Hitting me hard to see so many of my friends and mentors resign and leave the company. The one thing that was keeping me here was the relationships and now I’m losing even that. Time to get serious about job search I suppose.
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XOM is digging its own grave. I realize that not all of you are to blame but a lot that are still left are simply part of the problem. If you can not see how bad they treated your co-workers, you deserve whatever is coming.
I find it amusing that ex-coworkers are reaching out with resumes now… I simply blow them all off.
There is a growing army of ex-xom out here that want nothing to do with xom. Sure there will always be folks willing to tell you what you want to hear when you continue to pay $$ for their services but I guarantee that fewer companies, with us in them will want to do any business with you.
They are creating a little XOM island of toxic managers and most of us are crossing our fingers that they will simply disappear.
@2tsx+1fbKwame Observed the same. People rarely talk about the ones left for whatever reasons. Having seen this, you just know that you have only co-workers (perhaps back stabbers, credit stealers), but, rarely real friends at EM. It makes leaving EM that much less depressing, and perhaps, much more pleasant.
Friends? Do remaining employees even call people who got laid off, PIP'd or are leaving? May one or two but the rest cut them off like they were cells of cancer.
I used to love the company. I used to feel proud about being part of the organization. I used to wake up every day and think to myself: "What great thing am I going to do today?" All that is now gone. I just don't understand how the collapse of the company could have happened so fast. Just one management committee and bo-m everything that took decades to build is gone. All the outstanding technical people, engineers, scientists, you name it, they are almost all gone. ExxonMobil has no technical expertise left. It has become an engineering management company where it outsources all needs to the people that know how to get things done many of which are former EM employees. How does the management committee expect to find the "Low Carbon Solutions" or the new "ExxonMobil Product Solutions" without engineers and scientists? How do they expect to attract top young talent when everybody is saying: "Don't come to work here, we are all on our way out". I am just shy of my thirty years with the company but I think I will just go now. Everybody is gone. Nobody to talk about engineering left here. I am trying to cover for former employees that have left in the last year or so. I cannot do my job because I have no time, I cannot do my former colleagues' jobs because I don't have their expertise but, I'm still trying. I just give up. Time to go.
Just because they left the company doesn’t mean they still can’t be your friends and mentors
I totally agree with OP. My boss and colleagues resigned back to back within 5 months. And I am struggling to do my jobs effectively because I do not know the background of their work. Right now, I just do my work bare minimum while waiting for other opportunities outside the company. It is really frustrating when the management just let the remaining employees to suffer and later on will be also PIPed
Pardon my English.
I felt exactly the same and left on 31st Jan.
EM was once a great place to work, it's not anymore, at least that's what I am feeling right now.
Many people left, the staying ones are struggling to do their jobs because most the knowledge are gone.
The company also trying to cut benefits in every way.
They have taken away home internet bill benefit worth 20 USD per month without any notice. Employees are just a number to them, not human.
Leave while you can. Good luck.