Thread regarding Chevron Corp. layoffs

Ahhh…..so she dismantles CMREC to force the executive to place her into a new position. Apparently there is a new position under CL (Opco pres) - VP Asia South and Emerging Countries that will give her exactly that opportunity as it was published last week with the updated OPG with a note of “to be filled later”…… Very, very clever of MB to work her way into that new promo!! Well, maybe just super clever by the Execs to find a way to do that!

Yes and no. MB hopes to leverage the changes into a promotion.

What is the inside scoop - are we dismantling CEMREC with MB retiring early next year??

Townhall coming late next week. Stay tuned.

Any update on this? We are getting close to Xmas and we they will want us off the books this year.

The problem with Houston is that there has never been an actual executive in charge in Houston because you have people in all different parts of the organization. Some people report to a leader in SR and others in Houston or London. Thus, Houston has no leader who speaks for everyone working there. I guess maybe the CNAEP boss has the biggest fraction of staff there but it is like 30%, maybe CTC is second. In any case, it was a terrible mistake that could have EASILY been avoided just by engaging a few employees. The DE was probably GL, who had enjoyed cubicles in Aberdeen. He was put out to pasture shortly after the cubicle mess.

So who was the DE? That’s who needs to own the Houston cubeland project. Look, it says it in the title: D E. C. I. S. I. O. N. executive. ;)

My old boss was on the Houston cubicle committee. It was actually the downtown Houston office committee. They were tasked with finding a way to set the new 1500 office up for work. They looked at alternatives. CBRES pushed hard for the cubicle setup, based on part of San Ramon using cubicles then. They said it would save a fortune on all sorts of costs, especially changing office setups and high-density of employees per floor. Upstream was strongly opposed and said it would never work but the other service orgs liked the cost savings. With a lot of pushing from CBRES, it was rammed through. And it was the worst office disaster in the history of the company. Own it!

CBRES/CEMREC is just taking orders and doing what the BU's ask for they are not our acting as our internal SMEs. So why not just outsource everything. At least then you will be paying actual experts rather than carrying around dead weight.

For those wondering about the "infamous Houston cubicle fiasco,” I urge you to expose the FACTS, not the spin.

Short story: CBRES essentially turned the old Enron building (1500 Louisiana) into mostly cubicles. This was per Upstream’s agreement and designed as a cost efficiency. When the financial tide swung, and folks got ticked off about cubeland, CBRES was left holding the bag, and do you think any of the spineless non-CBRES senior leaders owned up to the decisions THEY made? Ha!! The problem is that the spin took over, and CBRES got cast as the culprit — but believe me, there was a lot more to that story. We really need to hold people — EVERYONE, including senior leaders — accountable, but we don’t, and the loudest voice is the one heard. CBRES NEVER had decision-making power. So think about it: who REALLY made the cubeland decision? Not a comfortable truth, is it?

What was the "infamous Houston cubicle fiasco?"

Wait, hold up, so CEMREC doesn’t have anything to do with cement? Sincerely, IT.

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Combing BRES and EM never made sence. It was a random choice just to give M more scope for a promotion.

It was the brain trust at CBRES who brought us the infamous Houston cubicle fiasco? Imagine what that mistake cost.

"ensuring our office buildings are safe, functional, and provide the right environment to be productive, in having services and amenities to support our daily activities?"

No one within CEMREC has the skillset to get real workplace change implemented at Chevron anymore. They said it right in the comments below:

"After the last layoffs, they put people from EMC in charge of office buildings and other real estate who had no experience with real estate, it was doomed to fail."

BUs can and do manage their own well abandonments. Offices, to the extent we even need them anymore, can be managed by contractors.

If it were as great as you say we would be marketing and selling it for profit. We are not.

Wow. Somebody woke up on wrong side of the bed. So you don’t see value in well abandonment work, in managing environmental liabilities, in ensuring our office buildings are safe, functional, and provide the right environment to be productive, in having services and amenities to support our daily activities? Honestly, sometimes I wonder why I even give a d4mn working here. I bust my chops doing my best day after day, and I am really sick and tired of people like you constantly putting us down. If you are so unhappy with your life that the only way you can feel good about yourself is by putting others down, you’ve got more problems than any CEMREC employee ever did.

CEMwRECk is strictly a cost center to be minimized - no value added.

Study underway to pick it apart. EM side straightforward but bres side less so. Telling us that it’s bec of value corp sees from CEMREC and wanting to move us where we can maximize that value and ifyou believe that I gotta bridge to sell you. Meanwhile MB will walk away with a nice package, having scr3w3d us once again. At this point the sooner we pull rhe plug the better.

So what’s the scoop on CEMREC? why aren’t we hearing about this internally? Only reasone I know anything is thru grapevine but quiet lately

Hopefully all of them, lol

CEMREC.... how many of you signed up to move to Houston to only know that you may not have a job??

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Ah! The cross pollination approach! My former jacka$$ supervisor told that this was "The Chevron Way" on getting people to expand their knowledge / career. I always knew this was so stupid without management people that were kept in place to help these poor people to grow / be supported.

For the love of god does anyone actually have information about how they’re going to split it up?

After the last layoffs, they put people from EMC in charge of office buildings and other real estate who had no experience with real estate, it was doomed to fail. Operating office buildings etc. is not as easy as people think. MB pushed to keep EMC people over CEMREC people because that is who her buddies were. They should put CEMREC out of its misery and finish the outsourcing sooner rather than later.

@3pab+1inZSNzB CBRES was and is actually far ahead of EMC. CBRES had a bad wrap until BH turned it around. All CEMREC merger did was drag CBRES down with poor EMC work ethics and inability to make a decision. CEMREC was doomed to fail with MB at the lead. IF BH did not retire we would be growing CEMREC not dismantling it. Before you so quickly say outsource CBRES... Take a look in the mirror. EMC can be and should be outsourced.. We would save lives and save dollars.

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They need to cut out a lot of this deadwood, particularly the types that camp out on sites like this all day instead of working.

I’m hearing that with the recent fatality in CEMREC they will move the well abandonment work back under D&C. So this will be part of the dismantling of CEMREC. Where does the rest of the abandonment work go? The CBRES part is easy - outsource it.

I know... they'll form a study group, promise a transformation, change their name, and voila! Efficiency!

So layoffs? How will this be structured? And why now?