EM employees on this site complain more than any other company (been visiting since 2015). What does it say about you for sticking around the company for 10-20 years hating every day and moment? Companies were hiring until 2018/19, you had plenty of time to leave for greener pastures.
So many complainers it’s amazing!
Oh don’t worry of us are planning to quit.
The chronic complainers are like a cancer. They will spread their negative poison throughout their workgroup. They will complain no matter where they work, and their life will be filled with misery. Why? because to them everyone and everything s—s, the world is unjust. Not matter what happens, they will spread their negativity and try to bring everyone they come in contact down to their gutter-level way of thinking. Must put up your shield daily against these vermin.
I have been in partnerships with most of the majors over the past few years and seen them dipping in and out of layoffs starting in 2014. COP, BP, CVX have each had multiple rounds of layoffs. XOM survived the longest through Contractor reductions and the PIP program, but the company is saddled with some bad decisions (Kearl and XTO), and this new Downstreamer mentality. Our Downstreamer CEO decides to re-organize one of the world's highest performing Upstreams into "value chains" with complete lack of focus on Capital Efficiency and putting volumes in the pipeline. Instead we are focused on "behaviors" and "culture". So some of my bitterness has been watching the destruction of value over the past 7-8 years.... but going to another Oil & Gas company is not going to address the systemic problems faced by the industry.
Most here have plans to exit, just waiting for the right time. Now take the money, next year leave.
OP Quit Being in Good People's company. Just Quit.
@lnj+185GsJGZ, duh. I’m pretty sure all EM employees know the O&G industry as a whole is having problems right now. Thank you, Captain Obvious.
@ the commenter saying leave the forum. We’re the only company now screaming like kids, every other company has a bit more realism in their viewpoint. Seriously, do most EM people think that no layoffs are unsustainable with we’ve been in a downturn for 5 years? Please name one o&g company that has done zero layoffs?
The brownnosers should sign their names so their bosses know how loyal they are.
You’re not getting your brownie points nor are you getting noticed so that they don’t accidentally fail to notice your total commitment and devotion for the Titanic.
Come on, sign your name, Boomer.
Take your lips from those cheeks and put your name when you tout your own horn.
Why do Xom employees complain and not leave the Corp? East, they are not the slightest bit marketable to competitive companies. Xom develops generalists not any experts. Good luck to those in their late 30s/40s who only learned to make ppt slides and feed info up. The real world is actually a brutal place...
If you aren’t looking externally at least every few years, this is the result. I’ve been looking every few years and have yet to find a better deal so I’ve stuck around, but that may finally change this time around. Not top 10% performer but never below “middle third” and usually “top third”. Always put technical path in my EADS but keep getting put into management roles.
If you hate the complainers why don’t you just leave this forum, no one is forcing you to read all these posts.
See what I did there?
@ghu+185GsJGZ - your outlook wouldn’t be so positive if you got unfairly PIP’d like many were this summer.
So, count your blessings something like that did not happen to you and stop dishing worthless advice to others.
Lot of high talk from someone confessing they had multiple homes, shelled out for private school, and never had monetary worries. You had an admittedly easy ride and now you see fit to talk down to others. Classy.
I have hesitated to comment lately on this forum due to all the negativity. I recently retired after 40+ years of service to a company I was always proud to say I worked for. My entire career was at a manufacturing site. EM enabled me to educate my children at private institutions, buy multiple homes, travel and now enjoy a retirement with no monetary worries. I stayed on the technical track and developed my skills, while others around me pursued management positions that I’m sure enabled a much higher salary. I made the decision fairly early in my career to put family first and never regretted it.
My personal mantra has been to learn something new every day at the same time “earning” my EM salary. Perhaps you would consider me a “dinosaur” but I will tell you I never “drank the Koolaid”. I always spoke my mind and kept my principles.
This younger generation of employees seem to think that their employers owe them something. They don’t, you have to earn it! I only hope you recognize this fact sooner than later or you’ll end up a sad, disenfranchised curmudgeon later in life.
Things were not alway “rosy” in my career but that challenged me to work harder to prove them wrong when I had an inept manager.
Best of luck to all on this site!
EM employees are in for a rude awakening if they go to competitors and realize how bad the entire industry is.
The complains you read in this forum are the symptom, not the disease. Other symptoms are feeling lack of interest in the work, decrease in work performance, feelings of helplessness, and cynicism with leaders, the culture and the organization. These are all symptoms of Burnout.
So, what is the remedy for burnout?
Quitting is one possibility and many here are working on this.
Another remedy is for our leaders to listen and effect change. May here are also working on this front, by asking the leaders to help restoring trust and direction.
Seriously, so many complainers on this site AND in the company. It's like the majority of people don't know what an actual hard day's work is! Lol. It'll feel good knowing many of those people will be shown the door shortly :)
Maybe they will complain at their next company also. How the grass was so much greener at exxonmobil.
Keep milking the cow while you can!
If Darren who’s doing such a sh–ty job is not leaving, why should we?
And you type like you are boomers on Facebook.