#waste

biggest waste of time and money...walk around , waste 10hrs(person) or more depending were your coming from...and get a power point recap a few days later...u guys/gals are stupid

The function I work in had a global team call today. It was framed as an update about the reorganization. Leadership did not have ANY new information. They literally said what was previously announced in an email, then did 20 minutes of Q&A that mostly consisted of responses like “We are early in the process. We don’t know that quite yet, but we’ll tell you when we have more information”. Waste of time.

Having worked for this company for many years, I can’t tell you enough about all the “fluff” six-figure upper leadership roles that are simply created to promote up, and aren’t even needed.

Wasted money. And here we are.

Walking through the buildings this morning that has become an endless and never ending corn maze of “improvements”, it dawned on me, Chevron is lost. From elevators, escalators, college dorm style offices, orgs that don’t work, consultants ripping us off, workflows in the name of simplicity that accomplish the opposite, lack of accountability, zero clarity and more, we are lost. None of this helps us make more oil, gas and profit and YES, that is what we are supposed to be doing. All this waste and not one thing is improved. Not one. All are worse. No project should be considered without answering the question of how it makes things better for employees so they can help Chevron make more oil, gas and profit.

Why is there a massive fan center set up in the mezzanine? What a giant waste of money and time. The office is a place for working, not watching meaningless soccer matches under the guise of finding oil.

Was in a call yesterday where a vp said "we are locked in a room in sunbury, trying to figure out and setup the new org and reporting lines" for the capital dev team. Seems like we are "reinventing" the wheel again. Incredible waste of time and resources, whilst some leaders egos (and pockets) get boosted. So fatiguing.

So many layers, so much waste.

We have, by far, the worst recursive management hierarchy in the entire industry.

And they know it.

since 2020, the market cap of TMO today is basically the same as Verizon...what a waste of money ($50+) and time (5+ years). Sad, sad, sad...

They spent 1000's of Dollars installing big screen TV's over all the departments in the Process Center to televise production information, but could never get it to work the way they wanted .... now the TV's are sitting idle and they have spent more money to hang dry erase boards in all departments and gone back to hand writing everything like we're back in the 80's!!

And we wonder why the state of California's next-generation 911 system is a mess and wasted $500 million. This is the company they contracted, which is amazing that anyone would give them a contract of this size.

All I have to say is - thank you for the free hour on this beautiful spring day. What a joke and useless line up of BS from KO and clowns.

BD got another new platform to waste money on. Hope, TGS id--ts will be kept out of it if we are serious about any meaningful value from that investment.

Someone explain to me why we seem to have the money to travel the IT leaders in every region around so they can glad-hand and throw parties for their leadership cronies, when they don’t make us revenue. If anything they cost us more and more every day.

Except a few gems (20%), ISS is a majority DEI Swamp (80%) - that gets nothing done, as they have no clue except to CHECK Boxes. They just focus on superficial compliance rather than meaningful action, as part of process checks (same questions asked by many different ISS Stakeholders). A total waster of $ spend on ISS.

Another Diamond Club trip that wasted money. San Diego with Train playing,
Just the band could cost up to $750k and the people attending and their plus 1.
Waste.
A person must be picked each year and of course upper management gets to go.
Could have been spent otherwise.

He’s so obsessed, and wasting millions

We had a coffee chat with the director of our department, and they mentioned that most of the LCS projects are likely to be either discontinued or significantly scaled down. At the same time, there’s another initiative emerging informally around DAC using Amines. The person leading this has no knowledge of fundamentals. Another waste of resources.

my opinion, complete waste of time. Department trying to justify their wasted "AI" investment.

BB seems to lose money by tearing things down to rebuild them. In 2021, he bought a $7M house on a Florida golf course and demolished it, building a new multi-million dollar home in its place. In the meantime, he bought a $4.1M condo to live in, which he dropped a ton of money into renovating, and sold it for $3.1M to move into his newly built home. Wasting money tearing things down - is what he's doing to 3M?

Apparently Intel is not following high NA anymore. What a waste of 300m$ equipments

Why do we even have loss prevention in our stores? They can’t apprehend anyone anymore. They don’t actually do anything except walk around the store and chat with the sales associates. Honestly, it feels like a complete waste of money.

If Dan's plan is for AI to take over, I hope it is nothing compared to the current use of AI. Every time I call or chat I have to go through AI. By the time I get to a human, I am pi---d off because the way they have AI set up is garbage, useless and a waste of time. Why do we purposely put barriers in place to get something resolved? No wonder customers are upset.

