I feel as though the majority of people attending our site in person at moment are contractors. Any word if there will be more of a contractor squeeze in the near future? There is so much pressure on employees currently- wondering if this extends to contractors as well.
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Yes contractors are people. But you know what you signed up for. Expecting any loyalty to you from ExxonMobil is foolish. You sound arrogant.
You condescending responders sure are hilarious. Contractors are in fact people with skills as well, most likely stuck in contractor roles because Exxon management is filled with cheap ignoramuses. I can do my job better, faster, and far more efficiently than the gold star employees I work side by side with. My current department is lacking in MANY things, but fellow employees are old, refuse to change their ways, and frankly don’t give a c-ap about learning anything progressive due to retirement plans. This makes me lose all ambition and aspiration to even become an employee.
To those with actual helpful answers, thank you! Maybe if there were more of you around in the company, the morale wouldn’t be such garbage.
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And contractors are being let go. At the same time, so are (and soon to be) many employees. So I fail to see the point of you holding on to contractors need to go to save EM jobs.
I’m all for cutting all contractors if it saves employees. Contractors are staff aug and they should expect that they can be let go at any moment.
The only “contractors” I’d like gone are the double-dipping retirees that come back to milk the cow drier. Especially those crusty STCs.
All the rest are super hard working people making very necessary contributions to keep the train going.
which gets the sc-ape-off most easily, the scab or the contractor?
the contractor.
In most business lines there will be zero contractors by mid 2021
@OP You clearly are not informed with what's been happening to Contractors. Just within my org, there have "4 rounds" of cost saving activities affecting contractors; 2 rounds of cuts, 1 round of mandatory vendor bill rate reductions (~10-20%) which trickled down to the contractors, 1 more round of cuts. None of my employee colleagues have been pip'd and as a matter of fact, we've added 3 brand new employees in the last 2 months.
Maybe this "pressure" you speak of is self-inflicted; maybe your trolling; maybe your position has been rendered redundant and thus not worthy of being given notice. I'll tell you what "Milton", grab your red stapler and prepare your next thread titled "Anyone not receive their pay check?"
- S. "Milton" is in reference to a character from the movie, Office Space
- P.S. P.S.'d because I think you'll need it. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
In March/April employees were shifted around to backfill for contractors being let go, where ever possible. Where it was not possible because the contractor had a specific skill or were working on a project close to closing, the contractor was retained. I have heard the contractors hours were cut and in some cases were asked to take a significant hourly wage cut. Every year November/December each department is asked to let their contractors go and they come back in Jan/Feb. (Some based on the work, resources etc are allowed to stay). For2021 they will probably not ask as many back.
There is about 10~20% contract labor still being held onto (our site let over 70% go in march/April) Mainly holding to to some because those people are actually important for retention of information, finishing up projects, cheaper labor in some instances, etc.
The idea that 100% of contract labor needs to be let go before employees is id–tic. There are many contractors that are better than an EM equivalent in what they are being asked to do. The contractor is also likely a lower cost than EM employee at times.
I'm overhearing that the plan is to further reduce contractor headcount in the nearish future as well as get rid of additional employees. If EM gets rid of the 10% us employees this year and an additional 10% next via PIP, the company saves more money than letting 20% go next year, calling it a layoff, and giving more money for severance.
@xsa+175I0zYu Sure seems like they asked the question because they didn’t know the answer. I am a contractor, had my hours cut for 3 months, am back full time watching employees scrambling, and still have no idea what is going on either. So an insightful answer instead of a snarky comment would probably be a bit more beneficial. Typical Exxon employee with a god complex I guess 🤷🏻♂️
A bunch of contractors being held on to while employees are being fake PIPed.
Guess the company saves more money by letting go of employees instead of contractors.
XOM Management needs to have integrity and be honest about what they are doing. Don’t hide behind “we are all in this together”.
@xsa+175I0zYu, HQ still has contractors on site.
Whoever is posting this clearly is an outside party with no clue of what’s already going on with contractors