XOM is not the same, I remember taking pride for working here. Now I'm just ready to leave like everyone else. What is keeping you here? Are you really building any skills or just correcting mistakes from outsourced work? How much more can you take?
Sick and tired of being sick and tired.
How much more can you take?
Well, I maxed out at 10 (inches that is) and totally passed out afterwards.
Moral of the story............Don't take on any more than you can handle @WORK.
There's only one place in the world that matters now...
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/wademaxwellexxonmobil_fantastic-teamwork-and-collaboration-thanks-activity-7114294701427462144-36UF
The writing is on the wall. Just wait and see how all the outsourcing comes back and bites XOM in the @ss.
You are setting yourself up for a disappointment. Don’t be negative but don’t paint a rosy picture of a bright future.
I kept telling myself to hang in there for several years. It was miserable. I finally saw the culture was not for me and made the choice to leave. (I was not PIP.) You can’t change the culture.
Started a new job recently, must say I told myself I would quit a 100 times.. but then just this week, I had to turn myself away from this negative thought and say.. I can do this and I am ready to learn.. I’m up from the challenge. Exxon is now challenging us.. either get on board or get off. This place is trying to make us all better..
After my NI ranking this year on Monday, think I'll just coast it until the end of this year's cycle. Then off to other pastures. Just got to take the advice below... Turn up tune out...
The grass is greener on the other side. I joined another operator a year ago and am having a fantastic time. Xom is not the only place!
“Thank you sir! May I have another?”
I took the PIL last year and retired at 54. It was a good company when I started it 1990. Covid ended that. Good to be out.
Like the rest of you, what’s keeping me here is that no one else will hire me. After 10 years at XOM, all I can do is create MOCs, LPO, make up a b:c, cite OIMS elements, and prevent others from doing anything useful, or at least slow them down with useless meetings and making them prove 99 other ways of doing something are not a better solution. All the things that make me a good employee at XOM are not valued at other companies, so like the rest of you, I am stuck here, hoping to get to retirement like the useless and unhelpful boomers. All I can do is complain about the toxic environment and how unfair XOM is and hope the managers keep moving jobs so no one figures it out and the jig is up. I am working from home most of the time, so, in all, not too bad. I do wish I worked somewhere else out of college so that I would have been forced to learn useful skills.
It was never great.
never expected great.
what it is now - i don't know.
not even good?
not even worth an effort, for sure.
Like many others it breaks me to see what this once great company has become. DW is basically a corporate raider running the company to failure. Total downstream mindset of cost cutting.
I'm biding my time until retirement. Barely working since they messed with my ranking. Told me I should be mentoring junior employees. Told them I was mentoring my junior teammates who happen to be from an MSP. Was told that doesn't count since they're not XOM. Can you imagine? Now I'm wfh 80% of the time and for about 4 hours per day. I want no regrets when I retire which means not performing, not coming into the office, taking sick days (first time in 10 years) and generally not giving a F. Feels good, I recommend it.
Just waiting out the last few months before retirement, checked out years ago during our mistreatment in covid. I don't recognise the company now, no relation to the one I joined or even 5 years ago.
I'm sad this place isn't the same either. I'm actively looking for something else. I feel like the poster on the back of Mad Magazine October 1989....
Ha great question. Was looking at a laid back Friday but team mates made it into a nightmare. Everyone is kicking the can.
Still a little time on the clock til the five year pension mark.