According to some lawyers in Houston there is most likely a case against XOM for the way they have handled the layoffs. The courts recognize emotional distress as a type of damage that can be recovered through a civil lawsuit. This means you can sue someone for emotional trauma or distress if you can provide evidence to support your claims.
Making people wait for weeks to find out if they have a job or not is damaging to some peoples health by causing anxiety and undo stress.
I think you've got an open and shut case there! Go for it! LMFAO
@cht+18epzEJn - if you are full time employee at another company and are still coming to the XOM lay-off board to dish out advice, you must have serious mental issues. Go see a therapist.
@wis+18epzEJn - it’s possible you are a XOM stooge that has XOM koolaid coming out of your ears.
Don’t worry. They will catch you in the next PIP and then you can console yourself.
You cheered up my day! Is Jim Adler The Texas Hammer still around? I remember the commercials and had a good laugh.
@wqv+18epzEJn It's possible that perhaps these PIPs were accurately targeting low performers and you are simply interpreting ExxonMobil's strategy for shedding these folks to save money as something entirely different.
@qll+18epzEJn - XOM has had lay-offs since July. They just called it PIP and threw those employees under the bus.
I admire other oil majors for not taking that underhanded approach to layoffs.
Not sure if serious or not but this is what is wrong with america. Be grateful you've been employed this long through the downturn and pandemic. Many others in O&G have been laid off since March or worse. Let's have some perspective here please.
@exx+18epzEJn - I actually really enjoyed working as a contractor. I went back to full-time work since, but when the opportunity presents itself, I will do contract work again. My comment on the pampered nature of EM employees still stands ;-).
Something had to give with EM: they were operating as a giant bloated mess with too much overhead and dead weight for so long. It does s— that there are some talented (not dead weight) people being let go, but such is life.
@qxb+18epzEJn - stop spamming every thread with your same contractor b—s—. If you are frustrated being a contractor, why don’t you join a company as an employee? Are are you loser who has not been able to accomplish that?
No offense but toughen up, cupcake. I worked as a contractor for EM as a project engineer for two years.
A few months into the pandemic, I was told with about 6 weeks of notice that I would be replaced by an EM employee who was at that time working on a shuttered upstream project overseas. The training/handover would be about three weeks in person during the middle of a major construction project. Was I happy about it? No, I was not. But I did what I had to do and left on good terms and helped the new PE as much as I could. Did I get a severance? No I did not.
I've got to say that EM employees are some of the more pampered, entitled, and overpaid individuals I've had the pleasure of working with over the years. They really don't realize how good they have it, aside from the horrible work-life balance. It's a business at the end of the day, and business decisions were made. Nothing personal. Once you accept that, you will be more at peace.
What lawyers? Jim Adler the Texas Hammer?
Have you not been paid while stressing to find out your fate?
And the other way to look at being forced to wait is you had a paying job that much longer. RIGHT?
LOL I love it when the "should we sue the company that has an army of lawyers and (relative) mountains of cash" posts start popping back up
And if the company kept it under wraps until the day of, and a leak occurred as it would have, you'd be using that as a reason to sue...
",,,damaging to some peoples health by causing anxiety and undo stress"
If making people wait is "undoing" their stress, then they have no case.
(Hint: try "undue" stress.)
You should see how long people at chevron had to wait. We got it easy!
You can sue on feelings, XOM will break anyone that try’s to sue them, lawyers looking for easy money.