Thread regarding Chevron Corp. layoffs

Don’t have to look far but the finance organization and who they pick for PSG 28+. All buddies of the VPs. No surprise there. Not surprise if PSG 26 and 27 will be the same. What a bunch of top talents. See if anything will change.

@d4 I know at least one person who’ve I’ve know at a different company who has straight up lied their a-s off about their qualifications and experience and now has some of the titles you mention.

The ones that get promoted seem to not have a lot of work but go to a lot of meetings. If they are on your team and you and everyone else doesn’t really know what they do everyday, and they suddenly become an upward mentor, be nice to them as you will be working under their incompetent one day.

Thought abu scm was ok as I heard a time eating do nothing manager who played favourites with pretenders had finally got his much undeserved golden handshake? Only thing worse than ridding us is rewarding them.

OP, it's been that way for about 15 years now. Hence why Chevron is in the mess it's in.

@c3 ABU SCM is very kind. I don’t know many places where nonperformance, zero qualifications, manipulation, and outright lying get rewarded with a leadership title and a “subject matter expert” badge.
But here, failure doesn’t mean accountability it means stripping away all responsibility and sliding into a half a million salary for doing less than nothing. It's not leadership. It's survival by deception.

And our new / not-so-new CIO.
Hasn’t done jack sh!t elsewhere and now leading a supermajor IT. What a fail.

Don't see this in ABU SCM as they're too busy building and promoting dashboards and reports no one reads or uses. Activity pretending to be work. Only question is if other management are aware?

All this nonsense people are speaking of seems to have its roots in the 2015/16 layoff round. Many good people either EOI'd (Boomers) or were booted out (working level Boomers) or departed on their own (high-caliber technical types, about age 40 then) in that layoff round, headed by none other than future CEO EB. 2015-2020 the Boomers were replaced by clueless and inexperienced Gen X and Millennials, which marked the beginning of the downfall of Chevron. They held sway with MW with promises of AI, ML, and endless Permian reserves. By 2020 the remaining Boomers (myself included) had had enough (of nonsense, and being ignored), we couldn't sign up fast enough for the generous EOI package. Those of us who were told about the 2020 "Transformation" couldn't believe what we were hearing. Sounds like that all played out 2020-2025 (Covid and WFH had nothing to do with it) to the mess Chevron is now in. If Hess doesn't work out, Chevron is in real trouble.

@ab spot on. I’ve said for months whoever is left will go through he-l.

This is why I left after twenty years of decorated and dedicated service to this company and 35 years in the industry. It is no longer the same company that I started with. Management of all levels are more concerned about their career and image rather than the content and quality of the work. Experience, mentoring, and hard work are no longer valued anymore. It's flash and dash to the next promotion while knifing those that might present an obstacle. The FaceB**k generation has arrived in management with their shameless self promotion which lacks obvious substance. Standing up programs, setting policies, and making PowerBI screens does very little to improve value chain performance, decrease the frequency and impact of incidents, and improve customer satisfaction, but this is the kind of fluff that the new management values. I see simple projects that can no longer be driven to closure because the PMs are too busy posturing for upper management who are happy to keep the money flowing since they got an update they can bubble up to the executive level to demonstrate how their project sponsorship is making a difference. Getting to EOI during this event was actually a blessing in disguise. The next purge may not have parachutes.

If you look at the people we have in the management, almost 99% of them are loudmouths without knowing anything that they oversee.

This company has changed fundamentally in the last 5 years from rewarding hardworking Americans to a cost cutting machine that favors cheap foreign workers.

I can understand why they are doing this because they can still boss around the cheap foreign labors and pretend they are the smartest person in the room. Unfortunately, competent managers are a thing of the past.

I agree with you.
I believe in the new support model the talkers will have more problems because now the people that will be completing the work will no longer be in the USA. So it will be important that someone gets the work conveyed to the Engine or the MSP and then get the work completed accurately or well enough to get credit for the work being completed. I think in the past the workers in the US were completing the work and the bosses were interacting verbally but now the requirements will need to be conveyed in service requests and in writing. Not nearly as easy....

@a4 “Can you be happy doing a cr-p job?” For this company? Easy! Sign me up.

(Now Retired) but yes, that is exactly how it is done. I saw people say a lot and do very little ... but they had that gravitas to speak bull with business buzz words, incept ideas and then hand them off (usually to me to do the heavy lifting to bring them into fruition). They got the accolades. However, in the long run, they petered out, left the organization and/or company, or were laid off for egregious non-team player actions.

I think you need to either work the way you do because it's YOUR integrity, YOUR work ethic, YOUR character, to do so, regardless of whether it's rewarded or even acknowledged. YOU have to live with what YOU do. Can you be happy doing a cr-p job, knowing you were capable of being oh so much more? That is the real question here: what can you live with within your self. And secondly, if you cannot stomach it, then leave. Whether a job change, a company change, retirement, EOI, etc. You have to live with your stress and conscious. Period.