Thread regarding ExxonMobil Corp. layoffs

@1oup Use of the word “gaslighting” on this board reflects an abuse of vocabulary and a misunderstanding of what it actually entails.

This is just more hyperbole from the disgruntled 50-something’s who are stuck at Exxon because they need the money and can’t do any better.

Gaslighting reflects the lack of leadership. When managers have to resort to manipulations, hiding information, threats/ promise of rewards, shaming, gaslighting, and other subversive tactics, then they have not earned the rights to lead. A fancy title does not equate to leadership.

All the perks… the titles, the bigger salaries, the nice office…. is given by others and it is temporary. All of this more about the lack of respect and unfortunately the lack of leaders that have been promoted in the ranks.

@1gmh All I did was repeat what you and your colleagues have posted here.

I’m not the one with the exaggeration problem.

@1scc+1kjLM7sm

Stop with the exaggerations.

1. Hot desking - employees should have a good place to work and leaders should live by the same standards. How about if the VPs hot desk? I’ve seen VPs at other companies sit in open areas with their teams because of cost savings or space constraints. Perhaps if they do this at EM, it will improve morale.

2. When managers who have little experience continuously pressure people who are knowledgable in the field to support their ideas for personal gains, that is gas lighting… pure and simple. Don’t dismiss or minimize other people’s experiences.

4. Don’t minimize other’s experiences. Zoom and work overload is real for many. Some supervisors are not doing their jobs or oblivious to staffing problems or simply squeezing more out of their people.

5. A company should pay competitive or prevailing wages to the workforce for that region. Highly skilled people who gets paid over $225K can walk away if other companies are offering more in terms of total package. It is not a sense of entitlement. It is knowing your worth.

I like the way gas lights flicker.

All lighting on campus should be gaslighting.

@1kje The issue the US (and EM) really have is with hyperbole and entitlement.

Here’s a few examples, some taken from recent threads:

1. Hot-desking = “dehumanizing” (yes, grown adults actually said this)
2. Being told what I don’t want to hear = “gaslighting”
3. Being required to wear a mask indoors = “totalitarian”
4. Logging into a computer for a Zoom call = “overworked”
5. Annual salary of $225k/year = “underpaid” (see item 4 above)

………

The sense of entitlement among EM employees is utterly obnoxious, and their use of hyperbole attains the level of satire. I’ve never seen anything like it anywhere.

USA in general has a gaslighting issue. We are getting what we deserve on both fronts. We didnt fight and foster our country nor our companies .

EM produces a lot of gas.

We should encourage gaslighting, gasheating, and gas electricity generating.

@OP You don’t appear to have a full grasp of what gaslighting entails.

Here’s a hint: if you think a recession is imminent or already occurring, you’ve been successfully gas-lit.

Not just an EM issue. Fortune 100s today are consumed with irrational decisions, poor leadership, bizarre anti-revenue strategy pivots, copious hypocrisy, and ridiculous virtue-signaling agendas that pit employee groups against each other. Corporate echelons on the verge of breaking down.

Morale would be much better today if they had just been transparent about the need for layoffs and paid severance to the employees let go.

Instead our VP got on a call and told us that the NSI's were designed to be helpful to employees, and that 90% of the PIPs passed. So really they were doing a favor to the employees.

It really did feel like that first round of pips was really random didn't it? I assure you it was not, also no pips this next cycle.