When office politics override common sense, when those who run the company are incapable of looking beyond their own immediate interests to see that something would be good for everybody - including them! - in the long run, then you know it's time to leave. Which is exactly what I'll be doing.
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With a perfect joker at the top hot seat what else it can become other than a joke.
Darin thinks he is Darwin and have introduced survival of the fittest at XOM as part of revised PA process.
T-Rex always had an inferiority complex having to follow the best (arguably) oil executive in history. Explains why he abdicated his throne to become one of the oligarchs in the previous administration. In a failed attempt to cover up his litany of historically bad decisions, he intentionally named a successor he believed would be worse than he was, thereby making him look good by comparison-just like relative performance assessment philosophy.
Yet another bad decision, and tens of thousands of employees paid for it with their jobs.
EM should place Darren in Guyana and Chapman in Qatar to provide uncovered full service to both as necessary because those two countries are all that separates EM from being OXY.
The sooner you face the reality and take it for what it really is the better. If you are a good fellow and believe in making the world better for you and others this is probably not the company you want to work for. Its culture is a reflection of the predatory business it operates (just think about how much politics and lobbying has to be done to get them deals in very questionable countries). Naturally the people that will grow higher and higher in this company will be the ones that demonstrate attributes like so: back-stabbing, manipulation, cold blood, sociopathy. Simply because these are the skills necessary to make the business expand. Good people will grow eventually but will more than likely retire as a manager and not more.
People who think they’re going to spend their whole career at EM are the clowns
It's an old joke.
Kicked off the Dow more than 2 years ago.
CEO retired to become US Secretary of State to be fired while on the terlet.
Lots of old jokes.
Not funny any more.
If you received advice from your supervisors or managers to be political at work instead of highlighting your accomplishment alone, then you know yourself how terrible the culture is. No matter how hard you work, you will not get ahead when surrounded by such culture. And please stop the cr-p with meritocracy! Meritocracy also means people have equal chance and access to the opportunities...and not only the selected fews...
It is true, many EMs won’t make it. You are not that special; you have plenty of company. Find your full worth somewhere else. Good luck.
When you have a joker at the top running the show, the operations become joke! After all aren't we all ExxonMobil. Our tag line WeAreExxonMobil is arrogant tone all over it. What else to expect?
Needs to be posted on Yammer!
Please explain the specifics. This is true in any and all general terms. At any time, in any business.