It just rubs salt into the wound knowing what we had and lost. When we were not only the biggest energy company in the country but the largest publicly traded company, period, and when that was reflected in our pay, benefits, and job security. To go from there to where we are now hurts. New employees are lucky. It's better to just know XOM as a cr---y company it is now than to know what it could be.
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It’s all about this thingy called “way back when …”.
No, I’m not referring to the age of steam engines and gramophone records. Too far back!
But within the memory of this generation of boomers (myself included).
- from logarithmic tables, to slide rules, we moved on to calculators, including the programmable HPs used to land the Eagle on the moon in 69. Now we can have these (alike in looks and features) installed as Apps in our cell phones!
- what happened to the floppy disks … 8”, 5-1/4” and 3-1/2” - ubiquitous on every PC, moving on to CD ROM where folks like Microsoft would market their Windows and Office software on?
- with the first “brick” cellular phones, manual SLR cameras (rangefinders, if you go a generation before that), the video camera, the original Sony (cassette tape) Walkman, a voice recorder machine the size of a bulky book, the PROFS office e-mail system running on the IBM Mainframe computer … and many more. These can and have all now been squeezed into a slim Apple i-Phone now!
- from video rentals, to VCDs, then LDs and DVDs, even BlueRay … to now, Netflix and AppleTV streaming.
- Remember the carburettor, which gave way to fuel injection, from MPI to GDI (direct injection), to now, the electric motor?
In one word, this is called progress, and we will continue to see change (for the better).
Big Oil will eventually disappear (one day), just like the video rental companies did!
Yes, I do reminisce the old times. Wished many of them could have lasted a little longer, like a good mechanical watch. Cheers!
Company hasn’t changed. But the world has changed many times over.
Move over Exxon and Big Oil. Apple and Tesla own the future.
JFC, STFU troll.
Company hasn't changed.
pepperidge farm remembers...
I no longer feel proud of working at EM, nor do I ever foresee myself working till retirement - something I was readily comfortable with just 2y ago.
I agree. Seems like a dying way of life. Campus becoming ghost town.