Exxon employees under 40yrs old, should consider that the company is designed to underperform in your development for the next few decades. Finding new employment now is probably the best thing for your career.
I tell this to anybody new I meet. XOM might be good for them now, but they should only consider it a very short-term solution if they want to advance their skills and progress in their career. I feel sorry for those who don't take me seriously.
@2rvd
ACA is an option between 55 & Medicare
I left XOM after witnessing so many legally questionable things during Covid and having many managers blast through projects to just wreck them and get promoted with no consequences. Since leaving (approaching a year), my skills (personal and technical) have spiked. Management has no intent on improving the technical or moral standards in this company and are rewarded for stubborn conservatism. Leave or become obsolete.
@1hzj Everyone I know who is over 55 and still working is doing so because they need the money and healthcare. The ones who are financially able to retire have either done so or plan to do so soon.
This country gets more dystopian by the day. Some states (Arkansas) are even repealing restrictions on child labor. Welcome to the 1890s.
@OP And go where? Chevron? BP?
The only thing that changes from one super-major to another is the corporate logo.
If you want better working conditions, dust off the labor organizing playbook from the early 1900s and start organizing. Trading one set of corporate overlords for another won’t solve the problem.
@1pld+1lFrqrf2 the possibility is there that the company never rebounds to what it was 20 yes ago. If the c suite at EM were well intentioned but misguided a rebound might happen, but EM is actively replacing c suite positions with outside hires. In a few more rotations there won’t be any organizational memory left at the top. That may be bad or may be good but there will not be a path back….
The company is so screwed up right now. If you are older, you may never see the backside of Business Transformation. We have 10 year old problems we are not addressing, but growing these areas of the business anyway….and without the compensation to hire decent employees (or retain decent employees). If you are older, are you ready to live through an implosion without the possibility of getting to see the company put itself back together (if it can.) It’s a question I ask myself every day. Am I ready for another 5-10 years of pain before the company realizes it needs to go back to top tier compensation and ethical employee treatment to reach its Business Transformation goals?
Nothing for older employees to hold on to either. Please don't reply that older people don't need to survive, it is a painfully ignorant view of something you know nothing about. You haven't walked in their shoes. Yes I agree get out!
These are all very good observations. RE this year and GTFO for next chapter. Still feel good with good work life left. Not wasting more time at EM. All the great years long in rear view mirror now
Especially since whatever limited opportunities the under 40 crowd are getting are at the expense of the over 40 crowd. Once you hit your mid 40s the well dries up. You used to have good career opportunities up until your mid 50s. Not anymore. Nothing for younger employees to look forward to.