Thread regarding ExxonMobil Corp. layoffs

You just sit down and wait for that Transformation Office to change all that and we can start seeing the step change from some #BigBets

Please let me take credit for your ideas.

Open your eyes take a look around. The things you’re observing that you THINK upper management doesn’t know, are the ones who created it!

You guys are a riot. Have fun while you can, I say.

Dude: are you all stupid? You are expecting your management to reward different behavior?
Damn fooIs! Don’t you know that your managers made it to where they are by behaving like pathetic losers and knowing only the bad a-kissing behavior.
Get a reality check. You still expect things to be sane in an insane culture.

I think they need to stop rewarding a different kind of supervisor: the one that’s nice, deferential, and accommodating to anyone they perceive as “above” them, and rude, controlling, and inflexible to those they perceive as “beneath” them. I had a supervisor like this who hides their behavior well in the presence of the “higher” people, and I learned even makes it a point to avoid getting the now-required 360 feedback from their only direct report. They’ve survived multiple involuntary rounds in a hard-hit function in a hard-hit location (non-US), so this company still hasn’t figured it out.

Going out on a limb here, but let me guess, you are one of the smart ones that should be rewarded?

As a supervisor my main goal is to make my people look good and get them in front of higher up management. Making your people look good is how you look good as a supervisor.

Executive summaries are practically a requirement to get a discussion started. They tend to be brief and to the point, typically done in PowerPoint, and they tend to get presented by a member of management. Sorry, but that's just life in a corporation. Top execs are extremely busy in large companies. You struggle to get a few minutes on their calendar and you need to make the most of it once you do get a slot.

The top dogs are well aware that the person presenting is often not the originator. That fact doesn't matter. What matters is that "someone on our team" came up with an idea and management thought it was worthy of putting in front of senior leadership. It's just how things get done in the corporate world. It's called teamwork.

If that's not good enough for you, then you'll have to work your own way into management, or start a grassroots effort to get a recognition program going for great ideas... or simply take your great ideas and start your own company where you can always have the spotlight shining on you.