We are an oil company and executive management looks at IT as a unnecessary expense. Hence the recent layoffs of IT and the move to everything Agile and digital. Learn to program or get out.
For those of you complaining about returning to work, get over it. The value to the company is oil which is an onsite business.
Office people. Sheesh!
I just want to be able to drive my very large lifted truck on my commute again. How will people know how big a man I am if they aren't watching me blow right past them on the road in my truuuuuuck? Plus I miss the work locker room talk. Its been depressing so let's get back into the office.
@3drt, no, we are people who not only don't need to work in an office, a gas station, but also not at home. We live off of your tax dollars through various government programs thanks to our generous current administration and have free broadband internet. Keep working hard and paying taxes, little boy, we love you and thanks!.
OP: "...value to the company..." ??? The only value I seek is to me. Chevron will lay me off in a heartbeat, so I'll enjoy it while I can and get everything out of it that I can. If you think otherwise, then remind yourself - Chevron can lay you off in a heartbeat.
Are these just non-office people posting this junk and upvoting themselves because they’re bitter that office people get to work from home? Do you guys work in the gas stations?
If you want to head back to the office Chevron noted that the office is open for anyone who wants to head up there. So head up there if you are desperate. No one is stopping you. If you have to have other people be forced in to make you happy then that's a whole other layer of selfishness.
1ift+1eylZO31: I think you misunderstood my comment. I wasn’t suggesting that I am uncomfortable coming back to the office but ok going to holiday gatherings and traveling. Quite the opposite. I am taking this virus extremely seriously due to health reasons in our family. None of us is going to parties or traveling or doing anything beyond the absolutely necessary because we’re trying to minimize our exposure.
When Chevron tells me to return to work, I’ll do so and without complaining about it or requesting special treatment. My post was merely meant to highlight that, given the current spike and potential for getting back to a tipping point with infections, it seemed foolish to me for CVX to push personnel back into the workplace right now.
This whole issue with COVID has become so freaking polarizing. Bottom line for me is 1) I’m really scared of the virus and 2) my personal profile means I am higher risk/could have catastrophic consequences to my family.
As a side note, I don’t know if you have ever watched a human being gasping for air & struggling to breathe. I have during repeated medical emergencies and don’t recommend it. I don’t say this to be a drama queen but to hopefully get you to pause and think for a moment.
Trust me when I say take this s*** seriously or at a minimum have some respect for those who, for reasons of their own, are more vulnerable. I’m not telling YOU what to do. If YOU wanna go back to the office now, have at it. Me? I’ll wait until we are forced to and hope we get more of a handle on this virus before then.
@ijp. So, even thought cases are high, it is ok to travel and join gatherings, bit ohhh no, the office is dangerous.
“ However, I am not comfortable with the rapidly rising cases and returning to work right after the holidays, when many have traveled and been around a multitude of people.”
@OP You must be the one who posts drivel and repeatedly upvotes it afterward.
As far as RTO is concerned, the easiest solution for people wanting to work remotely is to apply to a position that offers it. Most companies nowadays offer it as a benefit for the “right” candidate.
Waaaaah not faaaiiir...sounds familiar, like some other mo--n!
If you need to be productive in a personal face to face environment head over to the off campus site. There you can have all the meetings you want with you buddies. No need to force people in to the office when you can be forced in off campus!
Management is out of touch with their employees and the need for IT. Good luck running a modern company without IT. We do not need to work in the office as has been shown the past two years. If you want to work in the office by all means head over there and do it. No one is stopping you. For field workers your career path means you have to work at the site. No need to punish others just because you want us in the office.
The office will be open if you feel that you can only be productive in an office. This doesn’t apply to everyone though, I don’t need an office to be productive.
@sdv+1eylZO31 people like you describe should be terminated swiftly. You don't penalize the 95% for the 5% dead wood who act that way. And if those are the only people you know, then you're probably right there with them. The majority of the people I know work very diligently from home, and probably put in a good 10+hrs a week more than they would if they were having to commute.
@ijp, Yes indeed it did, it certainly struck a raw nerve with the butthurt losers who think that they can pretend WFH forever, milk the clock, play X-box, and take care of kids they can't normally afford on the company nickel. It's gonna be a blast when this all comes to a screeching halt. LMAO!
Cvx is a dividend company. It exists solely to be a safe dividend stock for old investors. Any actual work is done by contractors. The only role cvx plays is doling out money to third parties.
You would think with the "digital transformation," working remotely wouldn't be an issue.
OP: Your comment of “For those of you complaining about returning to work, get over it” struck a nerve.
I can appreciate the need to return to the workplace for the various reasons discussed in multiple threads before, but your comment feels rather flippant and dismissive.
I am a rule follower and respect what the company asks me to do. However, I am not comfortable with the rapidly rising cases and returning to work right after the holidays, when many have traveled and been around a multitude of people.
Some of us face greater odds of a catastrophic outcome, should we get COVID (either because of our own health conditions or those of people in our lives). I don’t expect preferential treatment from my employer, but I do expect common sense to prevail.
Chevron has been so careful until recently, but in the past couple of months we seem to have thrown caution to the wind. We have resumed travel even though Omicron was spiking (a whole LT recently met in person; was it really necessary?).
My question is, why? What is so darned important that we now were rushing to get back to the office, when we have managed to effectively work from home for nearly two years?
It seems foolish to press employees to return to the office right now. The statistics are not in our favor. I am a practical person, and I what concerns me isn’t right now, it’s the level of contagion and cases requiring hospitalization in a few weeks, when we begin to feel the impact of the holiday period travel and large gatherings. The problem is that if we wait until then to react, we face a much more potentially serious scenario than if we simply postpone return to work now.
So, OP, I get that your circumstances might be such that you can be relatively carefree about COVID. I just ask that you find a bit if compassion and reasoning for those of us who face real life or death potential from this virus and are genuinely concerned about a premature return to the office.
Probably took Rhonda all week to draft that note
Kids are back in school, so no reason not to be back.
Yes, OP, you should understand that a job with Chevron is supposed to also support a nursery school environment for people who chose to have kids that they can't afford, on your dime lmao!
Op,
Looks either you have no family including small kids or have no empathy or rational common sense.
With infection rates so high and many either are not eligible or have some reasons to be hesitant getting a vaccine and many who are also fully vaccinated still getting the virus, why in the world the risk of getting it should increase by coming to work [ commute using public transport and extended risk of getting it at in person meetings and in office seeting].
We had been able to do the work for the past 21 months remotely, it would not change anything if say another 6 months or even 2 more years we continue like this, no ideal but better than filling up hospitals and having 50% of workforce calling sick every few weeks!!!
You live in a different world, get real, and more rational.