Retiring because I was targeted for NSI by some id--ts that sacrificed me cancels out nearly all good contributions that I made.
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I bet the last poster secretly voted for Biden and is a cuckhold.
Typical climate religion fanatics believe providing people a way of life is screwing over the world. You are an elitist and a sick evil person when you deny others the right to cheap energy while peddling false utopias.
This is a nonsense question. I retired, now work elsewhere while CONTINUING to make a mark in the world. Most of the best and humanitarian things accomplished had nothing to do with EM.
Kids colleges paid for and thriving as young adults. They could care less about EM, one way or another.
Given all the expat assignments I've had,I left mark all over the world. Like a dog running loose in the night
Opee thinks he farts excellence
What kind of pretentious 1d1ot can genuinely believe that there's something virtuous about working for this waste of a corporation?????
Greedy and mediocre EM people only care about impact on their pockets.
This is not a place for risk-takers, trailblazers or world changers.
This is a place for mediocre pseudo professionals settling for an average paycheck and a 9-5 schedule in exchange of a fake sense of security, meaningless and useless work, disposable and transactional relationships, and sad complacency until the next oil industry downturn and subsequent layoffs, or PIP or, if lucky, retirement
Myths, my dude? No such thing here. I went into engineering because I was good at math and science, and wanted a good job. After seeing how cr-p corporate engineering jobs are, and how incompetent engineers are very rarely ever called out, I decided to offer my services to the highest bidder, which is currently EM. I don’t have to apologize for getting the best deal I can. But you do look like a fool comparing someone keeping oil in the pipes to essentially war criminals saying “I was just following orders”. Rank and file don’t have anything to do with the Tomfeckery that has gone on in years past with respect to climate denial.
Get a life dood
All of these replies confirm my hypothesis:
- most people see no redeeming value for themselves or society in the work they do (it’s just a job, it’s transactional)
- most dont consider climate change in their answer, so actively ph--king over the next generations on climate is no biggie for the average xom employee
- those who might have a conscience about climate change (few and far between in these answers) cling to self-developed myths to allow themselves to sleep at night
Fun. I Hope everyone keeps enjoying.
As a “liberal” at an oil company, I justify that by the fact that I’m one of the people that keeps the oil in the pipe. My job is primarily to help us avoid safety and environmental disasters.
Will I say I made a positive impact when I go? No. EM doesn’t value technical contributions in their ranking sessions (“That’s just your regular job, that doesn’t count in relative ranking”). Never promoted, generally not recognized for my expertise despite my abilities. I traded my time and labor for money, and EM figured out how to pay me the lowest possible raises they could while I was in the building. Transaction. Job not a career.
Yes, it was a good 35 year career as a EM engineer. Working over 30 different countries, building out oilfield infrastructure across the world (Australia, Nigeria, UK, China, New Zealand, South Africa, GOM, Germany, etc. etc.). I passed along my operational skills to those from many different countries. After decades of work, by the time I had retired, I had a SMALL part in bringing on stream over 1,000,000 bpd equivalent. I made the company a lot of money. It was a good run. A lot of accomplishments for which I am proud.
And, EM paid me well which allowed me to raise and educate a family of 6 while fully funding my retirement.
I just earn and spend. I’m buddhist and not attached to things. I guess I hope Social Security is still running when I retire.
Never forget that work is transactional, you provide a service and the company provides compensation.
If you think that you are irreplaceable, you cannot be promoted.
I previously knew I made a difference and that impact was measurable.
Recently EM decided I was not worth assigning an office or even a desk so decided to abandon owned buildings rather than provide assigned desks.
My contributions and impact declined severely when I started searching for an available desk each morning.
Thank you very much KM for implementing Hotdesking from your palatial custom made new office.
I just hope I can reach retirement with some sanity remaining.
I recently retired. I feel like I had no positive impact for the company or the industry working at XOM. Although, I do feel like a made a positive difference at the other 3 O&G compainies I worked for prior to exxonmobil. Felt like a dog chasing it's tail most days at XOM, going to all the stupid meetings that accomplish nothing except a platform for the narcissistic mangers to praise themselves or the company for how awesome they are, kinda sickening in my opinion. Oh well, it's great to get away alive.
I feel like it did help. When the company quit appreciating me it was like a bad marriage.
Loyalty keep me in the situation when common sense should have let me go soon as I was exposed to a narcissistic manager.
Glad I left with no regrets
Just pulled the plug. Upstream career very satisfying. Tremendous positive impact on developing countries and their people. Enjoyed the unique challenges the work entailed. Good luck to everyone!