Thread regarding ExxonMobil Corp. layoffs

@1kri+1eIBBygO Sounds like someone is butthurt they’re stuck in the dumpster fire known as ExxonMobil. When a company promises you a career with them and it’s held true for past generations, many believed it would hold for them (naively). We’ve learned our lesson, and you’d be a fool not to go looking for something else. Not to mention EM is not competitive with many industries. Pausing the match and freezing wage increases didn’t help matters.

I thought my world ended when I was let go in 2020, after 5 years of service. A month after my last day, I found myself with multiple job offers. A couple of months into my new employment, I was recognized and awarded for excellent contributions and positivity. A year after, I was blown away with the generous annual bonus and in retrospect, my total compensation is well above what I used to make at XOM. What I am very grateful for now is how my new employer embraced me for just who I am, and I know that I am greatly appreciated, unlike when I was with XOM. I am still getting a lot of calls from recruiters almost every week, but I truly love where I am now, happy to wake up each morning and excited to work. That's my restoration story.

OP: you clanged to EM job in-spite of all the so called toxicity, until you were fired. How are you any different than the rest of the yes men/women psychopaths at ExxonMobil?

I did basically the same. I was laid-off (sacrificed to the dividend gods), and after a year of XOM detox, I can say it is the best thing to happen to me. I took a bit of a break (month) and found a job almost instantly. In the amount of time I have been at my new company, I went from a manager (who actually gives a rats @$$ about my employees I swore I would never be like the toxic management in XOM), to a director, and eyeing my next jump. I have a say in the direction of the company (too much I fear at times LOL), and actual budgets for employee appreciation and get togethers.

Trust me, I now days look back and kick myself for all the time I was loyal to XOM. The one thing I did learn there was how to NOT be a good manager. There is always greener grass out there!

The EMIT big shot BK told us to go and find employment somewhere else and I took him up on it and now work at Amazon for better overall pay and compensation. Thank you BK, sincerely one of your respected big shot, now at Amazon. Hope you find your suitable place somewhere as well rather than stepping and walking on the people.

PIP is gold for you, a required training states. Do mgmt. really believe that we all do not have any common sense of understanding or we are totally d-mb? And they still dare to push these type of lies down the throat. Understand this elephant is too big to fail to soon and I guess the current managment is using this to their advantage to fill their pockets, retire, and hand over this problem to next boss(es).

I was RE and declined the (sad 4 month of pay) package after giving over two decades of my life to EM. 2021 came with a PIP for me. Dropped almost 3 levels in one year. That is the new EM.
Fast forward - I have a new job - and enjoy my work and my surroundings. Base pay a little lower - but bonuses for everyone. Company celebrations, colleagues who care, and two more holidays a year. Yes, it is okay to leave and there is hope!

Your HR friend here (regretfully) :( I hope you guys know or have learned now that the who lay off process so rushed, mismanaged, and carried out poorly (HR has done same previously but this time it was just at a next and unexpected level). Why was it done this way? You guessed it right, our boss DW wanted to show the savings for his RSUs on paper before the year end 2020. His commander in chief TG (HR boss complied for her cared RSUs as well). XOM already had plans to reduce headcount over years, however the bosses just used Covid19 as an opportunity to expedite their plans, and without planning properly cutting out wrong people. They also didn't want to wrong pay people to leave because their intention was to cut off people in mid career (40+) with higher overall cost while throwing out newbies in the mix to avoid lawsuits for disparate treatment and cover their as--s legally. Ask your legal friends in XOM and they will tell you.

A lot of companies supported their employees during Covid19 understanding employee hardship during this time. And XOM mgmt. used this opportunity as a shield to protect their bad intentions and with poor judgment and execution. This sh---y organization needs to be exposed at all levels.

I have heard from a couple of friends how the company ill treated those who got laid off. Pretty shameful. HR couldn't do this job and the whole HR upto the VP should be FIRED!

To those who got impacted by lay off, please share your experiences here to provide your side of stories to us remaining back and contemplating to stay back or get out. It would further expose lies that XOM mgmt. and your remaining colleague are spreading about you justifying why you got laid off. It will also, give an insight on how bad XOM treats long tenure people and will allow newbies the insightful info. if they are even thinking to join XOM.

Like OP stated, I was caught up in the layoff as well while serving time in a business assignment, well ranked. What was communicated to all of us was that the assessment was done based on company fit, skills, and last three years of ranking. Well, company fit as you know was an HR way of giving decision makers free reign on who they wanted to keep and who didn't. Those remaining, look around you and and you will see whether all standing with you stayed back based on them qualifying the 3 criterias mentioned above. Most didn't. This was a great learning lesson for me and as a result of this learning I will not look at any employer and any co-worker I would ever work with together the same way. Both, the company that sold the longer term career based on performance and those colleagues I thought cared bailed on me (except a few close real friends) and stop any and all communications as soon as learning I got laid off.

The XOM didn't make it any easier after lay off either. Why?

1. Treated (a claimed asset) like a commodity during the layoff process.
2. Demanded asset return back (righfully) but never returned my assets from my desks. The communicator kept giving BS and that he couldn't find things to return back.
3. Cobra communication and processing was painful. And benefits was not supportive and rather rude over phone (Tracey are you making notes?)
4. Poor response with employment verification for the new employer. (Tracey are you making notes?)
5. Colleagues who made it sound they cared disappeared instantly. Thanks to these guys for teaching a great lesson of not developing perceived friendships at work.
6. Bootlickers like the Upstream expat managers how great XOM is and how bad other employers has exposed the REAL culture of XOM which unfortunately is not competitive and should serve as a warning sign for newbies when considering to join XOM.

A lot more to write but painful to do so, so will end here with saying that as a result of this sh-t show I was forced to look for employment outside XOM and I am glad it worked out well since the company I currently work at truly values human element and allows and expect people's authenticity. So good luck to all those remaining souls on board. Be genuine to each other than acting to be well wishers for other.

Watching this whole circus reminds me of Mia Kalifa......the going down part anyways.

I quit. Not laid off, and ranked well. However, all the good traits and parts of who I am I had to hide here are celebrated at my new place. It’s so refreshing. Only bad/hindering part is the XOM detox.

From what I can tell while interviewing, XOM is one of the last places to value our management mentality and style. Decent, collaborative, and hard working people are valued externally.

I believe OP. Story is pretty common. It is discouraging when being laid off and you will probably not find a job paying the same right away, but there will be opportunities for promotions and pay increases. Then within a year, you will make the same if not more $. It's just about having faith in yourself and pushing yourself to excel in the new job. Then you thank God for the lay off from the old job.

Many of us do not have the courage to leave our current jobs because we do not know what there is for us out there. Being laid off forces us to find new opportunities and in many cases, our true calling.

OP here. To the troll comment, it’s 100% a true sequence of events. Always going to be haters, though.

You, among many others like you in the company, are the exact reason it’s in the current shitstorm. All the more motivation for others to look outside for great opportunities!

@vxw+1eIBBygO, you sound like yet another dirty boot licking management dog or a gang member of Tracey Gs. team. Go bark at your masters not here. Shooo!

Sorry to burst the bubble. This is a well made-up story, with no truth to it. OP, please confess.

Thanks for this post. I resigned this past Friday and start my new job on Monday. Encouragement and success stories like this just reaffirm I made the right decision and give me hope and optimism for what the future holds. Congrats on your success and I hope it continues.