Thread regarding ExxonMobil Corp. layoffs

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Many Indian companies or even offshore centers of American European companies do that. They are not shameless like Exxon in times of tragedy.

They take care of employees and also take responsbility of their families. Employees are key stakeholders.

New hires are still coming in bulk at BTC, don’t know real numbers but to guess, at least 50 every month. There will be 200 campus hires joining soon as well. BTC soon will be 2500. All these numbers make the employees at BTC sick as well. Clearly we will start getting laid off through unethical PIP and then country studies. The sad part is there is no real work and the management wants to make themselves good through headcount. Less people can do the same amount of work. The reality is not very different from what we hear and read on this enlightening website. The management doesnt care for anonymous feedback as they don’t have the courage and they have their cronies filter questions. Yammer and zoom call visibility is considered the most important.

I hope all employees read this site to know true reality. Attrition is increasing but we are just a number for this company and BTC is a sweatshop. This also leads to increased expat headcount, who have been useless and demotivating for employees in India with their ‘Houston’ culture. I guess that drives our cost up, but the employees dont benefit. We have been told salaries will improve but it has not happened. We have asked for aome very basic benefits but it has not happened. The ‘leaders’ just mumble words and disappear. They are not concerned about employees at all, let there be no doubt about that. No ‘foreign travel’ as promised in your campus presentations and interviews. No expat positions just few cheap rotations. No raises. There is no real benefit from continuing to stay here.

As for the culture for which these expensive expats are brought here, please keep your culture with you because it is clearly rotten and you have no right to come and ruin it here. A lot of companies have their offices in India and its sad that Exxon’s internal culture is so bad that our expats dont realise how pathetic they are. All these RTD URC supervisors sent here are far from below average Indian managers in any other companies. They are so insecure, always trying to poke their nose into everything to make it worse, always licking a-s of their masters/managers with no original thought. They are the worst part of being at BTC, especially the Indian ones, so unqualified and yet they are here, getting paid 20 times more than local employees.

Modeling center supervisors advisors managers this one is for you. You are amongst the worst human beings that most of us have seen, please leave. Attrition is highest in our center because of this filth you bring along in the name of culture. And a special mention to the center manager who encourages this behavior of a-s licking and sycophancy. He sees nothing beyond himself, and then these other expats mimick him. It is just gross to watch.

If only they could be more human and take care of the existing employees first. Pay us fair market salaries and then we can tolerate the BS. Our work quality will always be better than what people in Houston do, we have all gone through a harder life to get where we are. If there are gaps its because we don’t get trained enough and are always handed over messed up things from decades ago to fix. Or we run into some hostile employees who don’t want to share or teach us.

We want to genuinely help, but the leadership is uninspiring and sickening. Treat us with respect.

What about all of the new hires that are showing up in a few months @BTC , is that still the plan? ,I’ve been told there are 80-100 maybe more planned.

Didn’t the same thing happen last year?

@BTC Expat, if you really think ExxonMobil being in in India has nothing to do with low cost you’re too far gone to reason with. Perhaps the expat benefits combined with the joy of being lord of the labor camp has diluted your thinking.
India cannot compete with the skill set and experience at the business units and central HQ. India can compete via lower cost and quantity.

I am one of the expats that was forcefully evacuated from the BTC office over the past two weeks.
Yes forcefully evacuated! All the expats were initially asked if they would leave or stay if given a choice. All chose to stay in India with the people we are working with. What actually happened, may never be clear, but I speculate lawyers probably got involved and deemed it is too big of a litigation risk for the corporation to have expats in the country when the corporation could no longer guarantee them access to medical facilities if an emergency arose. And with less than adequate notice everyone was forced to leave behind pets, and belongings and get on a plane.

Every expat I know is currently fighting for local India employees to have access to medical treatment. Also for the company to support medical needs like inoculations and medical insurance access for parents. Change like this takes effort. Continually bring these issues up at all the company forums.

It's been a lot harder to support local India employee's, and local India citizens basic needs after having been forcefully evacuated. I continue to maintain strong connections with local employees and non-employees every day of the week (yes even weekends)

Since end of March I've already spent over 10 lak from my own personal savings helping to provide local Indians with oxygen, transfusions, hospital beds, medical supplies, prescription medicines, food, and much more, currently the rate of my spend towards directly helping India citizens during the current crisis is averaging at 1 lak per day.

You might stop and ask yourself, why am I doing this? what is in it for me? The only reason is because I love Bharat !! I personally get no financial remuneration, no recognition, no accolades.
My joy comes from simply knowing that I am doing the right thing to help my friends and neighbors, and acquaintances and their families. I know for a fact that my decisions and actions have helped save many lives already and will continue to do so!

This is the same reason I asked to be assigned to the launch and build of an EM India office. I truly believe that India can help shape the future of ExxonMobil into something better than it is today, it has nothing to to with low cost. It is entirely to do with experience, passion, capability, knowledge, innovative spirit, relentless persistence towards goals, teamwork and a vision for something better than each and everyone of us has today!. India has a community spirit that EM can benefit from. On the contrary India also has reputation for individuals not wanting to get involved to make a difference when it really matters. It can be viewed as too much of a personal and family risk to get directly involved. In fact I see a lot of each of these attitudes and passion in the posts here.

Yes there are definite weaknesses in the current implementation and practice of EM culture and behaviors, everyone on the country, site, and local leadership teams readily admits to that.. What many do not realize is that the whole corporation is currently being asked to go through this culture and behavior change, it's not just the BTC being indoctrinated to EM culture. The BTC is viewed as part of the solution to solve the larger EM problems.

