What would it take to make you happy? More money? 9/80’s? Meaning? If the CEO asked you to fix our problems where would you start and what would you do?
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Fire the MSPs. https://www.brightworkresearch.com/does-indian-society-train-indians-to-be-cheat-and-lie/
New Captain.
Update of ship design, not total ship replacement.
Public/government to realize changing from diesel propulsion to wind power is regressing 100 years and not progress.
Complete elimination of forced ranking.
Stop the Sponsorship system.
Put exit process in the HiPo system to weed out the arrogant id--ts instead of just continuing to promote them.
Stop offshoring.
Start Job Postings.
Replace incompetent leadership such as ones that publicly state there will be no layoffs then lead a massive layoff.
Pay raises equal inflation plus 5% annually.
- Fire the incompetent scammers. Anyone who claim they do "strategy", "marketing", or re-organization.
- Get rid anyone whose sole job is managing people but have no other skills. We need leaders who earned their positions through years of hard work and who have expertise. They should be people who the rank and file look up to and respect.
- Ditch the forced ranking
- Offer incentives for the real contributors to come back. Give them the leadership positions that they deserve and earned. I doubt that they will, but it's an idea.
- Fair compensation.
- Dump all the cumbersome work processes that are no longer effective. Give people the autonomy and power to do their jobs.
- Open job postings. No more back door channels to eliminate rivals and install favorites into key positions.
- Work life balance
It will take a miracle to save a sinking ship.
Build a new ship with the same name. LOL
Simple:
- Stop the ranking statement based on “step outs”; reward base business workers!
- Stop pushing in person work; we hire professionals, let them do the work as they need to.
So many companies searching for talent that offer these; XOM will continue to lose talented people!
Focus support and incentives on those executing the actual work and making the money day to day, often without any recognition or complaint. We need excellent people in these downstream jobs and a lot of good people (I get hit up every day on linkedin) are being poached by more attractive opportunities. We have (had) good people! I love my job (I do actually)!
Step one is TG needs to go.
The company knows the 2 biggest levers to pull to stop attrition, and have either taken no action to address it or are sprinting in the opposite direction.
- Better Compensation - So far there seems to be no indication that they have any intention of righting the wrongs of the past 2 years. They immediately cut pay when things went bad, but when things got better they continued in "cut" mode. Many got an average raise of 1% or less over the past 2 years...despite the huge jump in inflaction...combine that with taking the 7% match away for a year and almost everyong is still at a significant net loss. Except folks like Neal Chapman who got a generous 15% which equates to over a million extra a year. The Jan 2023 raises will be known next month when Salary Planning..err...Salary INFORMING (for the Supervisors) occurs. They gave us a 3% pittance while Shell gave 8%..so they continue to look cheap and their reasons ring hollow.
- Better Workplace Flexibility - If they just aren't pulling lever one, they are breaking off lever 2 by pushing for an archaic "you should be in the office 5 days a week" policy. They have been lightly pushing this for a while, with an ever-rotating list of reasons why this is face to face is better. But again these reasons ring hollow as they have no problem pumping up the remote workers at GBC's/MSPs.
Salaries for 2023 have yet to be announced, but if they give another year of cr-p raises, it is without a doubt to make more people leave so they can replace them with folks in lower cost, REMOTE locations.
I cannot support a DH telling me I am ni just because they pay me well. Get rid of this system. I know my dh could not get a job outside exxonmobil.
Give the all the over-50s severance packages and walk them out the door.
Yep get rid of forced ranking. Especially forced NSI, NI.
Bring home jobs. It’s a sh1tshow trying to get anything done efficiently.
Stand up for what our core business is and be proud of what we do. Quit catering to the woke crowd
Scrap the ESG nonsense and make no apologies for what we do. Modern living is impossible without what we do.
And a bonus comparable to our peers would be
nice 😁
Show me the money!!!!! I can deal with a lot of BS including being told I rank low if the Benjamin’s are raining down on me.
Obviously the number one thing they could do would be to ditch the forced fit ranking system. I think I could easily live with the rest of the bs.