The employment market has already picked up and is good for those with experience/skills to offer, with pretty good increment.
@2ginn+16zEvLP3 I bet you didn't try or probably some timid managers saying that to convince their staffs not to look elsewhere, let's not be selfish.
@2fkok+16zEvLP3 Resign then go where? You think it’s so easy to get an equal-paying job nowsaday issit?
Have you really tested the job market to get an equivalent job at parity remuneration?
You don’t know what you don’t know OK.
EM had already made its name “famous” in the O&G industry, that the moment interviewers realise that you are from EM applying for a job - their immediate reaction is: you kena laid off issit?
Or perhaps, you are lowly ranked and trying to escape from the planned load shedding?
You think the other players out there are stoopid?
They will low-ball you with a meagre salary offer (nothing close to what you’ve been enjoying) and command a take-it-or-leave-it stance.
With all the layoffs and headcount reduction, it’s hard to stay motivated at work. Knowing how bleak the outlook of our industry is makes the situation even harder. The more false promises I hear from management that the increased workload can be managed, the more I find myself searching for other jobs and deliberating to resign.
How you know EM had hired the best? How you know every EM given their 100%?
Don't assume, you haven't met the actor yet.
: @2afpt+16zEvLP3
You got PIP in Jan 2021 mean you are NMPT. Your quarterly review got NSI?
@2bsvt+16zEvLP3
No need to create fake news because you never get it! It’s all about office politics and dirty tricks. Supervisors should be Given PIP because they cannot groom the people under them, truly poor leadership and poor planning. Everyone is trying to cover their own back side. They should be the first to let go !
Once the despicable trick of removing employee is used by the unethical company. The stain is remembered by all, the running dogs management still never wake up and continue to defend this full of shxt company. Your time will come, don't turn around and curse the company.
Think the claim of Jan gift likely is meant to be sarcastic lah, isn't it very obvious?
@2bsvt+16zEvLP3 - Nice try to shift the moral high ground away from its original ethical position. Don't forget we always hire the best, everyone gives their utmost 100% at work and doing a very good job (including you). All employees deserve respect, maintain their employment and no one should be laid off. Zero!
@2afpt+16zEvLP3
Why you spreading fake news ah?
All PIP in EMAPPL were offered in Sep/Oct 2020 and most, if not all, would have been completed by now. Many were asked to separate thereafter, and some stayed.
Your being given a PIP in Jan 2021 (a New Year present, as you had put it), is utter BS lah!
@2afzr+16zEvLP3
Layoff criteria will be based on 2020 PA seriatim. Enuf said.
Heard it’s like you take the KLTC job offered to you (and leave family back here in SG), with no expat status - or accept to be layed off!
What is the layoff criteria? Noticed some (not even capable) are always protected by influential forces within the organisation. Hopefully it is a fair one.
Yeaahhh, more positions for us at KLTC!!
SG layoff outcome to be communicated in Jan 2020, with AWS reduced to 1 month, additional 2 months based on company's performance.
With such changes, wonder who will continue staying.
Are you ready for the layoffs! Give me a hell yeah! Hope you are prepared..
I just get PIP as my new year gift.
Talk to your sup for the experiencee you like to gain. If your wish not granted, don't waste time. Time is precious.
@27upz+16zEvLP3 success is to those who preservere, speak to people outside and most are optimistic, but not us in em.
@27ciz+16zEvLP3 at least we are safe..
27upz+16zEvLP3
Lol, ya s*cks to be a supervisor now. They can only chant #weareexxonmobil in comm sessions.
No one would pay them to do this outside.
Has anyone actually tried applying for a job in this current “difficult” economy, where many companies have closed down, or are in the process of retrenching?
It’s a real tough and competitive job market out there. I tell you so.
Many could still probably get a job, but it will never be equal-paying, nor challenging enough - mostly mundane jobs that few want to do, and at a much lower salary scale.
IT backroom programming for e-commerce, machine learning, or telemarketing are some options - but that would make you no different from the masses streaming from South Asia! Same same haha.
The hardest hit will be those in their mid-30s to mid-40s, where for the same job types, they’re likely to be paid much less, than they were (even doing the same thing) in EM.
And especially for the latter age group, many companies will shun employing new hires who are past 40.
