What I dislike most is that instead of doing an Elon Musk style hard reset, they’ve chosen take the longest, most costly, and inefficient path to normalizing the workforce possible via the PIP. For all of their bravado, they seem genuinely afraid of being sued. Not sure why. - @1hkj+1koXucJe
I understand why some despise layoffs being framed as PIP, but I still wouldn't say that I'd prefer a 'hard reset'.
PIP was political joke.
Bad Supervisors and Department Manager kept while technically excellent fired just for putting no mobility on their profiles. Mobility supposedly valued then Ironically Americans are being repatriated and push to staff expat positions with BTC low cost low performers.
The perhaps unforeseen downside of hiring smart, driven people is that those people are smart enough to call out a lie when they see one, and driven enough to do something about it - whether that’s becoming actively disloyal, maliciously compliant, or once they’re finally fed up, leaving the company for somewhere that they’ll feel appreciated. Kudos to all of the real EM people on this board, and may the odds be ever in your favor.
Hatd reset.
Starting with supervisors and advisors
Hard reset is needed.
The first place to cull is all the useless leeches hiding out in LCS.
PIP was a farce. I was not put on PIP, but the last 4 years has opened my eyes to the level of corruption. Truly valuable contributors were forced out on fabricated reasons, leaving others to pick up pieces of their work. Leeches and horrible self serving individuals were protected and even promoted to do more damage. People deserving of visible roles are pass over in favored individuals who had nothing to do with original idea or work. Spineless and corrupt supervisors and managers with little understanding on the work focusing more on their promotion than helping the team’s succeed. Lies, back-channel tactics, back stabbing, plagiarism, no career growth, no commitment to innovations, ageism, harassments. Who wants to work for this place?
I prefer the PIP process. I've been getting paid for very minimal work since the beginning of this shltshow four years ago. I'll keep milking this company until the end. So PIP baby, PIP.
This question has been asked a million times on this forum. Get a life!!!!!
Both methods are traumatic, but in a downturn everybody understands downsizing is necessary. Also a reasonable severance package would tell people the company has no choice but doesn’t hate them.
The PIP is a monument of hypocrisy and lies, who shows that the company not only doesn’t care about the employees, but together with executive pay rises in 2020 and indifference to rock-bottom morale show that the company has been highjacked by corrupt mo--ns. Who wants to work for this kind of management?
Well, there is perhaps a little validation in how their poorly managed layoff scheme backfired.
Upper management thought yanking the bottom 8% would let all others work harder to stay. Instead, they got massive attrition from mid to high performers, while mediocre people trudged through the PIP. Of those remaining, no one continues to think of ExxonMobil as a company-for-life.
Now, the company is trying to selectively rehire, but realizing they cannot attract the same talent as the mid/high performers who departed.
But I don’t know that one big layoff would have resulted in anything too different. Perhaps less anxiety knowing you survived a single culling….but the remaining folks will be more overworked because too many left at once.
Thanks (I guess) for cutting/pasting my post OP.
It’s better to get the pain over with quickly than it is to drag it out and not achieve the preferred result (see Sun Tzu).
As you’ve likely gathered, I’m firmly in the “hard reset” camp.