Thread regarding Chevron Corp. layoffs

It’s our cell phones that are the real problem. For those of us that work in business and commercial roles and use our work phones outside of office hours pretty frequently, it’s quite inefficient that almost every single time I open up a Microsoft app it needs to restart. A customer needs to know crucial information that’s in my email or teams chat? Better hope they can wait 5 minutes while the app updates or goes through some weird approval process (despite already being installed through the Company Portal) or mandatory update. Nearly every few hours there’s yet another update that the app needs to get approved through “your organization”.

Yes, fu-k tanium, there needs to be a charge code that anyone in Chevron can use to charge wasted time due to IT problems. That way IT can have a real cost to associate with their bullsh-t.

Amen.

Even before EvolvingIT, I was seriously considering resigning because Chevron’s end user computing experience was so abysmal that I wasn’t sure I could take it anymore.

Tanium running at 100% CPU for hours, causing the machine to thermally throttle and then forcibly shutdown? Check.

Unstable connectivity in the office for 6 months? Check

Outlook so unresponsive that it would take 4-5 seconds for typed characters to appear? Check

OneDrive transferring gigabytes of files at less than 1MB/s.

Issues resuming from sleep, laptop overheating in bag when it wakes in the middle of the night to check for updates, and BSODs? Check

Useful support from product owners, technical support and supervisors? Zero

Out of the last 5 years, I’d estimate I had a reasonably performant computer free of issues for about 1 of those years.

Yes, it’s true. I don’t think many of our laptops have been replaced since the pandemic ended. The other day I was streaming a video on my lap, and it got so hot it practically gave me a first-degree burn. You'll laughing in winter though.

I am tired of Microsoft device approval techniques and you are worried about a free laptop that you can't maneuver? Maybe get on a rig and work with your hands and process something more important

Chevron is stuck with outdated laptops and legacy applications, still relying on data-entry processes that feel like they’re from the 1990s—despite all the AI buzzwords. Every new piece of software is hyped up with fanfare but delivers little real value, mainly serving as a platform to promote the “project lead.” Once a single MFO is achieved, that’s typically where progress stalls for the next decade.