Thread regarding ExxonMobil Corp. layoffs

@dn Great, another one of these “everything is the Clinton’s fault” conspiracy nutters.

I agree it is different this time...but don't let his history lesson fall on deaf ears...it was all fun and games when Bill Clinton was NAFTA the heck out of all the blue collar jobs...did you really think that would satisfy the greed?...yeah I know Bush Jr started it but oh did Bill go all in...I can remember hearing a quote from years ago...we could be working for $1 an hour and they would still be complaining...and it's so true ...as they move all jobs from one low paying country to another and now AI...telling workers here that oh the high paying tech jobs are coming don't worry...now it's just service industry for the wealthy

@bk WTF is anyone supposed to extract from this?

@bj You grew up and built your careers in an age of unprecedented global stability and prosperity, mostly within the framework of the New Deal and Bretton-Woods system.

You can mostly thank your own voting patterns for obliterating the worker protections that would have stopped the very discrimination and offshoring most of you relentlessly complain about here.

I’m not the one who needs the history lesson. GF.

@bh ypu probably do notremember Black Sunday. Look up the Colony Shale Oil Project if you want to know how the company has and always will treat workers. What are these worker protections you think we had? Many other examples besides this one. Just pointing this one out as you clearly haven’t taken any time to talk to us old people ypu hate so much. I am sure your generation will fix it all.

@bh Listen to We didn’t start the fire by Billy Joel. Or the Fall Out Boy besoin if the old one is too old for your tender ears.

@bh have they stopped teaching history? You are truely clueless. The 80’s and 90’s were no picnic. Not for the world. Not for this industry or company.

@bc the big difference between this and other cycles is the corporate strategy to offshore technical capability. That's quite a shift for what once considered itself to be a technology company.

And it seems to be getting significantly worse. Even when oil price is high. Busy mentality and actions by management. There are no more book times. Avoid and find a new industry to exit to.