If the company was trying to help us improve performance they would allow us to take training rather than put us on PIPs. What a joke. PIP is to reduce headcount nothing more. If they put you on PIP may as well walk. You are marked forever and will never recover.
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“ There were far fewer PIPs for medium to long service employees than we saw in 2020 and will soon see in 2021”.
Absolutely correct, and that could be a way for age discrimination lawsuits to be successful. In any individual case, it’s practically impossible to prove that an employee’s ranking was dropped arbitrarily into NSI territory, but if it’s possible to compare data from 2020/2021 with averages for the last 30 years then there will be a discrepancy that no HR or lawyer can hide.
@ort+1bm8fXzJ TG is that you? You will be tossed by the board soon too for your extreme incompetence!
Exxon will be the new revolving door. I am sad to see what has been done to this company.
@qnb+1bm8fXzJ That is right. And NO ONE can do anything about it. Pretty naive to believe that any of our efforts matters. I have given up and spent my time working from home, searching for jobs.
To perform rankings after a 20% staff reduction last year and then put 8% of the workforce in the PIP is an unbelievable poor decision. How can no one in middle management and HR challenge this decision? What do you think you are telling your employees?
This by itself tells you how mistakes like the XTO purchase and Kearl can happen. No one will stand up to even the poorest decisions. No work process revision will change this.
We are ExxonMobil
EM used to have good training a decade ago. Now there's basically nothing. I used to teach some classes that have since been cut.
It's different world in the oil patch now.
This is the best point ever. Can someone please make it at the next townhall/forum/whatever. I'm too d--n scared too
Sadly, this is a company where leadership and managment talks about empathy, respect, and dignity 24/7 but show none even once, what so ever. And their high egos continue to make them shout WeAreExxonMobil.
If you just want a demo of how badly the company has grown down the drain and continues that path just dial 18669669647 and hear the recording on the phone and try to get any help from IT via this channel. Simply #winning.
@OP The goal is to accelerate attrition, not improve performance.
Or, put another way; the attrition is the point.
The PIP is now used as a workforce reduction tool. A cheap way to layoff without paying a severance.
Before 2020, our philosophy was that lower ranked (relative performance) employees who were providing a valuable contribution (absolute performance) would be exempt from a PIP. There were far fewer PIPs for medium to long service employees than we saw in 2020 and will soon see in 2021.
Before 2020, employees who were pulling their weight but were overlooked in the political popularity contest known as ranking knew they had reasonable job security. Those days are gone and employees now have to seriously worry every year about their relative assessment in a continuously shrinking rank group.
Not a good feeling.
A pipe-pig is capital. The new ones are like a bit-coin a piece.
EM today is capital-intensive. People and their minds are valuable as a valve or pipe-pig.
Training an employee is like re-chroming a bolt on a shaky old refinery tank.
If they can't write it off - it ain't happening.
Exxon is never for training. They want their employees to feel trap and scared
I'm for PIP to weed out the under performers. But the way Exxon did things. They get rid of good talent and keep the f*** who don't know sh*t. Nepotism is one crazy system
PIP is the fastest way to get LAZY people to work! The fear of being the NSI candidate works! And the SHAME it brings is a motivation! At zero cost to the organization.
People are out greatest resource. We don’t want to invest in them though because we are in the extraction industry. We suck them dry and then discard them.
Couldn’t agree more!