It seems like there are always a lot of HSE, HR, and IT people on here complaining about their situation. Chevron is still not where it needs to be with OPEX, and surely MW is thinking about the next opportunities. Where do you think it will be?
With the amount of scrutiny and attention we pay to OE, it's likely that HSE will be pretty bloated. Earth science is already cut a ton. IT? SCM?
ITFP spends too much money on agile ceremonies, and doesn't allow business units to work with vendors directly. They would rather build things from scratch, instead of buy things that are available and being used in other companies -- for much cheaper and much more effective right away. Yet they complain about all the talent that they're losing and inability to keep up with business need. Wake up, IT.
@igpm - that's because BU IT was all combined into CTC.
If you got rid of BU D&C, BU OPS, BU AD (ES/PE) and centralized it in CTC Subsurface and CTC Surface, and CTC Wells -- you would also have an extraordinary amount of other functional people in CTC, too.
With that said, this has made CTC just that much more proportionally useless to the business units making oil when the majority of CTC is now IT.
When CTC was formed there were over 2200 people in the CTC IT function.
We can cut all of the contractor scrum masters and change management people, particularly in IT.
I have heard IT project manager, advisors, and "SME" employees say things like "Chevron pays me too much to do the tactical stuff, and I am supposed to be more strategic". That is a load of BS. Chevron doesn't pay these lazy people without any skills more than $500K, which is what we pay these contractor scrum masters ADO-navigators and change management powerpoint makers. Maybe employees need to start doing some of that work themselves. Does every team need a scrum master if there's no real "team" to scrum? How many portfolio managers and product line managers do we need in this company when there are no products to manage?
Those are your biggest opportunities to cut right there.
IT Foundational Platform. LMAO. "foundational". "platform". ROFL
Is it IT Fulfillment Peons?
what is ITFP? I assume IT. did ITC change its name to ITFP? Or same s---, different name?
They could cut out half the middle management positions and keep us going forward for the next 20 years. It’s been rare in my 15 years at Chevron to have a manager that was worth a $&#%. The good ones who aren’t self-serving are rare diamonds. Most will throw you under the bus in a heartbeat if it will keep them on the gravy train. I’ve seen good people sent packing because the manager was under instructions to cut G&A. You notice the middle guys headcount rarely gets adjusted, maybe shuffled, why? They are the ones making the selections.
lmao, how can the $2B be "well understood" when IT did not even know how many contractors they have for a whole year?
That $2Billion is well understood and has been analyzed a million different ways internally and externally. Good luck squeezing any more blood out of that turnip.
Opportunities for reducing cost in San Ramon ITFP. First, far from our core business. Second, how good are these IT people in the Bay Area if they're working for Chevron? Third, if they lose their minds and did stay working for Chevron, all this crowd will do is complain about their compensation when they try to keep up with the Joneses with their silicon valley neighbors. Just put IT where the business units are. As stated previously, not sure how much value ITFP is bringing to the business anyway.
@5aam, I'm not sure that is really true. There's not $2B worth of high pots and spawns of executives in Chevron IT.
Executives and high PSG management are not going to take any cuts. If you think that is even a possibility, you're in for a rough ride. Didn't the last round of layoffs provide any insight into how management thinks? If your not a HiPot or on the list to be considered, you are a target.
Watch what you ask for if you want more overseas IT. The quality is not good having worked with them. Don't focus on cutting average joe workers. Its time for management cuts as they haven't sacrificed or changed a thing.
@1lwu, what is funny is that ITFP tries to say they've outsourced this and now work on the "high value" things. but most of them don't even know what a well is, beyond taking the famous upstream101 course that their retired Chevron fellow taught a million years ago. meanwhile, you can't get your files to open up. and wow, is it really $2B. what are we paying for.
HR had never helped me in my 20 years working here. So not sure why they have some many HR people.
IT is only available through help desk and that’s overseas. Any issue with cloud, sharepoint, eB, coreworks, treats or any of the other file systems we are forced to use have a help button or dedicated call person to fix issues. It’s funny a well goes down and they know who to call but that person fixing the well and the IT files goes down they call 8765 and wait two days for a call back from overseas.
@1nax, no one said completely get rid of IT and go back to paper and pencils without IT. There's just no justification for IT to cost $2B compared to the value it provides. (And yes, Chevron has been using computers for a very long time, when IT used to cost much less than $2B). It just bloated up with the cost of consultants and IT project managements through data foundations, information management, and a lot of really useless stuff that IT has failed to execute after selling the other executives some ideas. Those overpaid enterprise architects are still around, hidden behind different titles.
Not in HR. They are now short staffed with all of the unplanned departures. There are also 7-10 HRDPers that are planning on leaving after their bonuses in March. Poor managment and promoting the wrong people have doomed this group. They need a gutting of 24-RM.
IT, HR, and Finance have to be the most bloated, least value add portions of the company.
@1nax, No, although we did fine with just paper and pencil for many years, as did the competition, unlike you young guys, we don't need to sacrifice our laptops and helpdesk functionality to be able to $hitcan the useless components of IT.
I guess we could go back to paper and pencils without IT. Like what someone said below let's make cuts to executive pay and save a ton. They are overhead and bring no value. They have made a mess of things lately.
@asw- ITFP is like half the overall IT cost, which is 2 billion dollars. If you work in a business unit, let me know what ITFP services you're currently using besides your laptop and help desk, which does not cost 2 billion dollars. Serious question- how much did the cloud program bring value to Chevron? Did our company increase in value as a result of the cloud? If not, then why did the Chevron IT cost increase every year?
ITFP is fine.
there is always opportunities to cut across the coy
its only a matter of whether they want to use the axe
Considering this is a petrotech company I I would easily say everyone who is not a petrotech is added cost
I think there should be cuts to executive pay. Its time they sacrifice a bit. They are extremely well paid and have not taken a hit at all like the rest of us. No cuts for the rank and file. They put us through the he-l of the transformation.
@uun - yes. Since MW’s Chevron is low-margin, low-risk, there’s no need for CTC at all. All the expertise lies in the BUs anyways. Since there’s only a fraction of drilling going on as in 2018-2019, DSC can be cut heavily.
HR doesn’t need cuts because we have had a lot of attrition since beginning of 2021. By my count, at least 12-15 resignations so far.
IT, specifically ITFP, is due for some cuts. They failed to reach their cost reduction targets from ImagineIT. The number of contractor scrum masters not doing the actual development work and just a bunch of planning is just pure waste. And the people who are actually building stuff probably should ask themselves whether there are any real users. No real business unit employees who's working to generate Chevron real money is actually using any of the stuff that ITFP is "building". They should just worry about doing real IT things, like making sure our network and infrastructure is running reliably. Stop building stuff that we can just get off the shelf.
DSC...all they do is watch screensavers
Just cut everyone that waists their time on this site.
Add Wells and CTC to the list of bloated orgs.