It’s frustrating to watch the same underperformers stay while anyone competent gets pushed out. If we actually kept our best people, constant cuts wouldn’t even be necessary.
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So, let me get this straight, All of us are useless, but you're not? Nah. Not buying it. Try again.
@1gg
i am a paid propagandist like you
although i don't make as much
I know what you mean! I don’t contribute anything productive and manage to spend my time making my colleagues less productive too. But I survived the re-org. Actually, I was the architect of the re-org :-)
@11x I'm not useless but everyone else is
Just part of it.
What is most laughable and absurd is that the ones who are the most useless and dispensable are those who are persistently referring to their coworkers as "useless".
@bs+1kav74b6x
I somehow survived the mess. I didn't think I had a chance but I threw my hat in the ring. I wasn't getting any rave reviews or promotions. The only thing I can figure out is that I was doing the jobs that no one else wanted to do. Several times I heard from people that they'd never do what I'm doing. It's not high visibility and it's compliance work with the state agencies. I'm guessing that there were no takers except me. I'll use the time left before the next reorg to find another job. I saw good, strong workers get pushed aside for the HiPots or the connected. People who post here claiming all is good haven't a clue. It's like working in a morgue.
@bs Yous should take your head out of your a---. Lots of people who wanted to stay did not get that opportunity. And no I was not one of them.
@r8 he must be doing something right
The true hi pots left for wall street while they were young
I can recall a sycophant who stole money via expense reports…but has survived several layoffs… This is because has very strong sponsors.
It really allows you to see that hard work and dedication. Don’t mean much… Unless it’s to an individual with Fallon…
@ns Many useless people who has no technical abilities are now promoted as your manager by COW gang to slave you
Of course they do! Therefore become useless if you want to "survive" otherwise become "valuable" and deal with the outcome!!! I prefer to be valuable!
@jq it's laughable how few ABU so called leaders don't know many of their employees run businesses on company time. Here is a clue, check the WFH records.
@m1
skillless and overpaid
we are so far from a "merat" based society that we can't even spell it correctly
@kx in my experience most hi pots are far from superstar's unless being a world class a-s kisser makes you a superstar.!! Kissing being the only ' skill' the majority of them possess.
@g0 who cares about inclusive. It's about results
@bz hipot means high potential which is another way of saying they're a super star. So being a "performer" isn't enough. Need to be a superstar
You did not get laid off?
Mates get looked after. Lunch, drink, golf and 4x4 buddy.
Oh and many spend company time to grow their own business
underperformers can't compete with upper management
the managers' jobs are safe
until the company outright fails
@ge can confirm. ABU SCM remains untouched, whilst half the people in IT who actually know a thing or two get shown the door.
Did you know that, as of tomorrow, ABU - one of Chevron’s biggest revenue streams - won’t have a single software engineer, nor anyone in cyber, nor any data engineers?
Look no further- ABU SCM
@e8, add to the list those that are inclusive team players, not toxic/backstabbing and can cut through exclusive toxicity and put real effort to develop people who give a darn. Company would thrive in time.
tho Some OP's were laid off and come here to reconcile the injustice and paradox. Fair enough.
I've been around Chevron since 2005 and sometimes I wonder, what if the brightest, most competent, industrious, knowledgeable, professional persons were promoted. Same for being selected during layoffs. Ever think of how many good, hard working and capable employees and contractors have been cut over the years to save a friend, a family member of leadership, someone's golfing or drinking buddy? The company would be dramatically different and probably significantly more productive.
OP survived the layoffs, so I agree with the OP 100%.
Subsurface and Capital Projects. Bunch of low performers survived
@aw+1kav74b6x
I am in S&T and have seen several performers booted out so a HiPot could be brought in. When people are selected because they are in the inner circle, it stinks.
People who wanted a job got a job.
Let’s be honest here…
No. What's worse is seeing poor performing managers, hand warmers par excellence getting massive payouts after waiting for the trough to be filled. ABU SCM case in point.
Everyone that i see that got kept in s&t were actually good at their jobs before the reorg. Everyone that I know of who were let go had lots of complaints about either their work quality or their behavior. In S&T, the people who stayed were the better ones so idk what part of the org you're in but you probably should just keep blanket statements like that more isolated to your own area.
Yup. Chevron values compliant lemmings over skilled independent thinkers. The culture here is pure corporate inbreeding think.