Finally decided to throw letter. Cannot afford to wait for this drama to upfold. Like a sitting duck to be sla-ghtered.
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@8dy7 Amen. I pray my manager doesn’t get the package. No mood to work and have got a lot of work not really done yet… Anyway, I plan to leave with or without the package. Held back for this windfall.
it's just one more working week to 1 Dec, so hang in tight friends.
first, two days of rest this weekend, and then we get our pay cheque on Wed so that's something to be happy about. then two more days of work, but no one works 100% on Fri, isnt it? then saturday, sunday and... d-day!
bloody soon, everyone is just waiting for their time in december. so obvious engineers are sick and tired but BU still pushing them so hard
confirm must be mr hearsay again, blood bath lol
sound like someone who went through extreme ownership/rules of combat
What's the number for engineering? Asking for a friend
We already know the layoff number by dept.. what other bloodbath is there? Don’t keep talking rubbish lah same ol drama queen sh-t stirrer
Bloodbath coming for engineering, are yall ready
@8dfv many of us only $100K+ or less
@8dft 500-800K! Down payment for new condo settled!
@8cra I hear you but sadly dignity doesn't pay for my bills and mortgage.
@8d02 they deleted his comment because they feared it would get >500 likes
I’m just going
@8cxr pay freeze
@8cy2 won't one lah... this rumour of canceling LTSA and AWS already spread since 2020. you must be that same troll that anyhow say package cap at 12 months. now the truth is out, where are those id--ts that talk nonsense
next piece of news to release: LTSA and AWS cancelled next
Pay freeze or have increments based on performance assessment?
@8cxe 10% salary adjust. We will make more profit after lay off 1000 people
@8cxe pay freeze until ye 2027
How did the national salary program call go?
@8csy you don't know what's a pun don't use pun intended lah HAHAHAHA
chill guys, not easy to get the severance package. It's set up and designed for the benefit of the company, not people hoping to strike lottery. Don't forget, they can always pull out (pun intended) the fact that you are no longer redundant if there are unexpected attrition.
Do remember to take advantage of the employee benefits, soon some of us won’t be eligible for it no more…
@8csc
drama queen. Would you have preferred they don’t say anything, then suddenly on 15 Dec call everyone into a room and say you’re fired? I can tell you, the folks who left in 2021 gone in 2 months after announce, hardly had time to do their VPE, refinance their mortgage, etc. Don’t compare us to contractors lah, you can also walk away and say you’re done. Contractors got no package bro.
Shell announced cuts >1 year before releasing people; Chevron in SG announced in August and only recently told people selected for next year’s release. Lol this is our industry norm. At least I already done VPE, seen my med specialist, applied for credit cards in the last 1 month.
It’s perfectly reasonable to have negative emotions - feel betrayed or angry or disappointed with company, because it’s big impact to livelihood. But don’t unnecessarily let keyboard warriors make us angry for nothing. We need to focus on what we can do and see beyond this company. We will be okay
This ExxonMobil layoff system is honestly one of the most shameless things I’ve ever seen. The way they let people hang for one whole month like dangling us there just to see who breaks first is downright cruel. And they dare to call this “flexibility”? Please lah, it’s just them giving themselves the power to drag people around however they like. This is way worse than being a contractor. At least contractors can say “I’m done” and walk away. Here, if you’re waiting for the package, you’re trapped in limbo and cannot move, cannot resign, cannot plan your life. Like kena held hostage for their convenience.
And the best part? They actually had the audacity to end their briefing slides with “We have values.” Wah, that one really next-level irony. Values? Where? In which universe? Because what we’re seeing here is the complete opposite. Don’t talk about values when you’re running a system that treats people like disposable parts.
Whoever designed this whole setup clearly never thought about the human cost. It’s unethical, it’s manipulative, and honestly it feels like modern-day captivity dressed up in corporate language. Someone really needs to look into how this kind of practice is allowed to pass off as “standard procedure.”
I genuinely hope one day the people behind this mess are held responsible for the stress, uncertainty, and mental strain they’ve dumped on everyone. This whole thing is way out of line, and they seriously need to wake up their idea. Hope they and their family kena karma. Ameen.
@8crw ok la better than you reeking of low ses
If you are a SLS doing ranking, would you put a person who is confirmed leaving in the next 1 year above any of your guys who are not? Would you spend time and effort to fight for this person in ranking, knowing it won't matter in a year's time?
If this person then gets PIP, would you spend effort and time to draft a realistic plan for him/her? Knowing that this person will he automatically booted out within a few quarter's time.
Good luck to those whose severance are in late 2026 or in 2027.
@8cqw what a big mo--n. glad you will be fired
@8cra why was this morning’s webinar nonsense? I’d rather be told early, than to one day turn up at work and realised I can’t log in and escorted out. I respect that management tried to give us info as early as possible, rather than hide a lot of things under CA, and have rumours flying around.
There’s no perfect way to execute a retrenchment, to be honest. And remember all our career trainings all these years, the three-circle Venn diagram, it’s always “company needs first”.
Yeah I’ll attract a lot of scolding here but we want to be treated like adults so also need to behave like it
@8cra to be honestly, most of us do not have any choice. We are just waiting to be told what is our future like. We still need our salary.
I’ve never heard so much nonsense as I did in this morning’s webinar. Dangling the severance package like a carrot is beyond demeaning. At this point, if you have any self-respect left, you’d walk away, severance or not. There’s far more dignity in leaving on your own terms than in staying beholden to an organisation that clearly doesn’t respect you.
@8cqw how sad to be living a life with so much disdain and hate for people who’ve never done anything wrong to you. To be honest, HBF folks are thankful to our colleagues at the site. I hope you see a EHAP counsellor. And it’s hard to imagine someone with this level of anger will be kind to their family so please be kind to yours. I won’t see you at the site cos I’m leaving. Take care.
Manufacturing MPT is also impacted. I remember seeing global ops has the biggest cut. 200 positions will be gone.
Manuf site = EM product solutions
Hi what is EMPS
Glad these arrogant b-ms at HBF are being taught a lesson that they are not infallible. All of us at the manufacturing sites are the ones doing the hard work on the ground
Get rid of those useless HBF fools who only yap all day but no value to the company. Trim the fat and sack them. Now you know all your jobs can be outsourced to India: ours cant. So who has value now?
So happy that finally they got their retribution. This should serve as a wake up call to the remaining monkeys who think they are better than us. See you at site soon!
@8cgm 500
1) Communicated on getting the package in Dec 2026
2) get squeezed dry and exploited in 2026
3) package gets retracted in Nov 2026
4) get PIPed in 2027
ask those people who are purchasing crude for the refinery. ask them what are the restrictions
Why are our competitors are doing better than us? SRC and Aster? I don’t get it.