Thread regarding ExxonMobil Corp. layoffs

Been with the company for 30 years. I was proud of my job. People actually used to say, "man, you have a good job!" I did carry myself with my head held high. IMO, when the merger came, the company changed. Instead of assimilating the Mobile employees to our company, we assumed a lot of their ideas and policies. (Sounds familiar, doesn't it?) Well, the stock splits every 7 years like a clock strike went away. Pride and work enjoyment went away. LPS was the Money Pit from Hades....the rest is in every headline since the merger....you can't buy a company and let them take you over. Case in point....and, I am taking the Voluntary Program. It's a shame that the company is where it is from how far ahead of every other company we were when I hired on. No excuse for it.....

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As far as I know, the educational donation matching program hasn’t been touched. I use it so I would of course prefer it stays (one last donation in January before I am separated, helps with fund I started).

I can understand your frustration because keeping it isn’t consistent with all the other cuts and if they value education, they would value their employees education, perhaps even more so because there is a more direct benefit to the company.

Without knowing the dollar figures behind either program, my best guess (slightly negative one....) is that the key difference between the programs is the educational match is more visible to outside. While they could save the dollars, it might hurt their image. Also not sure what higher level people might use the program and have a pet project at their university (which isn’t necessarily a bad thing if it helps students but another example of conflict of interest at higher levels (such as receiving large dividends at high management/executive levels).
Also none of those higher level individuals are probably using the educational reimbursement programs.

I like to give people (the company) benefit of the doubt but it is so very hard with this company. It doesn’t have to be this way if their leaders would just practice being more emphatic and show some self sacrifice to ensure people they want to do the right thing. The words coming out of their mouths just don’t carry the weight that a few simple actions could...

Heart breaking.....

I hope they are not still matching educational donations while denying educational reimbursement…

Your review is professional. There is no denying job losses were not layoffs in disguise though. To do so is allowing yourself to be deceived. The company deceived people. Closed door board meetings where this is openly discussed and then filtered down as a lie to hold morale and image. How can employees trust? This goes for many of not all large corporations by the way.
Also a huge thing is xom people are not better than other engineers I have worked with. Relax with that. It’s only good marketing and very arrogant. Pride comes before a fall, and I am seeing a giant wobbling. No reason xom could not be in front of the current energy situation, but leadership and the company lacked the vision. Look at shell and others zoom past. See ya, wouldn’t want to be ya is what they are saying. I was not surprised when xom was removed from the Dow.
Good riddance is the sentiment of many.

You're too nice. If that were to happen to me, I would throw in a bunch of nasty words. It would be more biting and spiteful. But then you're a level headed and intelligent engineer and you guys have generally been a nice bunch. You basically criticized management but not the company itself (basically you did not take the ship down with you like I would have).