Thread regarding ExxonMobil Corp. layoffs

Managers get an email first that the rest of the organisation will soon get an email.

This is accompanies by silly ‘talking points’, which is the exact reason our managers are so incompetent. All of them parrot the same points.

Then they call themseves leaders.

Laughable and pathetic.

Got the email Thanks for heads up.. looks like 2 % hike it is..

I can't speak for other parts of the business but there was definitely a lot of fine dining, nice hotels and questionable travel going on in the old URC and EMEC. Didn't see it as much in Devco and Production but I am sure it was there. Geoscience field trips to international locations were definitely a nice perk but not sure necessary. Worst offenders were EMEC management and URC researchers for sure.

IMO...do not stay hoping it will get better, whether it's better money, benefits or an improved work environment. Some people, because of age and years at the company may feel they have to stay because of their situation, but the rest should find a job without all the BS. The words we are able to post anonymously are the truth. I read about the favoritism, racism, taking credit for others work, womanizing, laziness that gets promoted, loss of any prior skills to get a better job because you're doing PowerPoint, hoping for a huge pay raise, bosses/supervisors so unskilled and untrained it's shocking...yet people stay hoping it will get better, they won't get PIP and so on. Times change and some businesses change with it, not always beneficial for employees...other businesses never change and are a sinking ship. When the time comes those at the top or those who know someone at the top will get the life boats, most will be treadin' water. There are a lot of opportunities out there, update your skills if need be and take the jump while you still have a life jacket. Do what is best for you...now.

@1odf speak for yourself, I'm in upstream and back when we traveled for work I ate at McDonald's more than at restaurants whereas the downstreamers I knew (looking at you EMRE) ate at Michelin star restaurants

goto/travel has a Tableau dashboard (or at least they used to) where you can see costs by country and business

Meanwhile in manufacturing - I’m not aware of anybody who has even bothered to activate the new Company Mastercards they sent out last year.

Back in the before times, I remember going to training with people from across the company. I couldn’t fathom how much the upstreamers were spending at dinner compared to the rest of us there from Chemicals. And yet when we had the oil downturn in 2014, us in chemicals took it on the chin just like the rest of the company with slashed spending at the plant, frozen salaries, and further decreased expenses on rare trips. They even replaced PIPd people at the plants with displaced upstreamers on the A salary curve, most of which left within a year to go back to school. The remaining upstreamers went back to profligate spending after prices recovered, and traveling all over the world for meetings. Rinse and repeat for 2020, I imagine.

This change isn’t going to affect the rest of the company at all.

These guidelines are not Upstream specific this will be rolled out to every department. I’m sorry to report but EM has not yet hit rock bottom we are still in culture free fall. I wanted to scratch my eyes out when reading this PowerPoint BS, which has about 1000 words per page of micro managing over control. Senior management have lost the plot, maybe I already knew that.

Does anyone know if the guidelines will stipulate how much money you can spend fighting a Proxy vote in order to save your job?

Agile coaches are gone, and consultants are around only because most talented people left because pay sucked. Stop complaining about execs spending a lot, that’s literally how EVERY company works. Doesn’t matter what sector, new/old, country, etc. Even startups do that.

@geu+1daP42S7 up until early March ‘20 the LT was all over the world while telling everyone to cut costs

EMIT already has a blanket exemption for Agile coaches and consultants. Flag waving trips to Thailand, Brazil and Budapest are also untouchable.

Was the pointless robot dog exempt from this? I wonder how many engineer salaries went into that.

Will Bart still be able to purchase fake jewels?

@vgs+1daP42S7 who was traveling in 2020?

Final. Straw.

I’m out of here.

Appropriate name for campaign. The reduction in benefits and opportunities within this dying company start with YOU! congratulations everyone!

And will our VPs quit racking up $1000 plus bar tabs in a single night buying the most expensive alcohol? Will they quit having their elaborate Christmas parties? So sick of the double standards. If you didn’t believe our best days were behind us believe it now. I wonder how much was spent to study and come up with this cr-p.

EMIT did that in ‘20, “no catering to save the company money”, while the LT was communicating that information F2F on their world tours