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I have been telling every customer that walks in and quietly told them that they are being misled, ripped off, and taken advantage of and told them to go to another carrier and provided them their acct and xfer pin #s

Verizon must fall. I played my part and everyone on the chopping block shall do what I do.

They should bleed out and lose millions of customers for treating us like dogs

BVB tried to transform Shell into something virtuous. If you believe that burning fossil fuels results in climate change, and that the global ecosystem is unable to absorb the rising CO2 levels with devastating results, then something had to change. Oil cos need to make deals with governments around the world that violate human rights. Their activities cause environmental damage everywhere they are conducted. Of course, selling Shell's "dirty" assets to someone else who will do the same things, perhaps even less ethically, improves nothing in the short term. But if that money is taken and used to chart a different path, in the long term, maybe Shell could make a difference ... even if that path necessarily leads to Shell's own extinction because green energy will become less and less profitable as it scales.
So where did BVB go wrong? First, green energy is unprofitable even in the short without subsidies. That means Shell's business must must align with political priorities that swing wildly. But Shell needed to be able to bullsh-t its investors that it had a path to profitability so it took the money. Second, green energy has technological hurdles that must be overcome or it will fail. Think batteries, wind and solar variability, and the grid collapse in Iberia. Third, Shell's chosen green energies will NEVER meet its net zero goals. They generate way more carbon, and environmental damage, than they save. Shell should have directed its efforts into other technologies that have hurdles that are likely to be solved and then would be closer to carbon neutral. Fourth, the green energy movement that Shell tried to lead, was a scam that US voters revolted against, with the EU soon to follow as their citizenry tires of their inflated energy prices and the effect on their economies. Think ESG scores and greenwashing by claiming credits for trees that you have cut down yet, and net zero promises with lots of fine print, and buying Russian oil but we're sorry you caught us, and Davos elites flying in on their private jets and then proposing things like good citizen scorekeeping (hey, the CCP is doing it, why shouldn't everyone else) and limits on meat consumption and dozens of other ways for the elite to maintain their wealth and power over the miserable plebians.
Shell aligned itself with the left, the only ones who opened their arms (not including the "stakeholders" who sued Shell in Dutch court and chased it out of the country), but the left went too far. The left that gained control (and still has control in places like GB) wanted to tear down the colonizing racist power structure and replace it with a society based on intersectionality, DEI, gender fluidity and all that entails, open borders, politically motivated extended economic shutdown (except for the politicians at their own parties), and so on. There was social backlash that resulted in political reversals and Shell lost on all of its big bets.

I left earlier this year:
Mainly because I could no longer accept the toxic culture. It took me nearly 2 years to find the right job. It was hard.
But I found it.

Here is what I learned since joining a new company.
Yes, Ford treats everyone poorly.
Yes, other companies care about expertise.
Yes, you have to learn new things

But the grass is currently greener in other places and the environment is less toxic.

This is true from the entry worker to upper management.

If you are unhappy: jump. The water is not that cold.

https://www.seattleconsultinggrp.com/blog/when-hr-fails-the-hidden-enabler-of-toxic-leadership

There are numerous things imperial has done that have not gained the media attention it should.

Start editing their wikipedia page. Create a category called “spills” and “regulatory issues”. Make sure everything is verifiable facts, and of course don’t share any information that could get you in hot water.

Remember its anonymous! (But not impossible to track to you)

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/03/exxon-funded-thinktanks-to-spread-climate-denial-in-latin-america-documents-reveal

I believe I am being unfairly singled out by one of the Senior Directors within Superior Compliance. It has come to my attention that this individual has made unprofessional remarks about team members via Teams and has demonstrated behavior that could be described as undermining and unsupportive. Her conduct has contributed to a challenging and uncomfortable work environment.

I'm actually pretty shocked at how pervasive AI has become in every aspect of the company. From engineering to design to mail to people making their own agents, etc. It seems like we're just throwing money at the bubble and it hasn't yet resulted in any savings, just expenditure (Cursor, for one)
I use Cursor daily in my role and the amount of times I have to fix code or re-prompt something because it over-engineered something it got it entirely wrong is way too high.

what's the use of working from office where most of the products make no money, no one is happy getting 2k increments per annum, Leadership shake up at the Top and the stock falling down exponentially ? do they learn something from these indicators?

Don't believe it. Trane runs like a train and lacks inclusivity.

