Chevron - Once a great place to work now taken over by corporate greed. Why is anyone loyal to these companies anymore? For most people, the pay is good but is it life changing? No.
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The #1 thing to remember is, Chevron is not your job for life. Anyone under 50, you're not going to make it to age 65 retirement with Chevron. In the short term, enjoy the good pay and benefits, fund your retirement as much as you can. In the long term, work on skills you can easily sell to the outside world. Plan on leaving about year 15 of your career, that's when you're the most valuable to the outside world. After 20 years, your Chevron skills are stale to the rest of industry.
The savings from position "re-grade" and demotions don't even cover MW raises. They truly believe increasing the compensation gap will solve our problem.
One should never expect too much from the job or the company they work for. It is just a means to meet your financial objectives as a first priority and then maybe if you are lucky give you a sense of satisfaction either through career advancement or feeling good for the impact of your work on the society and interactions with coworkers, mental stimulation, etc. Your life and happiness is far greater than your job or the company you work for and in many ways not completely tied to the paycheck amount.
Money does not buy happiness.
And let’s face it, money is all Chevron has going for it.
Define loyal? I give my best for a paycheck. That's where my loyalty ends. My 22 year career here has changed the trajectory of my life and my financial stability. I'm in intense therapy though JK lol