One thing I hate the most about the current situation is how little our performance affects the ranking we receive. The whole ranking system is fixed. Our individual ratings should be based on meritocracy instead of whatever directive arrives from the top on how many low rankings are required and which groups should preferably get them. Trying to beat the system is pointless.
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If you have to socialize with ranking mangers to tell them your skills, what they are getting paid for?
Try being told that the site ranked you excellent. The d-mb a-s dh dropped you because he said your making too much money. Yeah that happened in Baton Rouge. Forget xom
I was once told that I needed to become friends with more of the people in the ranking session!
Was told I was the top performer at my level but did not have enough “friends” in the ranking session. Was told that there was nothing that I could improve on, just politic more to move ahead.
Look up the Gervsis principle
“I started with a small $1MM loan (actually $413MM) from my father”. Meritocracy, LOLZZZZ
Your remarks about life in general are fascinating, but you might want to remember that if the management of a company allows shady employees to be systematically promoted just because of who they know and the perception they project, as opposed to employees who actually produce something, that company is doomed.
Life in general is about who you know, not what you know.
If you're just figuring this out about xom you might be a little slow.
Get a grip.
Meritocracy is for chumps.
If your over 55 in Annandale beware. Start the purge in management, way fat here.
Sniveling and ranting on a layoff website will obviously be fruitful and time well spent…. You are clearly overpaid.
Truth. Lot of practical examples in IOL upstream subsurface, where the skills required for fast tracking your career is being a buzz word talker and sucking up to people or power even if you have the lowest level of intellect and creativity. So put up a fake smile, collect your vocabulary of buzz words, bake cookies for your team, kiss up and kick down to bump your rankings.
I sincerely hope this hasn't taken you too long to figure this out... You need a network of people that first-off like you, secondly can rely on you to support them in their ambitions (never speak badly of them and always relay how cool/smart/wise they are), third will give you a heads up on matters unknown to most pions so you can position yourself (oh you know, say what aligns with the incoming leadership principles), and finally willing to protect you regardless of what you do in terms of merit. Boys and girls, welcome to the real world... seriously, the cow is being milked till it dies and we all know it... grab an udder and start pulling or go and chase the sheep like good shepherds and die out there in the cold and dark hills...
I have been told multiple times that my ranking would benefit from building my network rather than working harder. Apparently meritocracy only has worth to the extent that you have friends in the ranking meetings that ‘see your merit.’
You will appreciate the ranking system much more after you get a sponsor and start to benefit from the bias, rigging, numbers manipulation, HR changes after rank sessions, favoritism, and politics.