I’ve been at Mattel for under a year and was wondering how firm the company is when it comes to repaying sign-on bonuses. I’m realizing that this might not be the right environment for me.

When will large corporations like Mondelez start acting responsibly with long term strategies gather than short term profits?

I am new and joined 3 months ago. I am a fresh grad engineer and came to exxon for experience and to learn. Every other employee treats me like an outcast and does not interact with me. I have tried to talk to these people and they just ignore me or say they are too busy to be bothered. I am learning nothing from my time here at exxon. I was put on the United way committee and tasked with bugging employees to complete their contributions. I was told that there were groups or clicks at the site In am at. I reminds me of the caste system in india. I am like a untouchable dalit caste indian at this place. I was warned by an older employee that is ready to retire about the toxic culture and dysfunction. Everything he told me has happened to me. He also told me about this layoff site and I have learned a lot. If I had read these post before I joined I would not have come. I am hoping to last at least a year but want to leave right now. I feel that I will be nsied or piped because I am not doing any real engineering work. I have been nice to everyone I have met but no one has reciprocated the niceness. So now I just avoid all these je-ks and sit in my office and hide out. I find it easier to avoid them then interact a feel stupid by talking to them. There is definitely a huge toxicity problem and behavioral problem at exxon.

toxic work environment? threats of layoffs? don’t know where you’re going afterward? why not unionize and have a chance for better employment conditions? many of us have nothing left to lose. the law protects it

Ge-z reading all these posts it's clear there are a lot of s-xist pigs at the company. Many probably put on a nice exterior in the office as well but put a keyboard in front of them on this forum and you see what's really there.

No one communicates, no one coordinates, and you end up doing the same work multiple times without even realizing it. It’s chaos, and nobody seems to notice. This would be bad enough if we had enough people to be able to waste time, but we don't. It's making a bad situation worse, but nobody seems to give a damn.

"It's 2017...

Your SAS Account Executive wants a meeting. She wants to tell you all about SAS Viya, SAS’s “open, cloud-ready, next-generation high-performance analytics and visualization architecture.” SAS launched Viya last year, and it’s a dud.

Viya is SAS’s “answer” to Apache Spark. Like Spark, it’s a distributed in-memory computing system; SAS claims, without evidence, that Viya is faster than Spark. It’s certainly a lot more expensive than Spark. The SAS applications that run on Viya have graphical user interfaces, so it’s easier to use than Spark. But nobody wants to hand petabyte-scale applications to low-IQ users who can’t write code.

You still have numerous SAS users. Most of them work on their desktops with plain old SAS: Base, STAT, and Graph, with Enterprise Guide. They will continue using SAS unless you tear it from their cold, dead hands, which nobody will do as long as their department budget covers the license fees.

SAS is secure in your company until the existing users die or retire. However, the last thing you want to do is expand your SAS footprint or invest in a “next generation” architecture that will lock you in for another 20 years."

https://thomaswdinsmore.substack.com/p/a-short-history-of-automl-part-eight

High time that emp revolt by inundating people team with reports of unfair and discriminatory practices all around if infact that is what is occuring. Inundate both human resources and local senators and Dol...appears careers and lives are being destroyed through emp exploitation based on feedback here. when business is good there is no good reason for such low ethical and frankly unlawful means.

It is great that the bravado is back. Everyone knows how good NL and PL is. LFG! What is better than #1? #.01?

I'm a somewhat new hire -- off the rip I've already heard all kinds of things about how inefficient the teams are, how useless the managers are, how petty managers are towards each other, senior staff/TFALs are slave driven to meet impossible deadlines, and onboarding/training is nonexistent. Is this account really that deep in trouble?

Anyone feel they are being pushed out or that the work load is unreasonable after this last CPM round? Management doesn’t seem to care. Maybe too scared to care?

Meeting with boss gets moved twice, then cancelled. Then receive at WhatsApp that's its been moved and everyone is waiting for you...to...turn...up. WTF is this place.
This happens every few weeks, I have tried to train the primates on how to properly manage time, but they seem incapable. What kind of circus is this?

One of the best. The speed at which we managed to go from there to near the bottom is astounding and should be studied in schools as an example of what lousy leadership can do to a great company.

How long are they going to keep us guessing? Until more of us decide we can’t take the uncertainty anymore and quit? It wouldn’t be the first time Exxon tried to force employees to leave by creating an environment that basically pushed people out. I don’t know if this is one of those cases, but I wouldn’t be surprised.

