Hearing lots of rumors around campus that the whole PIL thing where you can leave and take 3 months of money instead of going through the PIP is not happening this year? Can anyone confirm/comment?
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Yes, there will be a PIL. In order to get the PIL, you have to sign away your legal right to sue. Cheaper for XOM to pay the PIL, than if they lose a lawsuit.
I used to love coming to work when this company valued hard work and team players. A lot of us were mentors and always helped our peers. We all work for the same company. Now the environment is so toxic no one helps anyone. I refused to play into that and helped everyone who asked. It got me pip’d and all those I had to help teach to do their jobs still have jobs. What you see now is only a downward spiral for Exxonmobil. Leadership makes bad decisions, bad investments, overspend and now the entire company will pay for the few that made the really bad decisions.
“Play the game” ?
The game is rigged. It always was, but before there was some slack, you could survive by just doing good work. Now it’s a cynical joke, nobody cares about work done and the quality of it.
Enough BS about “one team” and “this is family” cr-p. When sh-t hits the fan, everyone is on your own. Take ownership of your career today, and that means do whatever is necessary to be ranked well.
Everyone in your rank pool is your competitor. Period.
Play the game.
It’s mind boggling to read postings here claiming that “ he program is for the benefit of employees” and that “ Expectations [are] that people improve on their PIP and stay”.
So last year, in the most catastrophic year in history for the oil industry, with the first major Exxon layoff in three decades, the company coincidentally decides to launch an oversized PIP, because it was the perfect time to improve and revitalize performance, as if anybody actually thinks that being through the PIP makes your performance better.
This year we get another oversized PIP, because people who just one year ago were much higher in ranking suddenly need to be improved through the miracle-working PIP. Remember that after all that happened in 2020, any low-performer we have is purely manufactured by forced ranking.
Everybody from SVP down absolutely hate the oversized PIP, because it’s extremely time consuming for the supervisors, disrupting for day to day work and disastrous for morale. The orders come straight from Dallas.
The idea that anybody in the management actually believes that the PIP is some kind performance-improver is absurd - how about some training instead ? You really have to be a fool not to realize it’s nothing more than a way to target those who can’t be laid off - NREs and REs, with younger workers being “collateral damage” needed to hide age discrimination.
@hby+1beqy3tv Get a lawyer’s advice. It will come I handy to iron out the milestones. To those affected soon, wishing you the very best of luck!
“I’ve never seen such a toxic environment”
The truest words in this entire thread. And as was correctly pointed out, a PIP contains milestones that are likely to be ever more subjective than the BS ranking process, a Pipper can be perp walked at any point during the 90 days. Plus it gives them more chances to manipulate the statistics to try and disguise the layoff better than last year.
Have heard no PIL this year as well from sources I trust - more control over who actually leaves. PIP for NSI unless it's your 2nd in 3 years. Expectation that people improve on their PIP and stay. (Remember that a lot of this year's NSI pool were likely 3Q or maybe even 2Q before this year.)
PIL will exists. They need something to get you to sign the form saying you are happy with the whole situation.
It’s confirmed. No PIL option this round
Why wait for a 3 month “bonus”? Seriously folks, if you’re miserable and what employee working at EM isn’t, just leave! Trust me when I say, you’ll find peace and you’ll find purpose once again. Stress can cause so much damage to your mental and physical well-being and life is not a dress rehearsal. And please don’t trust anyone at EM. Management is a bunch of liars and those you think are your friends are actually sucking the life out of you to try and save their jobs. I’ve never seen such a toxic environment. Again, life is not a dress rehearsal. Wishing you all the best.
Not true. PIL offered
They don't want to lose more staff with the attrition...maybe. They also want the use of the program last year to stand up to legal scrutiny and only sometimes be used for underhanded lay offs as needed. 8 percent doesn't mean all 8 percent will be fired...the program is for the benefit of employees after all.
Apparently folks really don't know what they're talking about when discussing PIP and PIL so let me just clarify a couple things. If you choose PIP you are not guaranteed (3 months during these times) the full 90 days of actually performing the PIP assignments (which are in addition to your regular daily work). Your supervisor can tell you at any time during the PIP that you are not meeting the goals and you can be let go before the full 90 days. Also, if you choose PIL, this is not a lumpsum 3 month payment. You cease working for the company but continue to receive regular paychecks for 3 months.
This is a cheap and completely illogic rumor probably lunched by some troll. Just think a little: if there would be no PIL and you would have to take the PIP or be terminated immediately, you could simply declare you do take the PIP and actually do nothing the supervisor puts in the plan. Hey, you can even say you need to work from home a few days a week. You will absolutely fail the PIP but you will get paid those three months anyway, without having to stress yourself. That’s precisely why the PIL is an option.
On the other hand, now that the company has age discrimination lawsuits on their hands (there are rumors of out of court settlements for last year’s MLRP), the last thing the company needs is to renege on what is had stated officially in the training materials for the process.
I believe it will stay. But no harm making sure you have the training materials documented. Talk to a counsel if required.
Is this actually true? If so that’d be so screwed up, especially since it was specified in our pds training.
You’re fu----g lying. You don’t even work here
Yep. No PIL is wut I was told