Curious on your thoughts. Are these really the worst groups that are run by nothing but incompetent DEI personnel or Have these groups just had a run of bad luck?
Fact: Corporate Incidents Rates - Highest in 20 years
Thoughts?
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DEI isn’t the problem. The problem is all these senior folks who are incompetent. How have you been in this role for decades and still clueless? I’ve seen new hires out grind seniors on a regular basis. Let’s be honest here
HSE for sure is a check in the box for people trying to move up. There is a sentiment that “anyone can do it” so they put just about anyone in there. The problem is that there are rules, regulation, and best practice surrounding HSE which requires expertise to apply. People without the background usually fall into two categories: 1. They give bad advice based on what they think should be (not actually what the law is) or 2. They just sp-t out platitudes like “let’s just be safe.” The people who actually know the job aren't placed in it because that would prevent the “check box” movers from the full high-flier Disneyland experience. My two cents.
I would hope that EMC equivalent and HSE would be the worst run functions at every company.
If there's a place to sc--w up or skirt by, this is where you'd be okay seeing it.
Other functions actually drive the business and are core to Chevron's ability to create (or destroy) value.
Perhaps your just not very good?
Get Over It? How do we get over the terrible egos and bad judgement of HSE and EMC? Truly a Chevron function that is rotten to the core. I am a white male in the org and have always had outstanding reviews. I have spoken to the GMOPSHSE and have been told not my time. I have spoken to my sponsor and told, not my time but all the DEI personnel that have had less experience and not the best performance get invited to all these little side dinners and development events and for what reason. Well, they are DEI candidates. Look at the two leaders of these functions. They are jokes in the company and the industry. They don't even go to industry functions any more because they don't know what they are talking about.
Yawn. Get over it.
DEI isn’t the problem. If you bothered to look at the demographics, you’d realize that these fields tend to have way higher % of so-called dei populations (example, environmental degrees are about 50% female).
I’m in the functional, and I can tell you the biggest issue are the useless white males who get parked there. Former horizon flameouts who lack the self awareness to realize they’re bad at their jobs, but embed with heaps of irrational confidence.
Once again, look at who is running the function and look at who is running the regions for this function. It is a DEI cluster. No one can say it is not. I am 100% confident that not a single one of these people every worked at the field level. Not one.
Not sure how we got here but we need to figure out how to get out pretty quickly.
It is embarrassing how far we have fallen.
It is also the most painful thing to talk to the audit team. They try to act smart and point out issues but when you push them, it is a lot of ummmm, well, you see etc. We usually just seat there and let them talk and say ok and just do what we want anyway.
Is the lack of experience in HSE the problem or managers who bully them because production and efficiency are the top priorities in today's Chevron? Would explain why incidents are going up.
When I talk to auditors like BV or any local regulators, it is always interesting that none of our HSE people really understand what is going on. Every single time they bring in a consultant or contractors to answer the questions.
Even when the HSE team does audits on OEMS, it used to be just cut and paste answers. Now, they just depend on copilot to create the report. You can read it and it is just basically the same answers rewrite by an AI now.
Chevron HSE does nothing now. Contractors do all the work. Consultants and AI write all the reports. No wonder we are at a 20 year high in incidents.
So we have exploration team that can’t find oil. A projects group that can’t complete on time and an M&A function that can’t get Hess closed. But you think emc and hse are the bad actors? Wow. You have problems.
Don't know about EMC, but HSE has always been a poor performer. Staffing is and always has been a combination of wet-behind-the-ears college grads with no experience, engineers and scientists who failed in their respective functions, and power-hungry managers who couldn't advance in their earlier jobs.
They are bad that is for sure - they have had consultants doing their jobs for years - now it was brought back in and they have no clue. Bunch of PHDers who should be the experts but have just bopped from project to project to keep their jobs - the consultants are the experts with the knowledge in EMC
They always have to have someone to blame. That’s how they control
They are bad, but dei isn’t the issue.