Thread regarding ExxonMobil Corp. layoffs

Yes you probably will be PIP’d. No one at this company asks how can someone who was in the top can now suddenly be at the bottom. Either you were terrible and the previous 4-5 supervisors didn’t do their job and should be fired or the current supervisor can’t do their job and should be fired.

This company identifies two types of people for supervisor positions: the psychopath and the type with no backbone or imagination who go along with whatever their supervisor says - the useful id–ts. You are not allowed to think for yourself.

Spend the majority of your time looking for another job. If you are PIP’d and have a good offer from another company, take the PIL and be glad. If you don’t have a good offer, take the PIP but spend your time looking for another job, if you get one, quit showing up for work and then resign from EM after you have been working elsewhere.

You need to leave today. If you are whining to your kids that your boss is a meanie, you are the problem. You need to get a job as a bank teller or produce manager.

Leave as fast as you can. It does NOT get better!

I too was pip'd but it was the best thing that ever happened to me looking back on it. Thank God. All I can say is stay positive,have faith in your abilities, be honest, and update your resume!

At the dinner table, or watching a show, I don't talk about work in America with my kids.
It's the best place ever. That's what I talk about.
Maybe it will be by the time they start working.

Oh my, I can relate to this. I have had a lot of supervisors at EM for many years, all US-based, until in 2019 when my supv is based offshore. That supervisor was so mean to me and I ended up PIP'd. It all happened so fast like a blink of an eye, I did not see that coming. Yes you, supervisor offshore who PIP'd me, think of karma.

OP, similar happened to me last year. My then supervisor was so mean to me, particularly to me, and he had the guts to shame me in front of my entire team. He had asked me to call meetings where he had the opportunities to burn me as I helplessly engulfed in flames. He tortured me to the point I almost reported him to HR. And then a few weeks later, I was placed in the NSI bucket. When it was time for him to deliver my PADP results, everything he said was scripted. I recorded everything and he would not answer anything out of script. No emails, no further calls, every word he spoke after our last discussion came out like a script.
In summary, I believe that my boss was told to pick people to fire long before the actual ranking. It's possible that your boss is trying to figure out who's next to fire. I still have a bad taste in my mouth about my boss at XOM. He was a nightmare and I am so glad that my new boss at my new company is awesome and believes in me and I am now going above and beyond.

Never stop looking for the next job

OP hang in there ! I was in your situation not long ago, and experienced the same train of thoughts and events.

Being an EIT with 5 years of experience, I had a great career trajectory, work satisfaction and professional network working with Imperial oil in Canada. The Doomsday started when an incompetent person was made a team lead because of nepotism and shared cultural heritage with the right people. He was a grade-A narcissist, who was technically incompetent, lazy and couldn't stand anyone doing good work or being smarter than him. His incompetence and arrogance led to me being set-up to failure, because of his inability to define work with clarity and I constantly found myself playing mental scavenger hunt with him to read his mind. I didn't know earlier that he was vague and confusing because he was an empty vessel, who was just pretending to be an Einstein. He was also a habitual liar, manipulative, credit hog who stole others ideas/work and presented it as his own and is a SNAKE. Going to work felt like walking on eggshells and my mental and physical health went to drains. Approaching my supervisor who was technically inexperienced and an a–kisser, resulted in me being collectively mobbed, Gaslighted and I was harassed for 6 months to the point I started feeling s–c-dal. By November, 2020 I was praying everyday to be laid off during the staff reduction, which thankfully happened in December. I have zero regrets for standing up that b–tard against bullying and wanting to do my job with utmost honesty and dedication. "Some people grow tall by cutting others short", and sadly they are rewarded in corporate ladder with promotions. They may soar high now but they'll fail in life, definitely and miserably.

I'm glad you are self aware of what's going on and based on my personal experience here are some of my lessons and thoughts on how it's going to pan out:

1. The more you stand up to him, the higher you are increasing your chances of getting fired. Document everything !!
2. Approaching your higher-ups/HR for help will result in you getting fired. The management cartel run the show.
3. Your past performance doesn't matter, if you aren't ready to kiss up to your boss then I advise you to start dusting your resume.
4. Life will get back to normalcy and become beautiful again, once you distance yourself away from these narcissistic people.
5. Don't hesitate to quit your job to protect your mental and physical health. No job, company is worth it, certainly not this one.

I would rather take a low paying job with a decent culture than work for such toxic-narcissistic bosses ever again in my life, it just s—ed the energy out of me. I'll wish and pray good things for you. Good luck !

1 bad boss is one too many. The impact of working for a bad manager for conservatively 8 hours a day (let's not kid ourselves, we work long hours) is subjecting yourself to his behaviour for almost 1/3 of your time. Personally, you would have to weigh it against how this in impacting your personal life. Whatever path you choose, all the best!

You might be letting it get to you. Considering the supervisor is narcissistic and takes credit for work, they would try to maintain that status quo to their benefit..

OP, please please stop bowing to this lunatic. Start sticking up for yourself without doing anything that will get you fired for cause. Looking for a new job is scary but at least (if PIP'd and you pick PIL) you will get 3 paid months off to calmly focus your time on job search and getting a mental break. I assume you aren't going to end up homeless anytime soon; just a small financial hit at best, worse case tap 401k for some money to get by if things take a little longer than hoped. Maybe you won't be quite as fat with money in retirement but will still be comfortable either way. Reclaim your life and joy will follow. Society's obsession with maximizing profits (personal or business) has poisoned alot of minds (yes, profits are absolutely necessary, not a communist here but going 100% profit driven is not a great place to go when you torture yourself and/or others to get there).

I apologize in advance if your financial situation is more precarious than I would anticipate (I dont know your full situation, you might have 10 kids for all I know) but a vast majority of employees are not close to any financial ledge so that was the assumption for the above passage.

Good luck and sincerely wish you the best. Harder said than done but I hope you do something empowering because living at the will of a pyscho is no way to live......

OP - My two cents: Everyone in the company is afraid of being PIPed right now. The past year has made us all feel like we have zero control over our careers. Just keep doing the best you can and look for jobs outside of Exxon. Best of luck.