Anyone hear anything about the survey results? If they were good results they would get them out fast.
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If you truly want to see what/who the c-suite supports then go look at who they make political contributions to. Here’s a quick view at who donates to EM PAC
https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?data_type=processed&contributor_employer=ExxonMobil&two_year_transaction_period=2024&min_date=01%2F01%2F2023&max_date=12%2F31%2F2024
I didn't bother reading the email. It went straight to my junk folder. But, if only 40% answered the survey what happened with the other 60%? That's already a very bad sign. 60% of your employees didn't bother answering the survey that was so important for Durwood. They didn't give a fu-k about it. And, of the 40%, 80% are happy. So, about one third of the employees said that they are happy. That's a terrible approval rating dude. And probably half of them lied because everybody knows that they're tracking who says what. So, in reality maybe 16% of the employees are really happy. Probably the sponsored ones. So Durwood don't fool yourself, you're doing a terrible job as a CEO. You should be fired.
Durwood and Hillary are buds. Tell enough lies enough times and folks will believe the horse cr-p you are trying to shove down their throat. BR has this tactic mastered.
@3epl+1nzXLYbW That's a reasonable case to make, although a better representation is probably 1,3,5 before pip, and 2,3,4,5 after to reflect the higher participation I think they were also claiming. Your point is still correct however.
Same effect also however from the critical few deciding not to participate in this farce. The result then is the same, a positive skew because those giving critical scores have concluded that it adds no value to vote.
Even more fundamental, the feedback is just opinion. We're suggestimg opinion is a credible basis for corporate strategy? Why not expand that further then on the annual remuneration budget?
The email from DWW claiming improvement in most categories was ridiculous. Imagine you had 5 employees take the survey last year, with scores 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 for an average of 3. We have a year of hostile work environment, forced ranking (sorry, I mean appraisal), PIPs, moving jobs overseas, etc. etc. etc. The employee who answered the survey a '1' leaves the company, either voluntarily or involuntarily. The remaining 4 take the new survey, and give the same numbers. The average has now risen to (2+3+4+5)/4 = 3.5. Wow! We've improved! Management is awesome! Let's go ExxonMobil. Gimme another $20M bonus.
What a farce.
About the young people: 90 percent of the smart young people have noped out of xom in the last 5 years. So beyond the odd anomaly, what’s left are the dregs you’re mentoring.
Stop the generational warfare and focus on getting yourself out of there too. Like a smart person
I have conversations with actual young people every day, I'm one of two GenXers in a team with 20 young millennial/genZs, and I am obligated to mentor each one of them by my (millennial) supervisor because, according to him, that's one of the boxes an experienced engineer must check.
My narrative doesn't come from speaking from my a$$, it comes from speaking every day with these young engineers in my team.
Their imbecility, blindness and oblivion is mind bending. My post is inspired by my conversations with them.
This thread has several very rational and intelligent entries on some big topics. Very well thought out and expressed.
Why this thread only? Most EM Layoff threads quickly descend into wannabe talk show or congressional commitee puffery.
Bizarre. but appreciated.
@1ffd young people are absolutely aware of how effed everything is around here. The questions in the survey were designed to lead to pre-determined conclusions. Have you ever had an honest conversation with a young person in this company? The stereotyping in your screed reveals you haven't. If you had, you would know that almost none of them are buying "big suburban" houses. In fact, most of them can't afford houses at all. Look at the rise in the cost of house compared to the increase in average for oil and gas. Prices for nearly everything outside of computers have outpaced wages. Young people graduated into a horrible economy, crazy high housing prices, and literally less jobs after an enormous amount of them were offshore by boomers. And they took whatever they could find so they could get their foot in the door. In your boomer days, you could drop your resume into a mailbox and were basically hired if you had a pulse. Now you have to have a full year of experience while in college, overcome robots that eliminate you if you don't meet some keyword, and compete with 1000 other people for a single job opinion. Boomers created the current situation that exists now. And you think young people after all of this are blind to BS at XOM. You literally have no clue what you're talking about. Drop your comfortable narrative about the world around you and go talk to an actual young person.
80% (of 40%) are very happy.
Are you surprised?
