For the past weeks, ExxonMobil is hiring hundreds if not thousands of new employees in Brazil, Argentina, Malaysia, and India. The job posts are still on, go look them up. These are writing on the wall.
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It's highly likely that those massive hiring events outside of US are for those replacing the PIPd or laidoff employees. We need manpower and as we've seen in another post, many are working 12 to 16 hours a day.
Controllers group beware. I heard Caterina and cj talking of more cuts to come by June to our group
I've also had much experience with Curitiba folks.
They are generally good-natured, talented and adaptive.
Their work environment is frankly horrible however.
The pecking order of alpha/beta/gamma is evident - and often reverse of reality.
And owning up to a mistake in this environment is not possible.
Learning from mistakes - that is for losers.
So - instead - there is never a mistake.
That said - ExxonMobil is pretty low on the scale for college graduates in south Brasil.
Better jobs and treatment is everywhere.
(Based on 2018-2019 experience - I lived there half-time.)
Curitiba is quite poor, most of the EM employees there want just one thing: to be able to travel to the US as frequent as they can and eventually becoming an expat. They are very friendly and easy to work with though. But if they are taking over my job and kicking me out ... heck
Yeah I am confused why Brazil. Hungary, Israel, Korea - good.
The expat advisors in Buenos Aires just got canned and replaced with cartus mobility advisors because the level service coming out of Arg BSC s—s!
Those people were terrible at their job.
Also, the GBC locally grown Leadership teams has been raised with the same distorted mechanism applied to HQ and good luck if you count on them for a change in culture. 90% of them are generalists non-technical folks all controls and PPT visibility driven jumping every 18months from a successful project to another. Unemployable outside EM. I am one of them.
To a lesser extent they are moving jobs also to GBCs in Prague and Budapest. I see many posters here are non-GBC folks. Don't be fooled, at GBC we are having a slightly better chance to grab a new job, growth and perhaps one day go back to travel for business, BUT many factors will undermine the stability of the workforce there. Lack of rewards on top of already low salaries, other more promising and healthy employers, job pressure - remember that your CL 25 job if going to be given to an Argentinian CL 23 if lucky
Need to catch the ball when the cards all fall..
At least in EMIT there are big attrition problems in those countries as well... lots of good people leaving for tech and finance companies
This has been going on for a long time, many great employees in the GBC’s even if not all are good.
Have you seen the quality of Brasil resources? You can’t count on them to do a proper job and good luck to your projects if you ever get them in your team. Move to Bangkok. They are
humble and hardworking. Brasil use their labour laws to give all sort of excuse to avoid doing work.
A little surprised at Brasil and Argentina growing.
They've gotten pricey down there - and labor laws, etc.
Yup. Just like the many companies before us that undertook this initiative, send jobs over seas to realize that the quality s—s and what is returned is no good.
The irony is the I doubt the leaders of this company are scrambling for the lowest cost option in their daily lives. They buy high quality items because of the quality that comes with it. Apparently they don't believe the same is true for their workforce.
Also, the irony in the push to return employees back to the work place. Don't these id–ts realize that outsourcing means employees are working remotely?
You get what you pay for. Wait and see.
American labor is way too expensive. The management feels just as bad as you do for your job loss. The great leadership at the company is just as concerned for the American way of life as you are. Many opportunities exist in business ownership for those willing to create an Amway Distribution business. The management is confident that you will not only survive, but thrive in these hard times.
Indeed, tell tale of what's to come for the remaining US-based. Good luck everyone.