#keepItRealSurvey

Cost cutting everywhere, outsourcing technical roles, supervisors patting themselves on the backs, promoting a-s kissers over technical abilities, complete disregard of development & growth… clarity and communication? Never heard of it When things... — read more 

Since Chevron is having major layoffs, should we worry about being next? It wouldn't be the first time for XOM to get an idea from other O&G companies and run with it. My only hope is that XOM still prefers to do PIPs, which are cheaper, and that... — read more 

I am asking because I know someone who moved to another country and they had problems and moved back. They did not complete their assignment and when they got back they were dropped. They have never recovered and suffer to this day. I recently moved... — read more 

Engineer, came on board half a year ago. My second job. Seems already a tough and toxic environment. Is it worth it to stay for a while? Any advice from veterans?

If you are an American Exxon employee would you rather be in engineering or some other role outside of engineering?

Chevron just announced to setup a Chevron Technical Center in Bengalore now and will shift 600 jobs (initially?). Wow! Looks like the highly paid CEOs of O&G companies have 0 ability to lead the company anymore. All of them are just shelling our... — read more 

What is the highest level for experienced engineer at BTC. I have 15+ years of experience but was offered CL 27. What are typical packages you can expect for this level. Also no mention of cash or stock bonus targets. What is typical cash or stock... — read more 

Panel to consider independent appraisal of Hess Guyana Exxon sees Chevron-Hess merger as disguised asset buy, say sources Hess Guyana makes up 70% of Chevron's $53 bln bid, say analysts Chevron, Hess see appraisal as irrelevant to arbitration... — read more 

Just an outaider perspective. How can a ‘technology’ driven company be so backwards in thinking? Why is it considered normal to talk about religion, have fellowships based on religious beliefs and potential groupings based on what one believes in or... — read more 

Investing in the chosen few. Secret nomination by invitation only training. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mark-goykhman-74177410_i-spent-last-week-at-the-unc-executive-development-activity-7230024824327192576-_YHd

What CL do I need to be to make more than $400k a year?

So much for the Houston hub. I guess close down and turn off the lights and move operations to India! https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/article/carbon-capture-oil-texas-19656576.php

This is immoral and evil. No reason for such a gal between workers and the CEO. Want to make as much money as a CEO does? Do you have 267 friends? You’d need to pool everyone’s wages to have as much as the average CEO earned in 2023, according to... — read more 

Seriously does anyone know how many 34 Potential + do we have? I heard about 400 which sounds like about 300 too many

I’ve heard that this years Potential setting will be a bloodbath. We have too many people with artificially high Potentials and the word is HR will be culling it. Anyone else heard this?

Anyone know what the recruiting targets are for 2024? Seeing posts on LinkedIn that recruiting is underway.

What’s the best way to sink your boss who is a pathological liar, misleads you through out the year, double faced and says completely opposite things to you vs his boss, ignores KOs feedback and sinks you to the bottom and claims that you sunk... — read more 

Em keep talking about the importance of Succession planning but seen to have a stark lack of ready to go senior leaders who are ready to go. Just look at the Upstream; LM should have retired now; Look up GOS, JW should have retired a decade ago. Same... — read more 

I was thinking why all the RE folks are still hanging around working, when they could retire and do other things? I thought about this and came up with the following reasons - let me know if I’ve missed any A. Working is the actually the most... — read more 

My true take on ranking no matter what you do. excellent with distinction top 10% hipos and young employees ANY CL WITH A KISSING excellent 80-90 hipos and young ones LOW CL very good 50-80 30 years to 45 LOW TO MID CL good 20-50 40 to... — read more 

More specifically in the downstream at CL 30 and 25 years experience?

Does anybody have any insight on this new insurance? Health and dental? Thanks!

Could it be the reason they moved to WMHC was to make it easier to lay off Pioneer people in Las Colinas?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/exxon-reports-59-layoffs-to-texas-agency-post-pioneer-acquisition/ar-AA1oGnbK?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=3d83a77a6658456cae04663d4f702f7b&ei=45

Is it just me or has anybody else lost interest in what they're doing after the latest round of ranking?

Steve Jobs once shared some advice about the best managers: He said they're usually people who don't necessarily want to be managers. Jobs said in a 1985 interview that when he and Apple's other cofounders realized that it was going to be a big... — read more 

I recall changes were made to executive CL levels a few years ago. Anyone recall the changes?

Word getting around that a PGA mgr slapped an employee. And hr didnt fire her but employee is pipped. Crazy that mgr handles the company reputation, who does that. So watch your rear end and dont report s**ual harassment if you want to keep your... — read more 

For all you boomer haters on this site, when are you going to realize that the boomers are mostly already retired? No boomers left to clog up the system. No boomers left to block your promotions. So please stop using that excuse for your lack of... — read more 

Does anyone know if you qualify for Unemployment benefits in Texas if you elect for PIL (Pay in Lieu) rather than the PIP? Technically you “voluntarily resign” after the PIL period is over, but I wonder if anyone has still been able to qualify for... — read more 

Well if your like me near retirement hopefully you have everything ready to go. In am stuck at the moment like a lot of other employees because of the high interest rates. Right now I would lose 35 to 45 % of my lump sum payout. If the rate drops in... — read more 

Include CL, rank you received, and reason they gave you for why you were ranked there. This should be hilarious

Do our executives have any original thoughts? Seems they outsource all the thinking to consultants.

Our manager held a team meeting today on zoom ironically and one of the topics was the flex your day program. Essentially, no wfh unless there is documented approval from her via email and that it should be on a rare case basis. She essentially said... — read more 

What happen to giving existing employee who toiled away for years career opportunities? I noticed company hiring more people with less than 3 years of work history with no skills in the job. Didn’t even start them on the basics. Wow, what a... — read more 

Looking at executive compensation and at the same time watching elimination of employee match for charitable giving and volunteer grants. There is zero excuse for cutting these programs. Pure greed. Bloomberg should write an article

Anyone else noticed the multi year trend of downstream pushing out upstream people? Technical leadership as well as managerial. Some very ugly examples. Only reasons I can think of are: DW is putting his pals in key roles Downstream salaries... — read more