Thread regarding ExxonMobil Corp. layoffs

Complete and utter lack of ethics hidden behind an army of lawyers. Couple this with managers who are selected due to compliance and lack of moral character rather than capability. I surely hope the SEC finally breaks through and fines individuals. The laughable thing is that these individuals are so groomed that they don’t even realize they are making unethical decisions or even potentially breaking the law - just follow the feed

• I hate it because the culture is hateful.
• I hate it because they forced me to return to the filthy campus in the middle of the pandemic.
• I hate it because they borrowed millions to pay the dividend while freezing my salary and suspending my matching.
• I hate it because they layoff my friends and colleagues that I respected and cared for.
• I hate it because their performance review is an absolute lie and ranking is decided with implicit and explicit bias towards nationality, gender, age, or skin color.
• I hate it because I cannot speak my mind without fear of retaliation.
• I hate it because I am tired of having a new clueless supervisor every two years that doesn't know or care about me or my career.
• I hate it because outstanding quality of work is irrelevant and taking credit for my work is relevant.
• I hate it because I'm tired of pointless meetings and powerpoints.
• I hate it because nobody takes any risks, there is no upside.
• I hate it because I my colleagues are like zombies that regurgitate the supervisor's rhetoric without thinking for themselves.

Management have no ethics. And apparently the rank and file are too cowed to challenge shady practices..

Cause they know living in the belly of a dying parasitical beast just simply ain't the best way to go.
Simple.

D@rren wrote it!

Because incompetent people can survive here AND do better than competent ones. Look at Guyana staff in Houston for examples.

Yes I make good money that is why I am at exxon. The work is okay and I am able to do what I like. The problem is the utter lack of respect for good employees and the favoritism. Slackers and favorites are promoted and touted by the management. This is demotivating to good workers. I stay to get the pension payout and insurance. The pip ing of older workers vs younger lazy workers is also a problem. I have seen this favorites problem at exxon for 20 years.

Let's see? You feel like a walking target every breath you take, you wonder if it is your turn to get pummeled by everyone from the top to the person sitting next to you. You know it is only a matter of when for you to be the LOW POS NI OR NSI performer! You constantly have to navigate avoiding being assigned to work any projects with a blood thirsty, throat cutting climber! You try to navigate a corporation that is ignoring Federal laws that for decades have been there to protect every individual from the reverse harassing, hostile exposure to politically driven agendas. Simplified, it is like being on a battle field in a bunker every single day!!! Hostile!!!

Because this place sucks.

The avg employee who left for amazon earned more than some VPs here….so there’s that

The average worker has given a lot to the company. Management can’t describe us as family and then be surprised when they treat people like sh-t that it causes them to feel betrayed and upset. Add on top of this that we obviously aren’t all in this together and that the party for executives never stops and what do you expect? People have an innate sense of fairness. Betray fairness and you will pi-s people off. Any executive who doesn't see the evil they have participated in sticking it to employees while they themselves collect huge payouts has no moral compass or integrity unless they are actively working to change things. They cant take it with them when they go and the day of judgement is coming for all of us eventually.

People don’t want it to burn this place down. They want the management to wake up and do something to fix things. Most employees are beyond frustrated at the inability of management to grasp the situation. Management still seems to think everything is fine and that there is a small minority of troublemakers they just need to weed out rather than realizing they have lost the trust of the entire workforce.

Can the last one out the door, turn the lights off please.

Pay is good compared to what? Our management has admitted that our pay is not competitive and stated publicly that they need multiple years to fix it. You know because we have to get it right. Don’t they consider the risk of further delay? The risk of further delay to improving our compensation while our stock price and profit reaches record high doesn't seem to even be on their radar.

Because all the purdy ones are gone and the fu--y ones remained.

I’ve been around for almost 25 years and have never seen things as toxic as they are today. With record profits around the corner, don’t look for anything to change.
As one of our dear leaders said, all we hot shots are fungible.

The post previous to this is absurd. It is our PLAN to displace hundreds of US employees per year by low cost centers. It is our PLAN to squeeze every penny from HC10 employees to maintain attrition targets and reduce costs (neighborhoods, vacation accrual, etc.). It is our PLAN to shift the bulk of work from Houston to the BTC within 5 years.

If you’re not awake to it, you deserve to be the last rat on the ship.

Why do you think they are actively trying to get you to quit? It costs more to replace you in an industry that now more difficult to recruit in than it’s ever been before.

There are a lot of reasons, but at the core (at least IMO) the issue is a broken social contract with average employees. Pre-pandemic the unspoken deal with EM was you got a steady, well paying job more or less until retirement (unless you really messed up) in exchange for fewer day to day perks and a mildly harsher culture than equivalent companies in the industry (e.g., no 9/80s, no bonuses etc.).

Now the security part is gone for the rank and file, but the day to day perks are still worse than many other companies (and headed further downhill by the sounds of things). Pay is also lagging right now, and the new ranking system adds a lot of uncertainty to what your compensation curve (not to mention baseline job security) will look like any given year. Add a generally shrinking industry with limited career growth opportunities for many, and it all rolls up to the high attrition we have at EM today.

Lack of bl00d-lust.
And ethics.
That's my reason.

Well, if you’re from the US, then your corporate office in Dallas is actively seeking for you to quit.

I think that’s the root cause.