Plenty of people were added to EM in the last twelve months, I think more than enough to make a nice dent in the planned reduction numbers. Why doesn't the company get rid of them - they have the least experience and knowledge and will cost the least in the way of severance - instead of fabricating unsatisfactory review results for long-term employees?
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There is a difference in Unconventional UOG and the rest of UOG. XTO valued experience so managers were usually 20+ years experience people and had a number of very senior technical staff. It is taking awhile for the new performance system to PIP all of them out. Other parts of UOG look like the set of High School Musical!
@yky+1cnDuxsI Plenty of 60+ in our group within UOG… common excuse is they stay because they want to contribute, what they don’t say is the contribution is for multiple ex wives and bad life choices.
Pre oil crash the ancient annuitants were everywhere, that stopped for the most part however some are starting to creep back in.
Only retain the commodity traders, logistics teams and actuaries.
All this company needs - aside from Executives of course.
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How many people over 60 do you have around you ? In my larger group (about 60 people) we had one, who’s just retiring. In the same larger group, only two REs left (significantly below 60).
Can you say with a straight face that young people don’t get opportunities because it’s all clogged by those ghostly old people ? All our supervisors, managers and most of the VPs are in their 30s and early 40s. Maybe that’s old to you.
A pause in hiring results in a population gap in the workforce generation.
IMO, the company got ahead of itself by overhiring only to lose people left and right through pip/layoff & resignation.
I'll give you something salty.
This is the reason they're able to keep firing good employees who they call NSI.
This is the plan.
Many companies would ki-l for reliable and hard working employees that ExxonMobil calls NSI.
We hire them so we can fire them to offset the RE we fire in TG's cauldron to keep us out of EEOC trouble as we still have 4+ years of PIPING to go.
They are most likely cheaper, intelligent, resources that will eventually learn the job.
But, once they become expensive, you'll see them posting the same message you posted.
Low cost labor is the ultimate high for corporate machines.
Considering the idiocy of your post I think you make a good candidate for layoff
Instead let’s look at those 60+ who refuse to retire and open up positions for the younger talent.
Are you really so stupid or you pretend?
You have to keep putting new blood into the system. Without it you loose oxygen and die. Yes old blood is good as it has iron and minerals in it, but sometimes it gets to salty. You have to put in new oxygen carrying blood to keep the heavy lifting going.