At the end of each year for the past five years at least I always think employee morale has hit rock bottom. A year passes and I realize I was wrong because each time it was worse. Somehow XOM always finds a way to kick us when we're down. This year it was PIPs instead of layoffs that made no sense but were required and implemented. I'm just wondering what they have in store for us for 2023 that will destroy morale even further.
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Omg… someone doesn’t understand a satirical post @ Post ID: @2jex+1kqvgo4N 🤡
Give it up @1lgl+1kqvgo4N. Repeatedly saying that people claimed hot desking violated their human rights will not make it true. I’ve read the posts and you are twisting what they said.
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Something in our managerial arrogance tells me that you are not hotdesking. Or maybe you’re spending your morning hours hunting for an empty office with nice glass doors, trying to get ahead of your fellow managers?
It could get worse. After Implementation of hot-desking, charge for parking if you don't carpool, payroll deductions for all office supplies, toilet paper dispensers that limit the number of sheets per sitting, limit the number of hours elevators can operate, all lights go off at 5 pm but battery-operated personal lighting devices from home allowed, remove shoes upon entry to buildings to maintain cleanliness, cut janitorial cleaning services to once weekly but consider bi-weekly, set thermostats to 60 degrees in winter and 80 in summer. Management Committee and key executives exempted.
OP what morale are you talking about? It's been dead for years now. We just show up for a paycheck. That's it. We don't care about XOM. XOM has been dead for a long time now. There's absolutely no innovation, no new ideas, no creativity, no desire to grow it, no respect for employees, no nothing. We are there for a paycheck. As long as oil is expensive XOM will make lots of money. When the price of oil decreases then Darren will want not 50k employees but 30k and another 20k of our colleagues will be fired one way or the other. There is no respect, morale, or anything left at XOM.
@hmz You forgot to say how hot-desking supposedly violated your human rights.
Maybe you should take your case to the UN. I’m sure they’ll give it top priority.
Kind of like the USA. No real info or beleiveable info to focus us. Seems everyone above us has been bought or to scared to do the right thing. Just have to ride it out job wise and country wise. Sad. It all could be better for all but the selfish 1%ers in the US and globally just have to have it all .
Probably more of this. Almost more frustrating that the grand plan is an outsourcing scheme sold to all sorts of other companies over the last 20 years.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/29/books/review/when-mckinsey-comes-to-town-walt-bogdanich-michael-forsythe.html
OP is right, the toxic imagination of EM management is bottomless. I retired last summer, but I have to say that hotdesking when the campus is only 40% full, people are required to be back in the office and the company makes record profits, that is a masterpiece of humiliation and disdain from the management to workers. Only people who are completely blind and addicted to a vanishing paycheck can accept this insult and keep going to that horrible place.
Good people (young and old) leaving for new job, retirement, etc. Management either left a skeleton crew workforce or hiring people not properly equipped to complete the work. Overall left a big ho-e in our site's culture/morale.
More outsourcing to cheaper countries.
- Further reduction of benefits.
- Almost no corporate travel. Already heard that RD’s will be doing site stewardship virtually instead of in person as is tradition. If the RD’s can’t travel, there’s no way we have a chance in doing so either.