Thread regarding Chevron Corp. layoffs

Wait till the bill is signed regarding taxing US companies building in India to use cheap Indian labor. Another ‘worth’less idea wasting the company’s money and resources. Has anyone else wondered how cybersecurity will be handled? India backs china and Russia. Didn’t India just send a rocket into space a while back???

wont make any difference to Chevron . Most foreigners milking Chevron are on L1 visas. The difference is L1 is Ok because it is an inter company transfer versus H1B which is used to directly employ foreigners. Now that we have an office in India we wont need H1B visa employees all. Simply hire in India and then transfer on L1. Expect tech and other high skill industries to set up their own India based office

“India was the largest beneficiary of H-1B visas last year, accounting for 71 percent of approved beneficiaries.”

From another news outlet.

@e1 then what do you have to say about the 25% tax on offshore jobs?

This will only hasten the offshoring of jobs. If you can't bring the worker to the job, you take the job to the worker. Unfortunately, oil and gas are global commodities, and competing in this space demands access to a global talent pool. As for the Gold Card initiative—it’s likely to attract a few dubiously wealthy Escobars with questionable backgrounds to Florida. Best of luck managing that.

The H-1B visa program has been misused by many tech companies over the past two decades. Instead of genuinely addressing talent shortages, it has often been leveraged to import cheaper labor, undercut wages, and keep employees tied to demanding schedules. I don’t believe this reliance on foreign hiring is necessary when we have capable talent in the U.S. Companies should invest more in developing and hiring local workers. Reforming this system could help create more opportunities for U.S. citizens and restore balance in the Bay Area job market.

In a few months, once we have fully transitioned to a dictatorship no one will want to come to the USA. Problem solved.

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I am not sure I agree 100% with you. I have many friends in technical engineering jobs in the USA and many people like the work.
I think the problem is individual contributors are generally not paid as much as managers so there is tendency to drive good engineers into managing and sometimes good engineers do not make good managers.
My current manager is not a good manager, he cannot make the right business decisions based upon factual data that is identified. In addition, he avoids committing to a decision and does not realize avoiding a decision is “Actually” a decision.
Yet he is a psg 25 at Chevron and is not qualified to be in his role.
It looks like our new leader above him knows it and is hit on his trail…. More updates in the future ;)

On why US does not tariff services trade the answer is simple. The US runs a massive surplus in services trade so they dknt want to touch that can of worms.

Americans don't like to do technical work so even those with engineering degrees will want to supervise and the people that would be prepared to do the technical work are not from here.

@be not sure we can brag

@a4 you should see the American mf's they ship down to the ABU then...

Chevron's next scheme will be to use the L-1 visa to transfer ENGINE employees to the US to do work previously done by Americans. Unlike H-1B, there are no caps, fees are low, its definitions of "specialized work" are very vague, and most importantly there is no prevailing wage requirement. This is what the layoff survivors get to look forward to.

@a5 Agreed this does nothing for US jobs. The H1 jobs are moving overseas. Trump needs a big fat tax on shipping jobs overseas

@ab we don’t like math and science because the extra work required to be good at them is not rewarded by the job market. It is not rewarded by the job market because of this visa. Once you incentivize a young 20 year old American for missing the kegger and getting good at Linear Algebra, there will be a lot more of us good at math and science.

@ad You seem to be a beneficiary of the broken education system. Making those $$$$ bills y’all.

@ac you appear to be a casualty of the broken education system

@ab Ahem. It doesn't matter what our education system looks like for now. We still blow the rest of the world out on making $$$$ bills y'all.

The problems is the US education system, We currently rank 34th among developed countries in math and science. There are not enough qualified US citizens to fill tech positions.

@a8 You must have forgotten the fact that you work for an American company.

@a6 Hey. I get it. It’s a convoluted mess. Get rid of all that H this and H that visas. $100k per expat. Seems reasonable.

It would be great if they brought all the Aussie's back and got rid of all the useless overpaid yanks.

All this does is shift more tech jobs to ENGINE

Most CVX expats do not use an HB-1 visa. Australia uses E-3 Visas, UK uses EB-3 Visas, Canada uses TN Visas etc etc. This will have minimal impact on Expat positions in the USA. Note: There are significantly more U.S. expats working outside of the USA than all other countries combined. Most HB-1 visa holders work for tech companies.

Would rather see a tariff on services from low cost labor countries. That would be excellent for American labor.

Agreed. I don't have a problem with anyone making a living, but why are we paying for people to be here when they could be earning money in their home country. ENGINE has made it clear that we don't need H1Bs at Chevron. We also don't need to be paying expats from the UK/Australia/Enter Another Country Here. I've worked with them. The only thing they have is BSing skills.