Other than those who are close to retirement and are mostly praying not to be affected by layoffs or PIPs before their time here is up, I don't think there are many employees left here who are looking at XOM as a long-term option. The company has managed to ruin every remaining bit of trust employees might have had with constant lies and gaslighting regarding layoffs and PIPs. I'm surprised attrition is not even higher than it is, honestly.
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News Flash Follow-Up
HERE’S HOW MANY YEARS YOU’LL SPEND AT WORK IN YOUR LIFETIME
Topics: Work Culture
OCTOBER 1, 2018
Source: https://www.payscale.com/career-news/2018/10/heres-how-many-years-youll-spend-work-in-your-lifetime
HOW MANY TIMES WILL YOU CHANGE JOBS?
These days, people changes jobs about 10 to 15 times over the course of their career. On average, workers go through 12 job changes during a lifetime.
HOW LONG DO MOST PEOPLE STAY AT A JOB?
Workers spend, on average, 4.2 years working at a job before moving on. Workers in management, professional and other related occupations had the highest tenure: 5.0 years. Folks who work in service occupations had the lowest average tenure at just 2.9 years.
In some areas like Geoscience people are stuck because there’s nowhere else to go, unlike IT or some engineers. Some people do quit, mainly to go into other lines of work, but things get mostly bottled up. If there’s going to be at some point any upturn, this part of EM will become a ghost town.
Newsflash:
There is no such thing as a long term career at a single company anymore for 98% of the workforce.
Not at any company. You are the only one in charge of your career.
Xom has done a really good job of making people believe this falsehood.
Every year going through appraisal system is like pulling trigger in game of Russian Roulette. Odds are stacked against surviving 30 pulls of trigger.
Even a high flier can accept transfer into wrong group or get supervisor that dislikes him and bo-m - gone.
If young enough, start over somewhere better.
No one has any faith in XOM as a long term performer. Anyone under 40 is looking at their options and many are quietly moving on.
This post made me laugh. Of course this isn’t long term. Im wondering if I’ll be here by the end of the year. Getting out while the market is still good.
Now it a 1 8 Month contract with 4 Month of PDS.