Management please read this... and also everyone read this

I was getting excellent feedback from all knowledgeable others, but did not agree with EMRE and my bosses who were lacking experience and were making mistakes. ExxonMobil is the only company I know where there are are so many SLSs and FLSs etc who know nothing about the area they are supervising. In other companies, to become a manager/supervisor, you are an expert in the area. In ExxonMobil, a SLS is a young kid with a college mascot on table and college football flag in the window supervising experts twice the age. The SLSs keep asking silly and useless questions, check badge, timesheet etc. A tremendous amount of wasted time and effort.

I got PIPed suddenly with no notice after getting excellent feedback from all my customers, I decided to take the 3 months and get the hell out. I got a nice job in 2 weeks, so got 2.5 months double pay. Making 12% less salary overall but not bad at all.

In my new job, no one checks me, I am working from home. No one asks me silly question that my SLS used to ask me. No repetitious and excessive meetings, no unnecessary meetings, period!

About to go on my first travel trip for the company - I could use my Expedia account to book hotels and use my new corp AmEx card to pay my Expedia.

Timesheet is quick and easy.

In my new company I am able to be 95% effective doing real work and 5% goes for admin stuff. At ExxonMobil, I was spending 50% on real stuff and 50% on useless stuff - useless meetings with SLS that new nothing and was much younger, LPS, LPO, NLI and the garbage useless stuff, repetitious safety meetings, meetings held by people just to make their presence felt and known.

So half my pay at ExxonMobil was wasted. 100% of SLS and manager time is wasted. I can tell you, you can run ExxonMobil without any SLS, without any department head and without all the cronies making a fat salary.

ExxonMobil management - what part of this do you not understand? You should be ashamed of yourself - all your metrics point you are the worst of the oil companies, your numbers are the very worst of the worst.

How can you be all so stupid? It is so easy - do what other companies are doing - look at Air Products, Linde, Praxair, Cheniere, and many others. They do not have any of these silly overheads.

I feel so relaxed and happy in my new job. I am so happy I do not have to wake up in the morning and think of my SLS and the terrible high pressure unhealthy atmosphere.

If you get PIPed, not to worry, you will be happier - there are many jobs out there - may not be in the same area but you can get a job.

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I'm leaning towards your a more of a creeper than a "positive motivator." I can feel the positivity oozing from your posts.

The failed worker comes back to tell the managers how to run itself. Pure Brilliance? From which business school did they teach you that?

The fact that you had to bring up the boat, twice, shows how little a person you really are. I bet you are physically very little, aren't you?

Please find a different hobby than brining children out on your boat, creep.

@1jmh really you just "haha'd" someone because you got more likes on some sh– board that's full of bitter people? Child, you're the one needed to be flushed. mission accomplished.

Please send Darren Woods a thank you card! Remember the forum that he was suggesting Chevron is like Enron! Now.. looks who has dirt in his face..

Agree with your comments. It was not like this when I first started work with EM 30+ years ago.

(Even though I have been laid off under this exercise, I do not wish EM to collapse, so please do not condemn my feedback as has been done for others. I am just sharing my honest observation and believe on what I have seen and I have spoken out in the past and that could be one of the reasons, I was ‘picked’ for this exercise. I apologise to to those who think I want to get back at the Company for doing this to me.)

Take care and stay safe.

“In ExxonMobil, a SLS is a young kid with a college mascot on table and college football flag in the window supervising experts twice the age.“

So very true and very well put. In many instances, the GHs have no idea about the area they are leading and DHs are in the same situation. Besides, they have kids as GHs and DHs who have no idea about what they are talking. It’s a joke!

the problem is not specific to EMRE. It exists all over XOM and thats why this company is doomed unless it changes how/who gets promoted to leadership positions.

At one point, I thought I could make a difference - ESPECIALLY around process improvement. Time and time again I was proven wrong. It is easier to add more steps than to really understand the process first and streamline it. The result? A very inefficient and time consuming process. Time and time again, employees are wasting time on useless process instead of business value work.

After a decade of trying, I got tired of hitting roadblocks. I got tired of getting upset because there was no support. I gave up. Now, I just do as I am told.

If at some point upper management proves to me (through actions) that they are really interested in making some significant changes and are willing to do their jobs and follow through with whatever the vision/goals/purpose it, I am MORE THAN WILLING to do my part to make a difference.

Upper management - you have people willing to do the work if you are willing to do your part and intervene when groups with different management lines are unable to align. That is where you can do your part in making XOM a better company.

@sml:
YES! Experienced hire here. Before XOM, I worked @ another Fortune 100 Company.
Engineers > me > boss > VP. XOM has 2-3 layers that need to be gutted.
I will preempt those that will be responding that I should go back. To which I respond: No. G. F. Y.
Work to make the company better. I have in my 10+ years here.

OP was true, there shouldn't be more than 2 management layers between an individual contributor and a VP. Many outside companies run like that. When we make money, we can afford to have more layers, but we are not!

Many of our organizations currently have 4 layers between an individual contributor and a VP.

In a more efficiently run company, EMRE wouldn’t even exist.

Supervisor positions are wasteless. They don’t know how to do anything. Exxon needs to go back to making managers eats their paycheck like everyone else and doing an actual job

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Sounds like the same ignorant poster. You must not be so happy when you cane to lay-off board to make fun of people. It shows what a classless dksucker you are. there were quite a few of you brown nose r—ds here back in August. Half of you probably just got cut can’t wait for the next round when karmas smacked your a–

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Your comment shows your ignorance. The Exxon way has been detrimental for the company for quite a while and it’s showing. And putting someone in a supervisor position because your buddies and promoting the girl living with him that can’t do much of anything because hey your all buddies

Oh please your just full of underhanded bs

LOL, sounds like someone could not handle the Exxon Way, got run off, and came back to b–ch about it! You failed to adapt. Take it as a learning for your new job. But, it sounds like not much adapting is required at your new cushy soft job. Just the way you like it, nice and easy with nobody bothering you with stuff you can't be bothered with lol.

My goodness, the cancerous whining continues, even after they leave.

Obviously, OP, you haven't moved on, and it bothers you to this day that Exxon axed your a$$.

Or are you trying to tell me you came here to rant in order to improve things at ExxonMobil, because you still care so very deeply about the future of this fine corporation?

Maybe the sup thought you whined too much and were a negative influence on the organization? Maybe that's why they pip'd your a–. I mean, it's called a JOB. You, now, a place you go to WORK, even if that WORK included meetings you deem useless! They are paying you to go to the useless meetings!

Have a great life at your 12% less income job!

Us long-term Hats did not even get the opportunity to be PIP'd. In my case a younger engineer who was not a Supervisor, but was the one I did all the technical work for, let me know that he needed me to finish up and bring my laptop. Turned it in and badge. He said sorry and I was done. You folks have it so easy.

So very true, congratulations on finding a new job.

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