Thread regarding ExxonMobil Corp. layoffs

I can’t believe have to work with all you f-ing mo–ns complaining about printer saving costs.

Serenity now!!!

Probably the same person who was promoted for saving us so much money in circa 2017 by switching the coffee provider on campus. It was going to save us millions per the email sent to everyone. Should have saved the email. That change didn’t last long.

@1ido+19PP6OOY VPs also have reserved parking spaces. Remember when you were awarded a reserved spot for years of service? Then we were told at campus no one would have one. Didn’t take long for the VPs to put signs up on the best parking spots

The justification for this amazing savings is that the printers were never used more than 60% of the time and on average only 20%. The genius manager who boosted his career this way forgot to check why that was: most printers, especially the big plotters, were almost always either out of ink, out of paper or jammed. To print a poster requested by the management you had to hunt for a working plotter on all floors, eventually finding one that works in another building, although it might stop working by the time you would return to your desk and send the file to print. We would waste hours billed at high cost, while “on paper” the printers looked like nobody is using them. All that because, in order to save money (of course) they wouldn’t have a designated person to take care of the printers. As the old Soviet saying went, “from blunder to blunder to the final victory”.

Company presidents have trash cans in their offices...

My favorite cost savings was when they did away with office trash collection. So instead of having a contractor making minimum wage collecting garbage, people making $400k a year took time out of their day to take their trash to the common area. But hey someone got to put that on their PDS.

You all missed the point! We simply demonstrate how green we are!

Every dollar help when there is a need to cover the raise of DW’s and his sycophants in Dallas

Shut down the Irving god pod and move them into Executive dining dining rooms at the Crystal Palace. They can overlook the minions on a daily basis. WOULD be a huge cost savings shutting down Irving. We can all do morning calisthenics in the below courtyard as they oversee us from above and give us our daily marching orders. We might even get our printers back?

Here are a few other suggestions to cut OPEX at the crystal palace: 1) 2 ply toilet paper the same that is used at the Exxon and Mobil gas stations; 2) adjust the thermostat by two degrees; 3) turn off the TVs; 4) unplug the refrigerators; 5) no more coffee and dishwashers; 6) no more color printing; 7) discontinue irrigating the grounds and replacement of died landscaping, pave it over; 8) cut down the Tiletsin tree and sell for fitewood; 9) sell all that useless furniture that no one sits in and put more cubicles in their place 10) pack us in like sardines and lease out unused campus space; 11) reduce size of executive and VP and Presidents offices; 12) get rid of those stupid executive dining halls and auditoriums and use for cubicles allowing for more of the campus to be leased, what a waste of space and money that is; 13) get rid of the gym or sell it to Golds Gym. We are here to work not play pig pong and do pilates at lunch for 2 hours; 14) sell those $20k conference tables that were made from 10k year old Australian wood, I mean really?;

Who is still printing stuff in these days and ages?

@wwi+19PP6OOY there is a saying we love to use for EM: penny-wise, pound-foolish. Every decision EM makes follows this principle. Good riddance when this h3ll hole goes belly up.

Perhaps they should have put the brakes on handing out restricted shares like candy when the Company is undergoing a crisis. Thanks for the confirmation VP.

This is an EMIT problem that is likely widespread in other parts of the company as well. Someone who’s looking for step-out items on their EADS came up with this bright idea and many more people latched on, via Yammer, a “sprint planning”, “innovation hub” or some other gathering so that they can all share in their credit-taking for what ends up being an insignificant impact. Meanwhile these same people claim to be too busy or don’t have enough resources to solve actual inefficiencies in the revenue-generating parts of the company because they expect the customers to walk in knowing what the end state “benefits case” will be.

Wow another top opex reduction idea. So when the "one" printer / copier on my floor goes down, then I have to walk to another floor and hope that one is working or has paper. The next step is for someone on that cost savings team to determine it is even cheaper to have one printer / copier for a building. ExxonMobil continues to major on the "minors".

Hah what a joke!

$23 million dollar salary btw

One of the reasons I left a prior company was because the annual cost savings event were out of control. Could not find a tissue or a pen anywhere and employees were expected to provide their own during these "tough times".

The company becomes more of a joke every day.

It is similar to how we need to drive to office to show we help drive up the gas demand. Similarly, we need to show our use of Petro products in abundance to drive up its demand as well. After all, "WeAreExxonMobil".