Thread regarding ExxonMobil Corp. layoffs

I can’t wait to see how millennials fix the world. Thank you millennials.

@gt

Belongs to the group that has been running everything everywhere since before most living people were born.

Complains constantly about how everything everywhere is being run.

This has to be the most boomer thing ever, and every last one of you does it.

The post that started the thread is just more boomer whining about how everyone under 50 has somehow ruined everything. Please F-off with this BS once and for all.

Also, to these people “young” means anyone under 50. I guess nobody told them millennials are now well into their 40s. And yes, I do like avocado toast with my soy latte. No, I can’t help you with your computer. Google it boomer.

@fa how would we get in touch with you, old man? Ouija board?

Lamenting the state of this company after being in charge of it the past couple decades is so on brand for that generation

Boomers didn’t cause all of your problems. Wait a few decades. I am sure your generation will fix it all right. Let me know how that goes.

@f8 how original.

OK, boomer

Boomers this boomers that. How is that different than a racist complaining about a protected class?

@ey Nope. But some of the young people love to villainize other groups of people like old people and scape goat entire generations for their problems.

Some of these young people who speak so disparagingly about boomers would have loved 1940s Germany. Just their scene to label entire groups of people.

@bb

If you are really working for XOM, you would know you don't need 3 jobs .......

Oh man now we have a boomer in here preaching about empathy, this is too much for me

Young ones can be selfish, self-absorbed, and quick to assume older workers are just lazy. What they don’t see is that many of us are carrying three other jobs outside the office—raising kids, caring for aging parents, and keeping our own health stitched together with doctor visits and procedures all while holding down the career that keeps the bills paid. That’s not coasting, that’s stamina. These younger ones have zero empathy, because they’re still living mostly for themselves. But age has a way of teaching empathy, even to the most self-centered.

@as Not really. The boomers kicked out the ladder that led to doing all of this stuff.

Younger people starting their careers seem to be happy to rent and avoid marriage or close friendships. Always seem to stare at their phones and were headphones or earbuds to avoid any unnecessary contact. They want more money and change jobs when someone flashes more money. Want everything to be easy with minimal effort.

Not all, but most are this way and feel entitled to get ahead without hard work. This is why AI is being developed quickly and non customer facing positions in back offices are getting moved overseaś

I will happily pass on whatever information I can to the younger generation if they are making an effort to learn.

Otherwise I’ll just keep it to myself and sell it as a contractor.

@a8 Nobody cares.

And if you’re in your mid-forties you need to jump from O&G while you can still build a career doing something else. Anyone who stays in O&G can expect to squeezed more and more year on year.

In my mid-40s. Coming up we looked up to the senior leaders - business and technical. We learned a lot. They built places like QatarLNG, LaBarge, and offshore Africa. Amazing feats. Today's new hires know jack but act like this gig is easy. Uncon is a bunch of pipe hitters, thats why it seems easy. However, that attitude keeps leading to safety events. They will run out of luck one day. BTC will be there to save the day!!!! LMFAO

@a4 People in their mid-fifties said the exact same thing about when you were in your 20s.

Unlike you though, they knew when to move on.

@OP Oh wow…another post whining about perceived age discrimination. Haven’t seen one of these for like 5 mins.

You forgot the throw in the boiler-plate gripes about DEI. Make sure you include those next time.

I’m mid career so I don’t have less of a dog in this fight. But one if these have to be true:
1) the younger generation could truly benefit from respecting the older generation and learning something from them. If they don’t, then they are simply hurting themselves in the long run and it will impact them materially in the future. So in the end the older generation holds the cards and gets the last laugh.
Or 2) there’s really nothing to learn as the older generation is slower to embrace change and get with the latest technology.

So which is it?

I relate to this sentiment.

I'm in my mid fifties.

I feel the young generation are all takers, give me everything, teach me everything, mentor me because I am entitled to, and then get the fk out of my way.

Every year they come less technically prepared and emotionally aware, and more entitled.

I silently lough, sitting on my multi-million dollar 401k stash, my 20+ year pension, and my 2.3% mortgage of my almost 100% paid, multi-million $ house that I paid for $250k, thinking to myself how impossible accomplish this is to all you young losers.

Keep asking us to mentor you and underestimating us, you will never get as far financially as we did.

Bingo. I'm retired now, but I worked with a lot of younger employees over the years. We all learned a lot from each other. Which is the way it should be.

Sadly this is how many of the younger generations are. Less and less regard for older people. It's heart breaking. I'm GenX and I see this a lot