I'm not
Maybe the people in this board are underestimating the imbecility of our youngest colleagues.
The younger crowd recruited after college during the last 4-5 years don't have anything else to compare with. They are now starting families, have bought big houses around the Spring campus and are golden cuffed to 3% mortgage rates.
Blind to cognitive dissonance and with a delusion of stability and prosperity fueled by Darren's corporate propaganda, they are feeling optimistic about their future.
And indeed, they don't have much to complain about. Workload is comical, salaries are enough to impress their friends, parental benefits are fair, the day care is as $h1tty as anything else in the area, but conveniently located, and for the most part they are ranking safe, as the bottom group and PIP are reserved for the GenXers in their late 40s and early 50s who are forced by the supervisor to mentor them.
They are more concerned with posting pictures on Instagram and social media to impress their college buddies of their EM campus or suburban lives, than with how this company will eventually d3f3cat3 in them and their careers as they age, as it has been happening since they joined with their elders (to whom they dismiss as obsolete boomers), nor in how the company is quietly and steadily replacing them with cheap labor in low cost countries.
Well done son.
Keep your friends updated with your campus picture Instagram uploads and giving high scores to Darren's survey, and keep staying oblivious to what's going on around you. You are smoothly sailing towards mid-age unemployment, depression and anxiety prescriptions, and financial and professional ruin, while your children, those that so proudly graduated from the Campus daycare, will be left to pick up the slack as teenagers and keep up with a useless, unemployed and depressed parent, that was so imbecile, delusional and Darren brainwashed, that didn't anticipate the obvious.
40% participation, but 80% of those 40% are very happy about the company and fully embrace the WAEM spirit.
So basically just shy of 1/3 are happy with the company (under the assumption that ppl didn't answer the survey are fed up w/ response of the last 2). Hmm......what's the distribution of ppl in Q1 and 2 again?
Incredible that folks here see clearly conservative, right wing white dudes send their jobs overseas and think this is leftist conspiracy. It's free market capitalist making the decisions to reduce costs by replacing higher cost employees with lower cost employees. Moreover, these same people (Darren et al) are literally paid by the board and black rock to do this. I need to know wtf you were smoking in your ford super duty in the Nature parking lot before it blew up because it's clearly more reality bending than anything from South America. Your enemy is you friend. They vote the same way you do. Believe the same things you do. Money above everything and they're willing to sacrifice you, your family, and every nation on this planet to make more of it. It's free market capitalism.
You have to be incredibly stupid to believe our C-suite don’t vote straight ticket Republican.
To inspire and motivate your employees, you must first start with building trust with them. That email did nothing to build trust (nor have his actions for employees since he became CEO). The email is so out of touch with reality and turning a blind eye to what really matters and showed up in the comments that it’s disgusting of a leader.
Sorry @1gdk+1nzXLYbW, things were in the toilet before engine #1 showed up. But engine #1 has not helped at all.
@uee+1nzXLYbW. - Globalist decisions. - 10 B more in China - Outsourcing - Hot desking - Benefits coverage declining - Board makeup - massive bonus in light of other cuts to employees and domestic investments. - hiring hard-core left upper mngmnt - on and on......you decide! Doesn't smell like conservative actions!
FU-K Engine No 1 ! They are why we have the current he-l hole.
I think Durwood and the company are time death
Proposed survey question:
Do you believe the ranking system is administered fairly based on performance alone?
Do you believe Hotdesking is an improvement and the affect on the bottom line is worth the destruction of employee morale?
I didn't respond to the survey, very glad that I didn't because if I had I'd have felt even more disconnected as I didn't align with a single point that DW made in his email.
I guess I'm one of the 20 %
Tone deaf to the performance assessment system and the drag it has on motivating our employees.
The pointed wording of the questions lead to the predetermined desired survey results.
No really good questions like:
Are you proud to be downgraded to Hotdesking just to abandon owned buildings while Executives have new offices created?
Would you leave your current EM job for same pay but a new employer that valued employees and had no forced ranking and cutthroat competition between peers.
What other good questions should have been on the survey?
Gaslighting at its best…
DW just emailed us. According to him 80% of staff are very happy about their jobs!!! Rah rah rah!
I think somebody is smoking some powerful sh-t!