My ask is that everyone with a passion to see EM have that different and better culture, actually works towards making it happen! The various Leadership Team's are incapable of "doing" much of anything, they are very capable however of supporting employee led studies and initiatives to improve the workplace, and the company. We also all know none of the local employees will appreciate a heckler in their ranks, however they will all stand in support behind a local grassroots leader or leaders for changes. Of this, we should all have no doubts!

Great posts on this thread, reflects reality. Can we make it as popular as the Singapore thread( tough ask) so people can voice their concerns and get attention of management..

Unfortunately unethically manipulated slido and stupid forums dont create environment of real feedback, just fake ‘leader worship’

The OP is not accurate. The close has been down to 5% occupancy for a month and expats were mandated to leave over the past week. Many people haven’t been in the office for months.

Indians who went back as expats to BTC in India were the worst of the worst. Creepy greedy fellow.

Also in addition to Surface management, the Global Projects group, the good for nothing folks who boast they are the most important link in the chain, is growing so fast in India through cr---y hiring.

Projects has the worst ‘young’ supervisors being sent to India. Not trained at all, just good at speaking( I guess that is all you need to make a fool of the company). They are creating non sense work and justifying their existence.

‘Global’ Projects BTC is an example of why our company is a failure as compared to competition. Their expat supervisors are supposed to be the cream? Extremely low standard of people. Stop sending CR-P to India, otherwise this low cost center will implode as well.

These people then select our future leaders from locals, which continues this cycle of toxicity. quite clearly the one they already picked in GP is a brown noser arrogant fool, just like our expat ‘leaders’.

And if the pay is frozen this year on top of our already low salaries, just wait and watch your false sense of ‘successful BTC’ by boasting of high head count fail too.

Need real leaders who inspire, People see through you lies

What nice read this morning. Let me help by suggesting keep Rice in Houston. I'm tired of hearing his poem, prefabricated meaningless corporate vocabulary pulled from a bag, 'fireside chat', fake caring messages. All of this is uninspiring, childish, nonsense, and unprofessional behavior. Why is attrition high? It's you Sir...look in the mirror and you will see the causal factor. Don't study anymore. Most experience hires are waiting to leave because of bad management.

BTC is a low cost alternative so that the company does not have to pay US benefits to them. Because it is a developing country healthcare issues are terrible. Please don't mix your social issues with benefits the company provides. Please work them with your government.

Just because someone gives you a job does not mean they have taken you and your whole extended family's responsibilities.

At BTC, each employee is just a number to the management ‘leaders’. These leaders hold forums to ask them questions and have their cronies weed out any real questions. This kind of toxic culture has been created by Pahul Takal to only listen to sycophants and flatterers. He gets excited when people praise his foolishness.

Any real issues are ignored and sugarcoated with lies like ‘we hire the best.’ You id--t, the best in India don’t even consider joining this unethical liar company who has no sense of market reality for talent. The truth is out there. Few that got here because of your lies during interviews see through the BS and will leave as soon as they can.

Like all their systems and processes hiring is broken and these filthy managers justify it by saying ‘you are not a good fit’, instead of fixing it.

The lead manager doesnt have common sense to behave like a real leader and basically acts like a mafia boss. Its very easy to spot how other ELT members dance to his tunes in his presence even if they have their own views.

Just like Barren Goods, all other managers/ fake ‘leader’ who dance to his tunes, need to leave or atleast be publicly shamed for thier behavior.

Atleast their egos will get destroyed and they can’t sleep in peace. Karma will get you.

I will not name or even initial any individual.
The list would simply be too long.
It is not this company alone.
Imported Overseers are eunuchs, toads, pimples.
Internal Overseers are more evil, but the same.

Canadians - I must say - are good people.

Well, tata.

The worse are the Indians who went to other counties for citizenship, then came back to India as highly paid expats and have now evacuated for the second time.

Didnt America experience the same thing? Check your obvious biases

No worries, we have Naveen Shukla and the team here busy promoting the fancy world renowned cafeteria rather than caring for people. And the local HR team here thinks this is like a storm, weak employees will get blown away and strong ones will emerge as leaders. Pathetic! The Houston termites named expats have brought their rotten culture here and rotted local leaders to act like them. Shame to local leaders for mimicking or trying to follow Houstons individualistic and toxic culture here in India where we inherently have a collectivistic culture helping each other.

The whole country is filled with filth. The infrastructure is weak. The hospitals are nasty. What do you expect from us? Baby you while we die? What nonsense! Are you suggesting that the company to evacuate you to US?

@fgo+1aR0yLV7 So what point are you trying to make rockstar?

I work with a lot of people in the Bangalore office. All are working from home and have been for the entirety of the pandemic.

The offices in Bangalore are closed for all…

"Our number analysis and risk tolerance tells RTO is safe from next week, don't travel back to your home states" - said the idi*t and his ESG entourage a month back

"I have a poem for this tough times" - said the dashboard dog with the white saviour complex

"Vaccine shortage, increasing cases and deaths in India" - said the rest of the world

"Will EM support vaccinations" - asked the under paid employees with their family in mind

"Many hospitals in India" - said the idi*t without a heart

"Can we get reimbursed for a chair and a second monitor" - asked the college hires with an aching back and no salary treatment till date

"No. Our salaries are competitive" - said the dashboard dog

Then came the exodus

"Those leaving don't fit EM culture" - said the idi*t with pride

"Cosmic karma will rebalance this struggle" - cursed the employees in mind

If Indian employees are being made to work from office while expats are evacuated I am disgusted. All should be treated the same when it comes to safety.