Its unreal how a company who's ELT is so focused on a greater society just breeds hate.

Like wow, you ppl are horrible humans.

Does ELT know how much their employees despise them or are they kept in the dark by the boot lickers below them? The BOD needs to realize how much of a failure they are and how they have completely lost their employees and fire them all.

Imperial Oil profits from Canada’s natural resources, while:

Releasing emissions into our shared air,
Firing Canadian workers, and
Outsourcing jobs to India — all while Continuing to claim tax write-offs for foreign labour.

This is unacceptable.
Canadians deserve responsible corporate behaviour and government accountability.

📞 Call and email your local MP.
📧 Copy these key ministers on your messages:
• Tim Hodgson – Energy and Natural Resources → tim.hodgson@parl.gc.ca
• Julie Dabrusin – Environment and Climate Change → julie.dabrusin@parl.gc.ca
• Patty Hajdu – Jobs and Families → patty.hajdu@parl.gc.ca
• Mélanie Joly – Industry → melanie.joly@parl.gc.ca

Together, let’s demand change that protects Canadian workers, Canadian air, and Canadian jobs.

that's what this company is taught us: never work hard for them, never go the extra mile, absolutely do not try hard. only do the bare minimum because they're going to lay you off no matter what

I think we got the votes. There's next to no downside. We can even get some Democrat leaders to back us. The management here has gotten beyond abusive and i wouldn't have thought of every doing this in a million years, but at some point you have to fight back. Auto workers gets some insane wages, we can do much better for ourselves and our families.

No calls till 9am
No calls with India unless a manager is present and taking notes and giving action items based on time frames the union agrees to
No weekend or evening work, unless agreed upon, and high over time wages
No in office unless we have assigned seats, the cubes are X height to block out sound and the equipment is top notch, no more testing 10 cubes because of broken equipment
15 min coffee breaks, 1.5 hour lunch breaks, gyms on site
No in office unless there at least 6 fellow co workers at that location
No interacting with offshore unless their english meets a threshold, we're not English teachers.
salaries must meet guidelines, like keeping up with inflation
no medical plan increases above inflation, and the company needs to cover a higher percentage
10% 401K matching
stock options for all employees

Obviously leaving is the best course of action (working on that lol), but how do folks deal with incompetence with their management? I can’t think of one thing my manager does to protect the team, and we are the last people to learn about anything. I feel like it’s having a larger impact on our team/project but what should I do? 🙏🏻

Do not let anyone gaslight you into thinking constant layoffs are normal. This is not normal.

Has there ever been a bigger cr@pshow?

The systems, the process, and the endless disconnectedness. Non stop dysfunction. Will it ever stop?

What a huge mess. No one is ever accountable. We experience tons of effort to produce the most valueless work.

Get your 8 hours in, get your badge ins but please don’t add value. Anything but that.

what are you all harping at BH about, mundane work, restrooms full and ppl waiting .

no innovation, keeping lights on, getting the 2 % raises , even then GBS isnt doing great and there will be more Layoffs..

💀🧛‍♂️ Working at Lumen sometimes feels like being in a vampire clan.
• We work best in the dark (data centers, anyone?).
• We su-k the life out of bandwidth — in the best way possible.
• We’ve been around for ages and still keep reinventing ourselves (eternal life, corporate edition).
• And of course, we don’t sparkle in the sunlight… but our fiber sure does. ✨

At least the fangs come in handy for chewing through red tape.

New in office expectations stated for tech.

Don’t comply you’ll get fired. Pretty much it.

And the implied threat of we don’t we could go to 4 days in office.

F@@k this place.

We have a few environmental as well as other jobs from our function still here in San Ramon. I know my PDC has already met but I personally have not been given a move date, a new job, a see ya later or anything. My boss left the company a couple of months ago. I am almost afraid to ask the question if they forgot about me. Should I just be silent or say something?

They are doing a good job already of sabotaging themselves but it is time to help the BTC underperform. Let the sabotage begin!

There is risk of fire, explosions, hazardous gas release and much more in refineries. Putting office workers on this site to save a corporate lease is asinine.

Make no mistake, this company does not give a sh-t about you, your health, or your family. Think about this before you move.

Applies to IBM too, so worth reading (Business Insider article):

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/the-new-rules-of-workplace-loyalty/ar-AA1Nv8Uo

Comments from readers reflect what we have been discussing here.

No clear direction on any front.