Let's say I am put on PIP (hmmm), what strategies do you suggest? I am sure 90% will suggest that I jet ASAP, but let's say, life is complicated and I want to stay. What strategies would you suggest in that case - what to do, how to approach it, what works and what does not.
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@1ypw- you are either a troll or non-MPT. In the game they play now the FLS and SLS already are given a clue where you are winding up day one. They are charged with making sure there is a clear path for it in case it is finalized at ranking time. The fix is in, the game is rigged, you are a g- d fool if you think anything else
@1ypw+1fZsjNNC and @aij+1fZsjNNC
“Do your best work”
What planet are you coming from?
How many workers get put in NSI because of actual “low performance”, when our demented management has already predicted that we have exactly 8% low performers a year for five years or whatever? Isn’t it obvious that it’s all rigged and the “low performers” are minted by decree? What on earth does your “best work” have anything to do with ranking at EM and therefore with being put in NSI?
I agree with the part about brown nosing, it’s fundamental to today’s EM, but if face it: if you’re put in NSI it simply means you’re an unfortunate, un-sponsored real worker who just lost the game of musical chairs and you need to get out as soon as possible. No point in having strategies about being put in NSI; if you take the PIP, pass it and the next ranking cycle still catches you working for the company that branded you a loser, then you really are blind.
If you have to stay, then always do your best work, do the best you can cultivating a friendship with your boss and manager, do the best you can being a team player, do all the little bs brown nosing stuff like having a safety minute for meetings, finding little reasons to drop in and talk to the boss, beat your boss to work, etc. But then if you do decide to leave and go to a new job, do all the same stuff there!
Will the Company reinstate the ranking process rules which offered some degree of job security to the masses? The new system is just to drive down the headcount by PIP and attrition through intimidation. Certainly, they will change back once they hit the numbers? This way seems unsustainable.
Thanks @1dqo+1fZsjNNC, aka Enrique, glad to know you still don’t have things to do besides troll abs DM existing employees. Yes, you slid into my DMs this week
First off, you don’t just get put on PIP. You get a NSI ranking which gives you two choices: PIP or PIL.
There is a third choice, but that is simply quitting and walking out on the spot.
You are worried about something you can’t control. Grow up!
@aij+1fZsjNNC Lol. Why should one work hard during PIP? To be the first in line for the next layoffs? Like the 2021 summer pips?
If you are piped you are done. Accept the fact and look for your next steps while enjoying free salary from XOM.
Pips are not good. They are not designed to improve anything. They are designed to document failures and then use those failures as a ause or termination. I've heard of people passing pips at XOM. Interesting, years later they were gone. If I were piped, I would simply ride the period while interviewing for another job.
Depend where you are at. In Europe it is not easy to terminate employees who are being PIPed. Employer even has to reassign the employee to a new job first before yhey xan terminate them because of low performance.
Do the best work you can, be frank with your manager, try your best.