Thread regarding ExxonMobil Corp. layoffs

you require to align with connections made outside of office

On the exposure part, I had a Department Manager that checked my calendar frequently for any meeting that I was booked in that a VP would attend. That manager would always come to my desk just prior to each VP meeting and tell me not to attend the meeting, that he would cover for our department and tell me anything that comes up that I need to know. Zero exposure for me because my Department Manager seemed intimidated that I knew more about our work than he did.

Be sure to also be attractive, tall, not gain weight, and not lose your hair or have thinning hair.

Add a new one that has recently come into the picture. Are you working in an area the company has decided to offshore to India. If so you are doomed. In years past you may have become an executive but with the new model you will be PIP laid off.

You for got to include d-mb luck. This plays a huge part in it. In you first one to two years did someone in a position of power decide you are a hipo. Miss that window and it doesn’t matter what you do.

I’d agree. And from what I see, by “attitude and presence,” they mean “do you have a sort of non-human personality, value conformity over creativity, and can you not flinch when PIPping those who don’t deserve it?’”

pretty close, +/- 5%