I am not PIP'ed but I can see XOM is going down the path like Enron. If XOM wants to cut costs, they need to streamline its management hierarchy. Most SLS's have zero technical skills. Their jobs are to have endless 1:1 meetings and lower team's productivity. They often set people up and create conflicts within the team because they build their success on "so-called alignment". For the past several years, we have created layers of layers supervisors and middle managers. What values do they bring to the bottom line of the company? The chain of command structure lays out a company's lines of authority and decision-making power but it has failed to establish accountability and improve productivity at XOM.
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This CEO is a lying sack of sh–. They are forcing people out who have 20 years with the company who are disabled, but not retirement eligible. These employees will lose their medical insurance ASAP, will not be able to draw their pension for years, and likely will not be employable because disabled. They are breaking the law and they figure they can get away with it because the economy is tanking. It was in the plans since April and the CEO says in May no layoffs. F—ing liar. And yet his compensation and other executive compensation did not decrease. I feel sorry for the loyal, hard working employees who are getting tagged for the botton 8% without any clue in advance.
@3hgn evaluates themself as a higher performer than than probably is...
Also sounds like that person works at a site, which is reasonable to be overworked.. Much work at the site that is loaded up is pretty BS and inefficient anyway. There are also many other positions in the company that are not as work demanding.
What’s wrong with working 8 to 4? I chose this industry and company because of its work life balance. If I want to work 6 to 12 I would study finance and go work in Wall Street. This company does not pay enough to go over 50 hours per week on a regular basis.
I’ve found most management in field/business roles (not HQ, not support functions like controllers or IT) are great. Sure, there are a few bad examples but if you want an expensive group of supervisors/managers to PIP and save the company some bucks, start with the people at the Campus.
I’m p-ss-d off because I’m experienced, efficient, and OVERLOADED. Then there are slacker twits like you going home after 30hrs a week claiming “my scope doesn’t demand 40+ hrs a week”. I’ve known plenty of people like you before ... that’s code for: you do all the work while I loaf and talk talk talk about how great I am. “Work smarter not harder” = I’m too lazy to do my fair share. Lazy a$$.
@3vgh you really are clueless as to what your coworkers are doing then. For the vast majority of jobs, There are many that just don't have the scope of work to be putting >40 hr per week all the time.
Are you angry because you got PIP'd? Or do you just work at the site where too many people have to put in longer hours because there inexperienced and can't work efficiently.
It’s assumed in my argument that hours worked are actually worked, and not pissing around. If you’re consistently getting all your work done 8-4, with lunch (even at your desk) and no weekends ... I suggest you volunteer to take some work off the plate of one of your colleagues who’s absolutely buried, even though you’re imagining they’re goofing around.
The hours worked does not equate to quality of work nor work completed. There are a enormous amount of co-workers that spend numerous hours of the day walking around, joking with coworkers, getting nothing accomplished then put in longer hours to "catch up". Meanwhile there are plenty of hardworking people that come in 8-4, chat with a few employees, and get MORE work done than many.
Sadly in this environment, we have begun letting go the employees that "don't quite fit in" rather than the jokers/pranksters that management likes.
absolutely agreed, at-least everything except for enron. enron was deliberately/explicitly manipulating their business. exxon's president's and vp's are unintentionally driving the company into the ground. honestly the company is chalked full of a bunch of pompous pussies that work 8 to 4 everyday. big oil in general lacks a tremendous amount of accountability. the move to spring really didn't help the ability to recruit new to mid-level people, which is what they need to be recruiting to compete
@vwf sounds like somebody’s got a case of the Mondays.
Many of us have 2 supervisors to report to - one functional and one administrative, and several department managers to worry about. This is getting ridiculous.
It takes real guts to stand up in the meeting and state the obvious. Do you want to spend all your time talking or is somebody going to be doing? Either we have endless committee meetings or we do the job.
I have got a great performance evaluation this year but decided to resign to pursue a different career. All I ever did was LPSA's, JLAs and LPO's and helped my supervisor meet monthly targets. I honestly don't remember if I ever delivered any real results in the past 5 years.
There are SLS out there with CL 28 & 29s which is borderline DH level, no chemical or mechanical degree but enough brown nosing to get them their spots
Agreed. One simple business decision takes 2 dozen meetings and still no alignment is reached. Our jobs are to make our own supervisors look good at the cost of others. If you want to know how bureaucracy works, look no further. This is exactly how ExxonMobil operates.