Thread regarding ExxonMobil Corp. layoffs

LinkedIn is now the largest platform for recruiting. Very important to get your profile updated and looking good - also need to make sure you've added a picture and some other tweaks so that you can achieve "All-Star" status. This enables you to be found by more recruiters. I found my new job through LinkedIn. Many large firms, including the likes of Amazon, use LinkedIn as their primary source for recruiting. Good luck!

@1jzu+19Vn2pi1
Yes, Linkedin is great, just open "visible only to recruiters" in settings. Everyone I know found it via recruiting contacted them, it is also very convinient way to apply for jobs

Did anyone who was PIP’d find any luck in the job search on LinkedIn. Is that still the best resource?

Thanks for posting that @fbd+19Vn2pi1 it calling this an "evaluation" is absurd https://techstaffer.blog/2020/08/03/exxonmobil-uses-performance-reviews-to-justify-job-cuts/

@1rvi+19Vn2pi1 - You must be an experienced hire where managers are expected to have business acumen for profitability. HR and Sr Management understand their capabilities very well. Are they able to toe the Company line and do precisely what their told? Can they execute the programs from above? That's why " successful" EM middle managers can never leave. It's only a few Executive level who get real P&L management responsibilities and can.

Our ability to understand high performing and low performing employees is terrible. I see plenty of higher performers making awful decisions that are losing the company money and/or demotivating employees.

If their managers knew more about the business, these folks should be PIPed. But instead, they took action, showed a little charisma, and can sugar-coat those bad decisions.....because hey, it wasn’t the absolute worst decision. They made $1...but aren’t accountable for the $1000 they could have made with just a little more courage or GI mindset. That is conveniently brushed under the rug.

I would keep a consistent, coachable, smart employee any day over someone who has been promoted past their capabilities. The latter is actively losing money in ways they don’t even understand.

There is no accounting for how this system can malfunction so poorly.
I don't know a single PT (not M) that is comfortable now in their career here.

Example:
I make 20K more per year than my new supervisor (as of Jan 2020).
He's spoken much in every zoom 1-on-1 about how the military system works similar to ExxonMobil. Very proud of that. Every group meeting too.
'Ya know, in the military, a wish is a command.'

I'm the only one on team who knows he made Sergeant right before separation 3 years in.
They all think he was a Colonel or something.
I'll leave them thinking that - cause I am leaving by any means necessary.

That’s how it usually goes. That is one of several key reasons why forced reductions every year are harmful to a company. Here is a person who knows the job and company and excels at it. But then somebody has to go, and even if your buddy is more skilled than someone else, that someone else may be on a more critical project at that point in time or be older, etc. Then they go and hire a cheaper person in who takes years to get where your buddy was, before that replacement is let go. The cycle continues

Unless the cancerous DW and his gang members are removed, I dont see a chance to continue WINNING!

OP, your story is 100% believable! You speak the truth.

Fingers crossed they sack all the useless management line -supervisors, managers, and the VPs- of UIS.
If it’s not them, it will be us.
I don’t foresee them holding onto research or core groups any longer, nor leaving a company with half a president.

And don’t forget, if it’s “performance” ain’t a lay-off.

Do not trust any XOM HR process, any Manager, any Supervisor and any of your peers. The system is rigged to make you believe it is real, that it is in your favor, that it empathizes with you, that it understands you, that it sympathizes with you, that it is concerned about your children, your spouse,, your work/home balance, your health, your finances, your home, your well being. The company spies on your keystrokes, your emails, listens to your phone calls, tracks your cell phones, watches you on your lap top camera, reads your texts and tracks your card keys. Your managers interview your peers to find out what you are saying and your peers report what you are saying to your managers often times lying about it. This all sounds very harsh, but it is also very, true and very real. Highly ranked employees get PIPed, strange huh, NO! HR changing the PAPD process was an illusion, a magic trick, it was not real, it was to done to give us hope that things were going to change, that we would maybe have a chance at WINNING, WE ARE EXXONMOBIL. BLAH. Do not buy this b—s— they are trying to sell us. Buckle up, find somewhere else to work this outfit is now poison, and if you have to stay then trust no one and ride out the storm until you can get out. GOD Bless you All. 🙏

I am so stressed, in my org, some of the upper and mid managers and even supervisors were let go just recently. I guess that whoever is making the cut has already created the list to PIP in the next round. Wherever you are now, if you are disliked by the decision makers, you're out.

There is no point in hoping. Either me or my pals will hit the curb.
The only thing we can be sure is that those aholes in upper management are guaranteed to make it and will claim success.
For the rest of us, save money and interview for jobs. The best time to look for a job is when you have one.
Pip or lay-off is a distinct possibility for any of us.

The "revamp" of the performance assessment process has been anything but positive. All it did was replace the buckets with flowery names. Taking away the stipulation that you could generally only fall ~20 points year-to-year has taken away any sense of stability. One bad manager and you're gone, despite HR assuring you that doesn't happen. While I don't think any of us are entitled to a full career here, it feels like hunger games now more than ever before. I don't feel empowered to buy a house, start a family, any big life move - the financial stress of taking on an expense like that with your income potentially taken away is too much. Searching for jobs now and planning on gtfo Houston.

There were many shocked employees in the 2020 version of the disguised layoff (aka PIP).

Imagine this year when employees who were highly rated in 2020 slide into the NSI and NI categories that are empty due to the recent layoffs and PIPs.

Pucker up those lips and tighten that grip on those handrails for all to see!!

This article did a pretty good job summing up how the last round went https://techstaffer.blog/2020/08/03/exxonmobil-uses-performance-reviews-to-justify-job-cuts/

"PIP Darren Woods!"