Do leadership think we are so stupid that we don’t notice who gets promoted or elevated? Picking favorites and those who are willing to jump on the latest nonsense is common place. Qualifications and past accomplishments do not matter. Power grab is the norm.
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I've just stopped fighting. If youre not in the cool kids club you're a nobody.
Nothing can be done. HR wouldn't care to help, and if they did you'd get laid off.
What could a person do?
LCS is a bunch of fluff.
LCS is working at 100% capacity producing PowerPoint decks.
Having to work overtime to fly day trips north to give presentations.
Earning those RSU’s while producing nothing.
@OP - yes, they think everyone else is stup!d and no, they don't care anyway.
LCS is full of as$kissers, liars, posers, and roaches eager to cling the new org like mold
Does anyone know what they are actually doing in team-lcs?
When large numbers of Chosen people are grouped together like LCS, the rules are altered to protect them.
The 50 RG average is raised so more points available in each rank group.
The 8% PIP quota is waived.
LCS team members over 55 will still have to give up points like in every group.
You will be glad to see all the LCS appointees get to be force ranked this summer against each other.
Appointing favorites is a core value in EM. This is why EM does not have Job Postings like other oil and gas companies.
Exxon Management shut down Mobil’s job posting system at the merger because of its “lack of control” and because the chosen people might lose positions to the qualified people.
Maybe the managers and executive didn't fully understand what meritocray really is, and they just use it as buzz words. Many of my friends are surprised to hear that EM didn't have internal job ad where employees can apply. I agree with you. Past accomplishment and previous job experience does not matter.
LCS appointees are 90% favorites!
To boost morale, each day this week at noon management will place 20-RG tokens in the center of the quad where employees may fight each other to retrieve.
Let’s not forget nepotism. My last supervisor boasted in a team meeting, after being promoted to his supervisory position, that his Grandfather was a Downstream VP and his cousin was a manager in Upstream Exploration. Nepotism is alive and well at the company.
Recent appointee to LCS is prime example.