We don't have local leadership, we have local managers

We don't have local leadership. We have local managers. They manage the policies from above.
There isn't a single manager that believes the automatic PIP process is healthy for their organization. They simply accept its outside their authority and implement it.
Leaders would tell HQ they're not gonna implement it and advocate for change.

This is our biggest problem. When all the managers are willing to implement a process that causes them to lose some of their best people without a second thought because "it's above their pay grade," you know we're dealing with either cowards or those who are happy to get rid of the competition. And that means we have no real leaders at XOM who are willing to step up and say something about the process that is obviously broken.

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.....managers who are honestly trying to protect their teams from all the bullsh-t from above.....?????

There are no EM managers like that.

Managers in EM don't do $hit for their teams. All they do is for their VPs and to cover their own a$$es.

The point of them just carrying out orders is that the company is preaching upward feedback to the rank and file, supervisor empowerment, etc., but management clearly doesn't feel comfortable doing that to the out of touch f*cks in Dallas.

Instead of placing blame on managers - why don’t you and your peers refuse to do your PDS form in March. Same logic as you used - if no one does a PDS then no assessments. Stick it to the man at your level instead of complaining about managers who are honestly trying to protect their teams from all the bullsh-t from above.

And how are non managers any different? Individual contributors also just do as told. If you want to go on strike go on strike. What do you expect a local manager to do? This has to be fixed by those higher up. We won’t get their attention until enough people quit in a short enough period of time that the executives making the decision don’t get their bonuses and wake up.

I would be more direct : we don't even have local managers, we have local implementers, overpaid for their level of responsibilities. Heavily centralised organisations, with little to no latitude given to operational echelons on the ground are bound to collapse sooner or later, in particular if/when the going gets tough.
EM management had their a$$es saved by the post-pandemic b00m and the war in Ukraine, driving crude oil prices and refining margins at levels never seen in a decade or more, but that might prove a temporary relief.

Yeah agreed BR is pretty jacked up.

Just read the children’s story of the Emperor with no clothes. Lots of similarities with our leadership.

When you are pulling in 300k or better, just go with the flow.

they have a family to feed, doesn't make sense to go against the management then lose their job

Several managers in BR have told people they're just carrying out orders until they're retired.

Neat.

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