What a joke. Asking supervisors to enter action plans into some stupid website. Yeah that’s going to fix our broken culture. QUIT PRETENDING SUPERVISORS CAN FIX THE ISSUES. IT IS THE ASSESSMENT SYSTEM STUPID!
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At the EMPS forum, an upper manager told the audience that SUPERVISORs are accountable for the teams culture. Not the EMPS leadership team, not Dallas. Just the supervisor. No point in filling surveys or having these forums.
Can anybody summarize what are the issues uncovered by the survey?
I didn't complete the survey and purposely took the day off when my supervisor held the meeting, I don't really give a fk, but now I'm curious.
@1qne+1isVx6Fv Spent the weekend applying for jobs. Displaying I don’t give a fu-k attitude at work now. Calling people out on their BS requests that don’t add value and telling them I am not going to waste my time doing them. Hilarious to see people unable to respond when challenged directly with questions such as why should I do this and convince me this isn’t a waste of my time.
@1swg+1isVx6Fv, what do you plan to do about it? Exit strategy in place?
I was livid when I received the email telling me I had to enter goals into some online system. Last straw. I am sick of being a supervisor. Making me do this no value add work. What is wrong with this place?
Read The Emperor’s New Clothes if you want to know what is going on at XOM right now. If you say there is a problem, they gas light you and make you feel like you are crazy. I think the goal may be to end up with just DW and TG at the end once they PIP all the rest of us out of ver the next 5 years.
The Internal Survey Action Plans website is just another mechanism to continue to set the stage for PIP/PIL/NSI next year. Supervisors that do not populate the database will be ranked lower than their peers that figure out creative ways to "row in the boat" with the executives.
The executives are the only ones that are empowered to change anything.
BTW, our culture cannot be broken after two years of "We Are ExxonMobil" and "Growing With Purpose" training. We should all be "rowing in the boat" together.
It’s a good explanation as to why supervisors, even those in formerly coveted jobs, are leaving in droves
It all makes sense when the point was of the survey was to show there are no issues with our policies or the MC; it’s all the SLS’s fault we have a bad culture and they need to fix it.
Agree it’s silly they put this on the level of management that has the least influence. Guess that shows us how serious they’re taking it.
A supervisory position at EM destroys future career potential elsewhere.
That's a valid survey response, dyt?
I know, right?
Not only can the supervisors not fix it, the individual employees can’t either. In our discussion with management, she didn’t like the results so she bullied us into saying the results were not accurate for our group.
Knowing no one would contradict her, she said, “We don’t really feel this way do we?”
In a room full of brown-nosers and people unable to rock the boat, no one spoke up and said the results were accurate.
So even though the issues that came up in the survey were most definitely things we need to address, our “action plan” was to do the same things we are already doing.
In all fairness, the issues we were having were things we have no control over. We couldn’t solve anything in that room.
It’s insulting the company asks us to fill out a survey asking our input, then ignore the results (esp. about things we have expressed for years) and then ask us (at the lowest, least powerful level) to somehow solve problems that originated at the management and corporate level.