There is talk about a salary survey that will be concluded Nov or Dec.
The salaries of major oil company long term employees seems a good comparison for EM employees with Sponsors because they have long term job security.
For the rest of us, more appropriate to study/compare the hat contractor day rates because we are on annual contract with potential PIP yearly.
I wish my whole team was contractors. I hate having to complete the yearly ranking for my team.
Where did this hatted contractor BS term come from? I've heard this only in this year having worked 30 years in this industry!
@2tcv+1j8NemZc PIP has always existed, just the % changed from 3 to 6 and everyone freaked out…even though it’s been 6-10% several times since early 2000s (not sure what the % was earlier than that). And it’s always been the case that if your manager really disliked you or wanted to rank their existing team high and you low they could switch you despite actual productivity saying otherwise. Literally all that happened was they slapped a new name on things, told you it was a big change, and upped the % a bit.
The 1 year contract analogy is just the closest way an EM employee can describe the feeling about working under we-ponized PIP system.
Previously an employee had to be consistently bad performer over multiple cycles to get to bottom then exited.
Now, simply being transferred into a tight group where boss wants to protect his old coworkers could lead to a decent employee becoming a sacrifice to the PIP quota.
Seems like being a hatted contractor with 1 year renewable contract would offer more job security. Not subjected to PIP quota and not seen as a threat to any employee or supervisor.
Anyone notice that this appears to be an IT setup for the mock phishing attack.
It also appears that HR is now trolling these posts, based on some of their hotline suggestions.
This whole 1 year contract thing is the d-mbest thing I’ve seen continually repeated. You’re an at-will employee. That’s how it’s been for decades. You can be fired at any time, just as you can from every other company. Regardless though, the pay is sh-t. 401k match is ok when it isn’t being suspended. PIP exists at every company, usually at higher rates than XOM. Most of our teams need backfills and more people, but also some of the people we work with need to be PIPed. Just how every other company on the planet is.
As a supervisor I prefer to have contractors on my team so I don’t have to PIP people.
Contractors utopia in Annandale, Union rate hideout in the Lab, 475,102 personal piggy bank, you proud of yourself Dan……
Contractors make more. No pip. Same 1 year deal.