Thread regarding ExxonMobil Corp. layoffs

MOM progressively conducting interviews to solicit input from impacted employee. Fellow colleagues, please lodge in your case regardless you opt for PIL, PIP or force to retire ahead of schedule.
One manager disclosed that she was aware the lay off is targeted at senior employees age 40s above.
Minority are from 30-40s.

60% age group 50s above

MOM officer encourage all impacted employees to report.

Taskforce to set up and support a collective voice.

Not expecting reinstatement but to channel this unethical irresponsible retrenchment to MOM to conduct fair investigation.

Let's wait and see, MOM investigation is still going on, and the passing PIP passing rate will prove the unethical retrenchment in disguise.

EM Country Manager’s profile, MTI Advisor, EDB Board member, Istana Advisor, etc. Do you think all these PIP (Lay-off) programs can be implemented without his endorsement? Can MoM makes any different ? Let’s move on.

Guys. Move on. It’s free for all and every man for himself now. No one is going to watch out for you....please accept the reality that your faith in the company was misplaced

I wish if executives were to pay more attention to the worker. They can be more considerate and more nice. This is not the case. They come across as arogant and selfish, selfcentered.

Xom crossed the line I think and should get sued into oblivion for the deception. No one cares about layoffs but it's the deception and xom is in the news for a lot of deception like tactics so politically I think the public will detest how they did it and punish them.

Lol. Like anyone would care that exxonmobil is using PIP/PIL to reduce headcount. The irony is all these people believe it will do something. Right or wrong, it is well within legal means to do so.

Looks llike we have not too smart EM management here to acknowledge using PIL/PIP to slash headcount. We should thank them, EM will soon go headlines in Singapore.

Looks like top management got nothing to do surfing on this site during office hour and talk c—. Your time will come.

Say what you what. As long as ExxonMobil isn’t replacing the jobs, it’s a lay-off. I know many jobs are not replaced and many more will be displaced. Hoping that the government can get back their JSS to use for companies that need help.. EM definitely don’t need it.

@ulyq+16zEvLP3 I love how these backwards people try to point to amazon, microsoft, and netflix like ExxonMobil is in right. You forgot to mention GE developed it and look where they landed. Also MS got rid of it as well. see link below.

It nots about talent, its about horsetrading, backdealing, and politics. How does a technical person who is ranked underneath a supervisor get ranked higher than his or her supervisor when that person ranks them? Seems fair?

People believe in meritocracy but this doesnt work, its old way of doing things and most companies are developing away from it.

https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/compensation/pages/stack-ranking-microsoft.aspx

Why do they find so many underperformers? Quite easily actually...

1) you are performing below average compared to your peers. Exxonmobil hires the best and brightest, which means you can perform exceptionally well per your talent, but be rated low versus others

2) since you are rated versus your peers, what exactly is the definition for underperforming? You could be performing top tier one year, but hire a few Einstein's and that could put you at the bottom of your grouping.

3) just because your performed well in previous years doesn't mean that should protect you. Yeah yeah, you did something 3 years ago that saved the company money and got you ranked well. Why are you holding on to that when you have done little of value sense.

4) they moved the buckets to nearly double what was previously. So that means, if you are borderline making it (who cares what you did years before, that shouldn't save you)... Then that could have pushed you over the edge.

While some have been blindsided by this, there is little feedback within cycles to where you are ranked and placed. In all irony, this is fairly true for all companies (Amazon, Microsoft, Tesla that utilize the PIP program to remove employees). Some of the time you are where you are.

Is the PIP program even new? The fact that EM choose to give you a chance by not letting you go In the past, does not mean that you can continue to underperform.

Do not use “EM is cutting cost” as excuse for you to underperform. In the past, there may not be a need to get rid of those weeds, but there come a point where enough is enough.

Even hiring the BEST, you are ranked, and through bell curve, ought to have strong performer and underperformer. Like it or not, it’s a company you choose. Unhappy about the ranking system? You can apply for a job elsewhere

What EM is doing is unethical! Why do they suddenly find so many ‘underperformers’ when they claim to hire the BEST all this while. This coincides with the announcement that the Company is cutting costs. It is obvious that they are trying to circumvent the local Labor Practices to pay retrenchment $$. I hope MOM look into this seriously, otherwise other companies will follow suit.

Wake up guys, wake up... If you are really that good, why are you concern you’ll be at that bottom 8%? People at the bottom 8% are there for a reason. IMHO, PIP is a good program to get rid of those weeds.

Company is not retrenching anyone, but only put you into PIP.

We are expecting XOM to use PIP to lay off employees repeatedly! Nothing new anymore but this trick definitely works fantastically well!

Based on " Employee Development 2020 Cycles" now time for step-3 - skill assess. PDS should close in Sept, but believe some of you still not knowing or been communicte of your appraisal grading yet.
Why management playing hide-&-seek game?

Not knowing your grading by now might be the next 20% to be place PIP game.

WOW! Still got 20% to go.

What u people still working there? Sit back, relax and watch top management run the show.

