Is there anyone who likes the yearly hunger games? Is Exxon so arrogant that it won’t change the process that is making it lose good people. Is Management Committee so out of touch. Come on DW - humility is a leadership trait. This is bad process... — read more 

This year I have delegated 100 of my 2 minute employee performance summary to ChatGPT. I just copied and pasted whatever my reports wrote in their PDS forms and asked ChatGPT to make the summary for me. I have not read a single word they wrote, just... — read more 

Has anyone ever had a manager tell you not to talk to HR? Reason being is they would handle all communication between HR and yourself? I mean to me that sounds wrong

Ugh. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/report-donald-trump-to-visit-houston-oil-execs-in-fundraising-bid/ar-BB1mO4xB?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=f73103be9f9840bbb190a34e92bc85da&ei=80

Word on the street was they were overpaid after over progressing work. ... — read more 

We keep saying industry standard but the industry can’t have awful process like low cost call centres, low quality engineering support like a BTC or account payables that don’t pay the bills. What other examples

With reunites about Fawley being sold, are you seeing EM doling out more NSIs and then trying to make people leave or laying them off? Is that possible in the UK or is it just Texas that hates employees

I was sitting in an assessment session for lower CLs earlier today, and was advised by HR that we were not meeting expectations concerning BTC distribution. So, we elevated a number of BTC underperforming employees, and artificially placed them... — read more 

This company values those who do simple things very well. I am the supervisor of group of engineers who are more strategic and have added lot of value to the corporation, but are now being assessed lower than those who delivered minuscule simple... — read more 

I thought PIPs are always handed out after performance review meetings, and yet I've heard of a few folks being put on PIPs recently. How is this possible?

It's an unwell culture that doesn't encourage development and growth of the majority of the working population. The company does not view it's staff as a value add differentiator. That indeed is no different from any other capitalist venture. The... — read more 

ExxonMobil annuitant here who retired 2 years ago and will turn 59.5 years old next month. I still have my 401k in the EM Voya plan allocated in EM stock, S&P 500 index, and the extended market index. I have never sold my EM stock so NUA comes into... — read more 

Anyone knows what the PIP rate will be for employees in the US for the 2024 ranking season?

I will be retirement eligible by this summer. I am not good at politics so my ranking stays low since COVID. If am ranked as Needs Signifacant Improvement can I take the 3 month PIL then retire? Are do I have to retire immediately, if I refuse the... — read more 

Heard from some manager zoom channels. Can anyone confirm?

If you could go back to Day 1, when you were hired, what advice would you give to your younger self about working for ExxonMobil?

This company just doesn’t feel the same as it used to pre-Covid. How are others feeling? Going to work everyday just feels so daunting.

Rumor circulating in the Basin, all XTO office positions moving to Houston. You don’t want to go, kick rocks. Are they doing this?

If you don't want to wind up the loser in office politics, read The Hatchet Man's Playbook. It's all about the nasty games managers and unscrupulous co-workers play to get ahead and how to beat them. Definitely comes in handy at the Big X.

With BTC focus on moving staff employee jobs to India, shifting to moving engineering contracts to India, and then moving procurement to India, and also moving construction to India, the new KPI should be how many Executives and Board Members sourced... — read more 

The best lesson I learned since I joined Exxon is to work smarter instead of harder. When I worked hard to prove myself, I would end up getting some pats on the back and much more work while everybody around me was getting big raises and promotions... — read more 

So more rumours of investors not liking Darren and the lead ‘Independent’ directors aggressiveness and trying to sue. Let’s hope they pip Darren. They should sue him for his focus in short term gains and leaving us in the s long term when there are... — read more 

Are they still offering PIL for PIP employees. Will turn 55 before ranking results are official. Feel like I will put back at the bottom. I was taken off for a year.

I am curious where I sit? If a CL29 makes $400K a year, is that in the range of what it should be? Upstream

How is Global Security doing under the current revised management structure? Has there been a step change with value and behaviour vs the previous incumbent leadership change out!

I’m a field employee at PXD. Can someone explain this process. Also I’m over 50 how long till they cut me?

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Ok so who actually believes Darren really believes our purpose is to provide energy to do good. He doesn’t care about doing good; he does care about providing energy and making money. Just be straight about it and stop the cr-p.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/magazine/401k-retirement-crisis.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Assessments at some point at least appeared to be a meritocracy. The current iteration tries to balance fairness across teams that may be stronger and weaker. If you are a minority or a female, whether you are good at your job, whether you do... — read more 

Its on the news that the closure is to be done by 2028. However, we just heard from our DH that staff move should be completed by end of 2025, with only rare exceptions. What the heck is that?!! Are management sh-----g us?

More WAEM news today - We are all in it together apart from the tone deaf LCM who won’t be moving to Altona with the rest of us.

You may have heard someone refer to Houston and other “high cost” area employees as High Cost 10 or just HC10. What shall the name and acronym be for everyone else (ex: BTC)?

SSWas sabotaged by XOM. Is this way XOM operates!

Whats the earliest we could hear back on our ranking and outcome?

Wonder if he’s also trying to recruit any of them to be on his cabinet? (Rex would say run!)... — read more 

Anyone else communicated results from a recent site attendance study and given a “courtesy notice” that their group will now take and communicate attendance to upper management? Curious as to whether this is widespread to other sites/campus.