Thread regarding ExxonMobil Corp. layoffs

Exxon reporter at Business Insider

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I'm a reporter at Business Insider, where I cover the energy industry. I've written a lot about Exxon (see the link to my bio below).

I'm looking for more folks who are interested in talking about their experience with the company. I'm happy to keep the conversation confidential and I never publish names without permission. (We take protecting source identity very seriously, as you can imagine.)

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changed the performance system to bring people down to the graph. EM Initiated PIP to cover up any legal sues.

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Post ID: @3cqn+17CUZzXx

Since Exxon violated its separation agreement with the first round lay-offs by short paying the people by 1-2 weeks they are about as ethical as a “sociopath”.

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Post ID: @2isz+17CUZzXx

EM employees, be careful.

I heard yesterday (I work in Europe) that management is looking for any employee leaking sensitive information to the outside. I also see more and more stringent IT-related or other rules and regulations we need to consent to (take Slido as an example).

It is clear that management does not trust us, never has; what is new, is that employees no longer trust management.

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Post ID: @2tjo+17CUZzXx

XOM has been sending jobs overseas for years. I think we have a tipping point now that XOM is impacting the business sending their job overseas. Basically XOM’s bread and butter (engineers and geoscientists).

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Post ID: @1tve+17CUZzXx

Scabs

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Post ID: @1gfy+17CUZzXx

Just reading through all posts on this site and take the best-of statements should be enough to write the True story about a company not having a REAL management since years. The full trust into the efficiency and performance quality of the service centers will become the final coffin nail to complete the destruction of managements self adulation machine.

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Post ID: @1rwl+17CUZzXx

Benji is totally legitimate.

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Post ID: @1gqt+17CUZzXx

He is the real deal. The more light that shines on this bogus PIPoff the better. At least it might save some decent people from coming to work for this unethical immoral company. What the company just did to so many loyal employees is worth letting the entire industry hear about.

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Post ID: @1wpk+17CUZzXx

Benji is legit.

Would like to see a story about the culture inside the company.

The years old culture of ridged, prideful management that has cultivated and produced what is Eerily similar to the same culture that ultimately ended Enron, minus some very bad accounting practices. The telling fragrant travels, cult like safety practices that cost absorbent amounts of money and resources compared to their competitors and how expressing an opinion contrary to the machine is sure to end in a bad performance ranking. The “yes” culture of has resulted in hundreds, if not thousands of frustrated employees living in a culture of fear, hoping for change that never came. The golden rule still rules.

Years of wasteful spending, bad global project decisions coupled with too stringent global practices that even an elephant couldn’t carry, engineers that don’t engineer but only manage, highly paid consultants and a greedy, stock award hungry, dividend focused leadership committee have all contributed to the decline of America’s largest oil company.

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Post ID: @1wvn+17CUZzXx

Write about age discrimination. Lots of people forced to sign waivers not to sue to get PIL. But nobody is fooled. Age was a major factor. Just look at how they forced people to retire through fake PIPs. Shameful and unethical.

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Post ID: @1lby+17CUZzXx

Benji! Do you have a colleague in Singapore? Someone needs to cover this oil and gas ex-giant who took government funds to protect jobs and yet conducted a disguised layoff.

Who can those employees contact?

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Post ID: @hdh+17CUZzXx

Oh Benji. Like anyone outside of exxonmobil cares.

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Post ID: @aqf+17CUZzXx

Pretty easy to also find LinkedIn post of young grads in US and India still being hired. Out with the old, in with the new.

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Post ID: @esh+17CUZzXx

Pretty easy to also find post of young grads in US and India still being hired. Out with the old, in with the new.

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Post ID: @uuf+17CUZzXx

@zeb+17CUZzXx no no, I had to login and verify my
Identity with HR before I could post here

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Post ID: @kvh+17CUZzXx

@plu+17CUZzXxYou thought wrong. Anyone can post.

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Post ID: @zeb+17CUZzXx

Lots of US jobs being sent to India and Brazil - check our exxon careers. They will announce major layoffs in the us and the same day you will see a strong correlation with the jobs lost and the specific skills being outsourced for cheap labor.
Lots Are hundreds also forced to retire Nov 1st from the performance layoff non-layoff.... and the company is misleading us internally saying they are “ electing to retire”. Deceiving and false terminology. There was a comment from somebody being put on a PIP and Labeled “needs significant improvement” and then receiving a technology award in the mail for “ far exceeding company expectations”. I’d just focus on these things. The company does not have a coordinated effort with anything.

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Post ID: @wum+17CUZzXx

Thought only people with verified exxonmobil email addresses could post new topics on this page....

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Post ID: @plu+17CUZzXx

He is legit... wrote the article ‘Internal documents, leaked audio, and 20 insiders reveal Exxon made managers dub more employees poor performers as the oil giant sought to quietly cut staff‘

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Post ID: @cbr+17CUZzXx

@ell+17CUZzXx Please. Paranoid much?

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Post ID: @nyz+17CUZzXx

Write about the plans to actively replace engineers and techs with Indians rotating to the USA.

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Post ID: @are+17CUZzXx

open to chat

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Post ID: @rhd+17CUZzXx

not falling for this narc

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