Thread regarding ExxonMobil Corp. layoffs

Keep exposing Upstream and its su cker employees and management. Axe will eventually fall.

OP: What a true representation of URC and possibly most EM. Go tell it to my stupid function manager and even more stupid supervisor. Both of them collected 500+ safety sharing a month from the so called Ph.D.s. Preached about how the company motto is that we shouldn't take any risk and never question any process. The id–ts told us process is everything. As long as processes are done with due diligence victory occurred inspire of the fact nothing useful came out of the effort.

This opened an opportunity to hire the worst of the worst to URC using communication skills and leadership criteria and then right in front of everyone, they selected the worst paper pushers and as5 kis5ers and promoted them to so called leadership positions: team leads, planner, supervisors etc.

Function managers, past URC supervisors working in other parts of the company, Presidents and VPs should be publicly shamed and fired and if one has already retired, bring them back from their retirement to be shamed.

It’s no better on the other side; I’ve been in EMDC and EMEC after I was at URC.
I’ve never seen more people eating kolaches and producing no discernible value than exploration. It’s all a collection of power kingdoms to feed the make-believe stories of the EVP.

What’s worst is that at some point Jack and now Neil, Albers and others oversaw upstream research. Thousands of man hours were spent in dumming down research so they can grasp it, only to have their id–tic input cascade down to smother innovation.

We have a culture unwilling to change, to adopt technology, unable to look things with different lenses, because it’s all predicated on the willingness of EMDC and EMEC folk do their jobs better - which they are to busy to do, with all the bs, gimmicks, political gamesmanship, and misdirection from power hungry climbers.

I had 10 years prior experience and then I was hired by heritage Mobil in 1998. After the merger with Exxon, I could not believe the layers and layers of managers and department heads, the large number of safety meetings and other useless meetings. I thought the only reason ExxonMobil is so top heavy is that they were making so much profit, they needed to show some costs and may be a tax write-off. Now the bubble eventually has burst. The good news is if the upper management sees what other successful companies are doing, it will be easy to quickly get rid of all the useless SLSs and department heads. I came from other companies where no one checked my whereabouts, no one checked my badge access. I and other employees worked as a team. No sum-zero forced performance ranking. No SLS to check me. Time sheet and expense reports were processed by young junior secretaries. It is easy to make ExxonMobil change to do all these obvious, easy cost cutting things. PLEASE - VPs and other Upper Management, please read this and then with your power make these changes:

1) Fire all SLSs
2) Fire all department heads
3) Get rid of unnecessary VPs - there are too many VPs in ExxonMobil.
4) Fire employees that need a SLS to check on them
5) Apply common sense- I know this is rare quality in ExxonMobil, but please drink some new cool aid and get common sense.

And then success will follow - at least partially - need to stop making stupid mistakes like:
1) XTO purchase
2) Ignoring green revolution.

On the spot...Entire URC is a joke

JIPs aren’t “random”; they are either efforts to earn credibility for greenwashing (MIT, Stanford) or they are sweet deals for the Profs of the managers (eg remember that dude from Illinois who spent summers charging contractor hourly rates?)

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