As the title states, how are you folks fairing? Are you counting down the days? Received offer of permanent employment? Teaching ENGINE?
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Lament Lament Lament. Woe is me.
I was one of the ones given a transitional role in 2H. I’m gone in a few months. On the one hand, maybe if I do amazingly enough, they will keep me because this cluster fcuk will cause so many holes to open. And then I think that I did give it my all and they still cut me because it made sense for location wise.
It’s honestly really just a pay check. With an end date.
Just phone it in.
“Train people in India/Engine.” Translation…”here’s your rope, now, go make your noose and when training is complete we’ll meet you at the gallows to hang you.”
This company and its current CEO has NO MORALS. If you’re fooled by the old days when Chevron was a reputable and excellent company to work for listen up! Us old guys can alert you young guys to the dangers that lie ahead. They will cut you off before your official retirement.
Use Chevron to job hop. If you don’t know what that is, learn on TikTok. Use them just long enough (2 or 3 years) to make starter money and get experience, then use that to land your next best job with higher pay….and do that 2 or three times to get your salary up so you can make really good money during your most productive years. Do this while you’re still young enough to get enough years in at a good company that has a history of allowing people to retire and collect a full pension. Chevron now has a pattern of eliminating the old guys once they’ve properly trained their replacements. I know, I was eliminated in their last round of layoffs and now in this latest round I’m watching really good people get eliminated, while they’re too old in a really bad job market in the US, to get rehired. They did it to me and I never got rehired. Retirement doesn’t look for me anything like I had envisioned. DO NOT believe for ONE SECOND that that pension will be paid out to you for a “full retirement.” It’s a carrot dangling on a stick to keep you hopping. Do not give them your best income-producing years believing in that pension!!!!! It’s as disgusting as a man who divorces his wife after their last child turns 18 so he can avoid paying child-support and only have to pay alimony. This is NO DIFFERENT. Don’t be their bi--h.
If you quit by 35 or 40 you can still get part of your pension and you’re young enough to use your Fortune 500 experience to launch into a company that has a better history of allowing it’s pensioners to retire with dignity. Chevron now has a trend of “restructuring/reorganization” every five years to hire cheaper workers and cut off pensions. If you’re over 50 at Chevron you are “in scope” for elimination. One way or another you will be ELIMINATED just like a cockroach.
FWIW, two people at my plant got picked up to permanent roles in the first wave.
@ck how long is until the tentacles reached out for you?
Fulfilling my end of the bargain to get severance, and have an offer for more money but less bonus
That’s good!
Excited for what's next!! Received multiple offers elsewhere with nice perks. Eager to close out the chapter here and try something new.