Thread regarding ExxonMobil Corp. layoffs

For the young inbec…le @1yid+1wd8vcOw:
In the US, after 50 nobody will hire you in a professional job. That is cold reality. They would rather hire a 35 year old and pretend that he can somehow learn how to do the job.

In our group we can’t keep ppl under 30. Most of our staff is 50 or older with little to no talent coming up in the pipeline.

@tmm Cool story Bruh!

Facts are, you had a PhD in A$$ kissing and Ko-k su-king, which enabled you to survive for 35 years. Most normal people would not be bragging about your aforementioned survival skills.

The rest of us that possessed an ounce of dignity and self-respect; refused to play that game.......hence, falsely labeled a non-tEAM player and was shown the door.

Correction, after 49, you are an endangered specie. Corp will try hard to cut you off before you turn 55 so you don't get the more desirable retirement package later on. I am one of them who were shown the door in my early 50's.

Yes just keep working hard and you will get a raise next year. PIP is coming it is inventible. I have seen the so called unpipable piped. These old timers thought they were safe because the had knowledge ands skills that no else at exxon had. Were they wrong because they piped at will. It was like shooting fish in a barrel. The only safe ones are the minions the stupervisors and the managers. The lackeys of the company are safe. When you are piped for no good reason or a vague reason you will know what we all are whining or complaining about. There is no way to win or survive as the game is fixed. Eventually your number will come up. The black box system Sharp will say pip. The mindless supervisor will read off what is on the screen and goodbye. Believe the stories as they are true. I have seen it before for 30 years. What have I seen is good and hard working employees piped while worthless employees festered and stayed around. The workers they piped did all the work and the worthless leftovers did not know how do the work left to them. PIP is certain when will your time come? Keep thinking that all you have to do is work not so easy to stay alive in a hunger squid game. When you see that hipo talking to the supervisor or manager it has to help them. Good luck in the games to all.

Well if you’re truly as knowledgeable and helpful as you believe, the good news is the attrition over the last few years should make it easy for you to get another job outside of XOM. All those folks that have been PiPed or outright quit are now all throughout oil and gas and other industries. Surely one of those folks would recall your genius and quickly hire you. While you would still miss out on some years of service, at least you wouldn’t have to start taking the pension and would avoid the early retirement penalty.

I’ve never read so much whining and complaining in an along time … I say, su-k it up snowflake and get the job done … good work is still appreciated

“After 55 you are an endangered species”

The people on here bragging about doing as little as possible and bleeding the company dry until they retire are the same ones who keep whining about age discrimination.

The real problem is that copying and pasting “overlay specs” for vendors isn’t worth $200k - $300k/year. Doesn’t matter how old you are.

@elo+1wd8vcOw

Correct, the mid career ambitious ones will never leave anything in writing. One of my former manager has a habit of massaging me after hours to request id--tic things verbally. Kept information close to the chest. All of a sudden, he wants all information to go through him.

When I pushed back on the id--t ideas and the lack of boundaries, he wrote me up insubordination and having anger issues. It was laughable because people who knew me would say the opposite. Behind the scene, he talk bad about many RE and NRE and caused them to lose their jobs.

He is still running around doing damage with LCS. So watch out for people like him. If you are an 50+ and doing exceptional work, you don’t need a middleman to convey your value.

I think this now is at 50 and no longer 55 for the majority of HC10 employees.

Even if you are the best and old the young and mediocre are cheaper and preferred. The BTC people are even cheaper. So the old timers I all knew have all been pushed out. That time has passed. I was being pushed to move in favor of another eager inexperience worker. The supervisor wanted this person instead of me because they could control them easily. I am too smart and experienced to do just anything the dum--ss supervisor says. I have a bit of bite in me. The supervisor is blind with ambition and wants things done fast and unsafely. I protest and challenge the unsafe ideas. I will not endanger my life and others at work. I am close to retirement and do not want to give them an excuse to fire me for a blatant safety incident. It is almost as if they want me to fu-k up so they can fire me. Beware the verbal instructions get it in writing as an email. The supervisor will not send anything this way just or-l. Be careful of these snakes.

I retired from EM at 65 yo after 35 years in the oilfield, upstream, engineer, mostly 28/28. Announcing my retirement, my sup asked me to stay another +year to finish my out last project (12 SS DW gas wells, o/s Western OZ). I said ok, (Even as my leave date approached they ask me to do a small project off N-g, ah! My wife’s response was no :)

How long you last after you get ‘old’ obviously depends, partly, on the value you bring to the company.

Yes, I was probably an exception compared to others (?) but I have positioned my entire life to be an exception relative to skills, in a good way. Peace.