Thread regarding ExxonMobil Corp. layoffs

OP a well articulated woe!

One option is to work hard and possibly find a new career and be happy by virtue of your talent, passion and thoughts making a difference.

The other option is to sign up for one of the most useless online management or data science course from Stanford, MIT, Harvard, Berkeley etc.’s money making schemes that they have tailored for ultimate losers. With this, you can start touting stupid online class activities on LinkedIn, self proclaim yourself a leader, an innovator etc. and tag all the managers. This will allow one to stay in the gutter as a laughing stock, but make one feel like they are useful.

I’ve seen talent metrics and historically most attrition has been from people at the 12-15 year range. I haven’t seen newer dashboards on them yet but I’d be curious if that’s changed in any way

10-20 year IT employee here, also ranked 1st/2nd quintile but never “top 10”, have not been promoted in several years. I know I still have quite a lot of room left in my current CL salary band, but as far as I’m concerned their message has been received and I’m focused on looking for outside positions at this point.

In the same boat here. I am consistently top ranked and even so, I don't see much promise in my career in the near to mid future. I've already planned which new skills to pick up (programming) and I am prepared to take a pay cut once I get the credentials to switch jobs. I have my investments and passive income as back up anyway. We all had 1 year to plan our exit plan, so there's no excuse.

I'm well ranked but not top quint and in the 10-15 yr boat - agree strongly with you. No one external will come close to matching my pay (and I've been applying) if I leave because my skills are all EM-specific garbage. There is zero career runway for me to stay as there's still loads of 20-30 yr execs stuck in the pipeline above me, and when those folks eventually retire they won't replace them with execs. If I were 5 years younger I'd be gone. If I were 5 years older I'd just hang on for the pension. Quite demoralizing.

Always have a plan B if sh** goes south. With EM you have to be worried that your job will get replace by a contractor or move you to a state your family don't want to do. At the current culture at EM, you might be wary of helping out the college kids. They might replace you since they will bend more to progress their careers and they will do it at the fraction of the senior salary