Thread regarding Chevron Corp. layoffs

Just got yet another townhall invite that said there will be no major announcements at this end of year IT townhall

What’s the point of even going to it

Townhalls are not where people can ask live questions. It is all scripted.

Shame we can't say this to them during the townhall

The title of this thread is about IT’s “cost cutting plan”, but yet LC is able to bring in his friends and pay them an hourly rate exceeding that of BCG and McKinsey partners. Isn’t this a conflict of interest?

One of those buddies is even the reason of “because LC trusts me and I don’t have to go through process and just do everything without asking him” as one of the reasons why he is here.

Hook up a friend even if for a very short time without any of the qualifications that other current employers have! The sickening thing is that he’s brought them in as independent consultants with no overhead. So the take home pay for his buddies is even more than BCG individual partners even if Chevron pays similar amounts.

LC and his boyfriends sound like a Gartner playbook. For those outside of IT who don’t know Gartner, it is a scam of an organization that charges an incredible amount of money for consulting advance with senior IT people who have retired from their careers and want a second career, drawing on their experiences from the 1990s and never stay up to date on what is happening in real life. Thus, they give you a playbook that you could have Googled or use ChatGPT for free.

They are years behind in knowledge, which I guess fits the business executive leadership with this ENGINE thing that is only about 15 years too late. EB, MN, RM really F’d up this hire. You don’t go try to get an upgrade from BB by doing this with somebody from a much smaller company who ran a smaller portion of that company even worse than what BB did here (which was NOT good).

If you think basic IT support is suffering and they’re saying no to every new digital initiative, just wait til next year. Things will become even worse all at the expense of improving TSR.

@5png this is mostly accurate.
I was with GM before and hadn’t heard of the guy. It was a department that was cut. Small BU. Think CNE.

There is no f-ing way that the executive management PDC is just going to let sone mid level inexperienced people take on GM positions like that. There is still a process to get these people in the door. Why are people talking like LC’s giving them the GM jobs already. lol

Never has that been done at Chevron. Especially when you’re talking about IT. It’s not like we are finding some world renowned expert where only a handful of people have done it. You can’t just go give some guy with very limited experience in managing large organizations, especially in things like ITFP or in data management. There are so many people who can do the job out there.

Executive searches happen at that level. These guys are just advisors that LC trusts, nothing more. I cannot imagine VPs around the company just say, “sure, bring on your friends and make them GMs”

That is the most absurd thing I have ever heard.

It’s not IT’s cost cutting plan. It’s MW and MN’s plan to significantly cut IT costs.

They hired not the actual CIO of General Motors. We hired the head of IT of a department within General Motors, which is a MUCH smaller company than Chevron.

MN and BK basically hired a guy who is the equivalent of a BU digital manager, PSG 25-27 to be CIO. And the new CIO just brought in people with even less experience, think platform PLM level in scope and experience.

Every single current IT GM has managed IT organizations with size and scope much more than LC. His cronies that he brought in have basically had IT organizations as big as CPP or SJV, definitely smaller than GOM and MCBU. These are your new IT leaders.

This will surely cut IT costs

BB is smiling all the way to the bank.

I used to come on here to just $h!T on the FLT. But lately, I actually feel pretty bad for the FLT. KB looks to have aged 20 years since LC joined. MA looks stressed as F.

The only people who look happy are probably the ones who are on the way out because they DGAF

Wipro is horrible. And the ENGINE employee will be even worse. That’s the thing that our execs don’t understand.

Whether it’s Wipro or Tech Mahindra, they know how to screen and hire people. Nobody in Bangalore knows what Chevron is. They’d rather work for Wipro than Chevron.

@1zeh Ok, Wipro guy.

The offshore Wipro contractors I have to deal with in IT probably need help wiping their own butts. They are worse than useless. Wipro is taking Chevron for a ride

Don’t worry we will still hire more Cyber people and risk analysts to sit in dark rooms and make policies that we can’t meet and tell us how they’re watching us drooling with long hair and flip flops on. After all we are a paperwork company not an oil company.

Can someone share a truly efficient and effective group in IT? only place i heard was parts of downstream heavily using TechM and Wipro w almost no IT employees - they cut contractors when they r done w project or cut them when they r no good … same area MN was the head before he moved

who is LC?

Waaaa!

Accountability at Chevron is honestly a joke. You can be labeled as an hipot and mess up big time without facing any real consequences. I’ve seen so many execs do something stupid before making it to the C-suite, and they still got promoted. At most other companies, these people would’ve been fired a long time ago. I guess this is just the culture at Chevron that we have to deal with.

It’s McKinsey and ErnstYoung assisting with all these great strategies. CVX just blindly following the same ones that set this all up for Exxon, BP, etc.

The people teaching the process and lining out what jobs are going to engine are from the digital scholars program at MIT. They've been doing it for a year. You've all been hoodwinked.

Everybody has friends at Shell and Exxon, including the people tasked with setting up this ENGINE thing. Everybody knows that it is a disaster and will be a disaster. But yet we just let McKinsey run the show and don’t know how to push back on the truly id!ot!c things that we are doing.

Somebody asked a question about learning from other’s mistakes in India, and the talking point of what a great success they’ve been. The closing bit about taking accountability was laughable, too. MN talking about how he’s sc--wed up and yet here he is, being the vice chairman Chevron.

In the OPG TH they talked about having people to make processes to teach the engine people how to do their jobs? I do not think that is going to go over well.