Management keeps saying how they cannot get any Americans to work in the Permian but then those who want to work in then Permian are told their career is limited and ranked poorly for not being mobile. WTF?
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@zz engineering managers? Do we even still have those? Thought we put them all on pip and fired them! Who wants to be an engineering manager anyway. Have you ever met one that was appreciated by the company? Usually seriously solid technical dudes who the company doesn’t even notice. Project manager is where the action is. Why do you think everyone wants to be a PM or BM?
@bt yup just wait till you have to deal with OneImaging. Sh-t is a total sh-t show and scam. Plus u get to pay +70% of the cost. 😂😂😂😂😂
@ed Dude, play the game, say yes to everything and remove that as an excuse for raises and promotions. If you are ever offered a chance to leave, invent a family excuse. Just lie...
I spent two years in PNG on the LPNG project (in the bush building infrastructure and pipeline) and saw firsthand many of the best young engineers in the Company cratered because of lack of visibility with the Boys in Spring. These young engineers were managing difficult and dangerous situations on a daily basis to keep the project moving, racking up world class accomplishments and being told they were average to bottom third at the end of the year, by functional supervisors that they had never met, who never talked to their direct supervisors (me among many) and were Spring hothouse orchids that were good on Power Point and in front of managers, but never handled real work situations.
They (low level supervisors) are gas lighting you!
Where are they going to mobilize you?
To Guyana? Where they have an active nationalization program?
To Eagleford which is declining like he-l and about to be sold off?
To Gulf of America for P&A work that is seasonal and weather dependent?
Maybe they want good people to leave XOM with the Eagleford shale divestment!
Permian team in general is very top tier and there’s lots of work to be done maintaining high production rates…
Maybe the issue is this manager and not mobility or flexibility. Report him to Spring HQ
I put in Careerconnect that I didn’t want to leave Midland. My supervisor keeps pressuring me to change it. Started with it would slow down how quickly I could be promoted. Then it was it would limit my potential. Then it was it would reduce my assessment. So basically being threatened with being fired now for wanting to stay in the place they say they have to bring people from India to work because Americans won’t work there.
I have noticed that some of the people who fly the highest never leave Houston. Mobility is just an excuse to fire you and tank you low. Meanwhile the hipos don’t have to be mobile.
@10p this is the main reason I will never be a secondee. I have seen too many people be sc--wed while seconded for not being visible. Pretty much impossible to be visible when you sign and NDA and have to act like you work for a different company.
They want people to go to the difficult locations, but only some of those are kept visible. A colleague was told he had to go to LaBarge because they struggled to fill a position. The next year, he was PIP'ed because he was not visible anymore and in ranking the other MGRs didn't know who he was.
But yet engineering managers don't have to leave Houston?
They are gaslighting you. Try to not care as much and see what happens
@bt most accurate post I’ve seen on here in a long time
Managers use their careers which represent the top 1% in the company as the standard for a career. Most of our large assets have people that spend 90% of their careers at that asset. It’s very short sighted as those have mentioned.
This is a big problem for those of us who are from Pioneer or are locals. We want to stay in Midland and keep hearing in meetings that not having mobility is a problem. Is it just an excuse to fire us? Why do we have to leave Midland and be backfilled by someone who doesn’t want to move to Midland?
If you get a new super enjoy the ride. You get a new boss due to politics that doesn’t belong then look to leave. I blame the “hipos” for the no working deal. Cuz they are not hipo from the beginning. This place is a macrocosm of real
Life. Look at the fraud being found out about. Look at the unjustified opportunities for people. I really don’t want to play at any level anymore.
Why would I walk away from my low interest rate mortgage to move every few years for a company that doesn’t incentivize it? I am never leaving Houston unless it is to move to a different company!
@OP welcome to ExxonMobil, with the new career growth plans there are endless opportunities
It’s a great place to work
“nobody wants to work anymore”
- business people after cutting all benefits and pay and asking for more
Pioneer people leaving after their March bonus.
Landman is opening some new rigs!
It was always a pain to move whenever the company said to but even worse now that they don’t even financially incentivize you to move. The benefits have been reduced so much for moving.
I can name a long list of people who have quit because of this. The list will grow once Pioneer people realize that is how it works.