I left in November last year and still come back here for banter and to encourage others to leave as well. Truth be told, I get joy from seeing ExxonMobil drown and everyone jumping out of the sinking ship.
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I come back for the positive attitudes and the unbiased perspectives!
Keep it up y’all!
But seriously, I also come back every so often to share my experience. I was laid off last year and feel lucky they let me out of that asylum. I feel sorry for the people who get PIP’d over the next few years instead of laid off and shown some respect by the company they devoted years or decades of their life to. What this company is doing is absolutely shameful.
But like I said! I am so glad they let me go. I am so much happier than I was working for the borg.
Don’t fear the PIP, embrace it. Get out of that place and move on. You will be so much happier. And it is possible to find a new employer that respects you and appreciates your contributions.
@1avm+1eShoot! How are your bosses behaving at BTC buddy? I am sure they have also become crooks now, thanks to the great XOM culture ha. Saale sab ek hi khet ke mooli hain. Naveenji bhi busy lag rahe hain. Ek bhi posts nahi in a while.
I think it has cooled down because people are leaving the company, moving on, and putting the trauma (for some) and bad memories behind them, and for many that means not frequenting this forum nearly as much. I don’t know how the majority of folks could be happy with the insult they call salary treatment, especially considering what the company withheld from its employees and put them through these past several years.
Busy thread.
I reflect now and am amazed that during my entire 22 year career at EM (still ongoing, mind you) -
all I've ever done is show the middle finger to my 'boss-managers' and my helping hand to my colleagues.
How am I still here?
That is the only question I cannot answer
I come back here to warn people about the company and encourage those who are contemplating their exit. It also elevates my appreciation for the fair and friendly environment that I currently work in.
Let me know if I am wrong. But I noticed that this forum kinda has cool down a bit vs Nov. Seems like many people are happy with their 2022 salary communication or RSU. So believed there are less frustration now.
Mast thread hai (very cool thread)!
Saale is site per ExxonMobil ke dhakosle ki pol log dil khol ke kholte hain (everyone is able to truthfully open their heart about the fake culture at ExxonMobil).
Layoff site pe aake aur sacchai dekh ke dil garden garden ho jata hai. I feel rejuvenated every time I visit this site and see our folks being truthful about the evil EM culture.
“I come back to this site for the friendly banter.”
Whenever people are free to say what they want, there will be some arguing. Sometimes there will be some a$$ho_les on either side and things might get heated.
I will always take that over the “decorum” and “consensus” at an EM townhall, where all real questions asked mysteriously disappear.
@1edl+1eGDdopP
My post wasn’t meant to say that UBD leaders are by any means doing what’s right - far from it. They still kiss DW’s ring and never dare to tell the truth, although they could still retire comfortably if there would be a fallout from being honest.
The point was that at least they stay silent when outraged workers ask questions, unlike some repugnant and delusional low level managers who imagine that they are a great success story at EM. It’s a story of bad and worse. These are todays choices at EM.
CSR, Corporate Strategic Research in Clinton, New Jersey colleagues are pathetic losers and backstabbers. They remind me of mentally corrupt “boss sucking” monkeys. Well perhaps it is same everywhere in XOM.
Really appreciate that the UBD higher management doesn't support Dallas BS but what are they doing about it? Doesn't a lot of risk or courage just to look the other way. And don't forget that those same "leaders" at least the Exploration and New Ventures part are responsible in part for the PiPs and layoffs of technical staff because they played games and failed to find profitable resources for the upstream portfolio.
I come back to this site for the friendly banter.
@1myz+1eGDdopP You seem to be one of those with fake Harvard degree. If you are so proud of your accomplishments please share some here but I bet you won't because you are a snake who only knows to bite others. Shameful little pr--k you are. Go back to sucking!
@1myz If you feel so good about what you’ve achieved at Exxon, then why are you engaging with people you consider to be “losers”? Successful people with a strong sense of self-worth don’t often muddle with their naysayers.
Perhaps you have some doubts regarding your achievements.
It’s worth to note that in UBD, most higher level managers (VP, SVP) have conspicuously refrained from supporting the BS pushed by HR, like “the PIP is for your good”, “99% of those put in PIP pass it” or “we’re getting rid of low performers”. Instead, they made it clear that all that comes from way above them and they dislike it.
Only a few low level managers chime in with the official BS, probably not because they have to but mostly because they like to pretend they’re in control, that they’re part of the great decisions at the top. A small bunch of pathetic losers. An example can be found below.
@1zvk+1eGDdopP I was told by an EM insider, before joining EM, to shut my mouth and consider the bi-weekly paycheck as a "reminder". I followed the advise through and sucked it up by working overtime and created extra value that EM was not worthy of. I was relived by EM for "not creating value". Need I say more? Fate is irresistible. Keep your faith up, you su---r. LOL
I do. I am pretty salty about XOM but I see i am still a lot less salty than some brownnosers here in this thread 😅
@1fmg+1eGDdopP
“Let’s be honest”. What’s honest about you? At first you sounded like a manager tasked to “influence” this site. Now you sound like a unbalanced person who thinks the EM management is your family and they’re insulted here, so you have to defend their “honor”. The truth seems to be sadder than it first seemed. If you’re one of our “leaders” than this company is more doomed than we believed.
