I have noticed we have been hiring employees contractors that do not have relevant experience in our industry. Even worse they do not even want to work hard. One person constantly states they don't know what they are doing. They say they do not know why they were hired. I constantly have to do all there work and tell them how to do things and where to find information. They hired a drilling person for lab work. Another programmer had no idea what we do and was working with battery technology. This person had no idea of process design. Again I had to instruct them on the process and the instruments and process signals analog and digital. I could do all this work myself faster instead of having to help the lost. These contractors were hired through some lower skilled manpower type service. Exxon doesn't care who they hire and the contractors hired don't care. There must be a shortage of competent experienced employees and all that is left is bottom of barrel types. This is a safety disaster waiting to happen. It has been happening in the Permian so badly they stopped some work and production due to incidents.
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We, contractors, are the high-paid cool crowd. We just get paid, no drama with PIPs.
No person was a trailing spouse of someone hired into XOM many years ago. Heard through the grapevine from her previous employer that she didn’t do what she claimed and was about to get booted before she left. Added to the mix that her supervisor didn’t have much experience either. One of those that only manage up.
Doesn’t seem like XOM always hire the best and brightest.
If a new hire is complaining that they don’t know what they’re doing, I’d attribute more to a bad or nonexistent onboarding process rather than the individual.
I saw this problem with not contractor but with regular employee. The person doesn’t have any of the skills she claimed. (Bottom of the barrel employee hired from another company.) Couldn’t perform the job even after 2 years of training. But management wants to go cheap and not fill it with a more qualified person.
The one who replied the comment has not been at Permian. I think that the comment hurt him so bad that he is denying the facts.
While this is true your story seems fabricated. So you instructed a driller on lab work and now a programmer as well? Dude EMIT is so far from respected and the business that this story seems like things that didn’t happen