Exxon management has never been a place for independent thinkers, for non-conformists or for anybody who would put the interests of the company above their career. Managers also had to be ruthless in downturns, but at least it was clearly unavoidable.
The current environment is very different. The management of EM has essentially declared war on the regular employees who do the real work, deciding that they have to be $crewed in every way possible before their jobs get eventually shipped to low-cost countries.
Completely fake ranking and oversized, endless PIPs at times of high profits take things to a new level for managers. Just being careeristic and indifferent does not cut it anymore; now you need to be a bit of a sociopath to feel at home in this cannibalistic company. It’s telling that some managers with otherwise bright prospects have called it quits - it just becomes too much to stomach.
@1eih+1f22G81Q tells it like it is.