I'm considering interviewing for a role in Exxon. I see lots of negative feedback, which makes me hesitate. Can someone share a policy change that was enacted based on employee feedback? What was the impact across the organization?
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The only positive direction this company is going is positively in the gutter. The whole damn place is a faćade...looks all smart but run by a crew of drunken howler monkies on the 10th case of Bud Light
@OP, a very recent policy change that was enacted based on NON-employee feedback was the removal of 2 ply TP & replacing it with NOply TP.
Do I really need to elaborate on the impact of this change in policy? If the answer is yes, then please do interview here and hope you get hired to join the rest of the goat smelling as--s working around here.
@2vkc+1mqOesz7
“Exxon has been moving in a positive direction over the past 7ish years”
Do you actually work for EM, are you paid per post or you just have a pathological impulse to brown nose even if anonymous sites? Is the Earth flat and EM hasn’t fallen to a third-rate company status just because the management so desires?
A policy change based on employees feedback:
They wanted a better, modernized, and more fair ranking system.
They got what they asked for. In 2020, the forced ranking system was revamped.
Improvements:
- Rather than thee thirds, now there are five buckets. Mind you, the merit treatments were always in fifths.
- The safety net was removed. One could drop (or less likely rise) only by 20% or so. Now, people are dropping from the top to the lower 10% or less and forced out.
- The percentage of NSI (need significant improvement) was increased from a historic 1-3 % to 8-10 %.
- Effectively, the result is like working on an annual contract and never knowing whether it will be renewed.
They acted on that relatively quickly. A big improvement FOR THE COMPANY. Resignations due to PIP doesn't cost them a dime.
I agree with the transitioning comment below. Exxon has been moving in a positive direction over the past 7ish years, but there are still a good portion of the old management regime hanging on as well as the middle managers they corrupted. Give it a few more years and we will be in a better place where the toxic behaviors are reprimanded and not rewarded anymore.
So many insights to be gained here, one can't help but thank you all.
Guess I'll go with the Space-X offer, or maybe Greenpeace.
A “policy change that was enacted based on employee feedback”?
There is no such thing at EM and there never was. There is no mechanism to provide employee feedback, and for good reason. For the management of the company it is a matter of deepest principle to never care about what employees think or want. Think of “hotdesking”, for instance; if the management would care about “employee feedback” the policy would be immediately revoked and the morron who came up with it fired.
come on down and joined the fight to get our old toilet paper back
There was one good comment in this entire thread about the transitional state the Corp is in. The rest is garbage, this forum could possibly be the worse place for advice.
Most recent example of employee short sightedness - post covid everyone wants to wfh more, data shows major reduction in on campus attendance…. As a publicly traded company, the space is consolidated into neighborhoods. Wouldn’t you know it, they complained when their assigned desks were removed.
The campus is like the country as a whole, polarized - any decision made can only make 45% of the people happy at best.
Only the Flag of Texas and the American flag should fly!
I retired the first day I was eligible. Don't work for XOM unless you are a narcissistic psychopath- they seem to flourish, quite well in the toxicity they call a career.
Only one I can recall:
When Spring campus first opened, the architect had apparently thought glass panel walls near entryways and elevators was a way of letting in the light, so to say.
After at least 5 events of employees slamming their face into the glass panel walls, with injury reported - the company implemented some really beautiful warning stickers on the glass walls. And eventually (6 mo. later) replaced them.
Bravo!
And another caveat.
Unless you are accustomed to the culture of texas, try to read up on what you might be getting yourself into:
- While fire arms are generally prohibited on Spring and other EM campuses, the minute you step off from these protections, you and your family members should assume everyone in your surroundings is constitutionally carrying and could be in a bad mood.
- Education, healthcare, social events, and the like are pretty well controlled and monitored by the liberating mindset of old boys from the 1890s, 1920s, 1950s. EM fully endorses the folks running the texas show (their employees essentially). As the Guvnuh Abbottoir would say "One thing you can't hide - when you're crippled inside."
Other than that - Welcome Aboard!
@vkf,
WOW, very well put. Thanks for sharing.
OP the Company has been transitioning from the old Exxon way which was very conservative and quasi-military, but paid people very well compared to industry and was generally a bit overstaffed to deal with the cyclic ups and downs of the business to a company which is leaner and modern in the eyes of investors, but hasn't found its internal identity yet. It's causing a lot of internal strife for the general population. Your best bet is hold off until the Company finds itself and lands on its feet.
DO NOT COME!!!!
Mental stress is so high!!!
I don’t even tell people I work at XOM, I’d never recommend coming here.
The only thing I’m aware of is blue jeans on Friday, but that’s only if you have increased your annual donation to United Way. And… I don’t think it was an employee recommended policy change, per se!
Wasn’t there a rainbow coalition flag flying at one point over EMHC that PRIDE had managed to get approved? What ever happened to that?
Don’t accept a role expecting you’ll have much influence changing ANY policies at EM. If you do, you’ll be flagged as a wave maker and doomed.
If there’s the slightest inclination that any policy change might actually happen, expect it would take years - after working through multiple committees across multiple business lines, because it must be consistently executed, delivered and stewarded. Controllers and Law would most definitely be involved. And Human Resources. And even if you do see your flag fly - it’ll soon be squashed, like the PRIDE flag.
Does this sound like a by bureaucratic nightmare?
It is.
Take your energy, enthusiasm and talent and go some where else where you can build a stable and rewarding career.
The houston campus has the distinct feeling of a business shutting down. If that’s what you are wanting, this is your place.
I would look at the next opportunity. Nothing new or exciting is coming to XOM.
Management is pretty much tone deaf. It’s pretty much “our way or the highway”.