Very few of the new hires are staying here longer than a year. It's a real problem for my team. Just when people finally start doing their jobs properly without the need for constant input and help they are out the door. Then we have to start from zero with their replacements just to have the same thing happen again. What's going on here?
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I got let go in the big re-org
Reason I think emplyees don't like Chevron: and I am glad I no longer work there
- I don't trust the leaders (say one thing and mean another)
- It's all politics
- New processes are foisted on employees and advertised as improvements , the reality is they are even worse.
- PSG bumps are rare and haphazard they go to the undeserving
- Most of the management is totally incompetent
- Diversity has gotten totally out of control
- Its no longer fun to wotk at Chevron
- Working at Chevron has become puv=ching a time clock
- Loyality is an illusion
Is Chevron a clone of ExxonMobil? Everything I've here is just a repeat of what transpires at Exxon. I was a long-term employee at XOM now I'm working as a consultant at CVX. My supervisor told me he would hire me as a CVX employee if he could. I responded not in a million years. I'm not going through this HR-justify your existence to all again. If you want to make a difference and feel appreciated, work for a small-med size company.
Why are they leaving so soon? Pretty simple, with all the long-term boomers gone, there's no longevity role models any more, and the 'kids' can figure out that there's no future in the cronyism and social engineering petri dish that is Chevron. Any smart person can see the declining future in a company with no coherent long-term strategy.
The company is full of old white guys so of course lots of old white guys were let go. A bunch of them left voluntarily. If you have a choice between letting go an employee that is one or two years away from retirement or a mid-career employee with over 10 years to go, you would be an id--t to keep the old fa-t.
Every performance system in every company is about making people like you. Especially your supervisor.
You asked.
Why so many emphasis on “white male?”
Did you not see how many white men were let go in the reorganization? Did you not read MW article in the WSJ? If you work for Chevron, you would not have to ask this question.
Every white male except for MW friends are on the chopping block.
I hope everybody fills out the employee survey honestly. The numbered list resonates with me, so there must be more of us. I don’t see a reason to try hard because the performance system is all about making people like you instead of delivering value. I’ve been through the gauntlet of multiple reorgs/layoffs, so I can’t recommend Chevron to anyone. Weird times.
Why so many emphasis on “white male”? It’s getting really ridiculous…
MW has destroyed the company from an employee standpoint. It might be great for the shareholders but eventually they will be hit with bad news if no employees are there. The transformation has been a disaster for morale and employees.
New hires have noth8ng to lose, so once they experience Chevron they move along. They rest of us are stuck because of the golden handcuffs. We will be around until they fire us or we retire, regardless of how bad it gets.
I think Chevron should share their new vision: To be a Woman/Minority owned and run business.
In the scaled down MW Chevron, new hires learn fast that all that recruiting talk about opportunity, training, promotions, rotational assignments, career advancement, etc. was just an illusion, and that if they're not diversity or a high pot, they're going nowhere
It was a meeting for our function (supervisors 23 and up). We lost 4 people over the last 2 weeks and we had a brain storming exercise on what we could do to keep personnel excited about the company. It was a real downer as several people in the meeting said that they had contemplated leaving. Nearly everyone said that they were here just for the benefits and pay. I think my groups thoughts were, we are overworked, this is not the same company it was 5 years ago, no one really likes each other, there is no teamwork etc. One lady said she worked for Sears for years and this feels just like it did there when it started to crumble. There was nothing really positive.
Which LT meeting were you in? Tell us more.
I was in an LT meeting last week and this is true for all of the functions. Some of the higher numbers of attrition are coming from the 5+ year employees. Based on exit interviews, some of the top comments (this is from memory and notes so not 100% accurate) are as follows:
- I really don't like the people I report to now or in the past.
- My boss wants me in the office more and I just don't want to commute at all. (Note: We have had employees move to some outrageous locations during COVID and never reported the move. Some that report to the Houston office moved to Mexico, Canada, Florida, Salt Lake City, New York, and even Farmborough UK.
- I saw the way Chevron treated employees with 20+ years during the last reorganization especially white males and it scarred me. I don't want to put that much time in a company that just lets people go based on D&I metrics.
- I don't think Chevron is a honest company. I don't trust our executive leader. I do not think MW is a good person.
- I just don't think the company cares about me.
- There are so few options to move to a 26 from a 25 that the very worst in my co-workers comes out trying to land those jobs. I want to work at a place that I can trust people.
- Chevron is a great company for women and minorities. White males should not apply.
Troll please back up your stupid assertion with data
Either your team is running them away or they see greener pastures elsewhere.
Op I think you are asking the wrong audience, you need to ask that of yourself? What are you doing or how are you treating them that they leave within a year? Maybe the problem is not we and is you[your team].