Brave bastard but do they really want to go back? All the exxoners I know are pretty hardcore and toe the "party line".

I now work with Lindsey Gulden at Indigo Ag. She's a phenomenal scientist. We were talking over beers at our last on site and she had a lot more to say about Exxon including some seriously shitty stock option manipulation. Fuck Exxon, all their upper management. Fuck the people who are ACTIVELY lying to the world and trading our future for money.

Exxon is the epitome of an evil corporation.

If they earn mid-200k's, 300k compensation isn't enough. Exxon have not changed, they need to be made an example of.

So the whistleblower snitched on the company, due to their unethical practices, and then insisted on keeping their job there?

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In big but non-evil corporations, whistleblowers can find another place to work within the company if the really like it. For Exxon, I think the overt unpleasantness but not-quite-illegal retaliation might make it hard to stay.

I just don't understand. So, these whistleblowers reveal that Exxon is completely and knowingly over-projecting their future Permian Basin drilling prospects, and thus lying to investors about their future profits (which is fraud, and very illegal), and they still want to work for them. Apart from how hypocritical and self-serving it is to reveal this important information, and then agree to shut up about it after getting their jobs back and paid arrears, it seems that they simply haven't fathomed what this fraud suggests about Exxon itself. Any company which has to actively lie in order to maintain a perception of future growth is a company which is seeing its prospects and future profits inevitably crumble. The point of this exercise was to put off the realization of this inevitable contraction by their investors, and thus delay a plummet in investor confidence, by maintaining the illusion of growth long into the future. In the end, though, shareholders are going to realize that in our modern climate change impacted, energy transitioning era, there's no more place for fossil fuels: it is then that the Carbon Bubble will pop, with disastrous effects for Exxon and other fossil fuel corporations. This, on Exxon's part, is all one sick play for time, with our planet and civilization's health and prosperity on the line, to make a few more hundred billion dollars over the next few decades. If I were in these whistleblower's positions, I would get out as quickly as possible, and try to find work with a more ethical firm.

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