Thread regarding Chevron Corp. layoffs

The most toxic teams I’ve ever been a part of were led by Indians who think their own s**t don’t stink and thought they could micromanage and insult everyone under them while favoring other Indians, but only if they were also from the same region of India as them. They focus on hooking up their friends and family over actual leadership

I know I’m not the only one who’s experienced this.

If you are in the US it doesn't make a difference if you are good or not, we are taking your job because the future is India! Get over it. We are smarter not because we work harder but because we know how to help our friends. The teams we build are better. Look at the teams we put together no diversity problem like you have in the US. The future of Chevron is India. Just like other companies your leaders will be from here also.

Each service provide we bring in results in larger teams of people to replace the SME that left. They shuffle the work because they don't know what they are doing. Everyone knows who gets the work done, it's the people we have to train for years because they don't have the ability to pickup something they don't know and finish the work. Don't worry they'll be able to ask AI for a solution to a problem they don't understand and plug the response in, they will not know that AI gave them a wrong answer either. This is going to be really funny for those of us that stick around. I hope we move the auditors to engine so they'll overlook any issues so the right things can be reported back to management. Business is different in Asia, you have to worry more about face than doing the right thing.

IT is the canary in the coal mine for all other functions soon to be moved to Engine.

@b8+1jnvp7qh5 is right, we don't know who we're getting during some of the interviews.

Those of us in IT work around the id--ts (both employee and contractor, both on-shore and off-shore) to get things done. Things take twice as long as they used to when I first started. Slowness while it su-ks, doesn't keep me up at night. What keeps me up at night is unqualified petrotechs in offshore locations touching anything of ours.

Holy you’re way d-mber than i thought originally. Bro thinks IT is literally just “IT” help desk ticket stuff. Fu-k off

I agree. And that's because whoever is hiring HAS NO IDEA HOW IT WORKS OR HOW TO HIRE. I DON'TTHINK THEY INTERVIEWED ANYBODY FROM MSPs.
It's just a continuation of the fall from many years. It will get worse as many well paid US SMEs (Subject Matter Experts) will AEOI/EOI or they will be replaced by someone from the 4 new HUBs.

OP you think IT su-ks now, wait till the ENGINE is running the show. They will be closing tickets right and left without solutions because they will be tracking success based upon closed tickets not customer satisfaction. That is the same model the MSP's adopted with the last reorg in 2020 and it will get worse.

I have wondered the same thing. I think it might be that IT will be disproportionately represented in the layoffs. My BU is likely to see 50-60% of the team decimated, and we are close to the wellhead.

I agree IT is bad. I work in IT and I can’t even get anything done. A lot of IT are incredibly disenfranchised with our leadership and processes, which probably also contributes to the post count.

But this ineffectiveness is coming for the rest of the functions too. So much of IT’s ineffectiveness is a result of leadership’s desire to centralise, standardise, and drive everything through process - the exact same changes they are bringing to the rest of the organization. This horror show will be coming to your function soon enough, take IT as a warning.

Is this the same OP that complained about notepad crashing?

Most user interaction with IT is with the first level IT support and unfortunately Chevron contracts that out to low cost countries. If you think it's bad now, and I agree it's bad, just wait until we have more of that support in India. I've already worked with some new support members in India and they are terrible. Under skilled, inexperienced and just bad at their job.

This is a result of years of outsourcing IT processes so everything gets channeled through teams offshore. Welcome to your own future when business processes move to the engine.

Show a little sensitivity and maturity. US IT cuts way bigger than 20%.

OP must work for Patterson or SLB or BH to be talking a big game about his own value to the company.

Oh, no? Just another advisor or project manager in “the business” of doing nothing valuable

@OP+1jnvp7qh5

Pretty d-mb post. It's obvious you think that IT is just break-fix, network cables, and laptops. I mean I guess we also just scoop up oil from a surface pit and deliver it via steel barrels, right?

Most of what you described is already contractor dominated and a small portion of what IT does. There's not a single thing possible today that does not involve IT.

I can guarantee that your help tickets are all being worked by someone in India. Maybe Manila, but 90% of the time, India.

If you think it’s bad now wait a year when those India teams can’t fall back on someone in the US to help explain things to them.