This is not an attack on the poster from a few threads below, I'm just amazed that anybody has been here that long. I joined about five years ago and if I stay another five I'm going to consider that a success. I think things must have been very different than they are today to be willing to stick around for that long. Not to mention, to be able to build a career here for that long. That's impossible these days.
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Just do your job well and you'll be considered for something new. There is more good than bad in the company. Yes it's been a very difficult 16 months but it will get better - always does.
@lri
Spot one - Plugged pipeline caused the smart ones to quite, creating an age-gap that pulled-up more average performers into star roles. These folks are now running the company.
In the US, this age gap was well recognized and discussed, because behind came another plugged pipeline when ExxonMobil over-hired 20-somethings in the early 2000s. That age-group is still over-clustered, leading to great employees getting stuck behind the pack (and too much politicking by the ones that raise.)
Below that is another huge gap…..and attrition is making it look like a respective desert. Bottom cut, top leaving on their own. People who just stick it out and have a pulse may make it to the top of what I worry is a sinking ship.
Either we need consistent hiring ever year (regardless of cycle)…or need to start hiring and promoting outside experience into the gaps. ‘Promote from within’ may not be the best approach.
It was once truly a GREAT company to work for.
Ever notice that everyone on stage bragging about the company is older. They went around the world, had exciting careers, TMO took care of everything, exxon is a career for life attitude.
I've only been at ExxonMobil a couple years but I'm wondering if we work for the same company. Everything is a mess, can these leaders really be this disconnected from the general staff?
I can only conclude that the ExxonMobil I was expecting when I hired on did indeed existed at some point but that point was gone before I got here. Now it's just a regular company in many respects but with much higher expectations of the workforce.
Things were very different long ago.
The day you got hired at Exxon was the day you knew your whole life would be ok.
This is so evident in EMIT, the lower number of senior positions doesn’t match well with how fast they promoted their “yes men/yes women” to higher CLs, which has clogged the talent pipeline for a decade or more while “leaders” bounce around various management and fake technical positions with no end goal in sight.
If I am still here in 5 years, I seriously fu---d up my life.
Hope you can make it 40 years.
I started at age 17.9 and left at 58.3. What a ride.
Well said. :)
When 15 years ago I started a senior guy close to retirement and very respected in his role told me that there was a generation ho-e in all European affiliates but especially in Brussels. There were a lot of 60something and some under 40. In between almost nothing. He explained that with the fact that as the oldies were blocking the access to the senior roles, the brilliant youngsters at about 35/40 years left for better opportunities. And then his prophecy was: all those remaining are the d-mbest one and we are making them all supervisors and managers as no one else is around that age. Now, those folks are indeed still here in their mid 50/60 and make our great management :)