You can post resumes by the hundreds, but being called for an interview would be like finding a needle in a haystack - not to mention that even getting a rejection reply would be deemed as some form of response, if at all!
Life still need to goes on no matter what guys. Regardless u are here or not.
If u are, continue to do what u believe to help with the situation.
If u are not, wish u all the best in getting a comparable job and stay happy during this challenging period.
I wish everyone the best and..
A Happy and wonderful new year.
Life is short so, let’s all Stay Positive. =D
I smell so many sour employees - who has already left the organization - here, badmouthing, spreading the untrue, further demoralizing the employees.
Please give me a thumb-down 👎🏻 if you are one of them.
Promotions will apply only to those already earmarked from the Outstanding pool. With no more guaranteed 3-month bonus, going forward, many of us will just flatline our take home, for the next couple of years.
@24lkr+16zEvLP3
If only 70% of us will likely stay on and if you did not perform that great in the PA (anywhere from “Good”, or poorer), then I suggest that you start reducing your outstanding liabilities first, if a job hop opportunity is not likely to be forthcoming in the near term.
If you have a high mortgage on a private apartment / condo, start marketing it, to downgrade to a HDB.
If you own a luxury car, sell it. Either take public transport, or get an old COE car to get by.
With these 2 big-ticket financial liabilities out of the way first, you would be in better state, when the guillotine falls!
Also start reducing your credit card spending and the various high-drain recurring expenses, from premium telco plans, to fibre-TV packages. Stop all high-interest-bearing card rollover payments, cash overdraft loans and personal loans. These will k–l you and family, once you lose your job!
AWS reduced to 1 month.
Grateful this post is still being kept afloat during uncertain times to let us connect with each other. Any chance we employees having some clarity on next year AWS and LTSA (assuming if i'm not cut by mgt yet...) ? It makes quite a difference for ppl tight financially, like me
Heard it’s gonna be 30% headcount reduction in positions, with names earmarked based on 2020 PA. So those NSI who survived PIP, followed by NI will go first.
How will the Singapore study turn out?
Singapore complex struggle is a new normal, but it won't be gone. Officials and rex came for opening ceremony, it will look really ugly if all the PUs and facilities are gone.
Sg em job losses will also be a new normal every year, as usual most of us will think "it can only happen to others". We should not let the bosses play us out... I will play my game.
We are definitely smarter, flexible and more adaptable than some managers. Lately some showing their vulnerability... feel like telling them don't be so obvious can.
Good luck guys. Hope you've found a backup plan.
@20fur+16zEvLP3
For AP F&L, they will probably divest Altona first and then Sriracha (now with TARP already dysfunctional).
Singapore is still the jewel of their crown in the Far East theatre, and it will take a lot more inertia to upstick the Singapore manufacturing complex completely and parachute into the Middle Kingdom, where the trade war and sanctions are only beginning to reach critical mass.
They may/could rationalise SG Ops though, by re-counting the number of crude units and reformers that we actually need to operate - like Shell Bukom did.
Be that as it may, it would still result in positions lost and headcount truncated.
EM will shift its plans to the China 1 project and then build two more of the same complexes elsewhere. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-exxonmobil-china-petrochemical-idUSKCN2241DJ
This leaves to a study on the delay of the CRISP project and the Singapore assets will be sold.
So first it will be a retrenchment of at least 30% or more to get rid of overhead and sell the assets with a leaner workforce.
I’m hearing 1st quarter the cuts will come. The asset sale is just a guess.
@1Zyzr+16zEvLP3 Cents wise dollar foolish.. imagine executive checking each receipts and reporting them up! Now that’s how we do it the EM way..
Why keep asking me to downgrade my SingTel plan? Omfg
You have zero clue what happened with those that were forced into involuntary. I know many exceptional/top ranked employees that were let go, it was not only PIP candidates.
This is not true. Most people I know that were placed on PIP ended up passing. Quit talking out your a–.
@1Xatk+16zEvLP3
Only the under-performers in NSI category were weeded out. Some opted for PIL and the rest accepted PIP (where most have failed miserably).
@1Xatk+16zEvLP3 Talents? Those that left are candidates for the next PIP. They made the right choice, DW will be happy for them too