My engineering manager resigned. I am terrified of who they will send to replace him. Hoping they promote from within or someone who actually wanted to be in Midland and work uncon BEFORE everything crashed and there was nothing else to do. Not really interested in someone who just wants to punch their ticket in Midland before moving away as soon as they can. Why don’t they find people who actually want to stay here for a career learning and building up the business unit. The short timer HiPos cycling through is a morale ki–––r for the rest of us here. About the time we teach them why we do things the way we do they move and we have to start all over again training the new HiPo. We have a few people who have stayed in Midland through thick and thin and gotten us to where we are. Everyone loves them. Need more people like that here.
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Big meeting so expecting an announcement tomorrow. Any predictions?
Pretty accurate description of the state of affairs. When things heat up again they are going to see people leaving in droves.
EG should be given some credit for that cash generation if you ask me. He is ok in my book.
Careful what you wish for. EG is one of the better ExxonMobil managers I’ve had. You may live to regret wishing him away if he is replaced.
EG is just going to bring in more of his East Texas robots and displace the employees who built the Midland Basin into the cash generating machine it is. He’s demoted / fired a lot of good people who have been here from the start. Things won’t improve in Midland until he’s gone.
Anyone else frustrated that open leadership positions keep going to drillers? I know there are lots of drillers with little to no work, but why do they get the growth positions?
We should all stop training our supervisors and managers and just do what they tell us to do, without questions asked – while documenting their instructions in case a decision is questioned later. The sink or swim principle: the ones who are eager to learn will stay afloat and will value their team, the rest ... back to sender. I am so fed up with these higher CL's taking credit for the hard work of their team and moving on so fast that they do not have to face their own mistakes.
Check the personnel announcements!
Curious to know who that engineering manager is
Sorry to hear that, my Engineering Manager on the Midland TX side resigned and this is his last week. His replacement is from drilling...hope she works out fine. At this point it doesn't really matter, most of the team are looking to either jump ship for another company, go into a different career, go back to school, or resign soon. Management thinks we don't have much a a choice, but we are engineers that solve problems and this is just another problem. Keep your head up, give DW the finger every morning when you turn on your computer to the company website, and good luck.
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Ooof, wrong Indians. They are referring to the saying “too many chiefs and not enough Indians” (I.e. Native Americans.
Thanks for your racist comment. Indians are the reason you are surviving you worthless piece of garbage.
All the mess people like you have created has driven the company into this condition. But sure what else to expect from an American in ExxonMobil, the most uneducated, uninformed group of people on the earth who take pride in themseves without reealising how hollow and dark your existence and past is. Exploiting other countries ALL the time, look in the mirror.
It would be nice if he would come visit us or have a forum. No one has seen or heard from him since he took over. Flying in for a day and convoying in SUVs with management to previously selected sites to talk to previously arranged people doesn’t count.
Resigned to go work for a competitor who pays more.
Where did your manager go?
Well make room at the top of the rank group for the HiPos! Here they come and down you go.
It is frustrating for those of us from here when people from outside come in and look down their noses at us. For example always complain about the schools not being good enough and send their kids to private schools. Don’t they realize these are the schools we went to and our kids go to? Maybe they could try improve the schools rather than just spending their RSUs which we don’t get on private schools.
My take–away – you did indeed lose a good manager.
The kind that doesn't fit with this corporate culture.
He/she was also smart enough to see that.
You likely won't see another like that.
I feel for you. I work in Downstream and the SLS/DH musical chairs are the biggest drain on productivity (and profitability) at probably every site