Thread regarding Chevron Corp. layoffs

How long until someone is held accountable

We keep hearing about accountability and results and competition performance. Everyone who’s living through this agrees it’s a fiasco.

So how long before someone cops to the fact that we sc--wed up bad?

Not that we did a layoff. That sh1t happens. But that we did a layoff in the most convoluted, inefficient, soul sapping, productivity destroying manner possible. One that makes our performance worse and damages the all mighty TSR (still at the bottom last time I checked).

When’s the reckoning gonna to happen? And who are they going to hang this on? EB? ES? MN?

This didn’t just happen by accident. Poor decisions were made and then evidence of how poor the decisions was ignored. Whether through negligence, incompetence, or only talking to consultant…doesn’t matter.

But feels like the safe money is that no one admits we made any mistakes. Chevron will declare victory and move on. They will keep being directors. We’ll live with the consequences.

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"Being held accountable" is a foreign phrase in Chevron, unless you count the poor souls who are about to be laid off. If you're talking about decision makers being held accountable, there's no accountability, they're "allowed to leave", with a thick severance package and NDA. A recent example, RM was rather hastily "allowed" to exit after completely messing up Chevron culture for nearly a decade. There are those who say JW, GK, and JG (the elder) were "allowed to leave" after they supervised $$$ billions in cost overruns. Others will say that the reason MW is still around past retirement age is because his heir apparent, EB, has the personality of a doorknob and is responsible for more $$$ billions in cost overruns at Tengiz FGP.
Where we should really be asking for accountability (and heads) is the BOD, who for decades have rubber-stamped bad strategy and bad policies.

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Post ID: @n7+1jwj8bv7c

Untill they will be forced to...... "retire"...

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Post ID: @jv+1jwj8bv7c

Those 'accountable' leave because they are asked to leave. The stupid decisions NEVER get acknowledged as stupid.... Failure to find oil in the South field at Maf Sul - anyone held accountable? Failure to extend the concession in Thailand - those accountable? Failure of our investments in Brazil - all of them - those accountable? Eastern Europe shale debacle - those accountable? Complete lack of renewable strategy - those accountable? Big one - Moon Township and appalachian shale - what a complete waste of money that was. Who made that decision? Poor MD who tried to make it work was held accountable, but she did not make the decision to put us there, she just had the ba--s to say - 'this is stupid....'

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Post ID: @g4+1jwj8bv7c

MW and ELT 's most important job is to keep the stockholders happy.

Like pi-ps in bodegas.

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Post ID: @ee+1jwj8bv7c

MW & the ELT lack the ⚽️⚽️ to admit their role in this mess
I hope that someday when MW is at his country club someone confronts him in public for this fiasco

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Post ID: @cv+1jwj8bv7c

No employees are accountable for anything. And you wonder why you are being let go, lol.

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Post ID: @cr+1jwj8bv7c

Employees are accountable. Love and kisses, ELT

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