This is all relative to each particular situation but what age will you attempt the PIP or just retire. This is of course after RE because before you really need to pass the PIP. I have seen employees leave early recently. Many were 57 to 59 years old and chose to retire rather than trying the PIP. Some who were 56 and 57 tried the PIP and got a few more years. Those over 60 about 85 percent retired and the rest tried the PIP. The ones stayed on at any cost either had things they had to pay off or other expenses. Some stayed because they were making so much and could not stop due to greed. In my situation if I can get to 58 I will retire. I will leave and work some where else at a lower pay but with no exxon stress or focus on my business. I enjoy my outside business and it is rewarding to work on something you own. The age you leave is all relative to your financial situation and health. Exxon has been PIPing 55 plus year olds recently and before would at least let you get to 60. My advice to the ones older than 58 was to retire and just leave. All of the retirees were much happier not working for exxon and had no regrets.
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GTFO! Go live your best life. ExxonMobil svcks these days and is soul wrenching. Why do that to yourself?
I say just leave when RE. Sure you get 5% per year on your pension for staying, but that only covers the pension payments you forgo when you stay longer. At today’s interest rates, without raises you are losing money by staying. It su-ks to let them win, but they rigged the game against you so it’s unavoidable.
If NRE, your chances of getting NSI much higher than any other category in your team.
Supervisors hit NRE with NSI to achieve the 3% target without losing anyone.
If not enough NRE to achieve 3%, the Supervisors promise the PIP sacrifice person that the Improvement Program will be easy and achievable. The NSI tribute person is typically rotated among team members because get NSI twice and automatically out.
Executives set the universal PIP layoff target with zero regard to workloads, performance , or staffing level of each group.
Need to set PIP targets for executives. Some should have been NSI’d decades ago but had sponsors making threatening phone calls prior to ranking sessions to protect the useless arrogant id--ts.
If they PIP me I’m gone. Not RE yet but I have enough $$$ to walk away. Planning to stay to 15/55 but won’t break my heart if I don’t make it.
I am being watched and scrutinized at this time. I am close to RE and they are squeezing me. I am isolated and in my shell. This is the game plan by exxon and they love to do this to employees to force us out. I will get at least two years past RE and then leave on my own. It is just evil how exxon treats employees at the end.
Yea I agree. Cant be an example to people who already know their future working against you. They know your future as they smile and talk to you.
You live life once. You spend more than a third of your time at work. If you are being bullied, gaslighted, given the message you are not valued while having work dumped on you, harassed, or given the bait and switch …. get out as fast as you can. Over time this kind of stuff wears on you and possibly damages your health and family life. The cronyism, the back-stabbing, the theft, and lack of ethics is rampant. It makes you meek, lose your edge, and over the long term changes you. If you feel this way, get out as fast as you can. No amount of money is worth this. Just be someplace else where you are valued for who you are. Just be happy now.