Thread regarding ExxonMobil Corp. layoffs

EMTEC will be a maximum of 1100 combined regular employee staff in New Jersey, Baytown, Bengaluru, Kuala Lumpur, Europe, and the Houston Campus. At best, the Houston and Baytown campuses may have 400 out of the 1100 total regular employees.

New Jersey and Machlin, Belgium research will move to Bengaluru and Baytown. A lot of experimental research can be outsourced to 3rd party companies.

DM talked a good game about how Chemicals would come out on top in the EMTEC reorganization, but once again, it was only his arrogance and narcissistic need to appear important to his underlings shining through again. At the end of the day, he sold out the organization for his 40 pieces of silver. One set of messages to the organization, a completely different reality to his superiors. Maybe he can take those skills and become a used care salesman in his retirement-he’s just about that trustworthy.

Correct, Santoprene was an aberration- but not in the way you contend. The unethical Akron culture they brought with them infected all the entire elastomers organizations like a virus for 20 years. No change management, formulations changed without proper notice, senior executives siphoning money off the books for their own gain, and we turned our backs on it and let it fester. A strategy of replacing EPDM with Santoprene in applications where it cost more and underperformed causing the demise of the EPDM business as well. Weak managers allowed it to happen because they were afraid of damaging their own careers.

I just resigned from BTEC-E (BCT) a few months ago. This place feels like a ghost town, moral is at ATL, losing talent left and right, and culture has become extremely toxic.

Meanwhile, management pretend that they care about ppl but never showed actions to support their employees. Only actions they have showed proofs that they only care about themselves!

Linda will finish putting Research in the ground the same way she gutted Exploration.

I work at BTEC, morale is horrible, place feels dead. EMTEC has made it much worse than already was, no one sees a future now that we are all been forced to become EMRE….

@kpm: Sadly true. Gone from respected technical experts to bureaucrats. Remember when we looked up to them? This EMTEC thing will make it worse since it will be open to ex-mgr to be eligible to become Chiefs. I miss the Chem Tech of old... DM, we miss you.

Annandale is bleeding out

Look at your chief engineers at BTEC. Are they the kind of people you want to work with and learn from, or are they sociopaths you’d avoid in the hallways, on their way to align on another STP qualification spreadsheet revision?

I believe the mode of operation by individuals who are responsible for this is to slap something together before the next performance evaluation. Just "me too" products and technologies. Doesn't matter if product fails as long as it build visibility for the next career move.

Also, most of EMTEC will be staffed by indian and Chinese as well as be based in India, China, and/or other low cost countries in the next 10 to 15 years. This has been announced in many "future state" presentations from EMTEC leadership. In the next 30 yrs, I suspect the plan is for all of EMTEC to be staffed fully by low cost country personnel but this has not been fully announced.

I work at BTEC. What you describe has been the case for a long a time. Santoprene was an aberration which was quickly corrected by being sold off. Focus is on "me too" PP and PE at lowest cost to serve. Now that all tech organizations are a perpetual loss on corporate financials, research and development will suffer a long term death as the only nobs EMTEC execs have direct control over is cost (headcount, HC10). Designing and implementing an innovative culture and environment is hard and requires true culture change. Firing people and cutting benefits is easy. Execs will choose the easy option because they don't know how to design or implement an innovation driven culture and evaluate those innovations. Exxon will never invent another "lithium battery" again.