Who is Darren Woods? Don't remember.
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DW will be remembered as the CEO that had to implement the "Crisis Management Playbook" that is locked up in a secure vault in Dallas (now Houston). The world is rapidly moving to electrification especially transportation in 2030 and certainly by 2050. We will be selling less gasoline and diesel going forward in 2030+. The world wide electrification initiative will impact our yearly cash flow.
DW will also be remembered as the CEO that grew "3rd Party Managed Service Providers" and "Transforming Manufacturing Technical Service" to make manufacturing more competitive. When our turnaround costs are 2x to 3x more expensive than our competitors, we have to ask ourselves "WHY IS THIS?"
DW will also be remembered as the CEO that lowered job descriptions by two CL levels. A CL-29 job description will now be a CL-27 job description. A CL-30+ job description will be a CL-28 or a CL-29 job description.
DW will also be remembered as the CEO that said that "PIP/PIL/NSI/NI" is not a layoff.
DW will also be remembered as the CEO that did away with the Upstream, Downstream, and Chemical Business Unit SRA tax where every operating global operating facility had to pay a corporate tax to fund research and development in EMRE and EMCC... etc.
Pips
Weak little dooshpag.
Based on the past, I suspect his grand-chillun will be going to public schools.
Living for the day.
“If you are ranked well and don’t get a raise, you should be happy because that means you’re overpaid”-DW
And this jewel,
“I’m underpaid” -DW
“What will The Great DW be remembered for? What will be his legacy?”
He probably won’t be remembered at all.
How many CEOs does anyone actually remember? Steve Jobs? Jack Welch? That’s about it.
This is just another example of the hugely inflated opinion that EM employees have of themselves, in this case being negatively projected onto their CEO.
Nobody cares about you or your CEO. Get over yourselves. If you don’t like your job or your boss, quit. You’re probably mediocre anyway.
Tracy FAILED employees and Darren FAILED EVERYONE except himself.
The first CEO who got “rebel” Directors elected at the board without management's support.
Completely unrelatable. Out of touch with reality. Self entitled.
A man with no integrity or ethics.
A failure.
When a company starts to unravel from mismanagement, those outside of the company blame the very top.
I’ll remember him as a cruel person. In 2020 when things were really bad, we all suspected there would be some layoffs. Then, DW insists on sending out an email to all employees saying not to worry, there will be no layoffs. He knew there would be layoffs, they’d just be disguised as PIPs.
So, instead of being “transparent” (in the way he demands), he decided to lie, give false hope, and gaslight many people into thinking they are poor performers.
I know companies have to be careful about things that will effect the stock price (like a layoff announcement would do), but he didn’t have to send an email saying there will be NO layoffs.
That was a di-k move from a cruel person.
The first CEO of Standard Oil in any form that couldn't get a Callback from the President of the USA. Or Russia, for that matter.
Or from his predecessors, Lee and Rex.
“You’re not going to put me on my back foot!” in response to his first experience with Sli.do.
I think he’ll be mostly forgotten. I think he’ll probably retire and realize he’s just another one of us - a human. Then I honestly think he’ll come undone. You can see he is dead inside and all he has to keep him going is this race he’s in to do whatever he thinks he is doing. But when all is said and done he has caused misery for everyone around him. Yes he has so much money - maybe more than god - but there’s a hollowness in him that will eat at his very being.
Good CEO? I don’t think so but that’s from where I am.
Investors like him right now but generally he has completely missed the mark.
He owns the only loss EM has ever made. What makes that worse is the decisions he made during 2020. He made us worse because of inaction and fear. He didn’t not inspire, he failed his board, he failed his employees, he failed the investors.
I wish no man harm but I do believe with every fiber of my body he will struggle when he finally retires.
He'll be remembered as the little milquetoast dweeb assigned to oversee the big shakeup and downsizing of the 2020s for a short while.
He will be remembered as the one the CEO that put company shorterm profitabiltiy above all else, including employee's well being.
The one who voted against the move to Houston.
He cut down Rex's tree.
He made ExxonMobil profitable again and defined an exciting strategy for our future. He will be remembered as a great CEO!
He’ll be remembered as the Carly Fiorina of ExxonMobil.