From a Google search : Wrongful Termination: Companies cannot lay off an employee in a specific position and immediately hire a new person to fill that exact same role domestically without risking a wrongful termination lawsuit. However, replacing... — read more 

National salary program meeting today, what are the key takeaways?

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with a former Amazon HR worker who was put into the company's performance-management program known as Pivot. This person spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid jeopardizing their career. Business... — read more 

Heard from 2 independent sources (i.e. Supervisor and above) now that the number of people not opting to relocate to Edmonton is much higher than what Management anticipated. It will be interesting to see how they handle this!!

Hope this is not, “Short term gain, at the price of long term gain.”

Does anyone know how the selection committee proceedings went for higher CLs last week? Are positions changing much?

I worked for IOL for close to 20 years, and I hardly ever saw the stock price touch $50 CAD. It was a bad idea to invest in IOL, so sold all my IOL stocks in RRSP. Bad decision!! But who knew this will happen!!

Hi, I work almost 100% from home now. So, very little interaction with folks in the QP office. Does any one know anyone who was let go since the big announcement? I haven’t heard of anyone getting fired or quitting in my close circle YET

Looks like the shareholders are OK with Imperial Oil. I guess from a shareholder perspective, the company is doing OK. Employees don’t want it to be like this too. After all, our pensions are tied to the company, and some of us will still get their... — read more 

There are numerous things imperial has done that have not gained the media attention it should. Start editing their wikipedia page. Create a category called “spills” and “regulatory issues”. Make sure everything is verifiable facts, and of course... — read more 

I am at company less than 5 years. In engineering. I am in scope. I have been applying for jobs, an offer is in works. It’s 30% lower than what i am making right now. It’s not in Oil and Gas. Should i take it or ride it out?

Rumors floating around that 24% already said NO on survey to Edmonton. Lot of others (including me) are playing for time and decided to wait until final decision time of Jan'26. Anyone has insights how the MC is reacting to much steeper than expected... — read more 

It was just leaked that to handle the influx of people to Strathcona post Transformation they will begin charging for parking at site.

Mega props to the guy that posted the Jimmy Fallon thumbs down gif to the JW announcement on the Facebookesque IOL homepage.

Have you been told your fate? Please share when it was communicated to you. Since it is November, let's see when they start communicating out. Thanks

Stock market didn’t like today’s earnings, despite record upstream performance. Because a move to Edmonton, and its crazy write offs, which makes no business sense. Could have easily right sized the corp and stayed in Calgary.

Cute! https://www.linkedin.com/posts/imperial-oil_a-message-from-our-chairman-president-activity-7390055385530953728-68au?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAAAghr0EBxYrvlW41szMwjPB1N_b7_qJtMYI

This would be effing hilarious at this point.

Here is the location of my job: https://jobs.exxonmobil.com/search/?q=Engineer&locationsearch=India As an engineer working in Canada in Okl & Gas for 25+ years, where can I work now?? No need to answer my question. I already found it.

I'm hearing rumors that due to an excessively high number of No's to mobility, there's the creation of a third bucket of folks for January. Calling it the waiver wire/floaters on hot standby, for those not formally provided an initial position. ... — read more 

Since the “no” group will be laid off first, is it possible the severance pot could severely be depleted by them, because the group may be larger than originally anticipated by IOL? I feel like I'm playing Squid game.

Even if you are right or lowballed on severance. Nobody is going to sue despite tough talk. A lawsuit with Imperial will be filled with legal costs as they drag things out every step od the way. They will ignore your lawyer, file things late... — read more 

Imagine those going end up losing 12 EDOs and floaters to align with EM's global regions who don't have the same. Likewise for the DB plan.

The original announcement was, Imperial Oil will lay off 900 staff from Calgary to reduce operating cost, and staff at the asset level will remain untouched. But, now I find out that they will layoff from Strathcona refinery too. What happened? Did... — read more 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/boereport.com/2025/10/24/global-energy-layoffs-deepen-in-2025-as-crude-prices-weaken-ma-deals-surge/amp/ The article didn't have cons numbers but we have them now "ConocoPhillips to lay off Canada employees in November... — read more 

https://jacobin.com/2025/10/canada-oil-us-profits-workers Thoughts?

Anyone in planning or any managers have any insight on if we will be getting raises at the end of the year? And if so, how much? 2%, 3%?

After announcing major layoffs and the transfer of operations from Calgary to Edmonton, John Whelan has been completely absent. No follow-up email, no public address, and not even a presence in supervisor forums to discuss the impacts of the... — read more 

Full disclosure, I am one of those people who was cornered by the cool-aid drinking Supervisors of Imperial Oil, and had to leave the company to keep my sanity and self esteem. I am curious to know, with all the worker bee jobs moving to Houston... — read more 

Where is Imperial's board in all of this? Aren't they supposed to be holding management accountable that any changes are in the best interest of Shareholders? How is this good for Imperial? Move activities from Calgary to Houston where EM folks... — read more 

Any advice on how to maximize probability of being laid off and obtaining the severance as soon as possible?

Council Chairs established and members nominated. Mobility surveys have not closed yet but ppl have already started disappearing from QP (most are involuntary). Staffing & selection process is on by first week of November and we all know how this... — read more 

To all those hoping for a role post "Transformation" its now been communicated that you might get a pay cut to go along with your new role.

Have those been affected by the planned reductions been notified yet or given clues? Here at Imperial and EM Canada? Asking for a friend...

This is from 2007-2008 period when Calgary’s job market was hot. Lots of young engineers were quitting Imperial Oil. Imperial was desperate to retain its people. Salary bumps across the board were in double digits (and not the lower double... — read more 

Is it not tell tale when one of the upstream executives who worked on this restructuring resigns and goes to Suncor?

Hey everyone, what’s the latest on the Sarnia situation? It seems discussions between management and research staff are still ongoing. There’s talk that some employees might be offered relocation options — possibly to Edmonton or other sites —... — read more 

Hi folks. Is it possible to share learning from discussions with lawyers in an open platform like this? The reason I am asking is that it is too expensive to consult everything with lawyers, and not all of them are good anyways. Kindly share your... — read more