Everywhere else, it feels like turnover is through the roof, but here, things have slowed down. I'm still on the lookout for something better, but it seems like I'm the only one in my team who feels that way. This place isn’t perfect, so I'm curious what I'm missing that makes others stick around.
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@ujd Interesting take.
Yes there are young people leaving and oldies waiting till RE or the interest rate drops. Contractors leave all the time and it is like a revolving door training them all over again. We do not stay for the treatment and the circus we are put through ranking season. I hate the place I am working at. I will leave ASAP. The money is good if you are older and higher CL. No amount of money is worth the squid game that is exxon mobil. I am not enabled to to my best work by the handlers that try to control me. I could do more meaningful and constructive work for another company. The best projects go to the favorites and chosen even if they are not the best or most experienced at the subject. I have been put in a mediocre position and so I produce mediocre work. No one cares about work or running this place (Circus) right and efficiently. Exxon is doomed and they were just lucky to fall into Guiana by chance. There is no logic in the decisions of the leadership. It is sickening to see the incompetence everyday. So yes many of us are just waiting to leave this dysfunctional shithole.
The quiet before the storm. 2025+ will be brutal. Heed my warning.
Why leave when you can sit around and wait for them to package you out.
As most folks have Saud, the younger and therefore more flexible majority to leave have all gone. Those only remaining in HC10 are the older ones, and of those, the 90% who aren't HIPO have mostly worked out that they can coast, take it easy, relax and take the money as putting in anything more than minimum effort isn't recognized or rewarded.
So, stay and milk becomes the easiest option with the least personal aggravation. The very opposite of what the ranking system is said to deliver.
Wait for non raises this year to restart the fire
Expect many to retire in the US soon, rates in 2Q25 will probably go up so many might pull the trigger late 1Q.
Same here. Everyone that was useful and under 40 left over the past 5 years. No one is left in the quitting demographic.
Well, in my group the young people quit, were rehired in India, and the old people are waiting for rates to drop.
Pretty simple.