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Yes you thought you had a great relationship, but are you really sure what he was thinking because as far as I see, he made an appraisal that was against you but never mentioned to you? You had a relationship, but was he a close chum, drinking buddy, were you part of the old boys club. It might not even be your boss, it is possible you might not have chums/ influence in other places or departments that would give you an edge.
If you had chums in high places, you would be well protected I think. The whole persona, image seems to be something people take seriously.
I think specific groups were targeted, like relatively new hires or those where head count had to be done and weather or not your sup could have managed without you.
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Canadian born visible minority here who was laid off for no reason. I was a top performer and was given a huge raise due to performance and shortly laid off a month later. I was told I’m not a good long term for for the company. I was blind sided and totally caught off guard. Didn’t see it coming. I thought my boss and I had a great relationship.
You need to recognize, it matters how chummy a person is with the people, the euphemism is relationships. So if you are not cozy, your evaluation will suffer. Being coloured would make it harder because tastes, life experiences, ability to relate to others is different.
I lost my job some time ago and I found having chums makes life better, I was specifically asked to have more relationship.
During the first round of layoffs, group(s) that I'm in/aware of laid off the following demographics: ~40% women, ~75% non-white (those groups overlap). Other side of that coin: I found ~60% either very difficult to with (bordering sometimes on incompetence) or competent but combative (ie not challenging the status quo in a positive manner). Didn't know the other ~40% well enough to say.
Just my two cents.
Why is everything racist with you dumb people? Omg! White. People were let go, that's racist. Omg, black people were let go, that's racist! God, you people are sickening and just want attention.
First round of layoffs was based on performance review
Yes. In my group those let go were all female or minority engineers across seniority levels. Immediately replaced by engineers who had been recalled from US or other placements. Other than one supervisor, I am the only person who is female now and majority are white males. The gents left are all wonderful-dont get me wrong. But those who got let go definitely thought differently and often challenged the status quo. I can't help but notice how similar everyone left is and how I stand out... which one of these is not like the other....
The entire Imperial managerial organization is basically “non existent” a bunch of jokers and puppets sitting on their bums. Their onl purpose is to claim that it’s a a Canadian company while they wait on instructions from the Americans.
Layers of managers, section heads, VPs and SVPs that have no role and cost millions with no real value to a company that can have a much brighter future if Exxon stops treating it as a cash cow
DW came out of the toilet to deliver this stupid email about “our business is robust”. When is Brad C going to copy and paste his message? Oh wait a minute, he said we are not laying off anyone while the layoffs were ongoing. A bunch of liars
More to come. Msg from Darren Woods:
Despite the significant steps we have already taken, there is still more to do. Most importantly, we must continue efforts to structurally improve the earnings and cash flow performance of the corporation. Fortunately, the work we have done over the past few years has positioned us well. Our investment portfolio remains the strongest in industry, and the organizational changes we’ve made are enabling further improvement opportunities - many of which were in progress prior to the pandemic. Over the last several months, we have accelerated these opportunities while pacing investments.As part of this effort, each organization has undertaken a country-by-country assessment to determine staffing requirements. Studies for Australia and affiliates in Europe have been completed and communicated to employees. We expect to finalize the remaining studies over the next several months.I know this work brings added uncertainty to already stressful times. I also know that these decisions can have significant impacts on our colleagues and friends. We are working hard to complete these reviews as quickly as possible, while ensuring a thoughtful and thorough assessment.I understand the added burden all of this brings, but these actions are necessary to ensure the long-term success of the company. The work we are doing today will result in a more efficient organization that will emerge stronger and better able to compete through the price cycles inherent in our commodity-based business.
Yes visible minority at Sarnia and they still talk about diversity and inclusion. Pathetic
In Imperial Oil 50% of high paid managers have not much work on hand, they just show themselves busy by redeploying same process and practices that were used earlier (nothing new). I have noticed those managers are not much educated, more than 10 years with the company not creative. Half of them don't have technical knowledge, basic IQ and talk mostly about social pleasers.
They just create non essential work for them. Most layoffs are visible minority people on tools or grass root workers. Imperial oil can save big $ by laying off higher paid manager who indulge in nepotism and not worth the pay/Pension. They get promoted by corrupt ranking system keeping good relations and making friends but not productive work. No wonder Imperial oil loosing its stock value...
So far only visible minorities in our group
Small sample size so far from my group.
40% visible minority; 60% female; 2-3 years of experience average.
These are people who make up a small fraction of the payroll. They cannot truly accomplish savings by ridding themselves of the lowest paid staff. They need to get rid of 50% of the so-called managers (everyone is called a manager in our group, dumb enough).