More of us will be kicked to the curb because the outlook is bad, and ELT can’t manage. Far more than was ever planned with the reorg. It’s already nearly impossible to land a decent job offer, and I can only imagine how things will look in the near future. I’m seriously considering switching to an entirely different industry, even if it means lower pay, just to try to stay ahead of whatever’s coming. And what’s coming won’t be pretty.
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Scrap all the meaningless political comments here. Yes, it is going to get worse, as there doesn't appear to be anyone now or upcoming in Chevron management with insight, innovation, or desire. That can only mean more years of floating like a dinghy on the ocean, one that will eventually sink.
I work in planning. The DJT's administration is doing more damage to America’s fossil fuel industry than Democrats ever dreamed of. Oil and gas CEOs are in damage control mode over the “chaos” and “uncertainty” produced by his policies. The industry is finding out that the grass isn't greener in MAGA-land. Things are predicted to worsen, so jumping ship to a different industry might be a necessity, not an option.
very high chance that retrenchment numbers will go up given the ramp up in crude oil production
cvx is conservative when it comes to $$$ and costs so more perm retrenchment is a very high possibility plus less contractor renewals
@ej+1jteckmsm - Fake news
It's true, there must be one fake upvoter who upvotes all the anti-Trump threads. I don't know how they do it, but it's very obvious with the number of anti-oil & gas, anti-trump, anti-America upvotes on comments. The democrat party is not pro fossil fuel, so you do the math. The math doesn't math.
@dw+1jteckmsm Everyone knows he does it, so I 'm not sure why he does it anymore. Everyone knows all his massive downvoting is fake.
@d6+1jteckmsm I agree with you.
It's funny how you received so many down votes when you are just stating a fact. The growth of labor based manufacturing is dead in the USA. Only critical industries will return and will take 5+ years to plan, implement and operate.
Thinking that significant numbers of manufacturing jobs will return to the United States is a fantasy. These jobs peaked during WW2 and the 1950s and have declined ever since primarily due to automation - see automobiles as an example utilizing robotics and automated assembly. Some industries never had significant labor components - silicon wafers, microprocessors, etc. Labor intensive industries moved offshore and simply will not be economic in the US.
People will be in soup lines and still defending djt
The cost of equipment with the Trump Administration’s tariffs, and the oil prices barely at breakeven levels at some fields and wells have prompted analysts to lower their estimates of U.S. oil production growth. Time to move on.
@ap, is it the golden era or is it the guilded era?
Plenty of good ol' fashioned (aka Golden Era) work down on the farm picking berries and radishes now that all them violent criminals that used to do it are being deported. Or you can even continue working in Houston mowing lawns for the new Kalifornian transplants in River Oaks.
Maybe Mar-a Lago is hiring. DJT are his billionaire buddies appear to be doing very well.
Maybe you can land a job in one of those great manufacturing jobs that are returning and nobody wants for minimum wage.
Chevron folks complain more than Intel folks on here. All in a bad place. Good luck
DJT is bringing back low paid manufacturing jobs to the USA while the high paid white collar jobs are being moved overseas to India, so you will have a chance to start a career in a new field.
Don't worry, it's the Golden Era according to DJT Everything will be great.
Yeah .. high performers with over 15 years invested in the company are feeling so down and lost . This is slowly becoming a point of no return