Thread regarding ExxonMobil Corp. layoffs

A planning job is usually required to get to exec level. In a few cases, some people skipped planning advisor jobs, but later had to go back as a planning manager or senior advisor to get their planning experience. Turning down a planning job is a d-mb career move, especially if you plan to quit XOM. If you turn down planning, management will cut your ranking and your potential, and your future salary and promotions suffer. After 5 to 8 years of only inflation pay raises and no promotions you quit because you are frustrated, and your low salary affects your salary offer by a new employer. it is d-mb move to turn down a planning assignment. Better to su-k it up and get the high pay increases and promotion then negotiate a big jump to another company.

Honestly, I hate being a planner.

look no further than the planning manager, thats all you need to know about what kind of people this company promotes. crooks and pychopaths. You need to be willing to lie and want visibility so bad that you believe the lie.
By the way, there are training/ brainwashing sessions just for planners where they talk about how to understand senior executives thinking without ever questioning them. It is insane, next time you see a planner, remember to check the toll the lying and constant contradictory self imposed sense of pride and bovine excretory duty has taken on them. You’ll see it in their blank eyes, its always there. They are not human anymore.

About two years into starting with the company, I was told by two higher-ups that they'd recommend me for a planning position. I responded with, "The day I go to Planning is the day I quit the company."

Ironically enough, it took another 8 years for me to quit. Never went to planning, and my career stagnated about 3-4 years after I made that comment. I regret nothing.

To BTC? Never in a million years. Planning is euphemism for white glove service for executives. A team of ambitious, college-educated younger people whose sole focus is doing administrative, brainless churn work for executives, in exchange for visibility. Execs won’t want to be personally dealing with BTC, what are you talking about.

What’s bad is the pay scale for planners/schedulers tops out at $110 an hour in some departments. It’s pretty humorous to have made up job that never existed in the XTO days and still get paid that well.

Planners be planning engineer replacement by BTC.

There are two types of planners.

The first prepares PowerPoint slides and tells executives what they want to hear. These planners will be promoted and will be ranked higher during career development.

The second type of planner tells management what they need to hear and they will be ranked NI or NSI and PIP'd during career development.

Today’s planners, tomorrow’s POS, trash bag human’s called executive's

Planners are glorified PowerPoint makers. You feed them BS and they make pretty slides out of it.

Funny how they exaggerate contributions on their resumes.

The Green House messiah in Houston thinks different. The person had the same attitude since he was ion charge of Facilities at Permian before Covid.

They seem to put the most arrogant and unpleasant people in those roles

Corporate plan is a big joke. It’s all made up don’t stress yourself out

Planning roles are reserved for HiPos and most bosses were in a planning job before. Imagine being a 27 year-old being in weekly meetings with CL 30+s and doing decks for them. Plus often they are early career expat roles to the US. It’s a roles for them to know the bosses and be known, to join the club. Don't make the mistake of thinking they’re expected to do real work. Of course they have chips on their shoulders.

The ones I work with have zero depth, always talking high level BS, ignore emails that request for details, create mess at corp plan times and the LowPo worker bees have to clean up after them. They never stay long enough in the role to suffer the consequences of the terrible work they do. Planners are a well-known phenomena of EM culture, just like PDSS, the ongoing cuts in HC10, WAEM survey, and whatever else that stinks now.