Thread regarding ExxonMobil Corp. layoffs

This is hilarious. Want to see bias? Rank a female and a male at Exxonmobil. Get your Pattie’s out of a knot. The entire workforce sees it every day on site and cringes when they see you come by with your stupid ideas, political canines sharpened and your fake smiles.

@rpn By my count there are now three different individuals who’ve brought up the point of proportional representation, and (a) you’re making an a$$ of yourself by assuming, with zero evidence, that we’re all the same person, and (b) your proving yourself to be wildly s-xist by trying to say that proportional representation is somehow unfair to women?!

Your arguments are so obnoxious and stup!d that I’m just going to have to assume that you’re a troll at this point. You can’t be for real.

Also, bravo on sliding homophobia into your last response. You’re a real ally.

@1xpu. Wow, get a grip. And perhaps some therapy for all that anger. I’m one of those “real women” who’ve been in the industry forever, and frankly, my experience has been very different from yours. Discrimination, harassment, and misogyny are normal occurrences where I work. Yes, some women who’ve worked hard AND had sponsors have done well for themselves, but it’s not the norm, and treatment of women in the technical ranks is generally abysmal. Bright women engineers and scientists are leaving in droves and it’s a dangerous situation for the company culture wrt gender equality. Just because you’ve never been harassed or discriminated against doesn’t mean other women haven’t. Feel blessed that you’ve been spared and maybe rethink calling your sisters in the O&G industry “whiney, embarrassing POS wastes”.

And I worked in the field getting oil and filthy dirty as well as in the office alongside the executives. Own the truth and stop whining!

I am a woman and you all are a bunch of whiney, embarrassing POS wastes! Please don't speak on behalf of real women that have been in this industry forever and haven't been anymore discriminated against than any man in this industry. You are just a si--y a-s that wants to use your gender as a pathetic excuse!! Shameful!! Disgusting!!! Just do your job! Bust your back side and don't try to work the system because you are a female or some other stupid label you can try to leverage like a woke POS!

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So, what I hear you saying is put all the men to work in the field (even the weak guys)? You know what that would mean? All the women should be running the office especially as managers and supervisors overseeing the field work. Because you know some big burly guy with tree stump fingers can't type on a computer or press a keypad on their cellphone (they have to do it slow or need some kinda of assistance).

I’m a female mid-career engineer. This year in my PDS feedback session, the only feedback my supervisor gave me was that I should smile more when on camera in Zoom meetings. I worked my bu-t off all year on some really complex projects that I was looking forward to some real feedback on.
Spoiler alert- in my discipline there are no females in technical leadership positions.

Yep My Division President here is a woman who worked the business and earned her spot. I've always preferred a strong woman manager over a man toeing the line in the boys club. I'm 60+ white male with wife who has preferred to stay home for family sake. Get over yourselves, no one cares about this any more.

What does the IEA propose to do about all this gender imbalance and "discrimination" across oil producing countries? Change government policies and centuries of culture and attitude? I can attest most of the women across the ME, Africa, Central and S America and Asia would definitely not want to be expected to do this type of work. They see it as cr-p work and expect men to do it and bring back the money. Those who are encouraged and do are quite good at it and make it to Sr Management Pertamina even has a Muslim woman at the helm. So what? Just the way it is.

The comments here just support the article.

@wss Again, same response as the previous thread. Gets called-out, claims not to be who he is.

Up next: “I’m just asking questions based on facts and statistics”

Oh wait…he lead with that. My bad.

Question: are you a s-xist dork because a) you can’t get laid, or b) you’re secretly attracted to other men?

@nxi Wrong guy again, our obnoxious Aunt Flo.

But since someone else brought up this totally valid point, if the talent pool consists of 20% women and you’re insisting that leadership has to be 50% women no matter what, who’s the s-xist in the debate? lol

Tired of this sh1t. Like the other posters say, many aren't interested in doing this type of work. Believe it or not, many women want vocations they can put on hold and/or those which more easily lend themselves to daily family life. Dare I say, my wife unapologetically enjoys her role as full time homemaker since I'm busy enough. She gives stability to the household and it's great for everyone. That was after working as a math teacher, a choice she made because it's family friendly.

The issue in Texas

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/how-texas-abortion-ban-hurts-big-oils-effort-transform-its-workforce-2022-09-23/

@giz Uh-oh, it’s the gender-proportional “just asking questions, totally not s-xist, but…” guy again.

I said he’s show up on another thread with the same line of BS and he’s done exactly that. I must have special powers.

Or…

Maybe s-xist middle-aged men bitter about being passed over for a promotion are predictable.

Go ahead @giz, tell us all how you have no issues working with women, but that you just want to see fewer of them when you’re at work.

Petroleum engineering degrees: 12% Female / 88% Male
Other engineering degrees: 22% Female / 78% Male

It’s hard to understand why people choose to ignore / don’t understand the statistics on what professions females/males choose to go into. Based on the information above you’d expect no more than 22% of women in upper mgmt all else being equal in the industry

I’ve been in the industry for 20 years. No secret that men talk differently once the women leave the room. Made me sick to my stomach what some of the managers would say about female co workers.

I had a woman boilermaker/ri---r in the Baton Rouge chemical plant , that could out work anybody there, I’m sure she’s retired by now. Exchanger work is heavy and dangerous, I was proud to have her in my crew…

“Energy Sector is failing Women in employment, pay, career progression and gender equality”

The so-called energy sector (oil and gas companies) is failing everyone who isn’t white, male, and over age 45. The industry is unapologetically reactionary. That’s fine. Word has gotten around, and those of us with externally marketable skills either voted with our feet or don’t bother applying to begin with.

I wish nothing but the best of luck to the reactionary, geriatric workforce that will be managing the accelerating decline of oil and gas.

@xgi I call your post BS

As a man and a EM employee, I worked as a drilling field engineer for off and on for +30 years, on rigs, on installation marine vessels, on load out operations, etc. Never once was I asked to do manual labor. The most strenuous, physical thing I ever did was climbing stairs to get to the rig floor.

I worked with women field engineers. They were like men engineers: most were good, a few were not.

Take Care

That’s because it’s a majority manual labor industry. No offense to women but they aren’t physically as strong as men so it limits the jobs they can do in the industry. The women that I’ve seen working out in the field weren’t able to do their job without assistance because they just weren’t strong enough to do it. It’s not really right to hire someone just because of their s-x when you can hire even a weak guy to do the job without needing assistance.