Thread regarding Chevron Corp. layoffs

Any statement from a leader with "we" in it when referencing the Company or workforce as a whole. Don't throw me in with that circus.

Leader led

Some of these have been around for awhile but,

• Let's put that in the parking lot
• Synergy (one manager kept trying to work it into every sentence she said.)
• We shouldn't try to boil the ocean
• What is the value add
• and my personal favorite "You've been left standing."

Still….WINNING

Strong performance, but not good enough

"Let’s stop doing business with ourselves"

This one is my favorite. Especially when the leaders saying it are the ones most guilty of living in an echo chamber.

Let’s stop doing business with ourselves

“Agile was not a waste of millions of dollars.”

“And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because I told, I told Bill that if they move my desk one more time, then, then I'm, I'm quitting, I'm going to quit. And, and I told Don too, because they've moved my desk four times already this year, and I used to be over by the window, and I could see the squirrels, and they were merry, but then, they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler, but I kept my Swingline stapler because it didn't bind up as much, and I kept the staples for the Swingline stapler and it's not okay because if they take my stapler then I'll set the building on fire...“

To be clear, this is humor & nobody’s setting anything on fire (though I might be getting lit a bit later to forget about all of this!)

• Flair
• Stapler
• Could you just …

Sorry; couldn’t resist 😜

ENGINE
Leading Performance
Competitive Performance
Optimize
Downsize
Rightsize
Outcomes over Outputs
Churn
Consolidate
Innovate
Transition
'Where' we work and 'How' we work
Embrace Change
Overcome Challenges
Evaluate Processes
Blah blah blah.... Performance, Partnerships, People... Human Energy...strategic merger with Exxon ... THE END.

The number one word you will hear for the next two months is "Direct". Get used to that one. It will be said so often it will lose all meaning.

Honestly

Arbitration in any Environment

One Team Teaming of Teams

The Centre. Who the he-l coined that unholy sh-tshow of a buzzword?
F*** the centre. The extremities make the company all its money.

1st quartile

Seems these days they make almost whole sentences out of buzzwords. Has no meaning and is designed to bore the workforce out of listening. Same with answering questions at town halls! Or as we had recently , “I’m going to be completely honest with you” followed by a handoff to various “leaders” speaking buzzword gobbledygook.

How about this: we need to transform so that we can win in any environment and we won’t have to go through this again.

@an+1jgmxkz55 there’s definitely layoffs so you can try again

Benchmarking

Competitive

Vulnerability

Operational Efficiency
Structural Changes
“There won’t be layoffs”
Etc.

Culture

Right-sourcing
Migration
Offshoring
Any environment
Right-sizing
Transition
Redundancy
Future-proof
Well-being

“Control what you can control.”

Collaboration

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