Thread regarding ExxonMobil Corp. layoffs

We used to be a meritocracy. I think most people would be ok with "some" diversity initiatives to help members of historically disadvantaged groups - however, these days it's almost impossible for a non-diversity employee to be well ranked. HR controls the ranking process these days and "reserves" the top two quintiles almost entirely for diversity employees. It's just blatant racism and s-xism in reverse. Fertile ground for a lawsuit.

What a d-mb post. Smart and stupid people come in all shape, forms and colors... XOM hires a mix of smart and d-mb people regardless of s-x, colours or races. But this post is 100% stupid

And there you have it folks. Proof positive Hipo’s aren’t the sharpest tools in the shed.

Part of the diversity bucket worked very hard to overcome challenges and beat those privileged individuals whose parents paid for their schooling.

Just saying not all the 3.3 % can be assumed to be that great.

Ima. Female so fall into your diversity bucket. I’ve been with the company a little over 12 years and came from absolutely nothing. I grew up in a trailer park, I ate subsidizes lunches, I took out crazy student loans, but I’ve always been a top quintile worker and a HiPo. Stop putting all diversity candidates in the same bucket. Someone who came from nothing is more likely work their a-s off than someone who was brown with a silver spoon in their mouth and feels entitled to every little thing.

US engineering college demographics are 3.3% blacks.

EM effort to achieve far great than 3.3 means that in general every interviewee of that 3.3 are offered a job.

What are the chances that the 3.3% black engineering students are all top quintile?

Alternatively, the other 96.7% of students fight over the remaining half of available offers, so by default likely higher performers.

Not racism, just mathematical reality.

To build the best team, must go on performance criteria for recruiting, not an effort to make a diverse team photo.

Just think NBA going on a little person representation effort and recruiting 10% mid-ets. Winning at diversity not always builds a championship team.

The blatant racism and misogyny in this conversation is disturbing. People of every race, creed, and color are equally capable of making either good or bad decisions. No single group had a monopoly on being “qualified”. Who was running the corporation in 2019 when we were $70 billion in debt? Huh?

“Woke” is a term used nowadays by losers who feel the world has passed them by. They’re not wrong.

These people are so incredibly lame and getting trapped in a convo with them is painful. I wish people had a woke counter on their foreheads for every time they used the term, it would make life so much better to be able to avoid them.

ExxonMobil’s woke culture started traveling down the Hershey highway years ago with no regard for competence.

The only people wanting a diverse culture are the diverse culture people looking for an advantage they can’t get in their own.

Complain all you want but this country wasn’t built on diversity alone but on rewarding those that are the best and working the hardest. Capitalize doesn’t recognize woke diversity.

Nepotism? In Annandale? Color me shocked.

So we are all tired of the same old nepotism with our current leadership but toss in diversity and this is an issue? I know, I know all the non-racists are saying hire the competent minorities. Exactly, how do you do that in the interview process?

And I'm a straight white male.

If you’re a kid of a department head in Annandale and not the best candidate your in! Place is a joke 🤡

It seems EM is trying to achieve a diverse workforce from a non diverse candidate pool.

Engineering students in US are 3.3% black. Assume students interviewed are same. How can EM hold all recruits to same high standard and achieve more than 3.3 % black recruits without any bias or quotas?

Asking for a friend.

Hilarious!

@OP I can’t imagine why anyone would think that EM is full of racists and homophobes. I mean, it’s not like they all congregate on some online forum and constantly complain about diversity or anything…..

Nobody who is employable elsewhere wants to work for Exxon, and nobody currently working for Exxon is employable anywhere else.

Lethargy, mediocrity, complacency, and entitlement are the primary characteristics of Exxon employees, and all hold independently of race, gender, or se-ual orientation.

This renders the complaints about diversity moot.

Anybody can be a narcissist.
HiPos in EM are basically that.
And a good handicap. Golf, that is.

Again it boils down to a management problem. I don’t think folks are racist but these clown managers hire the first warm body that’s diverse and competence has nothing to do with the choice. Where folks get aggravated is when they can’t learn or don’t want to learn. That is the issue. There are only 2 races. The decent people and the ones that aren’t decent. Hire qualified folks and the issues go away.

It’s not XOM related but I flew on United to Midland a few weeks back and they had a full page on how they’re “investing” in the future and aim to have 50% of their future pilots be non-white males. What a bloody sham, better to be woke and diverse than have competent pilots who literally have hundreds of lives in their hands!

I would argue that even during good times (ie when the company is making lots of dough), hiring unqualified candidates because they are diverse is I’ll advised. Instead of 3 diversity hires and 3 qualified (to use OPs example), the company would likely do much better if only the 3 qualified candidates were hired, and salaries that would have went to the 3 diversity hires that do nothing is used to pay bonuses to the 3 candidates that end up being hired. This will significantly improve employee morale, which will yield increased productivity from employees… not to mention it would help from an employee retention standpoint. Educated people leave when they are being compensated less because the company decides to allocate that money towards diversity hires that are incapable of doing their jobs.

Tell me you’re racist by telling me you’re racist.