Is morale at an all-time low?
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Morale is pretty bad my dudes
Haha. Troll, that’s you having conversations with yourself, playing both sides of issues. You ain’t smart enough to fool us. Trolls gonna troll. LOL
Nah, that had to be DW himself
I bet it’s the same guy who is claims that analysts expect the stock to get at $85.
Judging from a post here and many others on other threads, it seems that we now have a dedicated, full-time EM troll (@1orx+1a6cpwRI).
Finally the leadership is doing something to improve morale !
If there are some with high morale, they don't likely have morals.
It has been lower, though.
Like when JDR had his first dry hole.
Or when big-stick Teddy busted up the monopoly.
All of that was overcome long ago.
Yes, at an all time low, until tomorrow that is.
Don't know about morale, but based on this site, I conclude that mo–ns are at an all time high.
Anyone reading the book posted below, please post cliff notes. Too boring to sort thru.
Well, let’s see.
- The oil business (especially the upstream) will be contracting during the next decades
- EM has instituted a new system where the employees’ careers are a mix of musical chairs and gladiator games (commonly known as Hunger Games)
- Unlike any other time in decades, the technical employees’ careers are curtailed to 20 years of service or age 50, by layoff or PIPoff, because past that point the employees become “expensive”.
- The pension benefit has been cancelled in practice, as “regular” employees are systematically stoped from becoming RE or even NRE. Effectively retirement will be limited to “leadership material”
- Technical training is limited to online courses and the opportunities to learn from highly experienced peers have disappeared just like those peers themselves.
- The ranking system, a perennial sore at Exxon and ExxonMobil, has been totally debased by targeted NSI ranking to eliminate unwanted and “expensive” employees. The last vestiges of reasonable ranking (the 20% annual drop limit) have been eliminated to allow “sudden death” - PIPoff at the push of one button.
- The company sunk from the premier company in the oil industry to being second rate - at the bottom of the majors group.
- The top management absolutely refuses to assume any responsibility for the situation created in the last decade and instead awards itself endless rewards, officially “to motivate those who have to lead us out of this hole”. No word about penalties for those who led us in this hole.
- Increasingly arrogant, tone-death and outright antagonistic handling of the abysmal events of the last and current year; not only that another oversized PIP was recently announced, but we’re now supposed to believe it’s for our good, that it has nothing to do with personnel reduction. The rate of passing the PIP is touted as 90%, without mention that virtually everybody who was thrown into the oversized NSI last year is not with the company now. Adding insult to injury, with a sadistic streak, suggests that the leadership’s method of dealing with morale is a classic one: executions will continue on a daily base until morale improves.
Other than that, everything good.
Exxon employees not happy because Mobil employees not worthy of working for Exxon. Mobil employees not happy because, well, who wanted to go work at Exxon?
Depends which side of the fence you are on
Was lower in 1999 when Exxon swallowed up the great red horse Pegasus.
We survived the cuts, so we are happy. Covid c-ap is winding down, and it is happy, happy, joy, joy.
Things are good where I am. There were some that needed to go and they are now gone. There were a few cut that I think should not have been. But, I don't own the company and life goes on. I'm keeping my head down focused on my job. Last thing I need to worry about are those 'crying in their beer' wishing, hoping and dreaming that EM will change; those people are delusional. It will never happen.
Someone wrote that you should never stop looking for the next job. Excellent advice; known by those who have spent time working in this industry.
Have the Bobs arrived yet?
Hah, what morale? When was it high? When someone back stabbed you? When your supervisor demeaned you in front of everyone? or when your were told you really don't have any promotion potential because of your communication skills?
Not really. I'm working flat out and enjoying it. And, I work with plenty of engineers like myself. The money is great and working only every other month (as a 28/28 rotator) gives me plenty of time to relax, live where I want and even start a second non-oil field career on the side (which I have done). Over a +30 year period my career has gone from strength to strength. It's been a great ride. I am very fortunate indeed.
I feel bad for those that did not make it.
yes.
Nope. It’s all time high. Everyone has subscribed to we are ExxonMobil ideals and singing songs praising Darren Woods. Soon, we will have him inducted in the hall of fame.
Oh, sorry, that was just a dream.
Yes