I was just informed that upstream research is going to follow the BTEC way. We are now going to have "second]d line supervisors and first line". I have worked at sites in Clinton , Baytown and Houston. The worst were Baytown and Clinton with their bureaucracy, backstabbing and control. At upstream even 15 years I worked along all of the engineers of the group I w as in. At Baytown I was under the control of a first line supervisor that had issues with control and micromanaging. I endured Baytown until I could escape to upstream and it was much better. We had team leads and a supervisor with no micro managing and it was wonderful. Now upstream is going to the Baytown playbook and it is going to su-k. Upstream was a little cutthroat but Baytown is evil. My retirement can't come fast enough because Exxon has constantly gotten worse every year.
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I have not had a true good supervisor in the past ten years. Only one supervisor ranked myself fairly. He did not pip who they choose because he knew the pipee was not the lowest performer. He piped the lowest performer who was protected. This stand up supervisor rewarded me with an excellent ranking and great raise. This exceptional supervisor was forced out the following year. I have had nothing but turds for supervisors ever since. The system wants bad supervisors and managers to do their will without question. If exxon wanted change for the better it would come from the top management.
So the whole damn system is the problem.
Your bad experience is due to a bad supervisor, not a bad system
This is for the newbies as I am done. I don't care what exxon does. Just warning others so if you don't want to listen good luck.
I’m so sorry to hear that, I hope your okay.
Employees are our biggest asset, we care.
Just kidding, couldn’t give a crxp about you
Move on
Wow, this is only like the 200th time I’ve seen a post like this. Your mom’s meatloaf is really. Log off the computer.