We barely have layoffs anymore. Yes, there are PIPs, but if you're good and a high-performer, you have nothing to be worried about. Frankly, I've never felt safer here than I do right now.
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@gw I would add, after the award is given and everyone goes home many people realize they contracted food poisoning from the potluck.
@gd Real life example: The potluck organizer creates a spreadsheet.
The spreadsheet contains tabs, charts, color coding, formulas, and pivot tables.
The spreadsheet does not contain forks.
Three people notice there are no plates.
Twenty-seven people discuss the plate shortage.
Ten people schedule a follow-up meeting.
Everyone eats brownies with their hands. The potluck receives an award for planning excellence.
@gd here is a real life example. Leadership launches a major initiative to simplify payments. The project team successfully delivers a new payment portal. IT delivers the application. Security approves it. Procurement approves it. HR updates the documentation. Training creates a video.
The project is declared a success.
Then employees start asking:
"How do I know who to pay?"
"What if they have the same name?"
"How do I know they are approved?"
"Where do I find their payment information?"
"What if the payment gets rejected?"
"Who owns the support process?"
"How do I fix an error?"
Nobody knows.
Every team points to another team.
The application works perfectly.
The payment process doesn't.
The foundation crack is:
Everyone owned their piece.
Nobody owned the entire experience.
The project dashboard says "Delivered Successfully." The users say, "I still can't get paid."
A Confucius version might be:
Confucius say: Man build perfect payment system. Nobody receive payment. Success measured differently by different people.
Or:
Confucius say: When employee cannot get paid, do not comfort him with news that project met all milestones.
Or my favorite:
Confucius say: Many men own process. Nobody own outcome.
That's the real-world example of a foundation crack. Not a bug. Not a failed server. Not a bad employee. A large gap between what everyone was responsible for and what actually needed to happen.
Funny 🤡
What is specifically the cracked foundation analogy in real life? I honestly wanna know. Like what are some the examples?
@OP Confucius say: Man who raise concern become negative. Man who ignore concern become executive.
@fr The foundation crack keeps growing because it doesn't belong to any one workstream, budget code, department, metric, or performance objective. The tragedy isn't that nobody is working. The tragedy is that everyone is working. The organization has become highly effective at maintaining the parts while slowly losing the whole. Eventually the foundation will become impossible to ignore, while everyone can honestly say:
"I did my job." And that's exactly how the house fell down.
Everyone's fixing pipes, changing outlets, dusting furniture, and updating spreadsheets while the foundation slowly splits in two.
Confucius say: When house is falling down, do not be comforted by the fact that the PowerPoint presentation is structurally sound.
@OP It's no longer about layoffs. This board has become the general complaint department because all other outlets have been choked off, automated, 'polarisized', or launched into outer space. So here's my rant for the day. It's like we're all workers maintaining a giant house. The plumber is fixing pipes. The electrician is changing outlets. The housekeeper is dusting furniture. The painter is touching up trim. One worker finally says, "Uh... guys? There's a huge crack in the foundation." Everyone stops for a second. Then somebody says, "Well, my work order says change the light bulb." Another says, "I'm only responsible for plumbing." Another says, "Please submit a ticket." Another says, "The dashboard doesn't show any foundation issues." And another starts a PowerPoint explaining why the house has never been stronger. Meanwhile, the crack keeps growing. Everyone sees it. Everyone knows it's there. But nobody wants to talk about it because they just want to change their light bulb, close their ticket, hit their metrics, and go home. The point isn't that nobody is working. Everyone is working. The point is that nobody seems responsible for the thing that matters most.
Must have missed the 1000 people in Canada being laid off, or the countless other countries over 26/27. Or the rationalizing of Polaris roles with global ops that’s about to hit y'all. Dudes coping in his small atmosphere.
@OP Did they ban you from Glassdoor/indeed? Or XOM stopped paying you posting there?
@bt happened to me, my sponsor retired coz he’s boss was an awful human, of course now I’ve dropped in ranks almost to NI and got thrown in another group against my will. Now I’m just riding it till they PIP me or maybe I can find a new sponsor. Found a mentor but he’s worthless, just taking credit for my work and tells his management that he helps me with items A,B,C, etc. to get a credit.
OP is just spamming us. Probably trying to see how many down votes they can get and break some record on lamest post.
The headcount reductions can be handled with retirement, PIP, low rankings and pay increase which encourage resignation, lower potential levels (fewer Exec CL jobs), asset sales, lower hiring in high cost countries, more hiring in low cost countries, and using more contractors. This has been the playbook for decades. Bottomline: bottom 50% ranking gone and about 15% of the top 50% will leave for better opportunities. With 25K MPT, XOM can downsize to under MPT/exec easily by 2030
@OP What is wrong with you?
When your sponsor(s) retire or dies, you will experience a significant drop in the rankings. Merit never mattered in ExxonMobil Corporation.
@OP come back I’m 2 years, let’s see how you feel then
Might want to read up on unemployment benefits
I have seen people at the top of their specialty PIP’d.
Only feel comfortable if you have adequate sponsorship.
I have seen people drop to the bottom just after their Sponsor retires.
@OP Are you sure you are talking about same company people are talking about on this page? Since when XOM PIP is about performance?
Layoffs would be an improvement, at least we could get some severance and wouldn't have to go through this BS every year
Such a pathetic comments for a newbie, but this person find out about the real truth in the future. “If you are good…..”Lol
I love when these newbies finally learn the awful truth. One guy for years was a hi performer and then dropped suddenly. He was piped out and was shocked. I and others warned him. It is hard to keep up the aese kissing for years. Sometimes the new managers just dont like you.
Hahaha sounds like a CX person .
Such a naive comment. You must be new at XOM.