I’m a new hire with the company but I held internships consistently throughout my four years of college so I’m pretty familiar with corporate environments. Here is my reasoning why Exxon employees are only going to get d-mber over the years, just to name a few. I’m in controllers by the way.
- New orientation consisted of going through a PowerPoint about all of Exxons mergers and our benefits.
- My training consisted of whatever my predecessor who I was replacing decided to teach me. Luckily for me, my predecessor had only been there a few months themselves. I would later learned that they are predecessor was highly incompetent and theit work provided essentially no use or value. Since my training relied completely on the knowledge of my predecessor, I came into the company just as knowledgeable as they were, which is not knowledgeable at all. Upon talking to other new hires, this is pretty common. You’re only as good as your predecessor, at least at first. Mine still try to teach me all that they knew but I have no idea how little it would actually be. This leads to a new hire class of worker bees who are working to keep up with deadlines while having no actual idea what we’re doing. Those of us that are bright will begin to understand the why behind the what but that’s a gamble between if and when. Being in any role that is cyclical while having no idea what you’re actually doing every month/quarter is a breeding ground for dangerous and expensive mistakes.
- The repositioning of employees, specifically supervisors and managers. There are many supervisors and managers who rely on The employees that they supervise to teach them about their role because they may have never done a similar role in their entire career. This means that most of the knowledge pastor that person will rely on how much knowledge the employee has. Which relies mostly on what training they received (none) and what they learned from their predecessor. I began training people in my first year of employment and I barely knew the role myself
We can already see the effects of this being that SAP still is a mess to say the least and only the contractors REALLY know how to use its full functionality…
I can go on. With no formal training program, the learning curve will be steeper in future years while leaving little motivation to climb it.