Thread regarding Chevron Corp. layoffs

"an industry that MUST die if the world is to survive" Not sure what you mean there sir. Are you aware of how many of the things that you use in everyday life that are constructed from hydrocarbons and it's derivatives, and not just fueled by them, including all of the electronics that you own, and the device that you are typing on? I suggest that you provide some alternatives for these components. Take a stab at it, chemical engineering genius.

Your statements are spot on. Aside from being in an industry that MUST die if the world is to survive, Chevron is exceptionally poorly run. I know the current top deck of the company reasonably well, and in answer to your question: -- Is there anyone there that you want to grow up and be like???? -- The only one I can say "yes" about is Jay Johnson, and even he has been beaten down by the culture he's had to endure in his rise to the top. The rest of them are a waste of perfectly good oxygen.

@9gtb, I too can validate your statement. I worked for Chevron for over 25 years and more than once found large discrepancies or flaws in our processes that led to actual losses on a regular basis. My supervisor was hesitant and in some cases, remiss in communicating my findings up the chain of command. I'm not sure if the reason was because he didn't want to ruffle feathers or suspected the errors were being committed by design to line someone's pockets above his pay grade. This hands-off approach to fixing things was demoralizing to me. Just like you indicated, to hell with this CSOC crap.

Great post. While I was at CVX, I identified some 7-figure cost overruns that could have been avoided by revising a process and better planning. Instead of my supervisor being happy about the discovery, they told me that it would not be implemented because it would "ruffle feathers" with upper management. I'm sorry, but these "ruffled" people don't earn 7-figures a year, but are willing to allow such waste? This company was terrible at money management, even with that CSOC capital stewardship certification stuff that everyone takes - but nobody follows.

Thanks for proving @GowT4LE-1afm right, OP. His or her post was quite accurate "Mommie always said that you need to love yourself before you will be able to love others!!"

Get over your lying self.

And this is the internet, not a Chevron internal site. Buy yourself a clue from that supply chain - LOL.

This is th OP - To your disappointment, I didn't designate the comment as true gold, but I agree that my well written, < 1 MOA comment is golden. It was painfully true, concise, and sums up the cause of my nausea precisely. With that type conclusion, you must work in supply chain.

Shouldn't you be correcting someone for not having a lid on their coffee cup or stopping folks from not backing into a parking space or not holding a handrail properly or for not reporting a coffee spill or a paper cut....this nasty world is full of jaywalkers and daredevils who stop elevator doors from closing with their bare hands. With all that responsibility, how do you have time to read my golden post?

Hey OP, thanks for designating your own post as "A TRUE #GOLD POST" Mommie always said that you need to love yourself before you will be able to love others!!

A TRUE #GOLD POST

Once upon a time Chevron was a great company run by great leaders who invested in great prospects

Today, Chevron is a cube farm of PowerPoint rangers run by managers who measure their success by how much money they waste. On top of that equation for disaster, over the last decade, the company allowed a plethora of strangulating processes to govern activities....down to the way you drink coffee....with lids only.

The laws were written into stone without any care or understanding of the consequences. The result is that all the folks that spent years in technical schools learning a skill are prohibited from using it. The folks that have devoted their lives to the job (crusty ops folks in particular) have no voice in any BU.

Look at the leadership. Is there anyone there that you want to grow up and be like???? Hell no. Responsible for failure after failure with no personal admittance of the fact.... What the company has turned into makes me want to vomit.

Chevron forgot how to make money long ago, but they damn sure learned well how to waste it. >Leadership at the matrix is like the blind person telling the deaf person what he saw.

I just heard a turkey, see yall later.

@1zjo - Chill out. I'm pretty sure @1axq was being sarcastic about raising taxes on the middle class and cutting taxes for corporations.

Come on now. Don't be ridiculous. I don't think that anyone here at Chevron promotes Bernie Sanders style socialism, where you leech off of the government. That the government, (your fellow tax-payers) OWE you a living, as the socialist thinks. He is one of the idiots who believe that because you are born in this world, you have a "natural born right" to services that require a team of highly trained and educated experts who devote their entire livelihoods to the medical profession. That you are naturally born with a"Right" to these services, which not only require the efforts and sacrifices of others, but also never even existed until modern times. I wonder at what point in human history did a new-born start to be born blessed with these miraculous "Rights" brought to them by the blood and sacrifice of others. How about cell-phones. Where does that "Right" fit in for these leeches? They didn't have them 30 years ago either. My, how did everyone get by!! LOL!

@GowT4LE-1axq, "Tax the middle Class?" Aren't they taxed enough already? "corporate tax cuts"?? Oh - you're one of those guys who think that if the government gets to steal LESS of someone's earnings then that's welfare, namely "corporate welfare" to you, even in the country with the highest corporate tax rates in the world which drives the companies to outsource and move their headquarters out of the country hurting both US employees, and consumers. You are OK as long as someone else is paying those taxes instead of you. Good job, employment-crushing, economy-destroying Obummer Administration!!! You voted for it, @GowT4LE-1axq, you got it! Bernie thanks you for your vote in the upcoming election, so you can continue your parasitic democrap lifestyle sponging off of those very "middle class" taxpayers that you pretend to support. Feel the Bern - @GowT4LE-1axq, That's the love that you wish to receive - off the hard work of someone else's back - as long as it's not yours!!!!

We should tax the hell out of the middle class and give it to the rich via corporate tax cuts. It's worked so good in Louisiana, Kansas, Wisconsin, Indiana that the rest of the country should feel the love.

I have never used a lid on my coffee cup, but I'm not a complete moron that needs to be saved from myself.

Actually the OP post was rather nicely constructed. I liked it. And I am the jerk-off piece of deadwood rotting on the tree poster. My post was almost as good. I envy the "deadwood out there turkey hunting" poster. And all I get is this PC to play candy crush on and to vote for Sanders so I can get free handouts that I don't deserve like the millennial parasitic piece of liberal democrap trash prick that I am after they cut my useless POS ass. I do not call people prick. I am a prick because I think Bernie is a good-for-America person who will do good for America by taking what others have earned(Tax the Piss out of Turkey-boys' distributions)and giving it to people who sit on their lazy entitled millennial candy crush Asses like entitled Nap-sack wearing Chevroids.

Seems like the OP is got the hurt feelings, you should step away from the computer for a bit

Do you think much 1kg? Common sense is obviously missing in your genes

IMKD- English, do you speak it?

It was takes a real fool who thinks he has outfitted everyone else .... 4LE so proud of your ignorance ...FOOL

OP,you feel better now? I am glad you got this off your chest. Not sure if chevron will survive now that you have informed our investors we can no longer make money.

Yep, i just wanted to see how many jerk off deadwood comments i could get from my once upon a time story. You are the first...prick.

I moved my stand out of the rotting tree before its imminent collapse. As far as free time to write once upon a time stories go, the turkey hunting is slow today, and i never learned how to play candy crush like the rest of my former coworkers.

Once upon a time there was plenty of deadwood rotting on the tree with a lot of time on their hands to write "once upon a time" stories.

Yeah, SME title is constantly being given to those who claim they have the full story and quantify part of the picture under th e guise of the big picture. No exercise of validating the accuracy of the so called 80/20 rule. they get promoted because of the faulty claims by selling "the story". We trust and base poor decisions on what power hungry few deliver as results and wonder why executions are faulty. Price we pay for the few to move up th e Corp ladder at all costs.