Thread regarding ExxonMobil Corp. layoffs

OP is right about what time it is...

https://twitter.com/justinnumber6/status/1619732008057585664?s=20&t=AuY2Qrrhr8HedO4L1XWjFg

EM should eliminate at least 1 level of management, maybe 2.

Stop PIPing the workforce and get rid of the id--ts that keep making the workforce create extra PowerPoint slides to cover up Supervisor ignorance.

It’s a real shame that supervisors/ managers have been more interested in advancing their own careers and saving their own hides than the good of the company or their teams. While many are simply inexperienced and lacking in wisdom. A few used gaslighting, humiliation, information hoarding, and threats as the normal mode of operation.

The assessment and career development system is manipulated and broken, pitting people against one another. That is why the company is where it is today. In too many instances, compliant individuals or frauds are selected over the best person for the job. Managers are more concerned about protecting their own silos. Useless work is generated for the optics of making someone or certain pet projects look good. People with questionable ethics are protected and rewarded. Functional service group kowtow to id--t managers in business units. Excellent work are not rewarded unless it aligns with the flavor of the month. Liberal use of back channels and power grab tactics.

Right or wrong, these were my observations and there was nothing I can do about it. My most recent assignment was poorly defined and ill-fitting for my skills. All I can do was to do the job to the best of my abilities. I have too much to do than to exhaust my remaining energy in political power plays. The ranking committee will hear what they want to hear. Supervisors are inclined to cherry pick to create a story to fit what they want to float up the chain. Their is an endless string of supervisors who don’t know individuals on teams or even understand the work.

I’ve resigned to the “pass the face in the mirror test.” If you can look at yourself and be proud of your contributions and the quality of your work for the good of the company and to help others….then that is all that matters.

Don’t be afraid of someone else’s judgement and be prepare to walk if you have to.

People suddenly focusing on FaceTime instead of Facebook.

OP looks to have come down w NSI

PIP % will be 5% again

My knee pads I ordered off Amazon come in next week. I’m ready to get some distinction.

“The campus looks more populated these days, people wearing business attire, trimmed beards, nice haircuts, small talk in the kitchen with the supervisors, more participation in meetings, the brown nosers at the top of their game...”

Sounds like a boomer’s wet-dream.

I guess you all wanted RTO so you could show yourselves off to each other while accomplishing absolutely nothing.

Going to be interesting in Annandale this rank session, some will be blindsided, pool is getting smaller by the week. have a plan…. DW make the move now…..

How often I think about the months leading up to my NSI (2021). There were so many huge step outs. What I thought was positive communication and collaboration; mentoring. In hindsight, all that effort was perceived as something negative. Rocking the boat? Making others look bad? Who knows. Should have just kept my mouth shut. It’s such a rigged system. Threw away a multi-decade career a couple years from RE because I was so disgusted by “management.”

I’ll never get over the demoralization. F*** EM and everyone that plays the game.

Commonly referred to as the emphasis period.

So true. Only a rare few are interested in benefiting the company. Most of the employees here at XOM are creating a charade and doing wasteful things to push their careers forward. It is hard to imagine any other workplace being as toxic and corrupt. But who knows

I believe you are referring to the "availability bias".

This is 100% true.

Supervisors only "work for you" in the month prior to the performance review. The rest of the year, they don't give a fk about you.

Then, when trying to evaluate you and say something that cand cone across as legit in the ranking meetings, they rely in immediate examples that come to their mind.

Thus, your behavior the two months before the ranking meeting has a huge weight on their perception about you.

It is one of the most important biases that go unchecked during the ranking process.

This and other biases and the inability of HR or management to compensate for it, is one of the reasons the system is broken and it feels so arbitrary and unfair to so many.

If you slackoff in Sep-Oct., not a big deal. But if you misbehave the next two months, you are guaranteed to get PIP'ed.

You left off the glorious LinkedIn posts saying how wonderful the company is. Don’t forget to tag your manager!

“And then he PIP’d me”. Sung to the tune of “then he kissed me” by The Crystals.

100% true