Yeah. This will definitely help with attrition at the Campus.
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Can you please repeat your post one more time. Thanks
We can put in hot decking but our team will pick seats the first day and sit there no matter what. No one can really stop it. Within 6 months we will be back to assigned seats which is what happens at every other company.
This trend is already disproven. We can cram people in while still allowing assigned seats. This proves that XOM is headed for failure.
No desk, no paper products, no cups, no office supplies, no admins, no vacation (accrued/mo.) Fun times!
I’m just Broken….less than a year to retire so hanging on, doing my best to earn my PIP this year.
I enjoy laughing at the ‘hold my beer’ comments on this site but now I don’t even have a desk to put one on or a trash can to throw it out!
For those NRE hold on to that beer….for the rest of you the party is over, run and find your people. EM are not human people
Can I volunteer to sit in the storage room in the basement if I don't get hassled?
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I too am an ex employee who regularly visits this site to see how much farther the company has fallen. I find it funny, but in a sad way <
Same with me. I retired from EM (Upstream) in 2016, it is shocking how different EM seems today compared to when I left. Sad really.
I am not sure why, but yours was the most sobering thing I’ve read on this board in a very long time. I fortunately or unfortunately am far too close to 55 to leave, but I will be thinking hard about what to do in a year and some change.
Spend 1 hour each morning unpacking a couple pictures, a plant, children’s artwork, red swing line stapler, all your ergonomic equipment, maybe even a radio (which you play just loud enough to break through the white noise). Make sure to really decorate. Comment to people….’Hey, good morning, just setting up my work space! So glad I get a fresh slate every morning!’ Then spend an hour each evening putting it all away….all within normal work hours.
Wait until you are scrambling to find a seat, and you see the propaganda campaign flashing in your face. ‘Innovative workplaces.’ Ha! On a side note, I do see more of my managers because they don’t have offices either. That is kind of funny.
I too am an ex employee who regularly visits this site to see how much farther the company has fallen. I find it funny, but in a sad way because I still do have people there that I consider friends.
I’m curious about this “neighborhoods” initiative. I’m guessing it’s similar to what I heard they implemented in the St. John’s office. Not enough seats for everyone, but your function has a neighborhood somewhere over there. If you get there and don’t have a desk, then go to the huddle room, until you get kicked out. Then go home and get targeted for PIP for not being in the office enough.
People! Just face it. It sucks there! You hate it there! You’re staying for the money and some id--tic hope that things will go back to the way they were, or at least get better.
THINGS WON’T GET BETTER IF YOU STAY!!!!!!!!!
THINGS WILL GET WORSE IF YOU STAY!!!!!!!!!
You’re scientists for God’s sake!!!! Look at the data!!!! Extrapolate!!!!
Leave that place. Please! I got laid off and I’m lucky I did. Because I had some BS sense of loyalty and probably wouldn’t have left on my own. Now that I’m out things are SO much better. I almost don’t want to share because I’m not sure you people will believe it.
But here it goes:
I make decent money. I am valued (received highest possible ranking). Supervisor and managers regularly praise me. I live in a beautiful place. I have great work life balance. I have a desk at work, but I can work from home as often as I need/want. My work is important and impactful.
This is not a lie!!! People!!!! Please!!! Leave that wretched company. You can be happy again. You can be valued for your work again. Things can be so much better!!!
PEOPLE!!!! PLEASE!!!!
But you might be able to charge your electric vehicle (EV) at work soon… Darren likes all them Teslas in the garage so he can sell plastic. Haha
Neighborhoods? That is an odd choice of words to describe the process of stripping you of your home (desk).
The next email will be the equivalent of …“Bye. don’t let the door hit you on the way out.”
I'm a real ex-employee. I want to know because I care about my ex colleagues.
I also find it kind of entertaining. It is not that I'm celebrating your misery, but let's be realistic, it's kind of comical.
Notice the slight of hand, dropping any reference to We3? Feels to me like license to work from home and only come into the office 6 times a month.
Dude, if you are a "real" ex-employee why the F do you care. Unless you are not, which is probably the case. Live your best life!
I’m curious what the criteria will be for the future tenants that take up Nature and Science. Who will they let into the Truman show?
Can someone provide more details for those of us who no longer have intranet access?
I'm in the UK, but I'm super excited to go search this out tomorrow morning! 😁😁😁😁😁
And what if you end up in a bad neighborhood? Will we have neighborhood watch? Will there be an HOA? Do I have to always mow the grass?
I could care less. I’m already hot desking in that I have no files on paper, cr-p monitors, and someone uses my desk when I WFH, then I have to clean up after them when I’m back.
My “cubicle-mate” takes up the whole whiteboard with cultural cr-p displays anyway.
It’s the dozens of our pseudo-managers that will lose by having to leave their fishbowls and mingle with the masses.
Are we going to name the neighborhoods? Like Compton, Third ward, the Bronx, Tenderloin? Will the Dallas folks be moving into Holmby Hills? I’m guessing they’ll have offices.
This is what is now called Quiet Firing!! F them
... sitting in Baytown with my door closed counting my ceiling tiles, occasionally looking out my windows...
Why can't they just be honest and say "GTFO" to us instead of playing the asinine games?
Holy sh111111t. I hate this
EM: “we want you to stay!”
Also EM: “we’re taking your desks and offices”