I'd go with managers: most of them have no idea what they're doing, they are quick to take credit for things they had nothing to do with and transfer blame for their own f—ups onto their subordinates, and some are even verbally abusive. I've never worked at a place with less professional managers.
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The "culture," the arrogance, the tone deaf approach to everything management does. It is so obvious that the company does not care about its employees, and it makes me angry that they think we are too stupid to see behind the facade.
Looking at the pay increases of the execs whilst lives of ordinary workers are torn apart by job insecurity.
Working with those fake a— colleagues/knowledgable others. Things worsened after several from my tower were let go. Can be tiring spending most of your working hours looking over your shoulder just to ensure no one stabs you in the back
Someone who has been a manager for decades becomes a chief scientist.
Good ole boys and being "managed"
a culture which stresses disappointments over success stories, measures leadership by how much you talk in meetings, uses job insecurity is a motivating factor, is okay with the hypocrisy of preaching ‘leaner and meaner’ while asking for endless powerpoints, tries to get the same people to come back to campus that they are working to offshore, speaks of cash generation but prioritizes dividend spend vs opex/capex spend needed to generate that cash....i could go on. That said, my coworkers and the work they do always impress me. For that reason I’m long XOM.
@Vitapita - but ... but ... but ... the creation of the Houston Campus. The relocation of the Paulsboro EMRE folks to Clinton. This was all about "collaboration and synergies", which were just supposed to happen spontaneously, just because we put a bunch of people in the same location. Do you mean that it hadn't happened ? Because of very poor management ("leadership" ? ha ha ha !) this company is run on bulls**t !
How performance system pits us against one another so that we don’t collaborate on solutions, we withhold information from peers that could help the company for fear they might out perform us. This recent change in performance assessment system, coupled with PIP, have made things worse.
And the lying to employees about the future...saying that they are still completing studies and don’t know what’s coming. Upper management knows exactly what’s coming, but they want to try to finish some work the ax falls. The only bright star is that if packages make it very attractive for people over 55 to retire, a lot of the biggest a–hole managers and leaders might leave.
Waiting to be assigned a project in GP. Not much left and sitting in Houston makes me feel useless. I have plenty of busy work reworking things that don’t need to be worked but it makes the management happy. We are adding value to future projects I’m told.
btw don’t forget to donate to UW. First group to 100% accountability gets a prize!
Company is severely toxic workplace to work in. A manager who hired you all these while can throw you out of her team anytime, no recognition but more unjustified accusation that you are a misfit to the company.
Bad leadership is the cause that ruined the company.
Sad ending for EM to dig its grave during crisis and not standing up to ensure employees are protected as what they claim.
Hypocrisy, unethical, management team, not to trust any single individual in the organization.
Agree there are too many Supervisors, Team Leads & even Managers taking credit for ideas from their teams. I had the same thing happen to me with a team lead. She was even promoted. She regularly stole ideas from her team and presented them to Management as her own. Managers have no clue as to what goes on because they do not know how to lead. Most are paper pushers focused on their next power point.
Going on a date with someone who’s main hobbies aren’t hunting, fishing, and church and mentioning what I do usually leads to “oh you work for Exxon? So you don’t believe in climate change?”
I don't work in Texas, so I hesitate the say the name of the company I work for to strangers.
I used to say 'A major corporation.'
Need to come up with something else.
Every single safety share I’ve ever submitted has been a made up story....
@nes - the same thing happened to me. I always suspect that my Group Lead took credit for my work, after all, what else can managers do except take credit for their group ?
This was confirmed one day, when he sent me an e-mail asking for information on a cost reduction program I was working on (my own initiative), because he had a budget meeting that afternoon where he would have to say how much money HE was going to save.
Team members being even more cutthroat and competitive than usual, taking all the work so you don't have any.
How about the expectation for and apparent rewarding of sycophancy and the lack of innovative ideas resulting from an inbred culture?
The lack of professionalism in the management. I currently work for. Supervisor (due to rank drop) and he takes credit for all my work! He asks for regular updates on my work then sends out communications to upper management on what “HE” has been working on. And MY ranking dropped??? This guy is scum!! But, when you work in Upstream this is how it works. I know others go through the same in other areas but, it’s a darn shame. DW should be proud of the type of environment he’s created.
The United way and having to donate to wear jeans.
The fake safety culture (true fact: i once won one a monthly award with a made up story)
The location - “hello young professional, May I interest you in the thriving metropolis of spring Texas”
Should I go on?
How history repeats itself and just knowing we spent 1-2 million dollars to transplant 2 huge trees and k–l them both... it’s just sad and a good metaphor for Exxon, we are k–ling employees souls and also directly and indirectly we are contributing to k–ling the planet we live on.... but hey we got the dual challenge 🤮... I think others can provide affordable energy to the world better and and with more integrity than we do, and others seem to be much better at reducing greenhouse gas emissions also... so I guess the question is. Is the world a better place without Exxon?
“Extracurriculars”
Mistake in thinking: we don‘t have many Managers, who are able to lead in an examplary manner (being competent and having emotional IQ as well, maybe sometimes a vision on top). We have in majority overpaid administrators or executers without Management quality