Thread regarding ExxonMobil Corp. layoffs

Hey former clinical psychologist.

.....Persons who take time to write reviews are over 90% more likely to be negative and have an axe to grind....

How do you explain Shell's 89% ceo approval rate on Glassdoor vs. Exxon 22% ?

How 90% likelihood of negativity can yield almost 90% of positive sentiment towards a CEO?

Hey former clinical therapist, @1fwn+1irPGKeL,

I know from personal experience that EM employees fill local psychiatrist and psychologists/therapists offices. It is common knowledge that EM has always been a stressful, “dog eat dog” environment. After the last few years, EM culture is now closer to “The Hunger Games”.

I am not sure about your data collection processes, but you may want to reevaluate or broaden your scope. There is not one person in the mental health industry in The Woodlands area who isn’t aware of the over representation of EM employees in their offices.

The CEO and the chairman of the board of ExxonMobil are the same person: DW.

I agree with OP. Soul crushing and intellectually insulting is how I would describe my experience too.

@trs+1irPGKeL Most of your colleagues think this is a great place to work? Are you in the wrong board? Every person I talk to hates it here and is trying to get a different job. Many are ranked O or E and are supervisors.

Chevron has a free onsite gym in Midland. Why not quit and go work for them? If you don’t want a gym do it for the 9/80 work schedule or bonuses.

@tmt+1irPGKeL Only in Houston. If they send you out to work in a field office there is none of the fancy stuff like a gym. In the Permian they are stuffing three engineers into offices made for one. They are the lucky ones. Everyone else is in cubicles.

I am an exxonmobil employee (hopefully not for much longer) and I agree with OP. Soul destroying is how I would describe working for this company. Obvioulsly, if you need the money, take the job, but keep looking for your next one.

To @1fwn+1irPGKeL. Non-industry and former therapist.

Are you hired by the company to do damage control? Really?...you can construct profiles of challenged individuals battling possible clinical depression based on this site? If a layoff site is the source of your data to do your "research" on human behavior, then I really question your credentials.

It was the Chairman of the Board that said that.
And it was 'the United States of America'.
Very specific.

The CEO said it recently in sworn testimony:
"ExxonMobil has no interest in the welfare of America or what it represents."
I think that's an exact quote, but corrections are welcome.

Hello former clinical therapist.

How do you know this board represents 5-9% of disgruntled employees?

Would you show the data that supports this claim?

This xom board is very active in thelayoff community, there are several posts every day. I read this board but never post, most of my colleagues also monitor it periodically.

I do believe that the sentiment here does represent that of a way larger percentage than 5-9%.

At least it represents the sentiment of 80% of those current anf former employees I interact with.

An example is Amanda's Rico's LinkedIn post, it became viral a day after it was referred here, which tells me that people learned about it here before they read it in LinkedIn.

As a non-industry professional and former clinical therapist, I have free advice. Do not spend time on negative message boards. These boards (for most companies) are filled with the same 5-8% of former or current disgruntled employees commenting regularly. Being that this corp has has recent layoffs (although not a huge %, still a significant gross number) this is the last place you should seek an unbiased opinion if considering employment. Persons who take time to write reviews are over 90% more likely to be negative and have an axe to grind. I use this and other message boards as a source for research data to construct profiles of challenged individuals battling possible clinical depression. Percentage wise, corporate America is very narrow in terms of the range of these types of employees.

Please consider that the opinion of 35+ boomers does not apply to the post-pandemic ExxonMobil.

The ExxonMobil post-pandemic is a completely different company:

• layoffs when things go south.
• can swing between top and bottom of ranking in 1 year, meaning, every employee is on a 1 year contract
• lucrative expat assignments reserved for Hi-Pos exclusively, the rest go to Midland
• retractment of management and hi-pos inwards, they have disconnected completely from the average employee.
• trust in leadership has been broken and remains broken after layoffs of 2020, meaningless performance reviews, and 7% matching suspension
• exxodus, top talent has left or si in the process of leaving.

I never much worried about ranking.

I retired from EM at 65 yo; EM asked me to stay another year but +35 years was enough O&G for me.

Within upstream, as an engineer, I was assigned to on-location teams working mega international projects. During my career, I worked in over 30 countries on a month - on month off schedule; which allowed me to pick up additional non-oilfield work on my days off. The money flow was very healthy indeed, much of which I banked into some nice investments (stocks, real estate, land and art).

I retired from EM with flush ($) accounts all around. I'll never have to work for a paycheck again. I now enjoy relaxing and smoking pot every evening, something I could not do during my EM career. I'm even growing my own and getting pretty darn good at it, ha!

For me, it was all good but can see why others could have a different EM experience. Just keep moving until you find a company that really appreciates your contribution. Don't settle for anything less.

Good luck.

All I’m getting from this thread is if you’re a drama queen you’re not a good fit.

