Thread regarding ExxonMobil Corp. layoffs

I guess the vend on Ed couldn’t deal with the fact that it’s obvious that Exxon has a massive over representation of women in management as compared to the overall population of the company in technical fields. Hmmm

@231 these are the same people claming 90% of People PIPed passed ignoring the fact that 90%took the PIL and they are talking about remaining 10%...

The most painful part of my job is coaching inexperienced and unqualified BTC engineers. It might feel like mentoring, but they didn’t quit in 3 years. The way we use BTC in my org they are told exactly what to do and there is zero critical thinking.

@kg 100% !!!

@rh You make a good point about how women can “taint” a role.
I have not been in management, but I’ve stepped into highly technical roles previously held by men, done the work, and exceeded expectations… yet I always get labeled as “organized” and “administrative.” vs. "technical", even though Im doing the same job as the men.
And when I’m ready to move on? No one wants the role. It’s like I gave it cooties.
The value of the work mysteriously changes depending on who’s doing it.

I’d love if I could find just one leader who understood that employees whose buzzwords are useless bandwagon jumpers. How many dashboards and KPI’s are going to be pitched this year and then thrown o to the digital trash heap of “it kinda works, but nobody is updating it anymore” or “nobody knows that dashboard exists” next year. Then what useless cr-p is management going to be excited by next year when dashboards and KPI’s are passé?

Also, it’d be super helpful if I could transform into a 30 something white woman, because god knows you can’t be promoted into a leadership role if you’re not in that demo. I’m just d-mbfounded when a wall of 30 something white women that fill every single leadership position in our country sit there and lecture us about “diversity”. And god knows once a woman occupies a leadership role, it will NEVER be filled by another man … that would somehow indicate that the previous female occupant didn’t do a good enough job, and we can’t have that look. Think about it - have you ever seen a leadership role previously staffed by a woman subsequently go to a man? I can’t name one.

@kg bravo, so accurate. I (Gen X) will also be gone soon and if they sweetened the pot a little I’d go today.

There are numerous problems at Exxon, such as glitchy, disconnected systems, automation that never works, terrible MSPs, frustrated employees, unfair processes, backstabbing colleagues everywhere, and oblivious management.
But at the core of all this is one person who has never been held accountable, the man who has the same first name as the husband from Bewitched. He continues to blame problems on local management through his annual surveys. Completely wrong approach. Leadership starts at the top.
He said in 2020 there would be no layoffs, then laid people off in 2021 and literally became the walking definition of “read the fine print.” He damaged trust permanently.
Then he demanded premature RTO right in the middle of COVID. Next, he flattened salaries during record inflation and started cutting corners on benefits and managing them cheaply with automated impersonal systems.
If I could snap my fingers and have three wishes, they would be:

1. I would have him take accountability and issue a public apology expressing regret.
2. Award stock bonuses to all those who lost their annual stock match.
3. And for my last wish...honestly, just pay us to leave. Give us the bridge we need to retire ASAP. Gen Z hates us and calls us boomers, We’re actually Gen X, dingbats, but whatever. We’ll be out of your hair in no time, and then Gen Z and MSP can have the place all to themselves to look around, wait for instructions, and wonder why nothing is getting done.
   In short my three simple wishes are own it, fix it, and let people move on.

Stop making the ecosystem less employee catered. Ie OneImaging, retirement benefit payment options, portals for everything.

Glad we have the benefits but why are we making them hard to deal with instead of streamlined so the employee can focus on their job

I would go back to the way the company treated employees in 2009. Not perfect but so much better than today.

Rid the unqualified of their roles. I've never worked at another company where they put people in in charge of groups/categories of which they have no knowledge whatsoever. I'm tired of carrying people.

So many sh-tty colleagues you can't trust, pointless politics and bureaucracy

@OP Nothing. More pay is all I want.

I work for my paycheck, and a bigger one solves almost every problem any person can face.

I’ll never understand why employers keep performing this mental jiu-jitsu around paying people more. Everyone wants more money. Give it to them and/or stop pretending to care by posing inane, leading questions.

The toxic culture that rewards back stabbing and lying. The culture that promotes wrong people and wrong behaviors

I wish I knew where I was going to live for more than ~6 months at a time.

One aspect that I would like to improve is that everyone in management must "punch their ticket as a technical contributor" prior to being a manager. If you have not "punched your ticket" then H/R disqualifies you as a manager of that particular group.

What irritates me most about this job is that every small, menial task has become an obstacle course of messy processes, gaps, and fragmented teams. Something is fundamentally broken, and management refuses to acknowledge it. It’s like working on a plane that doesn’t fly while everyone focuses on the shiny paint and the logo.
If I could change one thing by snapping my fingers it would be to have leadership acknowledge that outsourcing hasn’t solved the problem, and in fact it’s made things worse by introducing more fragmentation and even less accountability. I would like leadership to admit they made a mistake by prioritizing the wrong things and now the result is we are all sitting on a shiny expensive plane that can't go anywhere. This would be a nice step in the direction of addressing the real problem instead of continuing to overlook it.

People in leadership team, and I’m not sure how the selection really works. With all the glamorous benefits attached to those positions, it feels like whoever gets them eventually turns into the same kind of leader, no matter who they were before.

you get compensated for your time, energy, and knowledge/experience
it is a trade
what do you think we want back in return
we can't feed our family or pay for our mortgages with compliments and free coffee

Ranking/ PIP targets

I would actually increase the NSI category for 2 or 3 years. We still have too many bottom feeder in our organisation that we need to stomp put.

Bs performance assessment. Not having control of your next role

PA