Thread regarding Chevron Corp. layoffs

@OP they're going to have better coffee on every fifth floor, so that will be nice. They calculated the ratio of 400 people per every cappuccino machine

@qm I'm not op but for most of us, if we didn't accept the offer, we forfeited our severance.

@OP If this is such a big deal for you and Chevron is such a cr-ppy company - why did you accept the job offer in the last reorg? Sounds like you would have been better off leaving than staying with a company you are not happy with...

@dm total insanity.

4 days WFO and flex space offices are not ideal but they are tolerable and can be managed. Productive work can still get done.

Forcing people into small open flex desk cubes with low walls and distractions galore will make it so much harder to concentrate and focus on deep work - the kind we need more of to move the needle.

@d2 Sadly, I believe you're correct. We don't have an ELT; we have a passive aggressive junior high clique in charge.

Hiring workers and expecting them to show up and work is sheer Blasphemy!!! You should all revolt!

@OP Hopefully this is sarcasm because forcing workers to attempt to be productive in the open office, group think environment with the networkers and gossipers is going to crush us.

I don't get why so many people stay at Chevron, so many opportunities out there to do other things.

I really liked the lady from Buenos Aires when she was so FIRM saying they don't come to the office 4 days a week. THAT'S WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT!!
I may move to their office. LOL

We should strive to all work in the office 12 days straight from 6 am to 6 pm. Then an indulgent 2 days work from home 8 am to 4 pm. Then back to the office. This schedule provides perfect balance with the master plan of our corporate goals.

My company wants to tell me where I have to work!?? Gasp!!!!

I know several people who were laid off in earlier rounds, and to be fair, they weren’t exactly the sharpest in the toolshed. Every so often I check their LinkedIn profiles, and sure enough, many have landed at firms like our favorite—McKinsey. It’s hard not to imagine that the advice they’re now giving to our leadership comes with a healthy dose of resentment baked in.

One size fits all serving of pointless karoshi anyone? So, which character from the animal farm do you most resemble?

It's crazy though...

India - hybrid
Manila - hybrid
BA - hybrid
US - 4 days because you have to collaborate

If you complain it's because you're lazy, not because it's a clear lie. You can't have a company that's working fine, then move 50% offshore and credibly claim you need people in the office to "collaborate" with the people they just moved to another country that are working from home. Total insanity.

That’s not the reason d2. In this “drill baby drill” world of cr-ppy oil prices, the employer holds all the power. There’s no real choice but to keep pushing forward—otherwise it’s driving UberX for the executives.

It's comforting to reminisce about the pre-pandemic lifestyle. But the landscape deteriorated due to a multitude of mismanagement steps. here is one productivity loss (which we excel here): https://stories.tamu.edu/news/2025/11/05/traffic-congestion-hits-record-high-but-travel-patterns-are-changing-report-finds/

This return to office 4 days a week is meant to make people quit. Plain and simple. If they had been more forthcoming about it from the beginning of the layoffs, more people would have volunteered for the EOI. But they don't want to give severance so this is what we get.

Hardly imaginative to plagiarize from the manager's playbook. You've not seen what lazy looks like until you deal with India. The subset of upstarts you see here is the "demo" presented to a client before the cash is forked out. It ain't a moan when the problems are real.

Welcome to the real world, moaning about going back to the office. Little wonder we outsource to India when you have a bunch of moaning lazy workers in th US.

It's out of touch because the decision is made by those who won't park n' ride from the villages out there. 9-5 in a big metropolis doesn't work. And if y'all think this was a trade for all the "brainwork" the ELT does, I think you've let that one go vacant long ago based on what I got out of the all the town-halls. Hope y'all are happy, bravissimo.

WFO plus Flex to beat the Big Exx!!

@a3 I was on a Teams call last week and most of the people on the call were within 50 of me and we all sat at our desks. It was humorous and sad at the time. BTW no cameras were on.

Being in person makes it much easier to talk about how bad things have gotten and how useless our function leadership is with my colleagues.

We aren’t catching Exxon during your career.

@a4 I am not downvoting your comment because I think you said something important. No more working around the clock for these ungrateful ba----ds. If you are eliminating flexibility in our schedules, then I shall adhere strictly to a 7 to 4:30 work timeline. Gee, that videoconference at 6 am on Tuesdays? Tough ti----s. I’ll be in the middle of my commute at that time.

Just work as prescribed 9-5 on the required days. Been done for over a century including child care and commute time, parking, and meals away from home. Simply as this

Sitting in an office on Teams calls to Houston, BUs, India, and wherever else. In fact, you're probably going to be on a Teams call to someone in your same location, especially if you are in an "open office" and don't want someone snatching your desk if you walk down the hall for an hour to meet in-person. We will all hate our jobs a little more and contribute less to offset the downgrade in lifestyle.

Boomer ELT doesn't realize work has changed since they lost their ability to form new thoughts back in 1989.