Completed three years and assessed as VeryGood / Good. The attrition is high and always filled by new campus hires who are trained and then resign by same time next year. Experienced hires in the team are taking the interesting work or work with travel opportunity and I get stuck in low value workflow support that requires stewardship. Every week I am forced to compile untrue value capture points just to fill a TFS dashboard or powerpoint and keep my supervisor satisfied. Hard working employees that I know got NI and NSI, some have taken the 3 month salary and left. I am worried that next year I will get NI or NSI. The salary is not great and there is no job security. I see everyone leaving and I do not know what to do next. I need some advice.
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Xom is actively selling off low return assets that are actually producing oil and gas. As India is pure support organization where there is zero oil and gas production, don’t think for a second that XOM would not pull out and jump to an even lower cost support location at some point in the future. No one believes the value capture BS , it’s all a shell game.
I’d love to know what promises are made to campus hires during recruitment.
Seriously BTC engineer? When you look around in India or Malaysia or wherever, where do you see EM refineries and chemical plants and exploration sites? How difficult it is to get that the only reason that you exist in EM is to do low value work so that other positions elsewhere can be eliminated? As long that there are millions of you graduating and capable of doing practically menial jobs for a fraction of a salary, even when you factor in training costs, why anybody should care? You are the equivalent of cannon fodder in wars, the replaceable parts in a system. There is future in EM but only for 1 out of 100 in you, the ones that will stay to supervise the successive waves of replaceable parts.
All of the work flows are low value, that’s why the work is moved to BTC. That was/is a key message in the business unit’s, identify low value work and port it.
The rank system will only get worse and with the absolute flood on new hires arriving management is not worried about attrition, sadly. Having weak and inexperienced supervisors will absolutely sink your career while they try to make you feel good about where you landed rank wise.
Despite all of the yammer, facebook, poems, forums and meetings regarding team work. The reality of the XOM rank system is you against everyone else.
@OP Life is tough. Here’s my advice:
Start saving as much money as you can, if you haven’t already. Start applying for other jobs, if you haven’t already, and jump when you get a slightly better offer. Rinse, wash, and repeat until you have enough money to retire.
Good luck.
Never, ever stop looking for the next job
Update your resume.
Taking American jobs and doing it poorly. Don’t care.
Find a better job or suck it up, buttercup.
Yes, definitely start planning an exit.
Even a petro engineer can escape from O&G dinosaurs - EM, CVX, BP, on and gone.
You chose engineering as a profession.
Time to do something with it!
EM ain't the place.
You will never get to an executive level, even if you are 100x better than anyone else in this company. Management is racist and they would never allow someone with a diverse background to make the rules in this company. You are better off working for another non-racist company. There are many great American companies that will not discriminante against race out there (Google, Apple, Amazon, Oracle to name a few).
Start your job hunt now. Invest serious time into your resume, LinkedIn, etc and try to get ahead of the curve.
There is no future for you my friend. The performance assessment process is meant to annually destroy employee morale and confidence. It will break you down, make you believe you are at fault. Id--ts will tell you things that don’t make any sense. They are conditioned robots/aliens from the ‘mothership’ Houston. They talk of safety and will force you back to office, work while wearing masks, even as people are still dying after getting vaccinated. But no, don’t you forget holding the handrail and knocking on the toilet door, that is very important for safety.
Dying of a pandemic? Who cares, thats not safety.
The BTC is unfortunately set up to fail. Few might get decent opportunities but it will be extremely rare. The truth is the management at BTC lies to you that there is no difference between India and USA, but c’mon, you know the truth. The ethics in this great American company are a disaster so do not expect fair treatment. Do not expect fair salary and fair benefits.
People have raised their concerns at every forum. They thought things will change but they didn’t and they won’t. The BTC manager’s ( raulfukall) job was to just makes up false promises and eventually GTFO , where is he now? Moved on. Glad to see him gone of course, a disgrace in the name of leadership. Only a slave to his masters.
And so will all other ‘expat’ managers who have zero interest in your welfare. They are just here to do their time, make some extra cash, get people to sing and dance to their tunes, spread FAKE positivity and FALSE promise of a great career to keep you hanging. And leave.
Truth is they lie to keep their own jobs, that is their only true skill left after spending years at this company.
The mangement gets paid thousands of dollars extra to soend time in India, they get VIP sevices they can never afford in the US, they get separate treatment versus local employees in more ways than you can ever imagine.
They give zero fu--s about you.
So, leave. This is the best advice you’ll get. This company is unethical at its core, all the way up to CEO.