Exxon seems to employ managers with a special talent for presenting grandiose plans for employee's career, which will never materialize. How many times have you heard empty promises from your manager? My advice to those who haven't been here long is to not let them make too many promises before you finally realize you need to leave.
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No corporation is truthful to its employees, but EM management has recently gone to sociopathic levels of lying.
Just imagine, what kind of a person you must be to tell one employee “we’re giving you a softball but high-exposure job, where you get to present to top managers each few months, and pictures from that meeting will go up on LI, and you’ll be ranked according to the “impact” of your job”. And then they tell another, non-sponsored employee: “we’re giving you a low-profile job that nobody wants, we expect you to do it well regardless, but we’ll hold it against you during ranking that your job is not important and you didn’t make a big splash”. Only the vilest opportunists can be managers in such an absurd company.
Every monthly 121 is a new set of empty promises for me 😁
Yeah. My favorite is when they imply taking on cr-p assignments will be a “great opportunity” only to be penalized later because your work wasn’t a standout and you didn’t “shine” while doing the cr-p assignment that NO ONE ELSE WOULD DO.
Saying they are throwing around empty promises is a huge understatement. If we didn’t learn our lesson in 2020 when DW promised there would be no layoffs (only use the PIP to layoff people), then we never will. I’ll never forget how they’d rather be chicken sh-t and tell people they were poor performers instead of calling it what it was - a layoff. It’s unforgivable and that action has done more damage than they’ll ever fully realize.
If the glove don’t fit, you must quit
Yup - part of their job is to dangle a carrot just in front of your nose to keep you "motivated." Don't count on anything.