and I have been recommended for a temporary 2-year BU base transition role, to train & support the ENGINE personnel.
I am torn but need the money to support my family.
What should I do?
Will there be any animosity with my remaining colleagues who I have worked and respected for the last decade?
responding to the advice to utilize all the employee benefits, work out, do the bare minimum for two years. whoever wrote that clearly has no work ethic whatsoever and probably doesn’t belong to Chevron or any other top tier company. if you’re given a transition role, and you accept it, then you should do your job. You’re getting paid and you have an opportunity to know exactly when your job will end and look for other employment in the meantime. But while you are there, you do owe your employer, a honest days work. yes this is the worst re-organization we’ve ever had in terms of poor communication. It is normal and natural to be upset, stressed out, and pi---d off at the company. But quiet quitting is not noble. At the end of the day, it’s your integrity.
OP - Did you still get a chance to apply for active positions and get left standing and offered this 2 year transition instead? There are upcoming PDCs.
Take the job and start to apply for new positions. It is always better to interview for new jobs when you are still employed. When you find a new position that fits your goals, resign and move on. They have already showed you their cards so they should not be disappointed you took the opportunity to find a new position. God Speed!
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very good feedback, the mew leadership teams will never detail this to transitional employees but it's a good outline to expand upon.
I respect the corporate goals of reducing costs but the ELT and below will never have an organized plan to extract the value from the reorganization.
I am planning to capture the information I observe as this poster summarizes so I can grow my skills through this reorg.
Take it ..
Well, I’m cooked.
My selection rep has a ton of people to rep, and has never been a PDR. Pretty sure I’m not going to be represented properly.
Stay on and make their days miserable. Every day.
Take it if you want to stay with Chevron and do a good job even if it is hard to do because of the situation. Back in the 80's I worked for a company that laid me off and then gave me an option to work in a different department. I was young and just stayed and worked in the different department, and was able to stay employed. I went from the engineering side to purchasing, accounting, and then finally the exploration side supporting the geos. I was able to stay employed and when things picked up I stayed in exploration. I learned a skill supporting seismic workstations and apps, and ended up making a 40 year career out of it on the application support side of exploration. If I had of left I would of never had the career I ended up having. Working hard and staying out of the politics will serve you well, and you might get lucky like me and end up with a nice career. Don't listen to your co-workers and take care of your family and yourself. That is all that matters.
Yes, just take it. Start utilizing all your benefits to the max. Sick days, family days, start being active in the various employee clubs, work out at work. Do everything to clock in your time but actually do no value add. Get everything out of the company you can and at the same time hit the external market hard. Dont worry about your severance, just focus on getting a new job. When the day comes you get accepted externally walk into the office and lay down a giant F you to everyone there.
Take the job. Document how the transition plan is laid out, what you have to do to make the plan work. Document how you adapt to deliver the outcomes the plan is looking for instead of blindly following what you're told. Identify the pain points, what works to overcome them, and what the outcome is then document it. By documenting what you had to do to make it work, you're articulating your value add to the process which you can use in many ways for your resume.
Add all this as a line on your resume that says something about leading organizational change and use all your documented observations and lessons to back it up. You may not get a job because of 1 line on a resume, but you'll have documented experience on how to deal with large organizational changes and how you get stuff done in tough situations.
You have 2 full years so find a better job, that's pretty sweet, use it wisely, you could even do a degree or extra training in that time.
@aq, it’s not just the ENGINE leadership wanting to build an empire (just look at the ex-McKinsey people there) — the leadership in BA and Manila are champing at the bit to build their empires, too. It’s all shrouded in secrecy and NDAs. ENGINE was somewhat subterfuge - the real power grab has been happening for the past twelve months in our other low cost geographies.
Good for you but you are lucky as others will not.
But this is the just beginning... ENGINE top leaders will want to build an empire there, they will want to grow. They do not see US as a partner but a competition - Almost all of them are new to Chevron and came from consulting - they will want more of the pie at the expense of Houston and other high cost geographies
Take the job, do the bare minimum and when the economy picks up leave.
Dude, I wish I was that important! Do what’s right for you and your family, always.
I’ll be unceremoniously shuffling off to irrelevance. I think that’s my career done, not with a bang, but the tiniest of whimpers. I doubt anyone will remember me in six months time.
Best of luck to you.
It will depend on your situation. It's happened to me twice and both times there was a different role for me at the end although both of mine were 6 month transitions.
For my situation I needed the cash and the market was very weak and couldn't absorb all of the redundancies so my thinking was to get paid for 6 months and then hope the market had better opportunities.
In my case staff treated me the same the only gripe I had was being excluded from meetings or projects but I just tried to treat it like a business transaction.
Whatever you choose - best of luck!
If you don’t do it someone else will
It's tough.
This stupidity creates humiliation and classifies human beings in classes/categories. Some are more inferior/superior than others.
More like: "We lay you off now so we can keep our current salary and have the ability to increase it later (and get bonus) with the difference from your salary to the Indian ENGINE salary".
It should be legally challenged.
This is not normal.
I'm sure many would agree you should actively look for a new job but take the temp role and support you and your family.
You have to take care of your family.