It’s pretty much chicken sh** when Exxon fires a 32 year employee for false accusations. And doesn’t even offer early retirement or severance. Way to ruin people’s lives! We are in our 50’s. Stripped of all health benefits, life insurance, etc. what a sorry sorry company to let these young college students that were in diapers when my husband was hired decide to take our life away. Shame on Exxon!
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What did you do?
@6wrw speaks the truth. Selectively going after REs for trivial expense account or AMEX offenses was an HR sport for many years.
There have been many retirement eligible employees since Exxon acquired Mobil in 1999 that were given the choice of early retirement or termination due AMEX or other corporate violations.
If you were not given the choice of retirement vs. termination and you were retirement eligible, you should sue for your benefits. When "Discovery" starts, you will find that our company will settle out of court to avoid litigation.
I once worked with a gal who could svck the numbers off her AMEX. She abused it Sally the time but never seemed to get fired.
No follow up posts from OP? Oh well, yes, XOM lets go of great employees and PIPs and fires them. It also lets go of cr-p ones too. The year you are PIPped has nothing to do with your actual performance that year. It has to do with who management wants gone. Spoke the 'truth' at meetings? Gone. Made one wrong enemy? Gone. It's all BS, and I am certain it's actually illegal in many instances, but you know what happens when you sue? 12 people who never worked for XOM say, "I don't know" while the judge gets free lunches from XOM lawyers...
Best wishes bud, but unless you have an amazing paper trail, it's probably not worth the lawsuit.
There’s a small list of things that you’ll get actually fired for, the most common is Amex/pcard violations. OP tell us more around the circumstances
What was the supposed “cause” for termination?
I once worked with a gal in the mid 90's who was promoted to a position and she was given an AMEX card. In no time she bought a personal computer on it. Didn't report it. Was fired immediately.
Talking about stupid!
Company card violations are automatic termination if try to hide it.
If an accidental use of company credit card, reported immediately, then likely no punishment.
Please explain the “cause” that EM is claiming was committed.
The reading level on these forums is awfully low. The OP said they were false accusations and ppl automatically say pron….,
Exxon could cut the payroll in half if the gave out a reading comprehension test!
Yeah be careful. Once you dip yoo low in the behavior ranking they go after you with trumped up charges. They are watching inside and outside work Turn off your Company phone!!
Totally sucks. & I am sorry. What technicality was he caught on? Amex/ P-card violation or something else? What does everyone else need to be on the lookout for?
But seriously, was it po-n?
Good post! The Company is actively seeking out mistakes ( even more than usual). Don't give them an excuse to amplify some trivial failing.
In the previous downturn, Supervisors were instructed to seek out Highly compensated employees and build cases to terminate them.
One HC employee was given a 14 page ultimatum to sign that said he was agreeing to termination with full retirement benefits but hidden in that 14 pages was that EM could change that to regular termination.
Luckily he took that document to a lawyer. The guy came in the next day and turned in his retirement notice. His young supervisor was furious that the guy chose regular retirement rather than the 24 page document allowing EM to cancel benefits.
Seemed an organized scam to pay less benefits. Why would the Supervisor care if the guy chose retirement rather than 14 page legal document.
This is why I retired at 55. Locked in the benefits. Came back as contractor while still enjoying all retirement benefits.
If your hubby was 55 or older he still gets his pension but at a much reduced rate. True you lose the health benefits but the MetLife life insurance is now very expensive for retirees and the company paid life insurance is now only good until age 65 or 5 years which ever comes first. If he had supplemental pension losses that. Not trying to say in any way that it is right but you do have something and you need to get a lawyer and press your case. The company is desperate to get to the additional 9B in savings and I am sure this reflects well on someone.
I have heard of similar:
A young female accused a department manager of discrimination just for overhearing the dept mgr make a statement about someone that had recently been promoted to VP. The Dept Mgr only said “I am not surprised that he moved up, because he fits the executive profile”. The person that got promoted was tall, handsome, and full head of hair.
The Dept Mgr just happened to be short, fat, and bald himself.
Just by overhearing the Dept Mgr say that sentence, the young female engineer tried to ruin his career. That Dept Mgr had put a whole lot of effort into moving that girl up the rank list and into better assignments and she stabbed in the back for noticing that a certain profile pattern in chosen executives.
Pathetic that someone would attack any other employee with intention of ruining their life over hearing such a simple true statement not even spoken to her.
Saw a few get fired in my 40 years of service.
Rules are rules. Every workplace has them.
@OP Yeah, sorry bro. When you mess up, AND GET CAUGHT, it doesn't matter how long you've been there... and they don't owe you a dime beyond pay for work to date, and accrued-but-unused PTO.
Try to follow the rules at the next gig!
Job market is hot. He should be able to find a new job.
Maybe in the elevator something happened?
Inappropriate like.
Agree with the above poster — need more info?
Sounds like he was using the computer to look at po-n and borrowed a line from Shaggy, “It wasn’t me”.
Without context, hard to say.
Do you have a 10-year supply of sticky-notes in the house?
Visited a bad website a few times?
Hard to say.
What was he terminated for?