This is not the same company it was five years ago and it certainly isn't the same company it was a decade ago when I joined. I used to love my job back then but now all the fun has been drained and I don't know how much longer I'll be able to take it. It doesn’t matter who you are and what you do, you’re seen as just a number they will happily get rid of when other numbers need padding. Loyalty and talent are secondary to being a part of the click, and if you're not a part of it, you can kiss a promotion goodbye. It's sad how much Chevron has changed when it was once a great place to work.
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Don’t be so philosophical and be a bit more realistic. It’s a realistic expectation that happinesses in life is closely tied to your happiness at work. Unless you live in a woke utopian society.
If you tie your happiness in life to your happiness at work, you most likely will be unhappy all of your life.
Work is just a means to make life going, financially. Other than that, you should focus your life and happiness around family, friends, and things you value most that impact your well being. If working I. Chevron makes you unhappy, you should leave, life is way more important than the company you work for.
@3vzi, Yes you read me right but failed to completely understand. “Showing up” is 80% of success in your career and in life. Doing your job, taking care of your duties well is the key to keeping a career and enjoying life. The other 20% is up to you. I got one don’t consider overworking yourself at Chevron too important, as very little of that extra input is not recognized. You’ll just wear yourself out and become unhappy.
if you havent been moved since the transformation, you are not a hipot. its that obvious.
If architect isnt somewhere in your title and you are in IT, you are not going to advance. You will be burdened with the work of 3 plus roles and even if you are d-mb enough to take it on, you will get 'meets expectations' and the same 3% raise.
Lesson learned for sure!
"... all I have to do is show up to work on time, do only the duties of my job, and go home on a vanpool at the same time every day." Wow, @1jih, that sounds exactly like what a robot's schedule sounds like. Ever think outside the box, take some risks for big rewards (you AND the company), and have your share of successes and failures? Oh, that's right - those days of entrepreneurial Chevron employees went out the window with the Chevron Way! Sounds like Chevron today is more like the Stepford Wives (or should it be Stepford Persons?)
No @2nik, I’m not a new recruit. I started off in Chevron 22 years ago as a lowly paid non-exempt clerk. I don’t have a college degree. I am very applied and disciplined person and learned the skills I use on my own and through training the company has provided. I am very well liked in my workgroup and known throughout the company. I’ve earned every Dollar of my salary through the years and am grateful for the $134,000 salary and other benefits I gave today. It seems to me by your comment or assumption, you think you are owed something more?
At $134,000 you must be a new recruit. Check in with us in five years.
I love my job at Chevron. It currently pays me a $134,000 annual salary, an 8% contribution into my 401k, an annual bonus guaranteed without trying too hard, 5 weeks of vacation at present, a 9/80 work schedule so I can enjoy a Friday off every other week, an employer subsidized healthcare plan that’s among the best anywhere. All this I get and all I have to do is show up to work on time, do only the duties of my job, and go home on a vanpool at the same time every day. It’s all about ones attitude. My job is not hard to do and yours isn’t either.
I definately agree with this!
Chevron senses the end is near (2040?), they don't care about your 'career' or any of that nonsense anymore. You're on your own. All SR worries about is paying the dividend, buy-backs, and promoting relatives and diversity types as fast as possible.the rest of you? "Let them eat cake!"
Face facts., Your job is your career and whatever you make it. It's not someone else's fault to steer your career or pamper you into a better position, it's all on you. Go work somewhere else if you are not advancing quick enough for your satisfaction, you're not getting anywhere complaining anonymously online. There have never been as many entitled pathetic whiners earning 6 figures as now in the history of O & G. The decent job prospects are getting slimmer and slimmer daily and new bright kids are graduating all the time. Do you feel lucky?
Face facts. You have a career (hipot) or you just have a job. They used to trick people into believing that they could have that "career" by pointing to your CDP. Just follow the plan and then they'll move the target when you're not looking. It is now blatantly obvious was is going on. The best decision I made was taking the EOI.
Thanks for playing the game with us, buh-bye
If only there were a solution to being unhappy with your current employer.
Unfortunately upper management has destroyed the morale and employee well being. The Transformation might have been great for the shareholder, the number 1 and only priority here, but it was awful for the rank and file. We have constant layoffs and turmoil that has lead to this. Management needs to bring morale back up and calm down the churn for a little while. They probably don't really care but when the talent heads out the door maybe they will care.
Awwww, that's so sad. So you saying nothing's changed since 45-50 years ago. Perhaps you can find a non-profit start-up making widgets to help with the conversion to sustainable energy. No plastics or any other Hydrocarbon derivatives though. Good luck with that.
The job market is great for finding new jobs with other companies