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ID: @av+1k3y87wrc
Congratulations! I loved your insight and candor.
The number of downvotes you received surprised me but clearly you ruffled some feathers. I always enjoy when some one can put a stick in the eye of a peer because you can see the anger when people downvote your comments. Keep up the good work, Chevron is on the way to becoming a $hit $how to work for. I loved my job before phase 1 and now the majority of staff are gone and several of the new people are uninformed pets of the management team. the new people will take years to get up to speed and the time drain to train them will be exhausting.
@OP We do; we’re now a culture of budding a--holes. Just ask MW; he values DEI and tells us he identifies as an a--hole.
Chevron culture is dead. If you were here in the 90s or 2ks, you know it.
It's really sad that CVX employees have to post fake stories about their coworkers online to make themselves feel relevant instead of just showing up for work and doing their job. No wonder CVX and the stock is going downhill and is no longer a good investment. Such a shame for a once great company.
@pb Here’s a fake story just for you. You are legitimate.
cool story bro, please tell us another fake story to keep us all entertained!
@jg First of all, I am not your bro. Secondly, the story is not made up. D@nny H@ll was a highly experienced and well respected employee in GOM/GOA. Whatever HSE has become since then is not because of him. Thirdly, I never said that I was not personally successful. I have worked on several amazing projects across the world along with some very talented individuals, made some life long friendships, and now I have successfully retired. My statements below are based on my observations of the culture that Chevron has now evolved into. And lastly, as you can see, I did not place any specific blame but shared my observations, but if I had had to place blame, it would be on folks just like you who are more willing to trash someone honestly sharing of their observations rather than to make an effort to contribute to the mission. You are merely a miserable sideshow looking for attention.
I agree with everyone on here. Just look at who remains in HSE. I guess that explains our incident rates and SIFs. It is almost like we don't care about Safety anymore.
@av, cool story bro, can you make up another one for us? That way you can justify your own lack of personal success even more and shift the blame to others as you obviously do.
@av Great post! It is professionals like you the Chevron no longer wants. They want a herd of sheep, that don't take notice when they are in the knocking pen.
@df Can't believe your post was not deleted, you are spot on. This site has had other comments, like yours, that was removed.
I believe the new culture will be more NOJV centric. It lowers the cost of exploration, stabilizes the return on capital, reduces the workforce therefore salaries, pensions and benefits. Chevron will be managed as a capital investment firm focusing on the energy industry. This will allow them to be more nimble with investing in projects and manage the investment portfolio.
Read MW interview in today’s NYT. Apparently we have a partnering focused culture and that cutting twenty percent of the workforce keeps us competitive, no mention of offshoring to Engine.
It is like the culture in smelly cheese . nasty!
For @av+1k3y87wrc - HSE has been a joke for the last 5 years. Come on. You have people put in roles that have never worked in the field. The at the VPs in the two top HSE roles. They are DEI jokes.
@bk they are crooked but super white!
The Inhumane Energy Company (TM)
Some of you hipot snowflake book lickers who will be down voting this post, need to see through the Kool Aid and face the reality of what this company has become. The culture is toxic. Some seem to cringe at this term thinking "toxic" is all about harassment and cr---h grabbing, but its not.
These bullet points of "15 Signs of a Toxic Work Culture" are from the internet along with my observations:
- High employee turnover rate - Witness the latest waves of layoffs and now the subsequent level of employee trust of the company going forward.
- Quiet quitting - Make waves and risk becoming a target. Keep your head down.
- Bullying or harassment incidents - Stand up when issues arise, issue a stop work, become a target. I've got the T-shirts.
- Constantly changing goals and priorities - Need I elaborate?
- Lack of transparency - Ask your selection rep why you weren't selected for your own role
- Micromanagement or excessive monitoring - Work for a team lead with half the experience who think they know everything. Working in SJV has very little carryover into working in downstream.
- Lack of work-life balance - Try covering for the now missing 20% within the 40 hour work week.
- Inadequate support systems - Call the help desk to troubleshoot your PC or get network coverage restored.
- Lack of growth opportunities - Have you seen the job postings? Quantum physicist for a PSG 21? Right.
- Toxic gossiping or backstabbing - Hunger game based reorgs. The pets win out over the ones that have demonstrated delivery.
- Excessive competition among colleagues - How many "Exceeds Expectations" have you received lately?
- Absence of recognition or appreciation - I was left standing after receiving numerous and significant high level awards so recognition and appreciation means nothing to the current regime.
- Poor leadership - Ha! Need I elaborate?
- Lack of clear values or mission - Our company just does what the other majors do, just much later with lower levels of returns. But this is not the fault of our fearless leaders, but ours because we are working hard enough. McKinsey made us do it. Right.
- High stress levels - Everyone is biting their nails through the layoffs. Now having to cover for those who are now gone.
I have never told this story, but my very first experience with Chevron was in Baton Rouge. I was meeting one of the ERTC HSE instructors to discuss providing employee training at the facility. He was an hour late. When he arrived he apologized profusely but explained how on the way to the meeting that he had come across an accident scene before the first responders arrived and being a trained paramedic, he rendered aid to the injured before they arrived. That simple act of compassion left an indelible mark on me. Which was why when I was offered a job with Chevron ten years later, I jumped at working at a company with people who cared about others and demonstrated it in how they lived. Now thirty years after that event, I am summarily dismissed without a single reason and perp walked out to the curb. My oh my how our values changed! Gone are the days of growing the capabilities of others and taking care of one another. It's become dog eat dog. Even MW is talking about how we can no longer be nice. The values that I've seen exhibited by my previous management are unprofessional, disrespectful, and exhibit a total lack of consideration for others. There will be many Kool Aid stands stood up over the next couple of years in an attempt wash away the blood of the dead, but the deed has been done; the bell cannot be un-rung, everyone left has seen what management did and who did it. Toxicity tinged with Distrust is the new culture. Good luck to you all.
Chevron culture? Oh, it’s alive—just mostly in old training slides and forgotten slogans.
At GOA Exploration, the energy’s missing, and the manager’s leadership style is “good luck.”
ChevronWay? More like ChevronNoWay... but hey, at least the printer still works. Sometimes.
Sure. The new ChevronWay reads something like a grinning Cheshire cat meowing "My way or the highway!"
Yep. MW’s Way is the new saying of the day.
Be lean and mean that’s the new slogan
Stop being nice
It has a culture and is trying to change it now