https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/exxon-bets-on-china-chemicals-growth-even-as-us-relations-sour-1.1927504 Kevin Crowley and Ari Natter, Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) -- Exxon Mobil Corp. is forging ahead with a multi-billion-dollar petrochemical complex... — read more
ExxonMobil, Nucor Ink Big Carbon Capture and Storage Deal
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidblackmon/2023/06/01/exxonmobil-nucor-ink-big-carbon-capture-deal David Blackmon Senior Contributor David Blackmon is a Texas-based public policy analyst/consultant. ExxonMobilXOM -0.1%, the largest U.S. domestic... — read more
TMO hates Expats
TMO sitting in some cr-ppy country hates you. They are jealous of your life and want to downgrade your benefits package so you can live like them!
If this is the attitude towards employees when the company is making profit...
I wonder what would be the attitude towards us if it was operating at a loss?
New thought
If I implement shift work for the Houston campus, I will only need 1/2 the buildings that are left after hot desking. Geeze, I am brilliant!
TSA in nature
TSA is in the Nature garage headed towards wellness 3. Keep harassing us.
Why do we love forced ranking?
Another year of performance assessments and another year of saying these are all good performers but we have to find people to go into the NI/ NSI bucket. Why oh why do we do this to ourselves. These are good performers who are now going to likely... — read more
ELP/BLP Training
Anyone have insights into this? Can I decline it without “punishment”
How to prepare for a layoff: Ask HR
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/how-to-prepare-for-a-layoff-ask-hr Johnny C. Taylor Jr. tackles your human resources questions as part of a series for USA TODAY. Taylor is president and CEO of the Society for Human Resource... — read more
Exxon Mobil: Party Is Over
May 29, 2023 10:45 AM ET Cavenagh Research https://seekingalpha.com/article/4608016-exxon-mobil-party-is-over Summary Exxon reported record earnings in Q1 2023, likely marking the peak profitability in the '2020-2022 oil party.' In 2023... — read more
IC&S - What happened
So just got my IC&S after the annual May $hitogram from TMO (can’t believe they call themselves Talent Management Organization as all they do is cut benefits) What did TMO actually do to the IC&S allowance for expats as their email is absolute... — read more
We don’t hear about the exxodus anymore
We don’t see or hear the exxodus anymore; is this because everyone has left, people resigning has slowed down or people just waiting for the next round of PIL/ PIPs. Or did EM actually give good pay raises or people ok to stay for money reasons only. — read more
Already dreading Tuesday
Have not even had the holiday yet and I am already dreading going to the campus on Tuesday. What an awful place.
Exxon acquires lithium rights as oil majors move into critical mineral mining
https://www.mining-technology.com/news/exxon-aquires-lithium-rights-as-oil-majors-move-into-mineral-mining/ The $100m deal is the latest in a series of investments from oil companies into the mining of critical minerals. By Florence Jones Exxon... — read more
ExxonMobil (XOM) Signs Deal to Divest Williston Basin Assets to Chord Energy
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exxonmobil-xom-signs-deal-divest-122400790.html Exxon Mobil Corporation XOM, through its subsidiary XTO Energy Inc. and affiliates, entered into an agreement to divest Williston Basin assets to Chord Energy Corporation... — read more
Dual career exempt from PIP
With pip season about to kick off, are dual career folks safe from pip? Usually 1 of the 2 is a hi-po and the other ain’t worth a phuc. Does the company exempt these people?
World’s biggest investment fund takes on Exxon and Chevron over the climate crisi
By Anna Cooban, CNN Updated 11:20 AM EDT, Fri May 26, 202 https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/26/energy/norway-wealth-fund-chevron-exxonmobil-climate/index.html London CNN — The world’s biggest investor in the stock market wants ExxonMobil and Chevron to... — read more
Manager is Gaslighting our whole team? What to do about it?
