Key point missing is where this building at Strathcona will be given there’s really no excess office space.
You will likely be in a blastproof building (like the current office building) and subjecting yourself to questionable air quality for the remainder of your working life.
Also refinery work cultures are a beast of their own, many in bad ways.
This the life you really want… in Edmonton?
@jr
Well politics is having a direct impact on our business.
Exxon is not laying people off in the USA, only Canada and Europe. Now why do you think that is?
But if you want to keep ignoring the impact of politics, that's fine. It's your job that is at stake. I made bank long ago so this won't have an impact on me anymore.
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@c1 you must have been hired within the last 10 years. They laid off in the 80s, they just took a few more steps to do it. They did offer retraining, which isn't happening this time.
@an it's so sad... I still remember the day when we used to promote staying with company your whole career and promoting fact that the company had never laid off people to new hires.
Do you Calgary folks even know what Edmonton is other than sh-----g on it? There is a lot more actual industry here than your city. Yes it su-ks having to uproot your family, it su-ks to leave your posh city life with mountains 2 hours away to a refinery.
Don't be spewing hate like there is nothing in Edmonton.
@ar you may be someone who lives on autopilot, and doesn’t have any transferable skills or real options. Good luck in Edmonton.
@a2 They broke the social contract of "we'll give you a good and stable job for life" a long time ago.
Good thing is that it's a personal choice to move or not. You hold the real power. Don't want to move, don't do it. Find another job. Simple.
@a3 well said.
Wow! Never thought about smaller job market and that we get benchmarked against the local companies and also should you lose your job or want to leave there’s really not many places to go to.
Noooo thanks Edmonton.
Anyone who chooses to follow this garbage company to Edmonton will be because they have no other option.
Enjoy buying a house in YEG, training your Indian replacement for a couple years after the move, only to be laid off with zero job prospects and no O&G corporate network to speak of….oh and a side of cancer from working at a refinery
Uprooting my family to Edmonton to continue to get 1-2% annual raises doesn't appeal to me. This isn't the same company I was hired into
Just wait until the Calgary transplants learn what an HF acid release is, enjoy having to periodically shelter in place because there's risk of exposure and your face melting off.
ExxonMobil doesn't care about you or your family, and it's only downhill from here. Enjoy waiting to be laid off every 3 years, except there's no other employers to go to in Edmonton.