For those of us who bailed in 2020/2021, what does WAEM mean? And what’s the deal with socks?
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I did bail, but it’s just so much fun to come back and read the latest news and revel in the fact I don’t have to put up with the 💩 anymore!!
Those town-halls were always such a joke, completely disconnected managers listening to themselves talk. Every one of them is so obtuse - and surrounded by suck ups. It’s disgusting.
Can just imagine the hip moderator in “fun” socks. In 2018-2019 GSC (E&PS) was giving colorful socks away. Socks for your sole, or SOUL?? Then they “socked” some of their best employees in 2020-2021.
We Are ExxonMobil, Actively Caring…… IABS!!!!
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There’s a new acronym for the arsenal. 🤣
Those clowns 🤡 made more money in that wasted hour than I make all year. WAEM!
Exxon living in your head rent-free! Move on dude!! You “bailed,” remember?
WAEM=“we are ExxonMobil”
WAEM is the slogan for the failed “culture change” package that was designed by corporate consultants.
Its objective was supposed to be to make ExxonMobil more cost competitive by streamlining the top-down hierarchical over-managed business processes that burn money compared to competition.
But making that change has to start with a change at the top, so is impossible while keeping leadership that were selected into their roles by the very same culture.
Implementation was doomed because it was focused on the wrong level, with years wasted on pointless attempts to drive change through low level managers and supervisors instead of making the needed changes from the top.
Result is a bunch of money handed to consultants, a huge drain on resources and organizational focus over many years, and in the end not one iota of actual change.
Kathy-bot summed it up nicely in her observation of how, compared to any other organization she’s seen, ExxonMobil burns 3X the effort to complete ‘management of change’ activities.
(Unfortunately, everyone on the stage and in the front rows took that as a compliment and not a critique.)
Layoff/offshoring announcements are now made by a game show host who wears flashy socks.
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