Thread regarding ExxonMobil Corp. layoffs

We all agree with you OP. It is a harsh reality to be thinking that you work for the best and brightest and giving in years of your life, only to realIze that the company has been brainwashing everyone systematically for decades, and all you are surrounded with is a bunch of greedy, incompetent, and bootlicking employees and management. All I did was a bunch of leadership and supervisory roles and now I am screwed. If I had developed any marketable skills, I would move.

Everyone here is pretending to be someone else. It is a zombie land

There have been suspects in the past, but it is sure DW has discovered the Layer-Off site and he's enjoying anonymity now.
My only co-worker is you, my CEO.
Sock it to the keester, OP woods.

Hey OP, if you are still here, as you imply, you must not have a desire to do meaningful work, you must be systemically brainwashed, and are only here for the greed of a fat paycheck for lazy work.
If a job were like going on a cruise, you'd be paying to work.

Well, OP - if one of my coworkers is you, that fact has degraded my view of the company.
However it is clear you are not even a external troll.
What is lower on the totem pole?

Newbie here. We aren’t brainwashed. We see what’s going on. The work we are doing is to pad our resume because we don’t have the experience to get another F500 position that isn’t a fresh out of school job that we no longer qualify for. So we need meaningful contributions to either 1. Make up for it 2. Get us into a good MBA program. It has nothing to do with benefitting the company. We all agree that we’re out on the next thing smoking. We aren’t worried about vesting… let alone retiring.

I call bull… XOM hires nubies straight out of Ivy League schools. Tgg he at way the brainwashing sticks. Workers with previous experience are not hired, as they are already polluted from other company processes.

Hey Biff, dont hit the manure truck again!!

When Blockbuster videos started losing market share to Netflix and Redbox what do you think they did? Pay their "technical experts" more money to keep giving them power point presentations or cut them loose? Think McFly! Think!

Person below is another brainwashed human. He/she thinks that EMIT does meaningful creative work (seriously?).

It may not be the highest paid job for showing up in meetings and provide no real value to contractors who do Mediocre work at best. For holding hand rails and talking about it all day, you are paid a lot.

Downvote all you want, but I work with some of the most wonderful people, actually.

I have so many colleagues who are actively contributing to projects and issue resolutions with their deep experiences and knowledge honed over the years and decades. The colleagues I meet in EM (in EMIT and other functions, and globally) are mostly down-to-earth, practical and extremely intelligent. Before I joined 15 years ago as an experienced hire I worked in a couple companies where people had no depth of knowledge and try to hide incompetence with talk and presentation. But in EM I felt it was different from day 1, and I was most impressed with my colleagues who didn't necessarily produce flashy ppt slides but they knew what they were talking about.

It's unfortunate our current policies no longer support building depth of expertise. There is a lot of talk on technical careers but no real policies to support it, except maybe in India, but even there, it’s like clutching at straws. But this isn't the fault of the employees or due to our greed for a fat pay check.

FYI EM has never been a top paymaster for young people, and now for mid-career folks, with all the uncertainty and risks of layoffs, I don't think you can claim the non-hipos (90% of us) are extremely well remunerated. It is at best, average