Good riddance. 10% gone in October is needed for the company. They really need like 30%.. But the PIP program is a start.

What do people think this company does, give out handouts to the needy? Much of the ones being let go aren't even quality performers.

PIP aka THE GOLDEN HANDSHAKE.. october onwards,we'll see more employees of XOM told to leave the company due to poor performance.. this place is getting more n more ridiculous day by day.. many has lose faith with the managements of today.. especially that process manager.. too many bad bosses nowadays..

@qetc+16zEvLP3 I’m affected to.. but what a xenophobic comment.. shame.. Does it matter that EM keeps? Perhaps the population of Singaporeans are higher hence you see more? We are here to share on an unethical move by EM to lay-off, let the government investigate, and while EM May come out with no consequences, at least this event puts EM on check.. and I hope the JSS credits are returned unless EM shows that they are hiring these 8-10% of workforce back.

XOM Singapore employs thousands of foreigners but Core Singaporeans to be lay off first! Can someone explain why?

https://usa-today-news.com/news/singapore-is-probing-exxons-labor-practices-after-the-oil-giant-used-employee-reviews-to-cut-staff/

Can anyone share the article of business insider news...I do not have subscription to read.
https://www.businessinsider.com/singapore-probing-exxon-labor-practices-oil-price-downturn-2020-9

XOM Employees Long service award is PIP! Be ready to get it after the SQUAT!

Keep up the momentum, let MOM be informed regardless you are PIP/ PIL, existing staff (NI)..retirees,..
Every spoken words count!

Fellow Singaporean, stay united, connect with taskforce and form a robust voice to assist MOM in this investigation:

Read this:

Singapore is proving Exxon’s labor practice after the oil giant used employee reviews to cut staff

https://www.businessinsider.com/singapore-probing-exxon-labor-practices-oil-price-downturn-2020-9

https://www.businessinsider.com/singapore-probing-exxon-labor-practices-oil-price-downturn-2020-9

—> You think the incentive can cover the amount EM has invested in the employee (to be laid-off)? Really laughable, this sour employee should really be laid-off.

lol, obviously not enough for pple with big appetite, hence the unscrupulous act to avoid severence payment

all these feedbacks are good in the pdne slido, don't just make noise here, make our voices heard there as well

We can’t hope for this company to be ethical. If EM had been practising what they preached, this dirty PIP tactic will never be used. Whatever these shameless managers had said in the past are now a direct slap to their faces. This is like a pastor being caught seeking pleasure in Geylang and still insistent that their presence there is for a noble cause. How nauseating!
We need stand united to pressure them. Act now and keep your submissions to MOM flowing.

If EM Singapore were to get away this time, there will be little chance that any real voluntary severance program will be rolled out here. Please stand up against this unethical practice by whistleblowing to MOM even if you haven’t been NSI yet. It is obvious who are the people deserving the PIP. If you don’t stand up against this act, you will be the next on the chopping board to save the mgmt’s a— to fund their condos/landed property and maids.
This takes moral courage but if you fail to voice out now, you will be the next victim.

We all need a dose of reality. The company is led by a bunch of executives who are golden handcuffed to their company owing to their XOM share benefits. So even if any of them have any moral resids, their self-interests will drive them to toe the company line. The regular employee “connect” sessions are meant to allow the execs to feel about themselves. Their answers to our questions on Slido made me puke! If we don’t help ourselves, no one else will!

Exxonmobil ranking system can only breed yes man, that's why the company is in such a mess now. Believe many has already lost faith in the management team. The company will not survive the crisis, more headcount cutting is expected in the coming year. Hopefully, the company use a more ethical way to cut employee.

XOM need to change purely from the TOP. Vision 2020 is totally blinded. We are lacking of excellent leaders to strive for success. Eg: shortsighted mangers making wrong decisions buying over SAR2 . We really need those technical people to run the plant. Many non technical managers should go into PIP or lay off so as to cut cost. If XOM continues to keep these need improvement managers but choose to lay off the ground people so as to secure their rice bowls, XOM will never ever come back strong again in the future. LAY OFF NEED IMPROVEMENT MANAGERS FIRST!

Well, looks like XOM rather keep the $$ to pay dividends and keep executives n managers employed than giving the hard working loyal employees a proper retrenchment benefits and/or retire in dignity.

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/manpower/one-month-pay-for-every-year-of-service-capped-at-25-months-for-retrenched-sia

Even SIA does it better than EM

What a joke!? If your employee's performance required PIP means that is the Manager and DH Performance, actually the Manager and DH need to be put under PIP.

Employees are just a number to the company that can be substituted without any warnings, regardless you are adding value to the company.
Last day with the company, handed over my responsibilities dutifully and employer did not even showed any appreciation for the work you have completed.
Immediate supervisor who used to acknowledged your hard work disappeared in sight when we bid farewell and thanked them for their support.
No looking back at this unethical company which hardly value every effort you have put in.
Glad I have taken PIL instead of spending time to “improve “ my performance in PIP, to this date, employer failed to provide evidence that I belong to NSI.