I spent the last few years training and helping several contractors in the labs. The contractors were always scared of getting fired and made many mistakes. I helped them fix these mistakes and protect them. The contractors always said they appreciated the help ve in and said they were grateful. I helped them because I believed in helping those in need. The supervisor was always looking for kiss a and snitches. The contractors were not trusted to snitch on other employees. Fast forward to last year and many of these contractors were hired on. The change was almost immediate by the newbies. They started kiss a bad and backstabbing everyone. Everyone of them had secret meetings with the supervisor to tell all. I have never hid my dislike of exxons inefficient bureaucracy and was surprised to be told by my manger that I should watch what I say. I have only shared these feelings with the newbies. So all my help was for nothing as these snakes are trying to ki-l me. I don't talk to these a holes anymore. They still try to get information out of me but I just ignore them now. Trust no one.
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I know someone in the lab who did this too!
He completely changed when he got hired company.
In this company some people are not just toxic they are extremely dangerous to be around. Just be careful
I don't like the culture and backstabbing at exxon. I am just waiting to get piped and retire.
You did not know that 80 percent at EM are snitchers or backstabbers?
@OP so I guess you learned to watch what you say? Maybe you learned to quit complaining at work? Maybe you learned you should go find a job you like better?
Behaviors inspired by forced ranking.
EM can never achieve a culture in which employees truly help each other for the good of EM until the forced ranking system is stopped.
Assemble a great team for a critical task with all 10 top performers then take all 10 and rank them 1-10, and PIP the bottom one. This pressure creates terrible team dynamics and produces bad behaviors. Put in that equation that 2 of the 10 are id--ts that are only considered top performers because of inflated ranking due to high ultimate potential, and there is another level of complexity. The other 8 top performers quickly detect the falsely ranked sponsored individuals and either resent them or kiss up to them.
EM needs actual culture change and not WAEM with sponsors system and forced ranking.