Maybe for the cost savings we get a new CEO that is at the Engine? Would save over 30 million a year. Or let AI do the ELT job, cant be any worse that what we have now. We are wasting millions on our ELT now!

The call system routes Everything to sales. Customers cancel, employees quit. Nobody cares. Giant waste of time and money.

Thank you HMP

Is dead.

Half a billion down the toilet.

Are they laying off?

I’m seeing a lot of new employees this week. Or are they just wasting more money to pay people to learn then let them go?

Even if you are safe, be sure and pack your stuff. As you know, the executives love to restack the offices and pay movers to move everyone’s crates. It’s a timeless tradition: Musical offices. it’s immensely satisfying and is a fun way to waste money.

I remember one year my office was moved 4 times: once for new office furniture, once for bathroom remodeling, once again after remodeling was complete, and finally again for the Concho merger. It got to where I quit unpacking and just kept all my stuff in small boxes I could easily sit inside the crates - saved time…

You might also want to invest is Scott Rice stock - they’ll be getting plenty of business from us next year.

I am sure other posters will share many examples, and yet the reader will still not be able to grasp the extent of incompetence they are gifted with and waste they lay all around.

Any one have the scoop on why there are hundreds and hundreds of locomotives stored at Donkey Creek Wyoming and Guernsey Wyoming? Why don't they refurbish them, sell them off to another country's railroad, or scrap them out? Seems like the biggest waste i've ever seen!

How in the world is ATC still open? It is nothing but a financial burden in a time when we are trying to cut money from everything. How much money could be saved by shutting this useless money put down.

Nothing of use has come from this place, except for expensive lunches and events. People bi--h about us being remote but don't care that this place is draining money from Nike.

What’s the most ridiculous examples of wasteful spending you’ve seen?

Drop your wildest stories of money being lit on fire. No names, just chaos.

There needs to be an area on chemisphere, to make recommendations for cost savings. Some examples are HR, AI is here and knows the answer and policy to quote instantly. I have had several HR questions go unanswered bc they don't know, pretty frustrating. The new HR person at GTP says everything that we ask is another department, so what's your job? The second is fire specialist, why are they needed when you have a trained and certified fire team on site 24 7? I can see a chief and an asst but not a whole group of specialist. There are about 5 or 6 superintendents in the EHS group and 3 or 4 managers, same for technical group. None have more than 3 or 4 people reporting to them. Half of them refer to their previous jobs for reference and not cpchem policy when asked a question. Shift superintendents, another waste, a glorified night and weekend maintenance ticket inputs and tracker. Some will say they are incident scene commanders when something bad happens, well I say you have 3 Shift supervisors that are 24 7 that fill the same role, it's not hard and they are only in charge until management gets there which will be very quick once they make the call. There are multiple "specialist" in operations and maintenance that seem to just hang out and give opinions when asked, not necessarily good or smart opinons most of time. There are about 100 plus true project people on site su-king up space and money, why? We are damn near finished and most of stuff is handed off already. To many redundant people, everywhere not just GTP. Go to Cedar and it's the same thing. I was there for years and I would see people and ask myself, what does that person do? I ever only seen them drinking coffee, lunch or walking around aimlessly. But let's layoff people that actually work and have purpose and let's outsource jobs to foreign countries.

Flying and doing nothing again? another wasteful business trip just for them to enjoy pampering on business classes and fine dining at the sites.

If I had 10 cents for every dollar wasted over the past 15 years, I'd be wealthy. From IT solutions and overstaffing to training and firing thousands of nurses, plus failed EMRs and workforce management, the waste is staggering. Worse, those responsible were paid handsomely for poor results and received golden parachutes when their failures became clear.

How many millions of dollars, including stock options to ex-Google/Lyft resources, were wasted on Atelio! Complete waste with nothing to show for two plus years. CEO/BoD, of course, were not impacted at all for their decisions and waste.

It doesn’t get more ridiculous: while the ELT is carrying out further layoffs, nearly 20,000 salespeople and useless middle managers are being flown to Vegas to party. How is that compatible with the layoffs and the H1B scam? GSX must cost over 100 billion USD with those private concerts. A slap in the face for all customers, employees, and partners who pay a lot but get less service .. or get fired.

What a waste, especially Emea. They don’t solve issues, just whine to global support to fix small things they think are causing the sky to fall. No big picture perspective and too much bloat in leadership. Zero value unless you consider getting your day bummed with their snooty, bi--hy attitude and low IQ threats to escalate their single minded woes to leadership enjoyable.