Who the he-l is XOM hiring lately? They just like to stand around and do nothing the whole bloody day. They don’t give a damn. Is this what our future looks like? We are doing great right now, why is it that these are the only kind of people we can attract?
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OP, the newbies are incapable of learning anything. They've grown up in a society that has taught them that everything is easy, everything is fun, there is an app for everything, they get a medal even if they finish last. So, they didn't put in the effort to learn how to think, how to study and how to apply knowledge. Once they hit the real world it is a cultural shock. They have to do real work. They have to know what the heck they are doing. And there is no app for that. They get depressed. They can't believe they aren't number one. So in their minds, they consider themselves the victims of a bad employer and start complaining about everything. The worst part of all this is that they truly believe they're the victims. There is no point in trying to show them the truth. They will just deny it. So, stop wasting your time trying to help or train them. Let them learn the hard way. Life will teach them. Or they will go down in flames.
Typical Exxon employees have very little of intellectual value to teach.
@3mtf+1nIWKQ4Q And, PIL is one letter shy of the kind you take… like a jagged pill. 💊
This quality of people was already being hired over the last 3-5 years while they were handing out PiP's to good employees. This has to be some of the sleaziest leadership in xom history.
It just occurred to me that if you lower case "PIPed" it reads like "piped" because they're giving you the pipe.
@OP What f’n difference does it make if they learn anything? The whole industry is hire/fire and every super-major is outsourcing every task that they can’t digitally capture via A.I.
Those newbies are smarter than you are. Your problem is that you’re trying to play a 21st century game by 20th century rules.
Since Exxon got a bad name after the PIPs called layoffs, they couldn't attract top talent from schools. When you can't get top talent, you either change the way you operate (i.e. get rid of the fake layoffs and hunger games) though that will take time for people to believe it, you pay higher salaries (don't want to have to explain that to shareholders, DW would be admitting he made a mistake), third option, you quietly lower the standards, hoping no one outside the company will notice, then make your experienced (i.e. 10+ year) employees do the work of the new hires until you layoff the experienced employees and rely on contractors. Starting in 2020, Exxon dramatically lowered their hiring standards and it is showing. Hang on because it is going to get a lot worse. Exxon will be the subject of a CSB video in the future due to incompetence as we get rid of more 10+ year employees. DEI will NOT make us stronger.
Maybe it’s not that they don’t want to learn anything, it’s that you don’t have anything to teach them. I’m mid-career and surrounded by a bunch of older dummies that barely have a grasp on the basic tenants of their undergrad degree, but think they’re the bees knees because they’ve been in the same seat for three or four decades. Seat time is not the same thing as knowledge, bud. Sounds like you’ve been confidently doing things wrong for 30+ years, you shouldn’t expect new hires to follow you if you’re obviously walking off a cliff.
Even if EM hires the worst graduates in the US, it doesn’t matter. They are here only temporarily, as a stopgap between the experienced employees EM got rid of and the transfer of the jobs to low cost centers.
Reality is that no one that’s has any intelligence and is quality minded wants to work here. The ship is going down just a matter of time. Low cost centers and low cost/ low quality employees are taking over as they continue to layoff without severance pay. As the good workers quit or get piped the scale begins to tip toward the lazy and toxic employees. Losses accelerate and the speed of sinking increases.
The top talent is leaving. Bye Bye XOM
It's a commodity company, y'all.
you need Nobel prize prospects for that?
XOM has relaxed hiring standards massively in the past few years (last year especially). We are hiring dregs from schools we would have laughed at five years ago.
The reckoning is coming and it will not be pretty.
That's what XOM wants apparently. If you are a dedicated older employee that has worked their azz off for decades they want to get rid of you and hire the cheapest they can find. I was so sick of it I retired immediately as soon as I became eligible. Glad i did too because life is so much better without XOM.
Why should they do more? EM shows how much they value their employees, the employees show the new, adjusted work ethic. Both sides deserve each other. Any stock owner who didn’t sell at 115 will have a rude awakening. All settled.
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They are very good at bashing straight white males on their computer though. It’s part of DEI process. Be nice to them because they are liable to be your manager in a couple years.