@1fmg+1eGDdopP so please explain you gold digger, how others didn't make the cut at XOM? Is is because they were incompetent and undeserving or is it because there are bunch of bloodsucking and back stabbing, underperformed dogs like yourself who climb up be stepping on others at the cost of their blood drops? I know you know it is the latter.
Another koolaid drinker brain washed psychopath strikes in form of @1cbn+1eGDdopP. These motherfuckers exist at XOM by pounds.
@1bbe+1eGDdopP, it is people like you that fuel the badness seen at XOM. Folks like you doesn't want to hear the truth and always try to shut others from speaking their mind.
I, forced to leave in 2021 for "not creating value for EM", have come back to this board just to see how low EM might go. I've been enjoying the sane post ever since.
Why you here then XOM cuck? Darren Dead Woods keeping you restless?
And 9 years later you still troll this board. Looks like you still haven’t gotten over the fact that you did not cut it at ExxonMobil.
Left in late 2013 and never looked back. Would rather be poor living in my van than work for them again. Upside down priorities, horrific culture, uncompetitive pay, no 9-80, terrible location. List goes on an on.
i'm guilty of being ex-xom and looking at this board, one thing i miss is entering my hours into planit even though i was full time salaried employee.
Those who mention that they care about their ex-colleagues and friends who are left behind and still work for ExxonMobil. Like another comment said, everyone who is leaving EM should get this one fact right:
No one working at ExxonMobil is your friend once you leave. There maybe some good people, but when they are working for ExxonMobil, their behavior is worse than rabies infected dogs. All they can think about is their supervisor, lowly management appeasing nonsense, and managing their yearly performance reviews. Once you leave EM, your so called ExxonMobil ex colleagues and friends will do nothing for you. Don’t bother about these diseased people. Only consider connecting with them when they are out of EM. I have talked to a lot of people who left EM and so far 100% said that after leaving EM, their past EM colleagues were afraid (or busy) to even pick their phone calls or acknowledge emails.
Someone previously calling ex - EM professional colleagues as rabies infected dogs may not be too much of a stretch.
@qoi sunburned nose is supposed to be a different color other than brown.
Your outstanding comments about hard work is very telling about who you are. As the old saying goes "the nose knows!" Nuff said.....
@dgv+1eGDdopP, I guess people in Bangalore have seen the true colors of this organization and its fake and dog like management. How has this company transformed local managment at BTC, the behavior would def. be very opposite of the hospitable indian culture. Though fu----s at top would do anything to make their dough I guess.
@puj+1eGDdopP except a couple of few folks that you know or have know may value you and your claimed friendship post XOM, the rest are simply professionally colleagues that would dump your claimed friendship as a soon as you are gone. So don't miss that.
I come back here to do the right thing: warn people of joining. I use this board as a sanity check myself for future career decisions as it shows the worst of an org.
I don’t get pleasure out of knowing that there are still friends at XOM suffering. Instead, I’d like to encourage them to leave it behind and take back control of their careers and lives.
Is your wife Darren Woods by any chance?
@erj+1eGDdopP - just like XOM ranking, your deadwood is outstanding only on paper.
When it comes to real work, it’s a flop.
She rates it outstanding with distinction.
The fact that you have to revert to personal insults says more about you than me.
How does your wife feel about the dead wood in your pants?
@xjf+1eGDdopP
You either don’t work for EM and don’t know anything about the toxic environment and the awful morale level caused by management actions, or, more likely, you are one of those parasitic managers, completely disconnected from reality and desperately trying to cling to the lies that are your daily environment.
Left in 2021. I wash my colleagues there the best, but most that were “true friends” have it are departing. Nobody outside the walls of EM cares about CL Levels or PDS. Enjoying a new year at a different company and not hearing “it’s that time” again.
A few disgruntled former employees posting on social media is no indication of a toxic work environment. In fact the departure of the dead wood over the past 2 years has had a very positive impact on the remaining organization.
I have recently retired and I have no desire to add to my former colleagues’ misery, but I like to come back and see here posts that call the hyper-toxic environment at EM what it really is.
What I especially like is this environment where people can speak freely, which makes managers apoplectic, because they’re so used, sometimes for decades, to people brown nosing them, telling them only what they like and never daring to speak their mind, especially know, when one simple truth takes you straight to NSI.
I’ve known some of these people for decades, since we started, and I’ve seen step by step their descent into dishonesty, violent arrogance and complete delusion.
Yes, @qoi, that applies to people like you, useless non-entities, who have zero value in the real world, who hang on desperately to the vicious circle of privilege inside EM management. I really get a kick when an arrogant, condescendent nothing like you reads the posts here and feels like exploding. No more High Potential, CL30+ and DOAG to protect you. Contact with reality is a tough one, isn’t it?
@qoi+1eGDdopP You sound like one of our incompetent mgmt breed OR you are one of those without real transferable skills to seek out and be employed outside XOM. Oh, and yeah, based on your grumpy response you also sound like one of those fair weather and back stabber colleague.