If you know your stuff, you'll solve any technical problem. But you can't fix toxic. You can't fix dysfunction, disrespect, or incompetence. The people who actually do the work get undermined, questioned, and suffocated by a culture engineered from the top. I've never stressed over a task, sometimes I've even been proud of the outcome. But I dread coming in because of the people and the sick, bloated beast this company is.
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The ones who can can do and get things done are forgotten or piped out.The ones who cannot are stupivisors or managers. The so called first line stupidvisors and second liners are totally clueless and inept. They are chosen because they are good at following and enforcing the absurd exxon rules and bruacracy. I have never met one that I liked because they are tools and have no decency. They will fire, pip or sc--w you if it helps them.
@OP That’s because none of you does any actual work. If you did, you wouldn’t constantly be dreaming up ways to make each other miserable and whining on this board about it.
@ew Bring back the old one. He liked being in the field. Was shoulder to shoulder with us on site even late at night during startups. Knew the Midland and Carlsbad teams and facilities and seemed to genuinely enjoy living in Midland.
I would
Like to know how the vantage deal came about. Makes sense up front but aren’t you really riding other people’s work to be put in propped level without ever putting in the effort to be in that position?
Just like the Perm eng mgr living in Houston doesn't even understand how oil is produced.
If only we could figure out how to PIP dysfunction, disrespect, and/or incompetence…
Thanks Op. I’m completely using this buzz statement, “I can’t fix toxic.” So true.
Yes this is what we all have experienced at exxon. If you are good a solving technical problems and finding solutions you are sc--wed. I went around all of the bloated processes and got things done. I was piped because I did not follow the absurd rules. My knowledgeable other s feedback was outstanding from the engineers but the supervisor did not use the good feedback. The supervisor was a clueless tool that could only dole out training and micromanage me. I left mid way through my pip as it was not going well. My supervisor was pi---d because the engineers would come to me directly and bypass them. When I left the engineers were shocked and pi---d off because no one else had my experience or ideas.
Every so often a post like this appears. Pure gold. Truth. OP is a prophet.
@am Right now in Houston there is an executive pi---d off because he hasn’t figure out how to ship your job to the BTC
Because it’s not about the work you do — it’s about how others choose to narrate your work. Many people focus more on internal politics than on actual performance, and everyone behaves as if someone is out to get them.
The broken processes I have to wade through just to get the simplest task done makes me literally sick. Sadly this is by design.
One of the most accurate posts I’ve seen on here
That's exactly right. Even outside of the PDS hunger games each year, you never know if today is the day that your job gets shipped overseas. The thing is, that ends up impacting the performance of the company. You are never going to get the best ideas or initative out of folks that know the company is just waiting for a chance to lay them off.