#townhall

Anyone able to summarise what went down on the town hall today?

Am I crazy or did that town hall this morning not give insight to anything? The only time Farley talked about rto was how personal he took the conference room hack but the culprit has been found and fired. Being the first GTH since this policy went into effect and not addressing it in the slightest is such a coward move by leadership. How does he get paid 20mil + gifted jerseys to drive around Utah in a Bronco and give these sh---y town halls?!

ELT has made it clear they frequent this site, so, what burning questions do you have but don't want to ask through their supposedly anonymous form?

Anyone else fall asleep during the meeting? Lots of taking heads and not a lot of substance. Does anyone have any questions? Please ask us a question.

Feel free to use this thread to discuss the strong town hall presentation from our leaders.

Please Clap!

Previously our department was allowed to attend Town Halls or watch recording at a later date, we were not required to work while attending or watching. It appears now we are to continue working while we attend or watch.

Interested what other departments do, are you allowed to watch or attend while not working or is the expectation to work while attending?

I remember hearing Vimal mention something about streamlining corporate functions. How does that work? Any idea?

So… brace yourselves 😬
I just got word from a very reliable source, Friday’s Town Hall is reportedly going to be about RTO… four days a week.

Yep. You read that right. Four. Days.
Consider this your early warning

Not thrilled (at all) about this, but… you heard it here first.

Can't wait to see what Uncle Maurice tries to hide.

Attend Board Meetings and a few meaningless town halls
Hire Retreads from JPM but cut jobs held by everyone else
Collect millions in stock and salary
Vacation often

Apparently the comments about the Hermes belt crossed the line.

So what is everyone thinking after today's meeting?

50% of his org was impacted by RTO while ATT as a whole was only 30%

What’s that tell you?

What's the point of them when nothing useful is ever said?

Another performative meeting. Same fake smiles, same empty hype. The opener must’ve said “I’m so excited” five times — and I couldn’t tell if he was convincing us or himself. These things are so staged it’s painful. Nothing real, nothing transparent. At this point, soap operas feel more honest. At least actors admit they’re performing.

Says the executive living in a multimillion-dollar home just 30 minutes from Deerfield, with a $100,000 car parked in a heated garage. If I were making $500,000 a year, I’d probably enjoy the daily commute in a brand-new Mercedes too.

If executives truly want camaraderie, perhaps they should rent city apartments and commute alongside us - waiting for buses and trains together this February when it’s -15 degrees with windchill would certainly build solidarity.

The truth is, we already proved during Covid that collaboration doesn’t depend on geography. Microsoft Teams and instant communication make it possible to deliver on time and at a high standard. To suggest otherwise is 100% disingenuous.

I was genuinely hoping for more detail on RTO during this afternoon’s Town Hall. Instead, it was barely mentioned. But at least now I know how many kids our executives have and which sports teams they root for - that’s exactly the information I needed to finally sleep soundly tonight.

In today’s SETH opening remarks, MW’s finished talking about all the great work underway by saying that “what underpins all of this is our culture and workforce, the very best in our industry, and I wouldn’t trade them for anybody else’s.”

When he said that I immediately thought of all the US employees (the workforce he wouldn’t trade for anybody else) he fired so that he could hire someone into the same job in a different country (so basically traded for someone else)…. Did anyone else hear it that way?

Listening to the Townhall now, leadership turned off the user comments on the video. Surely, leadership knew the text chain would be a constant barrage of employees stating they do NOT want to return to office at Deerfield.

We are so numb to constant changes (always for the worse) that the workforce no longer cares. Enough with these nonsense townhalls. Let us just collect our paychecks and spend as much time caring about Chevron as the Chevron leaders care about us.

It'll be a one hour word salad. Drink plenty of water to avoid a headache.

Thank you.

We don’t need performative corporate cr-p when our livelihoods are on the line.

MW was definitely sweating it out up there. Almost no in person questions cause no one cares any longer.

A 1 hour nothing-burger. How much money did we waste in employee salary hours viewing this town hall? $2 million?

This could have been an email.

They never address employee issues. Only "your feedback matters"...yeah right.

Any suggestions?

Let the gaslighting begin

Who’s excited to get lectured for the next hour

Oh boy oh boy! The band of butt clients will be there for Maurice’s town hall. I can hardly wait for his expressive reading of his slide deck and spinning his excellent work at saving the company with layoffs!

Especially about the remotes. Who in their right mind would relocate for a job, only to risk losing it a few months later anyway?

Shell is pulling contracts. Will there be another round of layoffs? What have yall heard?

Curious on what was shared in Sunbury during yesterday's townhall.

My Director mentioned that there’s a leadership meeting on October 8th same day as the October Employee Meeting. Only Directors and above are included in the leadership meeting.

This is unfair to the Lead level. Leads are Leaders without direct reports (people management responsibilities), which is a testament that Leads and Directors have the same pay band including target bonus. As such, Lead should be invited to the Leadership Meeting.

Humble request to extend the invitation to all the Leads.

Any thoughts on what was shared in today’s town hall with RFAB, DM6, SMFAB, LFAB? In a meeting last week, supposedly Yunus said there were no plans for further headcount actions. But please still voluntarily go burn all your TBK in Q4 so you’re cheaper to fire. Seemed to allude that Q3 numbers aren’t terrible, but they are worried about Q4.

Thoughts on this?

So will we be moving toward forced ranking and no raises this year? Will Mike announce this in the shared energy town hall.

I was in person for Jim’s town hall and had to stifle a laugh when he described Maurice’s email as “a thoughtful memo”

I personally felt he demonstrated why our company is ranked # 567 out of 600 Companies for Employee Culture.
He said nothing new but did double down that in spite of reading the survey comments, nothing is going to change.
Let me repeat that… Nothing is going to change.
He symbolizes what is wrong with our once great company.
Bravado yet doesn’t know what he doesn’t know.

In underwriting, the burnout is very real. Pay even came up in the recent town hall, which says a lot. Every time someone leaves, their work just gets redistributed to the rest of us: same pay, more responsibility. Meanwhile, competitors are paying more and we’re cutting benefits, so people are openly talking about leaving.

We’re also losing clients and not hitting our goals, and it’s hard not to connect that to the fact that so many experienced people have left. Their knowledge and expertise can’t just be replaced overnight, but instead we’re backfilling with new college grads who don’t yet know how things work. That gap is putting even more pressure on the people still here. Now we are expected to do our work, cover the work of those who have left, and train the new hires.

Curious if others across the PBM side are seeing the same. Do you think leadership really understands how widespread this is?

Anyone going to actually listen to or go to MW's town hall? What will his messaging be? Will he address the terrible state the company is in? We he finally leave and hopefully finish the Chevron Dark Ages?