Thread regarding ExxonMobil Corp. layoffs

“because Exxon is a commodity business and makes money despite poor decisions, the huge mistakes just gets swept under the rug”

Key point above. No other business or industry could survive the stupidity of management

The amount of money wasted with no consequence is astounding

Yeah there was a manager who fabricated a bunch of “brutal truths” because it was the catch phrase of the day. He was barely in the position for a year. Never consulted any of the people who were closest to the work. He made out like a bandit with a nice retirement package. The business installed a bunch of his buddies who knew less than him to “lead” the rest of us. Cratered the business. But because Exxon is a commodity business and makes money despite poor decisions, the huge mistakes just gets swept under the rug.

If you want to hear the brutal truths, ask the people who actually spent time in the trenches.

I have had one good supervisor in my 20 years here. All the others were pure evil. Everyone of the baddies only cared for themselves and fired piped at will. None of them had any decency or integrity. My truth at exxon.

They can’t handle the truth

@ev … very very funny … your comment is equivalent to “I’m really not a naive narcissist, I just don’t understand the American culture”. But you should have said that as intro comment to your post because most everyone on this site whom actually works at ExxonMobil know thinks you are a hygiene product called doxche sax regoneron.

There are good pockets in the company with great people and good managers that care about their people and if you have not been in such groups, maybe you are part of the problem.

It goes all the way down to the managers and supervisors. They are all out for themselves and don't care about anyone except themselves. They will lie cheat, steal and do anything to move up. Their is no working together or helping each other out. It is the hunger games survival of the most cruel and evil. Gossip is rampant and perception is everything. The power goes to the supervisors heads and they feel invincible. It us a very bad and dysfunctional place. There is no hope as the upper management has allowed and will allow it to continue. The only cure is to leave otherwise you will continue to suffer. It will take a mental toll on your health.

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It is "more" transparent now because of public domain sites like "TheLayoff.com", LinkedIn, Indeed, Google, Stephen Coll's 2013 book on ExxonMobil inner workings...etc. where employees can post anonymously about the inner workings of ExxonMobil.

Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power Paperback – May 28, 2013
by Steve Coll (Author)

“ExxonMobil has met its match in Coll, an elegant writer and dogged reporter . . . extraordinary . . . monumental.” —The Washington Post

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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of Ghost Wars and The Achilles Trap, an extraordinary exposé of Big Oil. Includes a profile of current Secretary of State and former chairman and chief executive of ExxonMobil, Rex Tillerson

In this, the first hard-hitting examination of ExxonMobil—the largest and most powerful private corporation in the United States—Steve Coll reveals the true extent of its power. Private Empire pulls back the curtain, tracking the corporation’s recent history and its central role on the world stage, beginning with the Exxon Valdez accident in 1989 and leading to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.

The action spans the globe—featuring kidnapping cases, civil wars, and high-stakes struggles at the Kremlin—and the narrative is driven by larger-than-life characters, including corporate legend Lee “Iron A-s” Raymond, ExxonMobil’s chief executive until 2005, and current chairman and chief executive Rex Tillerson, President-elect Donald Trump's nomination for Secretary of State.

A penetrating, news-breaking study, Private Empire is a defining portrait of Big Oil in American politics and foreign policy.

Same as it ever was, to be honest.
more transparent now.
which seems against logic given the control tools available.
maybe the dudes at the top in the old days were smarter.

I expect nothing less from our toxic senior leadership of this company. From these impersonal congratulation on job well done email to korny corporate spotlights (w/ nothing to do with corporate achievements) to fake surveys that force you to answer questions in a certain way so that our CEO can unlock another x amount of stock options.......