If you make it through the hunger games this week and find out you survived. Please for the sake of all the souls that we wasted you NEED to fight ENGINE. Don’t let them be successful in offshoring us. This is not okay. Think about 5-10 years from now.
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Unfortunately, the company has made this decision (a bad decision) with Engine and its location within India. Some of the resources aren’t even in the same city so this is only a cost savings exercise. It’s bs they want people to be co- located. Also, the resources are so junior compared to who they’re replacing. 15-20 years of US experienced professionals being replaced by new Indian grads??? You get what you pay for. They are task takers and will not be able to solve business problems or provide strategic recommendations
Right. For the next few years ENGINE employees will be the new sacred cows (no pun intended). Any complaints about them, real or not, will only get you in trouble. Like past sacred cows, you will have to pretend they hung the moon and that everything they touch is gold. Only this time, they won’t be made managers and advisors (yet)…so that is a plus.
You don’t need to worry about engine if you’re in subsurface because you literally would have to replicate the infrastructure and data costs in both locations to make it work. The cost to do that is more than the Indian labor cost. It would make zero sense to do it. But then again, our execs are just that oblivious.
The transition of IT work to the MSP model beginning in 2020 has not been smooth but Chevron has saved approximately 40% on the cost. The transition to the Engine (off shored employees) is expected to save another 40%. I was sitting next to a manager who was working on this plan before the Engine was announced. The desk arrangements were like being sewed to a Siamese twin last year so I could hear everything the guy said on his weekly meeting.
OP, one of the problems that will naturally occur is the inability of the remaining managers to create the work flows that need to occur to get the work done. Most of the work gets done by people who know what to do. After the knowledgeable people are let go the work will be undefined. Most people cannot document the work they perform and this problem is not unique to Chevron. Most people cannot define the steps they perform and subsequently they cannot document the work. It’s not because they are unwilling to write the work down, people just can’t document the workflows. If the Engine can analyze the work and write it down then the transition to the engine will work. If they can’t document the work on their own then the work won’t be standardized. Look at the machines that are created to perform manufacturing jobs. Highly trained industrial engineers created those machines, so Chevron LT will need to hire specialists to create the workflows and they have not figured that out yet. Hiring McKinsey to write the workflows will cost a fortune.
Not only Engine, but service centers in BA and Manila! LT seem and MacKinsey seem to think they perform wonders and are stuffed with highly capable, loyal, extremely responsive people there. These disillusioned LT do not see or feel the pain we do
Engine wont be successful. If India had talent finding O&G, they have a successful company with a global portfolio. Engine will fail, much it has for Shell, BP, and XOM. You don't hear about it because no company will admit failure. So after we spend billions and fire real talent, eventually we'll shut Engine down.
The beginning? Tell that to the thousands that have already been let go for people in B.A. and Manila.
5-10 years from now AI will rule the world through domination. Even ENGINE will succumb.
@aa they’re not gonna have enough bodies after this bs. Didn’t you see the roles that are “transitional roles”? They are doing away with you regardless! They’re still figuring out activation and have zero clue what sh-t show that is about to unfold. Oh and don’t forget about our O&M folks who have the contact expiring next year so while you figure out your new job make sure you prepare for your operator job
For those that are left behind, your performance rankings will be heavily reliant on how well you transition and / or work with ENGINE people. If your work is unacceptable to leaders, you’ll be fired for cause. No severance, if they continue to offer it in the future. God speed everyone!