Manager uses manipulative techniques loke lying, misremembering, writing 20 emails a day asking for useless things, shouting at people in team meetings and covering up for own problems. Any past experience where HR has helped? Or escalating to their... — read more
DO YOUR WEBCATS!!!!
or ur pension is cut in half heheheh
From Siloed to Optimized: How Exxon Mobil Juiced Its Technology Approach
https://www.hartenergy.com/ep/exclusives/siloed-optimized-how-exxon-mobil-juiced-its-technology-approach-205077 From Siloed to Optimized: How Exxon Mobil Juiced Its Technology Approach One year after integrating technology and engineering... — read more
this has never happened LOL
https://setexasrecord.com/stories/599845957-exxonmobil-used-employee-ranking-system-to-eliminate-older-workers-suit-alleges
Ranking cycle - Who had to approve back to back CL bumps?
Know it happens, for variety of reasons we don’t need to get into. Just want to know what level actually needs to support it so don’t waste time on first line supervisor.
Expansion plans?
Any word on expansions or major projects? What locations?
Exxon plant sales
What refineries or chemical plants are up for sale? Surely it will happen before ranking. Don’t want to get rid of people at the locations Exxon plans on keeping. Anyone hearing about who is up for sale?
WAEM survey
So funny to see all levels of management trying to convince people to reply to this survey. Looks like their own career is at stake... 😀 Like in dictatures, the only way for people to express their frustration is to refuse to participate in rigged... — read more
Vulnerability we-ponized
So it looks like after the great resignation of 2022 and the great demoralization of 2023, leaders have been called upon to exercise more "vulnerability", to soften their tone, to be more understanding for the regular employee and to conduct... — read more
ExxonMobil divests Williston Basin
Uncon getting smaller and smaller.
Need I say more
ExxonMobil - Brutally Brilliant Outsourcing https://www.piton-global.com/case_study/exxonmobil/
Glassdoor
Do not forget… Senior Management, HR, and Campus recruits all use Glassdoor as a means to measure ExxonMobil. It takes 3min to “assess” the company… why not give an inexperienced college grad a heads-up about what they’re getting into?
Returnship program
So the offshoring of jobs continue…. This opportunity only available in India. No such posting in the US. I’m sure I’ll be asked to flex my hours to train and mentor. “The ExxonMobil Returnship Program is a back-to-work program for experienced... — read more
Three D-mb Things Managers Do That Make Their Employees Quit
By Marcel Schwantes 19 May 2023 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/3-d-mb-things-managers-do-make-employees-quit-marcel-schwantes Ever heard this expression? For every finger you point, there are three pointing back at you. This illustration certainly... — read more
NSI is 5% this ranking cycle
Look around - 1 out of every 20 employees will be gone after this hunger games. Look at people with CL above, equal, and lower than you. If you can’t identify the 1 out of every 20 who will be NSI, then you are the NSI tribute. If you can identify... — read more
Exxon rebuts proxy advisor, says net zero emissions scenario 'unlikely'
By Sabrina Valle https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exxon-rebuts-proxy-advisor-says-net-zero-emissions-scenario-unlikely-2023-05-18/ HOUSTON, May 18 (Reuters) - Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N) has pushed back against investors pressing the largest... — read more
Another lost benefit - Home Sale Assistance
Anyone interested in ever moving with Exxon: XOM has taken away your option to sell your house with the company… along with any repatriation/return assistance. Good luck to anyone going to W Texas, buying into high markets, and taking losses on the... — read more
Has your attitude toward unions changed?
When I started here (EMHC), I only saw unions as a weird complication that were useful during the Industrial Revolution but didn’t serve much of a purpose anymore. After Covid and the continuous flow of anti-worker decisions being made by a clearly... — read more
How to be happy at EM
In order to be happy in EM it is required to either be a Hi-Po. Once a hi-po, always a hi-po, regardless of how many times a hi-po fk-ups or what a hi-po says or does, he/she will be always ranked at the top, get top raises, and paid way above... — read more