Big Lake facility getting hit again

The 'death by a thousand cuts' approach is absolutely exhausting. It’s impossible to plan your future or focus on actual project deliverables when you're constantly looking over your shoulder to see if your desk is the next one to be cleared out. Management calls it 'optimizing,' but for those of us on the floor, it’s just pure psychological warfare. If they have a long-term plan, they need to stop hiding behind these staggered WARN notices and just rip the Band-Aid off already. This drip-feed of layoffs is destroying morale faster than the actual job losses themselves.

I’m honestly not surprised at all. Exxon has been prioritizing shareholders and stock buybacks over their own workforce for years now. Big Lake is just another data point in their spreadsheet to them. When they talk about 'operational excellence,' they really just mean finding new ways to do more with less until the people left are completely burnt out. I stopped trusting the corporate narrative a long time ago. It’s clear that nobody is safe as long as they keep chasing those efficiency targets. If you can move on, I’d suggest looking elsewhere before your department gets targeted next.