Longtimers surely remember how Exxon used to be a place where the best and the most knowledgeable people wanted to work. Today, this is a place that cannot stop attrition. What changed? Core values. How far is the company from its core values today? Those at the top should start thinking about that.
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Retired early in 2021, no PIP or PIL, but rather decided my forward looking values were misaligned with the company. This is ok , as I really have been much happier since my decision and have lost 40 lbs of fat and dropped blood pressure and now off meds. Everyone needs to make choices aligned with their personal values and priorities.
Those folks must’ve opted to retire being RE vs taking PIL saying no thank you to a PIP.
I know of PIPped retirees that are being brought back as contractors. To me, that is evidence that they shouldn’t have been PIPped.
To @1pxb+1j2bU1xB - I understand that once PIP’d one is noted a “non-regrettable” and it prevents being brought back as a contractor.
This used to be fun place to work. Not anymore. Macroeconomic factors and the necessary product we sell has bailed us out till date, not our excellence. I hope the leaders pay atleast some attention to how employees feel.
At the time of the layoff, I remember management saying that part of the criteria for choosing was how you scored on core values. There were a published set of core values at the time. When asked how we were going to be judged on core values by managers a couple levels up who don’t even know us, I heard multiple managers say the core values score would be judged by our location flexibility. The upper management didn’t seem to even understand that we had official core values. To them, it was a code phrase that meant you had no location preferences and would move anywhere you were asked.
Op is almost 💯 correct with one exception. This is purposeful to drive AMERICANS away and replace them in BTC or other GBC's!! Indians are cheaper! Give it to them. So yes the attrition is by design but the ultimate goal is to reallocate the work and employees. Attrition ha! I say mostly that the head office and head executives need to permanently relocate the EXXONMOBIL Headquarters to one of those American replacement facilities. Stop claiming to be an AMERICAN company!!
OP, I understand your point of view; however, attrition is exactly what the company wants. Unfortunately, in the company's pursuit to be cheap and not pay out severance or packages, they use a we-ponized PIP where we are losing valuable contributors (you can tell because we hire them right back as consultants). Everyone is a cheaply paid 12 month consultant. All across the corporation, they should have given exemptions on PIP especially for field personnel (refineries, chemicals, upstream). Many of the valuable people we PIPed performed well (and usually operated with a bit higher safety standards). Now we are having more incidents...go figure. At one site they had a serious injury and the employee reportedly only cared about if it would affect his performance and getting his annual stock options (aka a HiPo). They wanted less people, and this is what they get. The outsource everything mentality? Shell tried that and then ended up re-shoring. The company used to be a place where you could do your job well and contribute to a team and actually get to 15 yrs, now the way to get ahead is by hiding what you are doing and stepping on others and few to none will make it to 15 yrs where the company can get more of those structural savings. Yes it wasn't always this way and glad I can retire in 2 months. I feel bad for my coworkers left behind, you are more valuable than how you are being treated. I have tried to mentor the young people (leave for big tech, defense, green energy), the mid career (consult or work for an independent), the late career (retire). Anyone under 40 yrs old, I strongly encourage yo to look at company change or change to different industry. If would be better if they had an endpoint on when the senseless cuts would stop, but there is no end likely until 2025 or later based on some of the numbers I've seen. 5-10% PIP per year for 3-5 yrs since someone went on TV and announced those cuts after previously announcing no layoffs planned...we know how that went. Best of luck to you all.
The people at the top have made bad business decisions for years now. If it was any other commodity sold by EM it would have gone bankrupt long ago.