Thread regarding ExxonMobil Corp. layoffs

Every contractor I’ve met have said we have one of the worst cultures compared to other F100 companies they consulted with lol

Absolutely disgusted by the management's decision to force everyone to RTO during this pandemic.

For a company that installs corner mirrors nearly everywhere and "encourages" the use of handrails when walking down the stairs, it is incredibly reckless to ask employees to return to the office just to be potentially exposed to the virus. Mind you, there are people who take the public transport to office everyday (no offense, I can't blame you).

I can't tell you how stunned I am when management even thought of maintaining social distance in the stairwell during an emergency evacuation (while holding the god d-mn handrails), and also in the toilet stalls. However, it is PERFECTLY OK to be within 6 feet of your colleagues during a discussion so long as you wear a mask. Hello? Even the incompetent policing force here would fine you $250 for doing so (that is if you do so in the public)

So far we are lucky as there are still no recorded cases amongst the local employees post-MCO (WHOOPS DID I JUST REVEAL MY GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION? PFFFFT IDC). But when it does, there will be hell to pay.

Agreed, the culture is U.S. centric and toxic. If your white male, go to church and have a family you will fit right in and have opportunities to rise up the ranks. The current crop of millennial supervisors/mangers are mostly horrific and treat others poorly. Very self entitled and everyone looks out for themselves. After 25 years and top quin tile performer I was let go due to these incompetent rogue mangers. Glad I got rid of all my stock previously.

The company is run by accountants and paper pushers that sure know how to swing a story. Management hears what they want to hear. Glad I left, 40 years is a long time, believe me I've seen a lot of BS over the years.

How's that open floor concept working? Never cared for it, bring back my office.

Outsourcing jobs to India is the worst idea XOM has done within EMIT. I swear most of the BSC's have no idea that XOM is an oil&gas company. I'm sure most of the Campus personnel are the same. Trust me I went and trained my replacements, they thought XOM was a telecommunication company.

Nobody was forced to return. They were offered an unpaid leave if absence if they were SO principled and worried about their health. Of course, nobody used that flexible program. By the way. How stupid are the employees? Their jobs are tied to transportation and more work from home k–ls their jobs. Nobody cared a bit when the refineries were “going to work”. I say they outsource all campus jobs to remote locations to India Business Support Centers.

Sounds like someone’s been drinking the koolaid for 40 years :)

As for returning to work, we have to do it sometime. The Company has bent over backwards behind the scenes to ensure our safety. This I know for a fact. There is nothing "forced" - you have flexibility if your family situation warrants an accommodation. Anyone that thinks we would work from home forever is mistaken. We have a business to run

@8ioy Sorry not a jab at admins. Your work is greatly appreciated and thank you for 40 years of support with the company and providing for your family. What I meant was in some of the operations and technical roles computers are used to assist work but are a smaller part of my technical job then what an admin’s would be. Apologizes to my original wording I could have and should have phrased it better

I totally disagree that XOM management does not care about its employees. I have been there 40 + years and I have seen it all. There was a time that management was not top notch but that is no longer the case. There are those few managers who aren't ideal, granted. As for returning to work, we have to do it sometime. The Company has bent over backwards behind the scenes to ensure our safety. This I know for a fact. There is nothing "forced" - you have flexibility if your family situation warrants an accommodation. Anyone that thinks we would work from home forever is mistaken. We have a business to run. And, to the comment that admins may not use their brain as much as them, I would like for them to trade places with me for 1 week (I am an Executive Administrative Assistant).

That would work if you are an admin from the 90’s who types all day. 80% of my work is using a brain. 20% is keyboard and computer work. If your one of those people who spends the entire day writing out stupid long emails to show your genitals to your co workers you are not working. You are actually detracting from work as people read your stupid long email that talks in circles and barfs our buzz words. Do some real technical work.

Many companies are using keyboard tracking software to see if workers are really working from home. XOM has not started this yet...I suspect many working from home people will be discovered as "not working"

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Word travels fast. While working from home, during every one of our corporate Covid 19 conference calls, our leadership reminds us that Exxon folks have already been forced to go back to the office. It will be a recruiting talking point when we visit colleges and talk about real world examples of corporate culture.