Thread regarding Chevron Corp. layoffs

@wc Go back to work you little AI infused DEI Troll. Oh yeah, THIS IS your job!

@wb You are obviously a Fake AI Troll!

@wa You are obviously a Fake AI Troll!

Wow the cut and paste OP keeps trolling and trying to justify his multiple spam posts by making up different online personas and conspiracy theories. Maybe a mental health wellness check is in order.

@vd You are so busy downvoting posts, declaring everyone else's post are 'fake AI', and pushing you DEI agenda that you failing to see the world around you and keep up with recent events. Still not sure why you even troll these forums since it's obvious that you don't and have never worked at Chevron since you don't know language or terms. You downvote everything that you didn't post yourself and then make posts demeaning everyone else's opinion with no merit or value to this forum. You obviously have more time than sense. It seems to make sense that you are a paid contractor of Chevron hired to diffuse any criticism of the company by disgruntled or former employees. If so, this is truly shameful that a company like Chevron would stoop to this level to try to improve their public image. But MW has stated this is a new Chevron. As for hacks like this troll, I suppose they have to make a living somehow since they have not been able to demonstrate any redeeming value to society. They're just like the excr-ment that creates spam mail and scams.

This is a FAKE AI generated spam post by a troll who keeps reposting it.

Here’s the part we’re all supposed to politely ignore: in the U.S. right now, experience isn’t an asset, it’s a liability. And if you’re expensive because you’re good at what you do, the system eventually “optimizes” you out.

This doesn’t happen in isolation. It’s enabled by a global labor market with almost no guardrails. Companies aren’t just competing on products anymore, they’re arbitraging labor across borders, wages, benefits and worker protections. When replacement is cheaper than retention, the decision gets framed as strategy instead of consequence.

AI becomes the excuse, not the cause. It’s the clean narrative that hides what’s actually happening: experienced workers being swapped out through global labor substitution while leadership talks about “efficiency” and “the future of work.”

That cycle keeps repeating because nothing in our policy stack meaningfully pushes back. Trade, labor and technology policy all pretend they’re separate, and workers pay the price for that fiction.

When a company like Chevron only cares about profit and nothing else you will see the decline in the company just in the last two years how many fu-k ups have they had and how many jobs have they outsourced out of the USA …. And now they’re moving people from position to position with way more workload without any raises… you are a clown if you continue to work for this sh-t show of a company.

I can tell you’ve really put in the work here and have seen these situations firsthand. I’ve experienced many of the things you describe as well. I’m proud of you for calling the kettle black—especially when it comes to good ideas being taken. I’ve watched concepts I created and shared get dismissed, only to reappear later as someone else’s idea, usually from a direct supervisor or higher‑level manager.

@OP you’re so cute!!! How about you print this out and tape it to the front door of 1400 with your CAI attached.

OP
The business term for this practice is "quiet firing"

It is sad really, because once this was a friendly place to work with lots of exciting opportunities to excel. The last decade of experimental social engineering from woke networks to the agile focus on building up incompetent bean counter micromanagers has changed the environment for the worse. Unfortunately, we probably can never reclaim the Communities of Practice culture that focused on long-term technical advancement and slow deliberate progressive career development toward becoming a SME or Sr. manager. A decade of focus on rewarding brown nosing, building up know-nothing managers focused on process rather than results, and assuming technical folks are interchangeable cogs have destroyed our competitive advance. When real competency is no longer the metric for advancement, there is little left but for infighting to get the brownest nose and sorest bottom.

I’m in HSE, and the dysfunction is alive and thriving. It kicked into overdrive the minute they slapped a new name on HES and and called it “HSE,” like that fixed anything.

This place used to be great. What they did to it in 2019 was disgraceful. I survived probably because I was too low on the food chain to bother eliminating. Off the radar. Lucky me.

I remember my managers back then. They actually cared. About culture. About developing people. About you as a human being. That’s gone.

I saw the cracks in 2008. Again in 2015. Then the full collapse in 2019. And now here we are in 2025, and whatever OEMS, HES, “outstanding culture” we spent years building? Completely erased.

We all know who to blame and they are all still here as GMs and VPs. They are great examples of the Peter Principle. The push for accelerated diversity also helped play a role. I remember being in SJV and a news reporter was talking about the strong safety culture at Chevron and that was around the year 2004. You never hear that now. I think you hear what safety culture.

Let’s not kid ourselves anymore. Around here, it’s never been about what you know. It’s about who you’re willing to **.