At one time I felt inferior because I was surrounded by very talented and accomplished people. However, this has long since become a company of mediocrity, that is nothing new. There are still talented and capable people, but there are fewer and fewer of them here. How many such people do you know who still work here?
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Lol most profitable IOC. Like being a top gpa… business school grad from a state school. Really we’re middle of the pack or worse compared to pure players in any value stream (upstream, downstream, chem). That’s why we compare ourselves internally to IOCs… but there aren’t any left worth comparing to.
If you’re wise and humble enough to know when you are not the smartest person in the room, it is a disconcerting feeling when you realize that you ARE the smartest person in your group or function. This is especially true when you’re low in the pecking order and don’t have any power, nowhere to turn when you’re over ruled.
Fortunately, in my neck of the woods at Exxon I’m middle of the pack. Much more comfortable when there are smarter people, people you respect, to bounce ideas off of.
I hope you say that in jest. If not, you too join the mediocre team. ‘Medal of mediocre’ to ‘ya.
How do you guys explain that we have regained our spot as the most profitable IOC… Most of our employees are very talented, it is deadweight like you that holds us back…..
That feeling when you know you are mediocre but the company thinks you are a genius because they have stopped themselves of talent.
“ You are a slow learner, Winston."
"How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four."
"Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.”
I laughed when I saw a mediocre individual made an advisor in a field she has no experience or credibility in. What an absolute joke. EM reputation is truly in shambles.
Many of the supervisions and department heads are corrupt. They abuse power to make sure they don’t have to compete against qualified senior technical people. Simply reassign work that result in visibility to their favorites. Give the sh---y jobs doomed to fail to the potential rival. When the system is manipulated you get a lot of mediocre results at best.
Exxon Mobil is becoming a joke in the industry. With a lot of us already spreading the news, it’s pretty obvious when people’s roles change every 6 months.
You cannot go from Advanced Plastics Recycling Advisor to Purple Hydrogen Production advisor in 9 months, all the while claiming MOFs and direct air capture is a priority without raising some eyebrows.
You all should really stay off LinkedIn. You look like id--ts
Some of people left now are embarrassing mediocre. There’s a few hanging on that should not have survived PIP.
The environment here is stifling to any sort of creativity. I left partly because working here was damaging my reputation. No one should waste a career regurgitating vendors’s information from the internet, following nonsense “strategies” from id--tic HiPos, and making pretty PowerPoint presentations.
Many that are left have just stopped caring about XOM and are looking for the next opportunity.