I’ve never experienced it being this bad in my almost 20 years here. There are so many issues at play that it’s hard to pinpoint just one or two as the main causes. The culture is broken, and there’s a pervasive sense that there is no future. When people are this unhappy, hopeless, and anxious, it inevitably has a serious impact on performance. That, to me, is the real leadership failure. Yet there seems to be no intention whatsoever to diagnose or fix the problem. Quite the opposite, leadership appears to be doubling down on everything that made conditions this dire in the first place. They neither seem to understand what’s happening nor genuinely care.
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@cx This is a stupid comment. Why do I have to go somewhere cr*ppy to feel appreciated with the job I have in my country? It's not apples to apples in this scenario.
@OP - this sounds like the same posts I was reading 5 years ago, when the first round of layoffs (disguised as PIP’s) happened. The company culture has been broken since 2010 or even earlier. Morale has been down the toilet for just as long. The company has no loyalty to its employees, the ranking system is corrupted by favouritism, bias and lies.
OP, it’s simple
leadership has “evolved” to a point where they can’t fail in a way that causes them any issues personally. all they need to is copy what their peers do and hire fall guys and they’re golden.
they put in a 4 year tenure, get their bag, then hop to the next executive position. and that’s assuming they aren’t already working multiple gigs.
the rules are for you and me, not for them. execs get to job hop, openly discuss and even negotiate their pay with their peers and bosses, work remotely, never take any blame while taking all glory, and many other things us plebs would be bad apples for even considering.
i mean we’ve got a thread right now where someone is scared they’ll be fired for taking a day to go to a job interview FFS.
@dr Every day I fix their fu_k ups, every day!
You're looking for culture in a capitalist venture. Keep looking, you were sold a bill of goods.
we are happy here at kltc...great salary raise, business class travel, work life balance...maybe your life just su-k, that why...
Please stop with all the fake leadership training BS. Nothing but propaganda and big bucks to the woke schools that despise the energy industry. They wouldn't know leadership if it bit them in the ar-e. We write big checks and they mock us.
Never stop looking for the next job. Ever.
As more planning and design work performed by BTC, and the “Old Expensive HC10” expert error finder/correctors get exited via PIP, the likelihood of a major design related safety incident increases.
We are not allowed to track any metrics about how many corrections are required on BTC work, or the severity of potential incidents if the BTC work had gone unchecked.
@d9 I’m not sure if you have heard, but we have rolled out PSMS so all safety incidents are a thing of the past. Our data proves it
@OP, there is no "pervasive sense of no future" for many of us. If one is an hourly employee at a closing site like Clinton, there is concretely no future. We are being dumped like trash without even the opportunity to move.
Instead of perhaps taking very experienced lab employees to Texas, they're hiring contractors with very little to no Oil & Gas lab experience and expecting them to set everything up safely and with quality in mind.
I agree with the other commenter about "another Valdez coming"...company-wide, I am just waiting to hear news of safety disasters. Yes, in plural.
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all part of the plan to make you, the expensive HC10 employee, quit. if the powers that be wanted to improve morale they could do so easily and at minimal cost; the thing is - they want you miserable so you leave.
@OP such a bunch of cry babies, go do an assignment somewhere cr-ppy and then you might have something to complain about
Want to improve morale - give our savings plan matching back and a pay raise that at least matches cost of living increase. My salary is losing ground with the economy despite several years of high performance.
Root Causes:
- Forced ranking
- PIP % goals to reduce headcount
- Sponsorship and false high ranking of sponsored id--ts
- Continued degradation of employee treatment and reduced benefits
- PIPing competent 50+ HC10 employees to replace with low cost/low quality 3rd world cheap labor
- All productive work only happens so can put on PDS to avoid PIP
Results:
- Loyalty approaching zero
- Pride in EM already zero
- Employees treat each other like competitors hoping to avoid the PIP
- Teamwork only occurs if employees think their contributions will look good on PDS
- Supervisors and coworkers constantly and falsely claim successes of others on their PDS
- Most employees advise college graduates not to interview with EM
- Sponsored id--ts given easiest assignments for very short durations, and transferred at the slightest indication their stupidity will be traceable to them. Leads to dangerous false confidence, zero skills attained, and inflated arrogance.
@OP when was the last time you left the campus and actually did something meaningful?
The whole company is circling the toilet
@OP This is how every U.S. company with more than 1,000 people in it operates.
Either go to a smaller company or start your own business if you don’t want to deal with it. The “corpos” are just going to keep up the beatings for the sake of keeping up the beatings.
Happy Holidays.
If DW is reading this post he might be going, why are you all complaining? I threw you an awesome XMas year end party and spent all this money (or rather wrote of taxes). I heard Raymond was bad and DW seems to be in competition to take his place.
@a4 feels like another Valdez is in the making.
@aa yup. The biggest achievement the company came up with is the red candy canes at the gas stations. It increased the cost of contract for franchisees, consumers dont care about candy canes or not, but the sale and marketing pulled this bullsh-t.
Unfortunately, this is same story regardless of the Oil and Gas company you work for. Perhaps, XOM had got worst of all for employees under DW. He must be very proud.
The reality is this is part of "Corporate Transformation" unfolding, a very uncertain and risky portfolio of outlook projects, and Mgmnt exercising the options they still have near term power over which is reducing OPEX above all else. We're not an NOC and this strategy will lead to the continued managed decline of EM as a brand and influence.
100% on the bizarre behaviors. Its only a matter of time until something goes bo-m. Sr Management has exterminated anyone in the middle willing to warn them. They're totally oblivious to the chaos.
the main cause is compulsory NSI/ PIP. when people don’t feel psychological safety at work lots of strange behaviours happen