This has got to be one of the toughest work environments I've ever been in. We're always slammed with work until we're practically running on fumes, and Exxon just won't budge on getting us some extra hands. You'd think a huge name like Exxon would be all about investing in the teams and making sure things run smoothly. But nope, the company is cutting corners left and right when it comes to both staffing and streamlining processes.
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When I had joined over a decade ago the company was inspiring. I was never a cultural fit - it’s always been heavily and openly conservative. But, I found like minded bright people that made it fun. Over the years, management from business units all the way up to VP levels were put into roles that they had absolutely no experience in, like research. They were supposedly there to bring the “business” insights to r&d. Very quickly it became a he-l hole filled with ghouls and politicians, making pitches above them with no buy in from the people expected to do the actual work. During COVID, data scientists were fired for using, you guessed it, data to point out the nonsense of coming back prematurely when not required. It was a strange experience to be a part of…. Seeing such a hard fall. I learned a lot, good and bad, but not sure the cost was worth it.
Most people that I respected have either quit or retired. I followed that trend as well.
Exactly
It’s a commodity business what do you expect
We are following the footpaths of GE, Boeing. Open office doesn't work but management power through, TMTS doesn't work, so let's tie PDS to handover KPI's. Our SME's kept quitting, let's force contractors to "lift their weight".......our reliability kept going into the shi*ters, lets sell assests as they fail.
Total disconnect from each appendage.
yeah - Auntie EM not for the visionary any more.
No room for the visionaries.
Companies always reduce headcount before a site is sold, good to juice the numbers for a year or two, then dump it on an unsuspecting buyer for a high price based on the (short term) profits the site was making. If you are seeing headcount reductions, be happy because soon you be working for someone other than XOM. Guessing you are at joliet.
Downstreamer CEO only knows how to cut costs and sell assets with no vision for growing the company