A few threads have been started on the imperial page sharing that visible minorities and experienced hires were targeted by the layoffs....is the experience the same across the circuit?
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Rumour has it HR launched an investigation into ESC since 9 of 11 people let go this year were minorities. (imperial)
In the 100+ years of history of the company, how many minority CEOs has it had?
Google, Microsoft & IBM - and many other such companies have minority CEOs with foreign accents!
Firstly this post is referring to Imperial, so all the American and XOM employees can stfu. As an imperial employee, I have seen this directly and had it pointed out to me by multiple coworkers on separate occasions. Seen and heard about it at the Ontario refineries and Calgary.
Have never seen a VP who had non-American accent - except those that are with British, French or Australian accents.
Yeah, we are told in EADS to focus on communication skills. In other words, when your boss says you need to improve your communication skills, you are screwed.
My background - Asian immigrant, came to US as masters student at a top school, after masters had a stellar progressive career at 2 other fortune 100 companies, joined XOM as experienced hire.
I can tell you racism is real at XOM and it happens in a subtle way. For example, I am told that my presentation skills to management are not up-to-par. While I constantly see white colleagues get kudos for shoddy presentations.
I have realized that their problem is with the messenger (not the message). In previous companies, this was never brought up as a “gap” for me.
Look at out senior management. It
is lily white. To avoid embarrassment, they have recently forced minimal diversity for window dressing. We are paying the price for this lack of diversity. Inbred ideas at the management level are driving this company into the ground.
On the contrary, look at senior management at some of the progressive (and more successful) companies like Amazon, Google and Microsoft. It is so diverse and inclusive. That acceptance of diverse ideas, approaches and thoughts shows in their superior results.
I was an experienced hire. White. Fired by a black person.
I don’t think race had anything to do with the layoff. But experienced hires may have been targeted. Due to higher salaries maybe? Not sure.
Asian here in decent, and was let go. The others in my team who were let go are also minorities. Well to tell you honestly, my team is very much diverse, so I am not sure if race was a factor here. Don't think so.
As an experienced hire coming in to this company I've seen the race card played both ways so much at XOM. One group claims you have it easy if you're a minority and the other claims it's a good ole white boy club. Very bizarre to see the divide here and it be such an inflammatory issue. I've worked at other US O&G companies and ones that would probably be considered more old school (i.e. West Texas independents) and never saw the strong rhetoric on both sides. People just did their jobs and got promoted on merits. I can only guess that the ranking plays into this and people do not want to be told they are lower than a colleague on a corporate depth chart. I think the process is ridiculous in the modern workforce and it obviously leads to the toxicity that we've all seen.
I saw the opposite. Majority of folks let go in my group were white male
I had the opposite experience. All employees between 1-3 years experience except for 1 were laid off.
All the latino geos were laid off. ALL.
The lay-off list had to pass the legal test to make sure minorities were not overly targets so I highly doubt minorities could have been targeted.
Legal would not have tested the lists for experienced hires. It is likely that experienced hires were judged “not a good long term fit” and let go in disproportionate numbers.
Where would you count a minority experienced hire? On both lists?
Nothing against minorities or whites, however instead of slinging mud, may be one should try to find out the statistics before and after. Unfortunately XOM has history of doing this in the past (e.g. URC vs. Asian employees).
8 of the 10 let go my in group are visible minorities
Everyone affected in our team was an experienced hire
i too have noticed a lot of minorities were targeted.
i think it’s a consequence of the managers choosing the lay-offscwere protecting their friends (which statistically weren’t minorities)
I can definitely concur with that. You pull a list of those that were payed off and the answer will jump at you. From my numbers >60% were minorities
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