The following article resonates so well with XOM employees in explaining how toxic employees climb to the top.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90479073/psychologists-have-finally-figured-out-why-your-toxic-colleagues-climb-to-the-top-at-work?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=ppc&utm_campaign=keywee_tb&kwp_0=2271406&kwp_4=6512374&kwp_1=2788697&fbclid=IwAR0S2uxmixpsVWO-r_BDCkIB7Z9qTAabvnSjcjdQaWMbrxYPjrOXQ0GkIro_aem_ARqOrtsUhwkBmxQU6u32-uOvI4T05Nkt4c0g80Lbh2SVVaW8fdcfllSsKjUfol6luBHdw8O9BW1qSmD2lRnnj5Mx
The word "toxic" is key to our PADP career development process. Honesty and ethics will not lead to CL-30+.
BY ARIANNE COHEN1 MINUTE READ
Got a toxic coworker? You’re not alone: Google lists 231 million pages on the topic.
Now researchers from the University of Bonn have finally asked humanity’s burning question: How the he-l do workers noted for their greed, unfairness, immodesty, and untruths succeed? They studied 203 employee-colleague-supervisor trios, gathering their self-appraisals and coworker evaluations.
The success of toxic people is so common that there’s a phrase for it: the “toxic career model.”
It goes like this: A toxic employee schmoozes and charms and politicks, which results in high job performance reviews from superiors. (Peers, meanwhile, often know the ugly truth.) All success revolves around social skills. And because the same socializing that can foster strong, healthy work relationships can also be used to deceive others, toxic colleagues are able to use their social skills for their own gain.
“Trickery, disguise and deception are the dark side of social skills,” said study coauthor Gerhard Blickle, a psychologist at the University of Bonn, in a statement.
In psychological terms, toxic personalities are characterized by low honesty and low modesty. “Such personalities tend to focus on themselves all the time,” says Blickle, who calls toxic people “dark personalities.”
The researchers suggest that you too can help stop toxic career climbs (!). If you’re a manager, the trick is to pay attention to team performance (not just task performance), and to separate job performance from good impressions, particularly in jobs that involve attracting attention and interest, such as leadership and sales, where toxic personalities can thrive.
Applicable to 80% of American companies.... Shocking
@rgy Ever worked anywhere else?
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The biggest problem with ExxonMobil is the number of people who have never worked anywhere else since graduating from college. Anyone with even the smallest amount of perspective will realize that there is no eutopia waiting for them at the next employer. Everywhere has problems. Pick your problems. If you think it is better somewhere else then go get a job there. Or go start your own company that does everything right that ExxonMobil does wrong.
Read the book Jerks at Work - it tells you how to identify which one you are dealing with and how to manage them - like the two jerks above. Why can't people just be decent humans?
There is currently no law, policy, procedural rule, or legal precedent requiring anyone who is employed by ExxonMobil to continue working there against their will.
If it really is that bad, just move on. I have no idea why this so difficult to fathom for so many of you.
@OP This doesn't happen at any other company. Only at XOM. Speak truth to power chief.
Jealous much? Losers always have excuses.