I think both will compete for the worst in Exxon’s history, but who is worse among the two?
I would vote for Rex because everything he did was horrible, including selecting the second worst CEO - Darren !
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DW is putting great effort to make EM employees hate EM.
Maybe he is doing this so all remaining EM employees will welcome the upcoming merger/takeover of EM.
Rex was not so bad, but he put DW as his successor to make himself look great.
Random homeless man off street would have been better than DW.
Rex is the worst because he put a phoney like DW as CEO.
There's a short-term memory in this company that's been split up, merged, de-merged and centipeded about who was the best CEO - and who was the worst.
All agree - John D Rockefeller rockets high above the rest. Buddha, Caesar, Jefferson and Einstein. A truly insightful seer of the social and technical future. And he knew how to make a buck!
When any system starts to fall apart, it is easy to put blame on the recent names of poor souls put in the JDR chair. They get a relative pittance in money while creating none.
So the blame must go ultimately to the worst CEO of all time: John D Rockefeller.
He was no Elon Musk.
Darren by a country mile is the worst CEO. He and TG broke the trust equation with employees, ruined our reputation externally and leadership was absent all of the way through COVID. He just disappeared. If this was any other board, he would have been kicked off.
DW has no competition. He is the worst one.
Rex made some very bad business decisions, no doubt. But, at the end of the day, he still cared about loyal employees. DW has also made some very bad business decisions AND declared war on employees. Bring back Lee Raymond!!!
DW is the worst by far. The trust he has eroded within the org through fake pips far exceeds any ludicrous follies from other managers. His decision to fake pip will forever haunt the business.
DW is the worst. If the buck stops with the CEO, then DW is responsible for the ongoing PIP / stealth layoffs. It creates a hunger games atmosphere that fits perfectly with his compete to win philosophy.
@1wxf+1cZ7xF86 I don’t think EM’s problems are financial in nature, the cash crunch only brought them to the surface. The culture issues have been there for decades, likely pre-merger Exxon, but people have been well-compensated and secure in their careers long enough to overlook them.
Rex was better in public, but the terrible decisions he made are the foundation of the problems the company currently has.
You know who was terrible in public? Lee Raymond. As much as I personally think he was a terrible human, he left the company flush with enough cash for Wayne Tracker aka Se-y Rexy to squander on bad deals.
Red didn’t lie to employees or use Botox for his PR image. The Permian Green blob is way worse than the Kara Sea was anyday.
RT was a far, far better public figure than DW will ever be