In most companies, performance metrics are used to set apart the best from the great from the good from the average from the bad. Only at Exxon, performance is used as a tool to get some of the best people on PIPs. It's not about performance, it's about a loophole way to get rid of people.
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It’s all about politics. Working at XOM is like watching politicians on TV. Bunch of a-s holes all around trying to fu-k each others.
OP. you need to start exhibiting ExxonMobil behaviors. Read the playbook.
Adapt of move on. There is no other way. Good luck.
Many of the PIPs going around right now aren’t even for job performance, they’re for mysterious “culture” misalignment - which basically means you have failed to keep your big mouth shut about all the stupid you keep running into on the job. When the layoff comes, it will be officially no fault but everyone knows what that means: another good person who actually cared has been conveniently freed of their golden handcuffs and is off to pursue better opportunities and improved mental health elsewhere. Happy for them. Not so much for the rest of us who get left with the crop that benefit most from this morally bankrupt ethically corrupt review system.
Spoken like a true bottom performer…
I hate this place as much as all of you, but let's be clear about one thing. Exxon isn't the only one that does this game. Facebook, Google, and a few other big companies are playing the same game. If we continue to be a bunch of pu----s about all of this, then execs are going to keep doing what they're doing, and their team of bloodsucking lawyers will make sure that any litigation either: 1) drags out until we're dead or 2) gets thrown out by the judge.
It’s about “highlights” because your boss doesn’t actually know what you do or how good you are relative to your peers. Your boss will be on to their next job soon, so why bother actually knowing the capabilities of their employees? As long as you don’t say no when they throw you at some fire that comes across your desk, you’re the same as everyone else in your group. “Your regular job duties don’t matter in the ranking session”. This company is not a meritocracy, it is a broken ranking pageant.
Yes this is true. You can never perform perfectly. They system is set up to knit pick at small flaws that will get you pipped.