To those who drank the kool-aid. Let’s dissect the post from @fmh+1irPGKeL

1. ExxonMobil is one of the best employers out there.

False. XOM is not on Fortune’s 100 or Forbes lists of top employer. Definitely not on the D&I list. I struggle to find evidence that XOM made it on any list.

2. Provides rewarding careers and benefits. Depends on the definition of rewarding and to whom. Over the last 2 years, we have seen contribution to 401K stopped and salaries stay stagnant. However, top executives got their bonuses. Ever present threat of PIP hung over our heads like a whip.

In terms of meaningful work, most employees have little control over their careers because there are no open job postings. Constant re-orgs with vague roles and responsibilities create mass confusions. Assignments and performance assessments are all done under a shroud of mystery. Insecure supervisors manipulated the system to advance themselves or their favorites.
The only positive I can say is the dental plan is great - 4 cleanings per year.

3. You will work with the smartest and brightest in the industry....

False. If you talk to anyone outside of XOM, they will say the contrary. There are some very bright people here but they are no brighter than those at other companies. The real shame is the talent is wasted here on useless pet projects. Many employees have no proper training when put into a role. Safety training is watered down. The pressure to produce and the competition has resulted in bad behaviors such as taking credit for others’ work, circumventing / undermining teammates, bullying, to plegarism.

Nope

ExxonMobil is not fine. It's ruled by a bunch of bozos that do not care about employees but only about themselves and their managers.

ExxonMobil is fine. It has similar problems to Chevron and Shell….big company, red tape, impersonal. You can have a good career. It also may not be a great fit either. Don’t trust a layoff board to tell you up from down.

I don't find it overly dramatic. I feel 100 this way. ExxonMobil has destroyed my career and my love for what I do. I have quiet quitted a while ago, pretend that O work with minimum effort and attention, I don't a fk about my project, my colleagues, management, the survey or whatever. Cynism and disengagement defines my attitude towards the workplace perfectly.

High performing individuals are still set for life. Lazy b-ms however, that spend more time complaining on a layoff board than doing actual work, will be weeded out. Welcome to corporate America.

It used to be that parasitic HiPos were set for life. Not anymore. As the ship sinks, the cold water will get to them too. Watch all the smarter HiPos who have jumped ship in the last two years - the smarter rats can feel it. The dimmer ones will get what they really deserve in the next major downturn.
Those who rant on an anonymous site instead of LI and Yammer are definitely not the smart ones.

@fmh+1irPGKeL
I can only hope that your post is pure sarcasm, otherwise it’s some of the most abject brown nosing I’ve seen. It would also be perfectly stu-pid; how many people do you think believe your post-card view of the most toxic company in ge industry?

....are you recording this contribution in you PDS form...?

Probably not. He is a hi-po, so regardless of what he writes in his pds he will be top 20%. It suffices to take credit for the work of those in the bottom 80% and embellish it with some vague power words such of those that define the "leadership behaviors".

Annandale management reads this site every day….total cluster here…

....I am just sharing what most of my colleagues think, ExxxonMobil is a great place to work"...

This is a great example of what is wrong in ExxonMobil:

there are two parallel universes/realities: the universe of the high potential individuals, their sponsors, and top executives, (which make up the top 20% of the ranking) and the universe of everyone else, the bottom 80%.

The top 20% give high fives to each other and believe it's a great company, never disagree with each other, never challenge the authority or each other, regurgitate whatever their sponsors or management rhetoric reverberates in their echo chambers, rack up juicy raises and RSUs, and dismiss to and is completely disconnected from the reality of the bottom 80%.

The reality of the bottom 80% is different. It is a universe with misserable raises that doesn't catch up with inflation, unfair PIPs with fake and meaningless performance reviews, and where professional skills, courage of conviction, speaking one's mind, being a minority, and having a passion for one's art is not only irrelevant but counterproductive and detrimental.

Seems like an overly dramatic post

When someone dismisses others as losers unfit to compete, it is because they are losers unfit to compete. You have to taste something yourself in order to be able to recognize it in others.

“If you hate a person, you hate something in him/her that is part of yourself”.

It used to do those things….

Funny that you feel like I am policing you. Obviously you have very little self esteem.....

I am just sharing what most of my colleagues think, ExxxonMobil is a great place to work.

Wow. I didn't know brown-nosers hipo's are sent to police this board., i thought you were only encouraged to write in LinkedIn or yammer. Are you recording this contribution in you PDS form so your sponsor knows what a goot fit with the corporate culture you are?

What a joke. A loser that is not able to compete is providing career advice on a layoff board. ExxonMobil is one of the best employers out there, provides rewarding careers, has great compensation and benefits and you will work with the smartest and brightest in the industry....

But it's not free (the gym). S40 per month.

We have a good gym tho…..