Do you think this place attracts degenerates in the first place, or does PDS induce these terrible behaviours? So many don't know how to be a decent colleague/person here.
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The HiPo will be a recruiter manager, like someone I know that used to worked in Permian Facilities long time ago.
The annual PDS process definitely encourages this behavior as does the competition for the fewer and fewer higher CL opportunities. It’s incredible to see the increase in toxicity between teams over the past 5 years driven by this, particularly in Products Trading where politics and backstabbing have become critical tools to succeed (best exemplified by their leadership).
FU-K PDS! Management is incredibly tone deaf and turns a blind eye to this horrible destructive process. Your ranking means nothing and is just a popularity contest. You may be popular one year but the next..no! It can be different every year.
The situation in BR is high school type politics with a sense of dread dealing with any upper management. No one tells the truth, no one pushes back, managers promoted with no real experience, legacy last name carriers get first choice, false sense of self importance by speaking in corporate jargon and believing they are the true upper class in society.
Fresh engineers who I’m not blaming for their position chasing their tail for a treat. Strong arming information and gate keeping.
It’s a real problem. Luckily you can choose not to play the game and be really good at your job along with dependable which is enough to not be harassed too much. I think it’s crazy how I like to take our accomplishments and have the shift recognized while the game players want to own every success and blame everyone else for failures. No accountability and no empathy. What are you doing for me.
This job plays awesome and I do enjoy my work so I’m here but it is progressively getting worse each year. There is real potential here but damn have the most toxic personalities taken over most leadership positions
Low integrity management is spot on. Nice to your face ones often the most cowardly, just hoping to escape with the money they’ve stolen from your labor - really now some Indians labor - before anyone confronts them. Nobody I know would be proud of their kids if they grew up to be like anyone in management here.
ExxonMobil management is behaving much like the textbook psychology experiment where there are too many mice in the cage and not enough food to support the mice in the cage.
When there is insufficient food (i.e. meaningful work), the mice become very agreessive and attack each other. This is why everyone is operating in "survival mode". Psychological warfare will continue for the next five years because there will be less food in the cage for the foreseeable future.
There is something to that. I would like to add a management that is either disengaged or they can’t emotionally distant themselves from politics with favoring certain people. While living their best lives these folks will not make the hard decisions unless their easy money is being threatened. If you are looking for integrity here you are asking a lot unless your part of the politics. Are there some good management out there , yes. But it is far and few between. Even those folks have a hard time though playing in the sandbox given to them and their own integrity.
The new EM trend to hire outsiders into Executive positions eliminates the need for HiPos, and the arrogant persons in the HiPo system must be in full panic mode.
The outsider taking an Upstream President position without EVER having visited an upstream facility has a good excuse for his high degree of ignorance.
A HiPo that was cycled through a variety of oilfield positions and mastered none of them, has no valid excuse for his ignorance. That HiPo will now get stuck at a Department Manager position with zero skills or knowledge then get PIPd with 5 years.
Just look in the announcements for the multiple outsiders hired for Executive Recruiter roles. There is now a team of outside recruiters with no loyalty to HiPos, and their sole purpose is to hire outside executives into former HiPo prize positions.
This new reality has HiPos in full panic mode and tormenting the workforce trying to set themselves apart from all the other HiPos competing for the scrap positions not given to outsiders.
Yes, Excon is in a confused cultural state now. The old time HiPo system is in disarray. Many of the yout's respond by pushing the competitiveness harder, to no avail. Some have figured out it's mostly in vain. All they're competing for is a potential St Technical Advisor slot or a small manager slot, no more big prizes until the other shoe drops on where this is all going
The forced ranking creates and magnifies competitiveness to a destructive level.
EM could achieve so much more if it ditched the forced ranking (and annual PIP layoffs) and started judging employees on how much they help each other.
Absolutely the case, but worse in the last 5 years in HC10 locs. (No, it's not a minor diff, it is a night and day difference)
"The Hunger Games" reality show.