I am at one of the most vile disgusting sites in the companies arsenal. No one is friendly or helpful. The groups are formed and they are against me. I tried to help out another group and was told that In was bothering them and my help was not needed. I just attended a talk with some of the VPs and they mentioned how well the site worked together. I don t even think they believed the lies they were spewing because it was half hearted. Getting simple things done is impossible as there are roadblocks everywhere. Employees are never accessible and are always hiding. Emails are never answered and phone calls as well. I am getting blamed for the slow progress of projects and told I need to pester these special people to get things done. Hate the game not the player. I told the project leads it was out of my control and that the system was to blame. i told the managers about the disfunction and they just laughed it off. I don't think anyone wants it to change. Those in power definitely don t want it to change because they would lose their power. They are power hungry megalomaniacs. I can see their want and lust for more power and a more powerful position. This disfunction is across the whole company. I observed an US based engineer withholding information from an Indian engineer in order to make them fail. Even between upstream and downstream groups there is no working together. Everyone is out for themselves. Employees hold on to knowledge and do not share information with each other. These are the people that are supposed to look after my safety and well being. I watch out for all the stabbers at this toxic dump. They just rolled out a new safety PSMS and it looks like it is a way to get employees in trouble. I love terms like safe zone. I don't say s hit in any meetings now. Everything I say was used against me so I will say nothing. I see nothing and hear nothing just like sgt Schultz. It is nor WAEM it is IAEM. All for ones self and nothing for all. I do not know how exxon stays in business. If the investors knew what went on here they would pull their money out. It is a true s hit show. The site I am at rhymes with the TOWN from mama's family. 2 years and counting till my freedom and I can't wait.
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It's a leadership situation. I've worked in EM facilities where the cooperatiion and comraderie were great. Others were like a junior high school with cliques and pecking orders. Keep in mind that these are planned this way by HR and executive leadership. Some teams are assembled to obtain more detailed data on behavior in difficult or varying conditions. Others teams are not installed that way and actually work professionally. The differences are part of the EM culture
Your coworkers are your competitors.
If your boss is same CL and you do not have a sponsor, you cannot get ranked higher.
If your boss sees you as a threat, and you do not have a sponsor, your boss will drop you in ranking.
If you are great person and help your colleagues succeed, you will never move up.
Forced ranking blocks every proposed cultural improvement program but EM Execs refuse to change the system.
Annual performance improvement plan (PIP), Needs Significant Improvement (NSI), and Needs Improvement (NI), will not end until we drop below 50,000 regular employees worldwide and we have outsourced all non-critical technical and financial job descriptions in the ten high-cost countries (HC-10) to lower cost countries/cities such as India, Malaysia, Argentina, Brazil, Prague, and Budapest.
EM culture can never improve until forced ranking is abolished.
Also need to stop the threat of annual PIP layoff.
Advancing the best employees instead of advancing sponsored employees would help improve the culture too.
Rank employees based on competence and how much they help everyone around them. If everyone in group doing good job, no need to put anyone at bottom of ranking.
WAEM is just propaganda for shareholders that changed nothing about the actual culture. If the culture was expected to change, execs would have been fired. No execs left necrotic change in culture.
Not propaganda just the truth. The company line propaganda is spewed by the supervisors, managers VPs and Darren. Non believers you have been warned.
Yup. Standard employee propaganda! My IQ and motivation drops when they infect my brain with nonsense.
Well exxon is the true rat race. No I work at Raytown you know from mamas family. EMHC is almost as dysfunctional. The whole corporation is f ucked with no hope for improvement. I have stopped caring and trying because there is no hope. RIP exxon.
So you're at EMHC?
You are describing a textbook psychology case study. When there are too many mice in the cage and too little food to sustain the mice, the mice turn aggressive.
What does utopia look like for mice and rats? According to a researcher who did most of his work in the 1950s through 1970s, it might include limitless food, multiple levels and secluded little condos. These were all part of John Calhoun’s experiments to study the effects of population density on behavior. But what looked like rodent paradises at first quickly spiraled into out-of-control overcrowding, eventual population collapse and seemingly sinister behavior patterns.
In other words, the mice were not nice.
Working with rats between 1958 and 1962, and with mice from 1968 to 1972, Calhoun set up experimental rodent enclosures at the National Institute of Mental Health’s Laboratory of Psychology. He hoped to learn more about how humans might behave in a crowded future. His first 24 attempts ended early due to constraints on laboratory space. But his 25th attempt at a utopian habitat, which began in 1968, would become a landmark psychological study. According to Gizmodo’s Esther Inglis-Arkell, Calhoun’s “Universe 25” started when the researcher dropped four female and four male mice into the enclosure.
By the 560th day, the population peaked with over 2,200 individuals scurrying around, waiting for food and sometimes erupting into open brawls. These mice spent most of their time in the presence of hundreds of other mice. When they became adults, those mice that managed to produce offspring were so stressed out that parenting became an afterthought.
“Few females carried pregnancies to term, and the ones that did seemed to simply forget about their babies,” wrote Inglis-Arkell in 2015. “They’d move half their litter away from danger and forget the rest. Sometimes they’d drop and abandon a baby while they were carrying it.”
A select group of mice, which Calhoun called “the beautiful ones,” secluded themselves in protected places with a guard posted at the entry. They didn’t seek out mates or fight with other mice, wrote Will Wiles in Cabinet magazine in 2011, “they just ate, slept and groomed, wrapped in narcissistic introspection.”
Eventually, several factors combined to doom the experiment. The beautiful ones’ chaste behavior lowered the birth rate. Meanwhile, out in the overcrowded common areas, the few remaining parents’ neglect increased infant mortality. These factors sent the mice society over a demographic cliff. Just over a month after population peaked, around day 600, according to Distillations magazine’s Sam Kean, no baby mice were surviving more than a few days. The society plummeted toward extinction as the remaining adult mice were just “hiding like hermits or grooming all day” before dying out, writes Kean.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-old-experiment-with-mice-led-to-bleak-predictions-for-humanitys-future-180954423/