Thread regarding ExxonMobil Corp. layoffs

@cp many VPs know me and I am a nobody. Not a hipo. Have had some good ranking and some middle. Never low. I am miserable and trying to leave. Friends of mine who have left have had VPs try convince them to stay. It is actually quite common.

@cd oh and yes, as a matter of fact, we do have pets. Thankfully, our 95lb Golden Retriever was with us and not with a boarder in Texas or we would have had to go back. Our plants, however, that we left with a neighbor to water while we were gone for what was supposed to be a 4-week trip, we conveyed to our neighbor for good!

@e2 You don’t need to explain anything. I have no idea why people call others' experiences to “stories.” I’ve seen enough chaos to know life flips without warning. whatever you have today can disappear tomorrow, so don’t cling to it like it’s permanent.

OP here ... it's all true. I did not report to a VP but I knew him as he had participated in several trainings that I had delivered. Both he and my manager, and my manager's manager all told me to come back - things would work out.

To those wondering whether I lived out of a suitcase - to a degree, yes. We had bought a camper the year prior during the pandemic, and had traveled around the country to visit national parks and colleges for our kids who were graduating from high school over the next 4 years.

We happened to be visiting a college town that we loved (and a university our kids dubbed their #1 favorite) when I got the NSI call. We opted to literally stop drop and roll right where we were because we calculated that in two years, when our kids graduated from high school, we'd be eligible for in-state tuition which would save us at least $25K a year - per kid - for tuition. And we'd have four kids in university at the same time.

We camped for 12 weeks until a rental house became available and then slept in sleeping bags for another 8 weeks until our belongings arrived from Texas. Our kids all started their new high school from a campground.

If you google any of that, you'll likely figure out who I am. 100% true story.

@d9 I get what your saying. But this is not the first time I’ve heard of someone that was NRE told that by their manager to not worry about the ranking because they would 100% pass the PIP and the only reason they were ranked NSI was to help the younger employees since they were protected. Sure, it wasn’t VP, but maybe this guy had a personal relationship with the VP.

@d9 agreed, this post is fake news

@d0

Outside of fantasy land, your VP would know not to expose the corp to litigation by admitting that the ranking process + PIP is a numbers game and doesn't actually mean anything.

@d7 breaking news, Father Christmas and God are not real

@d6 Don’t be so you. God has a funny way of flipping things. you never know what might happen to you.

Can’t understand why all these people that leave feel like they need to come check-in.

We are still making a ton of cash, even though you’re not here anymore

Can’t wait for your next update, actually not really

@cp He didn’t say he was reporting to a VP. He said a VP called him. If he’s a valuable SME that had been here 30 years..I’d think a VP knows his name. My VP knows me and I’m just a planner from outside the business many levels below what OP probably was.

@OP I have to agree with the post below, your story simply does not add up. VP called you… if you were reporting to a VP you would most likely be an executive, different reporting timeframe for ranking. One of the many lines that don’t equate in your little fantasy

@ca so leave all your belongings Amy your house in Tx, love out of a suitcase? Did you have any pets. You’re story is not true

@c9 what is so hard to believe about the story?

@OP curious what you wrote into ChatGPT to draft your fabricated story, I believe you were PIPd, the rest of it sorry don’t believe you

We need more posts like this. Thank you OP

By the way, in this sentence: “I’d rather take my chances, despite being the sole breadwinner with an impressive salary I knew I would likely be able to replicate, elsewhere.”

I meant to write, “…I knew I would likely be UNABLE to replicate, elsewhere.”

I’d had a very good salary@ XOM and getting NSI’d and taking the PIL was like a bad game of career chutes and ladders. I hit a chute and dropped about 50% on salary. But, my spouse found a job and our family economized.

The important thing is: we survived and it all worked out, for the better.

I’m laughing thinking anyone would think I made this up. Should post my LinkedIn story from when I left. There was definitely no cube photo!! 😂

@a9 ditto, that’s how I found this website, too. Didn’t know anything about it until probably 6 months after I left- so early 2022. It was so helpful for me to find it and read all the stories from other people who had similar histories and have also been through it.

@a2 not posting for attention. I’ve got plenty of attention.

Posting because when it happened to me, it felt like my career as I knew it was over. Felt like the worst betrayal and kick in the teeth of my life. And yet. Turned out to be the BEST thing to happen. Not right away, it took some time for things to fall into place, but in time things worked out and it gave everyone in my family a renewed sense of what it means to pull together, economize, and give thanks for what we have - and each other.

Maybe you’re so lucky this kind of thing will never happen to you. But if it does - just knowing you’re not the first, you won’t be the last - and all will be ok …. is incredibly reassuring.

@a5 Zoom absolutely was being used at the time - we were in the middle of the pandemic. Zoom really took off in 2020. And, if people were out of the office for an extended period of time, management had to get their feedback communicated.

zoom was being used

I’m not commenting on whether this post is accurate or not, but when I went through my PIP I didn’t even know this website existed. I was so brainwashed into thinking that losing my Exxon job would be the end of the world. I was mentally broken during the PIP and didn’t realize that no matter how hard I tried, they were going to kick me out — everything was already staged.
After I was terminated, I finally started searching "XOM, PIP" and found this website for the first time. I wish I had known about it before doing my PIP; maybe it would have helped me see things more clearly and not be so naïve.
The site helped me. I decided to share what I know whenever someone posts about going through the same thing just to let people know they’re not alone, and that life is too precious to get attached to a place this toxic.

Zoom wasn't being used at that time.

But coming back to post for attention is wild.

Truly inspirational! Thank you for sharing! It will be ok regardless of the result!