I get tired of hearing people commenting that everybody is replaceable and we should be happy to have a job. Yes, everybody is replaceable in the sense that you can get somebody younger and cheaper to fill that position, but their knowledge and experience are not replaceable. It's ridiculous to think that a 20-something with no work experience can provide the same quality of work and value as somebody who's been here for years/decades and has all the knowledge and know-how that come with years of working here. So I will not be grateful simply because I have a job since I know I'm worth more. And if they DO want to replace me, then it's their loss.
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Profits don’t grow on trees and $$$ don’t fall in corporate leaders’ laps just because they’re mean. Companies make profits by putting to work experienced, well-trained employees led by managers who accept reality and whose careers live or die by their results.
That’s exactly the opposite of EM, who is decapitating their work force and replacing it with dirt-cheap alternatives, led by an inbred management where incompetents sponsor worse incompetents.
The only thing that is not replaceable is profit$.
Everyone else is expendable as long as you aren't tied directly to $$$.
Sure you are, it’s obvious, that’s why you are on this site, bragging… whatever. How’s that Wal-Mart gig working out for you?
Exxon is replaceable. Like so many others, I replaced Exxon and have never been happier. And yes, making more money also and no BS.
When it comes to $$$, everyone is dispensible, not to mention "replaceable". Just look around what's going on. Honest workers are always just pawns ready to be sacrificed for the greater good of "Corporate America". Wake up, will you?
Individuals are replaceable, no matter how skilled they are. The entire experienced level of the employees, as a company-wide group, is irreplaceable. This is what the nasty management of past decades always understood and they always stoped the downturn bloodbath short of destroying that base.
Now we’re beginning to see an upturn and our geniuses want to go on with the oversized PIPs, because they seriously think that new hires and workers in low cost countries can successfully replace experienced workers.
So the entire oil industry, who for decades has payed much more for experienced workers, have been just a bunch of losers who overpaid for nothing. Fortunately our homegrown managerial talent figured this one out.
Everyone is replaceable. Proof of this is you replaced someone at one point and eventually someone will replace you even if it is just at your retirement.
@znn+1dpmM349 got it. History is the proof. After the big layoffs of the past the company survived and even prospered. If this time is different it will only be because of the transition away from fossil fuels not because of layoffs.
this comment will be downvoted because you guys don't like hearing negative things but here goes anyway:
many people who thought they were irreplaceable or "the company is screwed without me" have left the company....
... XOM is still here.
Either you’re replaceable or your role was unnecessary to begin with.
DW is very replaceable. No logical reason why he is still employed.
I read a press release related to Exxon yesterday (I'm purposefully being obtuse to keep myself out of trouble), and there are glaring accounting issues in the press release. This is a prime example of brain drain from the layoffs (i.e. not everyone is replaceable), and is quite frightening as a shareholder.
In a lot of cases age does not matter. Especially in software industry. I have been working with a lot of 20 something people who has more knowledge, passion and experience than older 30 40 something folks.
Lol what are you smoking?
Younger employees are willing to work more unpaid overtime than veterans. Also, the market doesn’t care how highly you think of yourself. Midwest engineering job: $75-80k for your experience.
People can be replaced by 2-3 more people
In Annandale PPLE we can always afford to do the job twice., what a joke overhead outrageous.
Everyone is replaceable for the right amount of money.
It really depends what you’re doing. I’ve seen some new hires automate a role away that people with 20 years experience were promoting as some technically challenging assignment when they had it before. I’ve also seen new hires make critical errors. Sometimes experience helps, but also sometimes looking at a problem totally differently can help too.
Yes, you are definitely worth more than a new hire in this company. But are you worth just as much in another company? If you get PIP'd, you should be more concerned if you are able to get a new job with similar pay, than if the company suffers for losing you.