What is the deal with the hatred towards IT at Chevron? Its pure he-l working here in IT as you are treated as a 3rd class citizen. We are the first for our ignorant ELT to pick on for cuts all while that advertise around Houston how they are technologically advanced and talking about how important IT is. For those who say we dont pump oil, try to do your job now without IT. Like getting paid, well software makes it happen.
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Non-IT leadership has had disdain for IT in Chevron for decades. there have been WAY more IT ROMs than enterprise ROMs in the last 30 years than any other type of reorg. They love the benefits it brings but are mad it costs more than colored pencils and paper weights. They've never considered IT a part of core business even though in 2026 they literally cannot do any part of core business at all without IT and OT.
Projects really aren’t being run by Chevron IT anymore. Most of the work is handled by offshore consultants who are focused on hitting the metrics they’re measured on rather than delivering real business value. Whether something actually benefits the business or drives adoption doesn’t seem to matter, the objective is simply to check the boxes and move on to the next project.
Leadership appears comfortable with that model, which probably explains why many of the tools we deliver are cumbersome and see limited adoption. Then they wonder why no one likes our IT tools.
The metrics that have cascaded through the PMP make the priorities pretty clear and they’re largely disconnected from business value. People offshore are disconnected even more. I’m not complaining, I’m just a disposable
resource and will act like one, get paid and deliver targets and goals leadership has set.
Good people within IT realize that IT has lost its way and hate chevrons IT. It’s why so many are leaving. Fewer opportunities in the US, atrocious lack of leadership, and having to focus on basic IT functionality instead of business problems due to cuts and lack of capacity. The business just sees it as IT saying no to everything, when in reality IT is just trying to keep things running with the skeleton crew of capable people left
@ez
I sense the anger in this one, Obi Wan ;)
@f1
Good feedback, you should be a strategic leader but you will probably be pigeonholed by some insecure LT because you intimidate their “clear” thinking. I wish you the best after you leave Chevron.
@ap COMPLETELY AGREE. They are paid to say "NO YOU CAN'T DO THAT." THey have Cyber positions in that closed room where their job is to read the news and look for cyber things then tell another group to fix it. Meanwhile we sweat our butts off in West Texas and they get all the credit. Just have AI do their jobs.
@ez one is the most insightful posts I’ve seen in a long time. I’ve never understood the rationale between the wishcasting technology will magically fix everything, and slashing resources. I’ve barely seen projects get completed, and never seen one succeed (in reality, not the performative chatter). Our high priority projects are on hold for like 2 years at this point thanks to backlog.
Siloing IT the way Chevron has is a great system for developing the adversarial relationship we have.
IT is being told to cut spending. Business is being told to leverage new tech. Business feels IT is maliciously blocking them or being incompetent because they’re reliant on “low cost geographies”.
IT really doesn’t understand the business, but on the other hand, the business really doesn’t understand the tools or pipelines. “The dashboard you built me is wrong.”
No, your data is wrong at the source. But if you cant figure out how we’re getting from point A to point B, you’re just going to take data at face value or chuck it in an AI model you understand even less.
The wall needs to be broken down. “Centralized” IT should be limited to infrastructure and cyber, not business functionality. IT needs to get its hands dirty, the business needs to understand their systems.
@es YOU are responsible for autocorrect's results. Blaming the tool is typical for imbeciles that are unable to use any tools, including computers.
@br
Those outages were the result of low cost MSP resources. Saved money but lower customer service levels.
@cq
You must be a brilliant oil guy because you are clearly not an “IT” professional, That’s auto correct you mo--n! :)
@ap what is a "bear" minimum, illiterate colleague ??
Will one of you please hold LC's beer so he can laugh his @ss off while he reads these whiny jealous comments? Thanks
Because it went from the best IT dept I saw in 35 years and 7 companies to the worst since 2020. Centralized IT gives poor support on a good day, and none on most days. How about bricking thousands of laptops? Knocking out radio comms to the field for a whole BU? Breaking the firewalls across the enterprise?
@a7 100%!!!
I didn’t see LC on the woodlands express at 3:45 today… oh because he’s the only executive in all of Chevron who takes a 9/80 and works from home on Fridays.
Oh, did I mention that I see him leaving work early everyday? I guess you can do that when you just throw unlimited money at EY to do your work. Life is good.
@ap There is barely any staff left in IT. Its been gutted. So few engineers to handle the work for business. Thats what happens, business won't be able to get everything they want at this point. Actions have consequences!
The problem is that IT Hide behind polices to do the bear minimum. They are not aligned with the business in terms of delivering value.
For example; Cyber's job to to protect Chevron. To easiest thing for them to do is say "no" to anything that might stop that - even if it means delivering value. There are no trade offs with them.
Have you tried dealing with the help desk ?
LC is a joke couldn’t spell IT.
LC is the richest man by the metric of $/hr worked at Chevron.
Add on that "Lazy" Les is one of the worst possible leaders to have and that's saying something since we all have MW!