Just saw an ethics alert posted on Inside, and thought it was for sure about good ole LC.
What he has done is far worse than the 3 cases described in the article. What will RB do? MN letting him do whatever he wants does have consequences. Lining his friends pockets while IT reliability goes down. What an excellent choice EB made when she hired this loser.
Overheard a BCG consultant (think he’s a senior partner) at 1500 Starbucks talking about how LC’s days are numbered with another consultant.
I have been at Chevron for a long time and there are always snide comments about IT leaders. But the words that come out of this one is just mind blowing. I don’t think he and KG know how Chevron makes money. No cap.
It’s such bull$h1t that LC came in a staffed his LT full of his friends who had never run organizations that big in their prior roles. None of his friends made this kind of money. The whole thing just smells unethical
Just taking a break from updating my ADO board to read about all the improprieties of Mr Leslie. Did Mike really decide to pay the price of 2 CIOs, one puppet here and one shadow CIO at EY?
What an embarrassment of a company.
THIS: look at every single IT department GM and how did they design their teams. 2 pay grades lower. They are basically untouchable and just working with the dirty EY consultants.
Oh and 4 days in office now. For what? No thanks.
Just call it quits for the year, and use thanksgiving and christmas for job hunting.
After the reorg, all your managers are 2-3 pay grades above. It’s time to look for a new job. They are obviously out for themselves to get theirs. All of them.
AI and data?
Everybody’s busy writing stories in ADO so that LC can have his EY reports.
RB really gots to get rid of that tird
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The entire Houston office forces employees to return to office but contractors can live anywhere in the world. So if it’s done in Houston then it must be allowed everywhere in the world.
The very fact that LC talks about data and AI and brought in those EY consultants to help, but hasn’t included any of the data leaders in the conversation that I’m aware of just shows how out of touch he is.
@11b that’s a brainless take. LC is not going to be the sole decision maker for a psg 29 role for an external hire. And I think his boss and his peers have now seen the aptitude of these EY consultants. Paying them millions of dollars for some horrible dashboard built over project management data in ADO with just extremely poor documentation.
LC’s EY cronies have not only provided ZERO value, they have also eroded value by wasting the time of every digital platform delivery organization in the pencil pushing exercise.
Meanwhile, none of the EY (former GM) people have any idea how to run an effective IT operation, and you’re now seeing 20 major incidents while KG has no accountability for those.
One of the EY consultants from General Motors is going to be the GM of data and insights. LC will say they tried to go with a proper search and found no one as good as one of those EY people.
LC might be a dum--ss, but MC is a case of WTF is Chevron even doing putting her over all of data? I think she genuinely cares for these employees but is really not in any position to inspire the organization and should have retired in 2020.
It was very surprising to me and my team that she was named in that position. She’s not the glue who can hold this all together.
As much as LC talks about data and AI, he sure is having a hard time keeping technical talent from leaving the company… The amount of attrition from data science is incredible. We have never seen this trend from such a tight knit group.
@r3 Really? RB always seemed to be down to Earth but I don't really have experience with him. Does anyone?
I heard that LC was paying millions a month to have high priced EY consultants (former friends at GM) to build a power BI dashboard that reads ADO data. He has made the platform teams do all the busy work to create data that is consumable by PBI.
Basically, we have had high PSG IT PMs do stuff that is literally detrimental to the company. Both tasks are things that PSG 19-20s can do. But RB isn’t checking. All he cares about is AI, which also is a a team made up of a bunch of newbies to the industry. But let’s not use those internal folks and pay my buddy instead. Really sickening
RB continuing to enable this also shows what type of leader he is. No guts to stand up for the right thing.
LC is the most incompetent IT leader I’ve ever met.
@OP Not new. Like many other functions, IT too is full of nepotism mostly at high PSGs. But new LT bringing on their old buddies, making them Directors, and them bringing their groupies, never seen that. And yes EY is in the mix again. Coincidence?
this is nepotism at its finest
Here is the fluff piece just before LC’s old boss “retired”, and LC thought he was going to be the GM CIO but they passed on him twice with 2 other people.
https://www.cio.com/article/222182/how-gm-cio-randy-mott-rebuilt-it-for-success.html#:~:text=Randall%20Mott%20joined%20General%20Motors,outsourcing%20technology%20to%20third%20parties.
Here’s his playbook at every stop. Sound familiar? It is embarrassing that Chevron hired a CIO who is still basically on his daddy’s teets … the real person running the show is RM, who was his CIO and boss at every one of his stops along the way. Chevron is really paying for 2 terrible CIOs at the same time.
https://www.informationweek.com/it-leadership/randy-mott-s-journey-to-general-motors
@ed at some point leadership will have to deal with the level of nepotism and corruption inherent in operating in India and with Indian companies.
The question is just whether or not they realize and act before those Indians have reached the level of leadership to be able to quash the investigations.
is this ey or capgemini?
here is the playbook, walmart just canned on of the VPs in the IT group:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Layoffs/comments/1mwezhn/massive_fraud_at_walmart_vp_getting_kickbacks/?sort=new
So what happened, Caspex was selling visas to candidates from India. Walmart was hiring these candidates as contractors. Walmart VP who approved that was getting bribes for that in the form of land and properties in India. Somebody is talking about 30k per day. 1200 people got affected by that.
95% of people working at Walmart (Tech part) are from India. Sometimes I had feeling that I'm the only one in the entire office that is not from India
Isn’t the head EY consultant one of Les’ buddies from a bunch of previous employers where they worked together?
why are employees required to be in office in the US but contractors arent and are not subject to in office compliance monitoring?
why is EY staffing from high cost but every IT department is being forced to offboard high cost?
great ethics questions
Ethics are for the little people