We just got an email from chemicals that we’ll know tomorrow at 9 am in a webinar. Is everybody else finding out then also?
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LOL! All of the posters need to resign their positions at ExxonMobil since you are leakers.
Bring the beer with your morning coffee.
Leave your negativity at EM so your families are safe with your attitude :)
It’s more likely our management is so bad that they’re on the chopping block and haven’t been informed yet.
For those that aren’t getting emails, wonder if that means they’re only including those of us getting the door closed in our faces.
I'm in F&L Midstream, and I got an email for 9am Zoom meeting
F&L Midstream and still no invite as of 11 PM CT Wednesday. I guess I'll read about it in the news tomorrow?
@1zpe+17ECbMDb yeah I threw that in there for my own reasons :p. but please ignore that I hope you get the jist of what I'm saying.
BTW I left proactively because I saw a 2Q stewardship, pre-corporate plan deck that talked about layoffs for the CP discussion in October.
I saw the numbers and it went as followed project support groups are going to be gutted for the most part. Specialty engineers, reliability, and equipment strategy folks will see as high as 50% while other mpts will see around 25-30%. Mals will be virtually phased out. Wage will we around 10-15% mainly through forced retirement but some not.
If you live in an Houston, Beaumont, or Baton Rouge metro areas prepare to see alot of houses on the market so if you plan to leave start looking to sell. Also job markets in these areas were bad for oil, gas, and chemicals back in August when I started looking and I'm sure it's getting harder so start looking now!
@1amn+17ECbMDb you had me until you said China virus. Yes, it originated there, but the world tried to stop it while the Rs and Ds were arguing about who had a bigger d–k, surprise, they’re both small! It’s what the world gets for sending all manufacturing to a country that doesn’t respect human life.
Now let’s learn from it and stop sending jobs overseas...oh wait, BLR took my job because the VPs wanted to inflate their bonuses.
They’re tossing our jobs to India and KLTC. The former sends sh– back to us all the time and the latter is afraid of changing anything because they’ve been burned before. Good luck to those who stay behind, because we all know that the TCs are built to fail. No offense to them, some of them are trying. This is all the L3s and above, all cut from the same greasy cloth. Especially KS, she wouldn’t know a computer from her a– from a whole in the ground. 10 years of my life down the drain, sorry to those who wasted more of yours. Good luck to all affected.
well said. Chins up, smiles on!
DW is going to grab his crotch and say “I got your package right here”. That’s how tone deaf he and the management team are.
I left XOM voluntarily back in Sept, my buddy contacted me today to tell me the news so I came to check out this board.
If you get laid off or leave voluntarily like I did then know that there are plenty of better jobs out there. I'm an engineer working in a totally different industry closer to my family. The people are great assessments are absolute not relative and the culture is much more cohesive.
To those struggling through this I just wanted to write down my thoughts to my former colleagues:
Let's be honest when most of us joined xom we perceive ourself as the best. We were top in school, got hired on with top compensation, and high highest potential in corporate America.
The China virus accelerated the inevitable for oil, gas, and petrochemicals like every other commodity business in the past (steel, paper, coal, etc) and now has declined in terms of profit, potential, and prowess. These layoffs are primarily because of this, not to mention our lackluster stock performance over the last 7-8 years.
Being the person you are to have made it to work for XOM I know 99% of you can adapt and overcome this. The best of you will not fold your ethics and core beliefs to survive at this company. Money cannot buy time, happiness, and cannot change neurons that are conditioned to negative emotions that you act on that permanently alter you.
Like the previous post said, don't take the XOM culture and emotion home with you.
Which Canada groups please? Controllers? I hope it’s Controllers.
@1lxs+17ECbMDb Absolutely! You want fries with that?
@1eek+17ECbMDb "Leave the negativity at work and don't take it home to your family. Don't become their XOM."
Great advice and worth repeating. Don't let XOM ruin your family life. Look to your family for support and try to stay as positive as possible. This will pass.
GP as well at 9 am with the link by 8:30. They called it a webcast
@1jet+17ECbMDb Absolutely right. EMIT did a mass upgrade in one week. Oh that right zoom is an external platform and always had this capability!
So you're telling me Darren's townhall couldn't be live streamed but suddenly the entire company is going to be on Zoom at the same time? EMIT pulled through in a week. Nice job.
I need more popcorn.
30-50% contact engineers, no more improve/reliability engineers, 30% discipline engineers (fixed equipment, electrical,instrumentation, etc), 30% safety engineers, eliminate equipment strategy engineers, accelerated retirements, and best of all hiring of 200 kltc engineers in 2020/2021. Good luck folks!
Upstream didn’t get Kerl or buy XTO. That was all Dallas. Exploration is hard dumbaas. Easy stuff is found. We got 8 GBOE recoverable in Guyana for your stupid a– in high profit mega project sweet spot. Talk to Darren about the all in on the low margin Permian. None of us wated that sh–. Get a clue butt munch.
Maybe if upstream could get their sh– together and stop drilling empty holes or bleeding money like Kearl in a low margin environment or flushing money down the toilet with XTO, the company would be in better shape. Remember, it was an upstreamer who brought us down the current path less than a decade ago.
Good luck to all!
If you are forced to leave, remember XOM does not define you . You are still extremely valuable to your family, friends and will be to your next employer. Don't let this dominate your life going forward. It was always just a job, nothing more.
If you stay, take a brief sigh of relief and then get ready for a very rough time with job uncertainty and more downsizing likely coming. Morale will be low, and fear and mistrust will be prevalent. Leave the negativity at work and don't take it home to your family. Don't become their XOM.
Try to stay positive and be kind to your coworkers. Don't be the poster child for change or else you wont' make the next cut. Do your 8 hours as best you can, and then go enjoy everything else in life. Remember, it's only a job, nothing more.
I learned the hard way. Don't repeat my mistakes.
MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU 🖐
Lay-off reunion next November?
So we have a bunch of downstreamers running the show, guess they think oil just magically flows to the refineries? It was nice working with you ladies and gents, management drove us to the ground. #sadhombre
F&L 9am confirmed as well 9am GSC also...my brother and I both got the same time different businesses with 9am meeting.
What time and group(s) for the Canada call? Nothing for me yet.
site's going to crash two minutes in.
Canada call tomorrow AM too. Word on the street is Feb 1 implementation timing.
Notice the F&L invite at the bottom “remember that all communications concerning our business are confidential and should not be shared with customers, suppliers, and or the media”
Remember that now!
Just USA? Any other countries?
I volunteer as tribute!
So excited! I hope I’m picked!!
So glad we have a way to communicate this with each other and have some transparency. Thank you all for sharing.
Here is the background music for the webminar ...
https://youtu.be/U41txhi2nfY
Legit, EMRE has the invite at 9 AM CST. Buckle up folks!
Is DW getting laid off, He needs to take $1/year in salary and take responsibility.
Corporate Finance received the invite as well.
Oh sh– its real. Linda just emailed upstream
Upstream now, 9 am