If you are too busy concerned about your everyday concerns, such as your uncaring supervisor, your untrusting coworkers, the obnoxious hi-potential millennials that is bragging about its 30% raise, the neighborhoods, attrition, or the next performance review, you might find it liberating to pay attention to the big picture.
Everything that happens in your little private work universe is the result of a carefully crafted and executed strategy consisting in 2 pillars:
- make shareholders richer.
- This is accomplished with aggressive share buybacks, defending the dividend at all costs, relentless reduction of structural costs, and developing to the last drop the few profitable legacy assets.
- virtue signaling.
- This is accomplished by building a fake carbon storage organization while waiting for government regulation and carbon subsidies.
Don't get deceived by management rethoric of "energy transition", "place that have a long term career", "place to have fun", or by recent salary raises, which retroactive to 2019 are far below inflation and below competition for at least 85% of the employees.
The startegy is clear. You cannot change it. You can only understand it and accept it.
And if you find that you are not part of it, do something about it: find a new job where you, the employee, is a partner in the business and not a transactional commodity.