This is just a placeholder for rants about ENGINE. Chevron is going to get burned big time by this project and they deserve it for this brazen and stupid offshoring attempt.
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@OP EOM tried it stopped after 3 years, Others have tried - reverted in 3 years. The recycle cost is high, but the worst thing is the India leads hirer their family, buddies, mistresses, it's a culture thing and then the costs will go crazy. A large EPC tried in (in fact in the same business park), they are winding down because of the above - costs, errors and lack of knowledge.
Look no further than the Chevron India linkedin page . Proudly displaying hundreds of new college grads pictures with no real world experience… but on PowerPoint it looks great. Replace 1,000 U.S employees and get 6,000 head bobbing yes-sir kids who will leave within a year to the next big thing
To misquote Churchill, this is the beginning of the beginning. It will only accelerate from here.
@a2 Exactly! Great to see there are others who really get it. Sadly, this is the truth and the truth hurts... except those in the power positions. They profit.
@a2+1k2xx2yrj
excellent feedback!
just wait and see the ENG$NE will sput sputt sputter along with no direction. the outsourcing people all need direction from here - can't think on their own
Hope it fails miserably.
[roject Engine is just a costcutting move dressed up like ""strategy"". They keep pushing the line about efficiency yet all know it’s just about moving work to Bangalore and gutting what’s left of US teams. Layoffs keep coming (like clockwork), job security is 100pct gone, people are left wondering if theyll even be around when a new round of cuts arrive in six months or so..... Morale is in the tank... leadership has never felt more out of touch...
There’s no real growth plan with Engine, it’s all about cutting $$$ spent and feeding dividends / apeasing shareholders. Red tape grows daily while the actual good work is done overseas for pennies... We’re stuck managing the mess, with fewer resources and no career ladder to climb. This isn’t about valuing skill anymore and it's increasingly about looking good on paper!! Go build that ppt...
The constant reorgs wear everybody down, layoffs annihilate any morale that's left here. Every yr another consulting group shows up reshuffles the ppt deck, and more people are shown the door. Simple... Project Engine is a dead end for many career paths here in the US.. All that’s left is instability + a company more worried about shareholders than the people keeping the work going...
I feel sick because of this. Had it not been for my retirement plans I would have quit several years ago.