Thread regarding Chevron Corp. layoffs

Know one person, took the package in 2020, retired and came back through bridges

Why would anyone come back to a company where you were tossed out or felt compelled to quit? Have you no pride? I was laid off after a solid 27 year career. The company and my workgroup manager went along with the consultants suggestion to choose saving a few bucks over talent and contribution. Management didn’t care about my career plans, my financial future or what that job meant to supporting my family. It was a rough time and my wife and I went through a lot of stress and worry, but I put my energy and frustrations into finding another job. I found another place to earn a living. But one thing I never did or will never consider is going back to work at Chevron in any capacity. Without pride, I won’t have any worth.

If you truly retire, you will never come back.

I know several who left and returned later. Once guy was gone almost ten years at Exxon but came back to a good management roll in his late 50s.

Quite a few who left and came back as contractors, two who left EOI with a package and came back four years later as new hires.

@2xzn, it's kinda like graduating high school or college. There's no reason to go back to something you already completed. People who voluntarily leave Chevron almost always do so with very good reason (retirement, bad fit, bad managers, better opportunity elsewhere, etc.) and are not likely to come back. There are rare cases of people leaving because the retirement package was too good to pass up and worked out a deal to come back as a contractor after waiting the requisite 6 months, but these are very rare. @1nef, yes you are right, the 2020 purge was an excellent opportunity to do that. Those opportunities come around about once a decade in the oil industry (the last one prior to that was around 2008, before that 1999), the next one, depending on how fast the green transition takes hold, should be around 2030.

@1nef, Just think that one through again and you’ll come to the opposite conclusion. I guarantee.

I left and NEVER came back. Is that something noteworthy?

I know of two people who took the 2020 EOI and then returned as part-time contractors. Good gig to transition into full retirement--- take a one-time bonus; work part-time and then retire permanently when you choose later on

@1kil, you must have had a huge amount of expenses or HCOL to take that long to reach FI with all that in your favor. In any case, congrats and good luck.

After 25 years working O&G, I formally retired with a nice package and then came back as a contractor and worked another 10 years. (I earned more as contractor than as an employee, ha!) It was a great 35 year run. I finally hung it up after gaining financial independence. I still can't believe that I will never need to work again for a pay check . My life is good.

Different ways to look at this.

1. If you were close to retirement, no brainer to take the EOI and leverage the interest rate and severance to get on your way.
2. If you were unhappy with company and/or role, opportunity to explore new path of life....plus getting plenty of benefits within the severace.

If you want to "left standing" yet the company, screwed your relocation and offered you positions that were not beneficial (Midland, Bakersfield, etc) to costs or career, why would you want to come back.

All that I have talked to would never go back. Chevron does not treat employees the way they deserve to be treated. Even those that stayed would agree.

there's an IT guy who left for amazon, and could not hack it. he came back because he "liked the culture better" at chevron; but the truth is that he was about to get canned at amazon because he was not very good.

Only Mud Whistles come back, as they miss bending over a horse’s saddle for the boss.

No. Those who took the EOI were doing backflips and cartwheels on the way out, those who left involuntarily won't be asked back.