Enlightenment: Darren Woods ne ExxonMobil ki "Tak Dhina Dhin" kar di hai.
Translation of BTC message: Mr. Woods and his cronies have clobbered ExxonMobil to shreds by beating everything ("musical notes") with their iron drumsticks.
If you have differing opinion, please feel free to share.
The company has lately excelled in hiring, retaining and promoting some of the worst, deranged or incompetent people and BTC is the same. If anyone tells you that a graduate from some random university in Pune or Mumbai who cannot find job elsewhere is a good recruit – don't believe such lies.
Of course things are bad, there is no motivation and morale is very low. Us and them mentality in management, few experienced hires alreqdy starting to imitate use the ‘Houston’ language to impress expats, sadly that will always be the case and cant be helped.
The management needs wake up, only metric is growing headcount, enouee sentiment is bottom of the list. But , best solution is find an opportunity and leave, nothing will change to be honest.
Whats the ground reality at BTC? Is it really that bad? I
know people are not paid a lot and false claims of hiring the best are far from true.
BTC Managers are wannabe copies of DW leadership style. Despise wmployees, pay them like sh–t, put them through a timewaste assessment process and expect loyalty.
If you are reading this ‘managers’, all your poor strategy fill fall on its dace and you will have nowhere to hide, time will make things level. You will pay for what you are doing, one way or the other.
Respect local employees, they are the reason YOU exist.
He is down to 26% approval on Glassdoor.com
Refreshing to see well articulated thoughts such as yours on the site. Thank you.
Many were looking for signs we were all in this together but only saw through words and deeds there are the haves and have nots. Being treated as a lesser or second class citizen did not win any hearts and minds . If Darren is as smart as he thinks he is he should realize he would be more successful by winning over and motivating the workforce rather than despising us.
Someof the decisions under Darren’s tenure are better than Rex’s and Lee’s. What frustrates me (and probably a lot of others, consciously or unconsciously) is Darren’s palatable dislike of the average employee. You see it every time he speaks to his employees: “The leadership team is smart, and informed, and they deserved to get where they are today. Everyone else is privileged and whiny and not that smart. We don’t understand the big issues. We shouldn’t question the weight of the big decisions.” Tell me he doesn’t ooozzz this sentiment with every word?
And guess what, most of us understand these issues as good or better than the leadership team....we just flipped the coin wrong a couple times in our career...didn’t draw the lucky straw....or chose to contribute technical expertise. The constant super–subtle digs at our intelligence, ownership, understanding, and company care is why people dislike Darren. Maybe we broke his trust with those first anonymous slido questions? I don’t know... I tell my older child all the time “You are supposed to be older and more mature. You need to set the example.” I would give Darren the same exact talk. Those slido questions were criticizing a dinosaur culture...they were not a personal attack. Bury the ego hatchet and be part of the solution and not part of the problem.