 12 weeks severance for example. Less than 10 years and PIP is more generous.
@1tiur+16zEvLP3 No lah, they had given 2 weeks for every year - up to max of 50 weeks to the other regions.
So for your case, you get 40 weeks.
You want?
I am with This company for 20 years. If the company offers 1 year 1 month, I don’t mind leaving this disgusting place and be Grab driver and earn lesser.
Few of my friends already left the company/received offers. If you worry that much maybe the problem is with you?
Well, do what you think it's best for you lol.
In current times, with unprecedented, multiple and permanent business closures and massive retrenchments going on world wide, what is the probability of your snagging another equal-paying job, within months following a separation?
Very low, I would think.
For someone earning say, $8-10K/mth, you may probably be offered a less exciting job paying $4-5K+/mth - just because of your degree cert.
Can you accept the brutal truth of the matter?
Looking at the several strategic studies being progressed simultaneously, with completion dates by year end through 1Q21, we can all hazard a guess that the country study completion on TMTS and WE3 will be announced sometime in Feb/Mar next year. No prize in guessing right?
Then the gates of hell will really open up, with a major retrenchment exercise.
You’d better have an alternate exit option by then.
How does it feel to be jobless and going back to the grunge of desperate job hunting, but with little/no relevant jobs to be had out there?
Don’t have to run, just walk away with your heads up, don’t look back as you step out from the SG office/ sites. It is obvious this organization is no longer the company most of us have entrusted in.
Don’t expect to see a leader in this &cum place.
Supervisors will be the next layer to be removed.
Walk away when you are ready before the next wave starts.
Good luck fellow colleagues, the pasture is greener out there, without oil, chemicals and importantly $cum management.
FYI, I was out and never felt so great before!
Run for your careers. There’s none found here in Singapore unless you are the favorite few. Otherwise, farmers are dispensable and easily replaceable. Good luck to all.
Run for your careers. There’s none found here in Singapore unless you are the favorite few. Otherwise, farmers are dispensable and easily replaceable. Good luck to all.
Signs that EM culture is toxic
- company core values do not serve as the basis for how the organization functions
- blaming & punishment from management is the norm
- favouritism
- employee suggestions are discarded. People are afraid to give honest feedback
- Micromanaging
RUN NOW
Better start early.. Before the floodgates open.
@1rawf+16zEvLP3 - wise move... but I am faster. Already started recently.
Once AWS taken, time to hunt for new job!
There’s definitely COI when the supervisor is going to take over your job, but hey, it’s a meritocracy and it’s all relative, so it s—s to be you.
PIP is tough with unrealistic goals and supervisor with interest to take over role to secure own job. Just saying/sharing ... even though that was expected from the start.
Monitored but nothing is done out of it. Jo is always with the Singaporean worker, in spirit. However, whenever there’s hard choices to be made, it’s definitely the corporation over the Singaporean worker. So the article is merely anecdotal evidences of what happens to MNC, not to powerful corporations. Especially not for one who put in so much $$$ into Singapore so that these lowly Singaporeans can work for the mighty colonial masters from the huge and great state of Texas.
The disguIsed retrendment has been closely monitored by Singapore gov, report all unfair layoffs to MOM.
https://www.fivestarsandamoon.com/2016/10/companies-purposely-deny-retrenchment-benefits/
Answering the question of why there’s so much % of NSI each year, management will say it’s all relative, and you always have that. After all it’s healthy competition and will allow people to improve and do better.
The reality is that the company needs to hit a certain headcount target but doesn’t want to pay out huge severance packages that can drain the cash for dividends (think for the grandma and widow), so the NSI% will be high until we have a balanced headcount.
Hope this helps. Not pretty but at least all should realized that there’s nothing much that can be done, unless there’s mass departures that affects base biz execution or if there’s government intervention. Both probabilities are lower than if you were to find a new job vs waiting for the axe to fall on your head next February (country study) or June (after performance assessment) or 2022 June, since NSI% will be 8% continuously until things get better.
President contradicting statements, if EM has such a talent pool, why need to NSI each year to reduce headcount?
Why conduct study plan ?
Poor leaders poor planning lead to breeding and growing NSI employee.
reflected badly on management not conducting the right hiring from the beginning and led to wrong firing.
All eyes on poor leadership in the company leading to continue bleeding.
Still in denial and proclaiming company doing well.
Thumbs down on $ucks leadership in the organization
Unaware that their act has progressively tarnished their reputation
How many years of 8% - 10% NSI can our SG employees take?
So true, @1qspz+16zEvLP3. If you are not planning now, you are planning to fail.
Regardless you get the big gift (PIP) or not, you'll likely to receive a small gift (wage reduction) next year.
Be positive, life still moves on. If you are good and can be employed easily.
Be responsible for your life. You can’t keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.”
Oprah Winfrey
Same as a pastor caught pants down in Geylang, proclaiming that his patronage is a gift to the community, lifting hundreds of underprivileged women out from poverty.
All, please plan your exit strategy before you receive the next round of gift.
What a joke!
A leader making a fool of herself in front of her employee.
Oblivious that country agency MOM is probing into the wrongful execution of PIP
Insensitive President claimed that PIP is such a perfect tool, enabling the company to lay off employee effectively without having to compensate committed employees appropriately
Glorified the way how the company mislabeled the employee
Walk away proudly after executing innocent NSI employee in a country that practised different approach from the home country the President came from
Shame on such leader who behave in
Unethical
Immoral
Lack emphatic
Incapable
Untrustworthy
Unappreciative
Failure to take a moment to evaluate her wrongdoing and reevaluate the rightful responsible retrenchment compared to other big oil counterpart
Shame Shame Shame
@1pzss+16zEvLP3 So very true.
As long as new cars and consumer products are there (need plastics), and air travel remains everyone’s holiday necessity, plus taking delivery of amazon.com / eBay orders (need Jet fuel), and marine / container freight for all large/heavy imported goods, from vehicles, construction materials, to furniture, high-voltage electricals (need marine fuel), the oil and chemical industry cannot vanish ... not for at least another 50 years.
Perhaps not until plasma engines, ion thrusters, and heck yes, teleportation, are invented on a commercial scale!
@1oqll+16zEvLP3 No one will retire or step down unless they dare to disagree with DW.
@1oqll+16zEvLP3 No one will retire or step down unless they dare to disagree with DW.
@1nnyc+16zEvLP3
Toxic place
Intermediates
Karen McKee, is it time to step down as EMCC President?
Big question mark on leadership
Don't blame others, if not happy the door is always open. She might be right as some employees deserve to be NSI but more of the senior staff management deserves more NSI. Only good in talking and no constructive solution. All yes man and follow instructions...
@1oqcm+16zEvLP3 She is full of BS..