Thread regarding ExxonMobil Corp. layoffs

Great analogy.

I actually try to treat coworkers with same respect as family, except id--ts that try to take credit for my work.

EM treats employees as commodities that can be replaced with overseas lower quality items.

Spoiled kids will complain.

Never ever think of work in the same context as family. If you do, you are setting yourself up for a heartache. Work is work, you are compensated for that work. If you are lucky, you may form a few friendships on the way. Those are rare.

Do your work to the best of your abilities. Take the opportunity to learn and do something meaningful that you can be proud of when you retire. Don’t ever doubt your worth despite what you were told.

It’s not really about the office or lack there of. It’s more about treating people fairly and with respect. And working with people who you trust and they trust you. And more importantly, having real leaders who genuinely care. The ones who are in the trenches with you through thick and thin.

Trust was broken and it may never return.

Op, you have some serious problems. Maybe move out of your parents house and grow the feck up. You are scr3wed up. Blame your loser life on some else if you want but just go away.

Well, they can NSI their kids and get rid of them after failing their PIPs. They are not abandoning their kids, it is just that the kids performances were not acceptable. Then they can go to India where there are lots of children and get a few for pennies on the dollar. I think children in India are now for sale. Something like buy one get ten free. Done. A big happy family again.

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We need to reduce headcount from 63,000 employees to approximately 50,000 employees in the near term.

Expect more of these decisions to occur to encourage employees to quit before they are eventually NSI'd. Our management job is to reduce headcount and avoid the pitfalls of some judge legally calling it a "LAYOFF" in a court of law.

Y’all are a bunch of prima-donnas. Would encourage you to research how many companies globally leverage this approach. Stop being lil’ bi**hes

Those parents are inspiring those kids to run away so they can replace them with new kids from third world countries that, according to the TV campaigns, can be fed for as little as 39 cents per day.

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“Expecting live from a corporation is not realistic”
Indeed not, but providing a normal, productive work environment is not only realistic, it is also profitable for a corporation. EM’s “hot-desking” policy could only be invented, approved and applied by a corporation who hates and despises its employees, who is willing to take a hit in productivity just to humiliate and annoy “commoners”.

Was hot-desking an employee idea or a consulting firm? What about the gritty TP?

Seriously hot desking is not that bad. The bathrooms still have doors on them, I go to the bathroom at least 5 times per day. No concerns about the toilet paper because I am just sitting there.

that would be be a better analogy if you also know that at least one kid sleeps elsewhere each night and you have one less bed.

That kind of unwarranted treatment screams Root Cause of future issues.

Kids scarred for life.

Kids will run away and live on streets.

Will probably be cruel to animals then later end up in prison.

My new master bedroom is huge, really big en-suite, with great toilet paper

I am the most valuable asset, not you!!!

DW

Expecting Hotdesking after record profits when company owns excess office space also not realistic.

That analogy was pretty good.

expecting love from a corporation is not realistic.

Based on the scenario described, those parents want their children to run away.

Very good analogy!!!

Beware of unintended consequences........The kids will bang each other silly and hopefully no one gets knocked up in the process.