Thread regarding ExxonMobil Corp. layoffs

European and US employees need to unionize. Actually all employees need to form. The Executive greed will not stop unless forced by a collective power greater than them. Beyond Government, which is in their pockets already, unions are the only solution remaining.

This is causing so much hatred that will continue to escalate. How can you respect any country trying to sabotage others?

The BTC is hard at work and growing. Invest in deodorant.

In the matter of time they will close down KLTC and send everything over to BTC.

BTC will be the future.

If you think the US is being screwed by the technical pivot to India, you should see what's going on in Europe. Less than 2 years and it will all have been moved from Europe to BTC. All in the name of HC10.

Protect your job. Protect your family. Unionize.

If Starbucks baristas can take on the douchebag executives and win, so can EM employees. Grow a pair and stand up for your rights.

BTC is the best!

Our team did a trial of bringing KLTC resource over for on site training. Several months down the road, it has been a failure. The ownership and drive isn't there like you get from a stateside resource. It has been a complete waste of time and money. All we get is low value work completed at a snail's pace. Another one is supposed to be hired and "trained" state side this year. I'm struggling to see any value in putting effort into outsourcing.

I have always wondered if local sites are actually telling the truth to their managers or if this is just a gimmick and the folks in charge know how incompetent this effort really is. My guess is corporate told the dh and sls to make this work so they have been misrepresenting the truth and corporate is so far removed they don’t know any better. At any rate this makes about as much sense as investments in China and Russia.

KLTC personnel now getting sent to sites to shadow......would love to know if site engineers are holding back on the knowledge transfer.

@lvj+1lmYyXAb you are absolutely right. It's sad to see this path. If you're 40-50, you're screwed. This mess will haunt you. If you're younger then jump now. If you're older, jump at your first chance.

Even though XOM is in a commodity business, it's short-sided strategy like the BTC will ultimately backfire. The company doesn't have the scale it thinks to build significant knowledge base like the EPCs do (arguably not done well either). The next CEO and leadership teams will inherit this mess and have little optionality. The fact is, environmentalists shouldn't worry about bringing down XOM, it's current Management is well on its way to destroying it.

Dude, is that English?

Here's a tip: go to ChatGPT, copy and paste your unintelligible sentences and ask it to "improve my grammar".

Here's the result:

BTC began to grow in 2018 and has since gained strength, accelerating the removal of personnel from the Global Project Center in the USA during the COVID-19 pandemic and eliminating jobs in multiple locations through the implementation of the BTC utilization factor in chemical, upstream, and refinery operations. This was enforced by the Vice President.

The current cost structure of global projects charging to the project is expensive, leading to a reduction in functional personnel in the USA and the hiring of personnel from BTC to support brownfield and new projects. Both centers, KLTC and BTC, have been specifically used to outsource jobs.

The GP charges $350 per hour, hat contractors charge between $125 to $150 per hour, and BTC charges less than $110 for expats and support from India at $71 per hour. This may potentially alter the demographics of the team distribution.

The hires from 2018 understood the culture of Exxon personnel as expats and used their political skills to influence incorrectly to get lead and expat roles, in line with the culture of Indian EPC. For example, in mid-2018, a group of experienced people came on a training trip and ended up spending time in a strip club. Despite this, they were promoted to leadership roles and assignments quicker due to a totally different outlook projected in the BTC office.

Currently, new structural changes are planned, and personnel with little experience in the job are being quickly promoted to lead roles without consultation with team members on the best-equipped personnel for the job. This has been evident recently with individuals making frivolous yammer posts and ground-changing statements without any credibility to an expat supervisor with no knowledge of functional skills to get lead/supervisor roles. Informal feedback will be collected to understand the team's comfort level with some personnel as lead roles are completely missing.

Talented personnel are unlikely to return to the company, as the leadership team on both sides is making decisions based on cost and biases if the culture continues.

We just keep digging a bigger hole. Investments in Russia, China and now this cluster F. So much wasted time and money.

Yup. Recently asked to charge all to projects and zero to functional in BTC side so an expat personnel can sit in BTC office with good renumeration to potray leadership team overall cost is low.

If all expats sent out , the overhead cost goes away and BTC will look more attractive. For a few, many had to work hard and charge to projects with less hours budgeted and more hours spent on supporting out of office hours.

So sick of BTC cr-p! Aren't they the equivalent of SCABS in union represented locations? Yes! Motto is we do it cheaper rah! Zip quality!