Thread regarding ExxonMobil Corp. layoffs

OP, Your sample to make the determination in your post is based on those who would visit this site. Not fair polling data. What about the thousands of employees who have never heard of this site???
They are probably not as bitter as those who post here, and many posters are not actually current employees...

Here is a short list of who employees blame on this site for EM's problems:

Headquarters
All executives
All managers
All supervisors
Shareholders, with a special place in h*ll for poor old Granny and her dividend
"Old guys"
Other departments
Other parts of the Business (Upstream, Chemicals, etc.)
Admins
Research groups
IT
HR
Annuitants/Retirees
Wall Street
Board of Directors
Blah, Blah, Yada, Yada

With all of these guilty parties, how could the employees possibly have any responsibility whatsoever for the problems at EM? Can't you see? It is everyone else but us!

I think the problem is that our so-called “leaders” have embraced our intranet technologies and tried to turn themselves into celebrities. The downside of this is that the more you see them and hear them talk, the easier it becomes to understand that they have lost all meaningful vision and direction.

They have spent so much time and effort focusing on the “optics” (e.g. I&D, Actively Caring, demographic metrics, supporting ESG’s and other “woke” initiatives), that they haven’t done anything useful to support the business.

As this year has progressed, it has become obvious that these “leaders” don’t have a clue how to run a business, are so arrogant that they can’t see that it’s them (and their predecessors) who’ve caused the main problems, and will sit there at their various forums, look their employees in the eye and lie to our faces without any worries or pangs of conscience.

Is it any wonder that the company culture has become increasingly toxic and that those NSI’d in July (and those targeted now) have resentful and full of hate?

I am an experienced hire. Been with XOM for 5 years. I can tell you that company is the problem. In the 5 years here, I have seen such a shift in my attitude. From being a team player, I have grown to become selfish, uncaring and don’t trust anybody. As I reflect, that is is the type of behavior which gets rewarded at XOM. This place is poisonous. Looking for a new job and hope to get out soon.

Even if you fire all the employees and hire new employees, you will end up with the exact same culture. The management sets the culture. The culture will not change unless the management changes their toxic behavior. Unless you believe the management is great and yet so incompetent at recruitment that they somehow hired the worst employees over the last several years/decades.

Within 6 months of hiring-in, I was told I would amount to nothing. Essentially, I took advice from a work mentor and functional supervisor (2 different people). Then a 3rd person validated/edited my work, so I never saw the final product. Anyway, the work received bad feedback....and all 3 of those people who were supposed to be advising/mentoring me “disappeared.” Even worse, I thought it was the ‘adult’ thing to take full responsibility and apologize. ...let’s just say, if you worked for ExxonMobil for any number of years, this is the same as laying your head on the chopping block as a sacrificial lamb.

Honestly, I actually see this part of the culture improving. There is more tolerance for mistakes....but 80% of employees still have scar tissue from things like this.

It is a combination of management and employees! When supervisors are allowed to scream, holler and cuss an employee, then what do you expect an employee to do? I personally had a supervisor bust into my office and scream at me for not answering my cell phone, that by the way was my personal phone and not company phone. Never figured how they got the number, but none the less as no action was taken, i was left with the feeling of not being respected. I have and always give respect until I have been disrespected one to many times. The Corp has yet to accept that part of the moral problem is the bully mentality that has become rampant in the past 10 years and as long as they us allowed the moral will never be what it once was. It is ok to want to make name for yourself, but should NEVER put your section/group down for that purpose! The people who work in the trenches can be your biggest asset and can help you get there, just show respect and it will be given!!!

I agree. Management = Employees as management comes out of employees. Everyone is corrupt

I think it's the employees that make it toxic.

The paranoia and bunker mentality is bred in the Exxon Culture. Everyone is out to get us, while we are right and doing the best, because we are the best.
It wasn’t long ago that even a divine power was invoked in claiming we do “god’s work”.
Now that is been irrefutably proven that the strategy was flawed and the critics were right, what’s left to do? Use the ranking mentality to blame it on performance or lack of commitment.
The Exxon culture is a dog eat dog, back stabbing, compliance-oriented, manage upwards, and pretend everything is awesome stance on life.

Investors have failed to understand the toxic and pervasive nature of this culture and its impact on their investment. But numbers don’t lie, and the empty explanations and promises of our failed leadership lays bare.

Anger is more palpable not in those who lost their jobs, but in those who realize they have been duped and can’t swallow the lies any more. The incompetence, the deceit, the hubris, the greed, and the betrayal. That’s what has become all too evident.

Exxon will be a case study in any business program about why and how organizations fail: culture, strategy, purpose. A total collapse. Let the blame game continue until someone finally turns off the lights.

You harvest what you sow.

I think the people posting here makeup such a tiny subset of employees that what is said here is meaningless venting by a relative few. True or otherwise. No "investor" worth anything would read this for valuable insight, strictly entertainment purposes only.

I think that culture "trickles down". Employee anger, poison, radical views, and victimization, is reaction, not action. Gratitude comes easier after leaders demonstrate genuine care and competence.