Darren said “…our greatest strength and most important advantage: great people”
Strange that he personally demands annual PIP layoffs and is actively moving work to low cost new hire less competent people in a 3rd world country.
Seems that his definition of “great” is “low cost and expendable on a 1 year contract”.
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When you keep forcing out all the quality people and replace them with low cost inexperience people, it’s inevitable that the kindergartens at BTC will look better and better. Maybe take off your beer googles and stop focusing on your expat lifestyle and perks.
Only the BehTehCee is king.
Is “great” between “very good” and “excellent”?
I am from BTC projects now managing people from US and Canada . The amount of rework I have to ask folks from US amazes me as well. They are not only costly but also arrogant and do low quality work. My BTC engineers do twice the quality with tenth of cost. I can see how much we pay to the folks because I am their supervisor.
I understand your point and agree with you. However, I think I can confidently say that was not the message DW was communicating. Cheap is great.
Yes. Exactly.
This is based on the amount of rework required to get BTC deliverables correct and complete.
@3bva+1seg0lkH Please elaborate on your point, are you saying that cheap people aren't great (professionally?)
Everyone please note that he attributed success to the “Great People” and there was no mention of the “Cheap People”.
Two distinct groups, no overlap.
This is the same message for 20-30 years. Look at Florahm Park, Fairfax, Toronto, Leather Head, Singapore, etc…
The approach has been to make skills a commodity that can be moved and developed in any low cost region. When they make this statements like this they are not referring to you as an individual which they could care less about.
How many employees are there now following the Covid purge … down from 85,000 to 55,000 and this includes all the kindergarten personnel in India that have been added.
Remember our culture of caring slogan.
CEO's are politicians...........they will say what it takes to stay in power.
It's like there's a pull cord on his back (ala chatty baby dolls) that can access and play prerecorded and robotic company slogans in spite of realities back at the office.
Darren personally decrees each year the 5-8% of his “Great People” need significant improvement.
Darren announces this % prior to the assessment.
Darren just wants fewer “Great People” and more “ Cheap People”
Classic case of: "Do as I say not as I Do."
DW should be required to use low cost to write his speech and talking points for the analyst meetings. Good development opportunity.
When is the board meeting? Maybe time for some new blood. New approach. Very evident DW lives in his echo chamber . The things going on underneath his nose is embarrassing! .
DW is emblematic of the ExxonMobil culture. Show up after all the work is done, take credit for it, and cut everyone else down.
Speaking of the people inside his moat.
Low cost maybe a side benefit from the real agenda. Anything to protect their wallets with the regime that is in place.
He didn’t say all of the people are great…only low cost ones
I guess our Fos people are not yet great.
He's an overpaid duplicitous mo--n.
Those low cost people designing life critical equipment and systems just seems like a short sighted choice.
Low cost justifies executive bonuses, big explosions justify executive replacements.
Why should we be optimistic for our futures here when DW made $37 million this year and sounds like a bored robot on earnings call.
We have great people, because we shed the weak ones.....
Your prejudiced attitude doesn’t let you understand core business decisions.
Apart from that I had the same thought on how deluded the ceo is by saying he values EMs staff…
Great people *in low cost locations