Let’s start with the heart of it: their employees. Chevron loves to slap “safety first” on their ads, but the reality? It’s a revolving door of near-misses turning into nightmares. Just this year, in June 2025, their own CEO, Mike Wirth, had to send out an internal video basically admitting safety’s going to he-l in a handbasket—rising injuries, close calls piling up, and he’s begging staff to “reinforce standards.” Like, dude, that’s your job! But here’s the gut punch: This isn’t new. Back in 2013, a massive explosion at their Richmond, California refinery ki-led a 46-year-old worker because Chevron straight-up failed to train him properly on the hazards.  And in 2014? A gas well blowout in Pennsylvania fried 27-year-old contract worker Ian McKee alive—OSHA slapped them with a $940K fine, but who cares when profits are rolling in?  Fast-forward to now: Their El Segundo refinery racked up 46 environmental safety violations in just the last five years, and over a decade? It’s a laundry list of leaks, fires, and fines totaling millions.  They even coughed up $160 million in 2018 to settle claims over refinery accidents that could’ve been prevented with basic oversight.  If you’re clocking in at Chevron, you’re not valued—you’re expendable. One wrong valve, one skipped safety check, and poof, you’re a statistic. They preach “people before profits,” but the bodies say otherwise.
And don’t get me started on the communities they’re “blessing” with their operations. Chevron’s track record is a horror show… Take Ecuador: For decades, they dumped billions of gallons of toxic waste into the Amazon rainforest, wiping out Indigenous communities and leaving a cancer cluster the size of a small country. A court hit them with a $9.5 billion judgment in 2011, but Chevron dragged it out for years, accusing everyone else of fraud while dodging payment.   They finally “won” an appeal in 2018 by crying foul, but the damage? Irreversible—kids born with birth defects, rivers that glow at night, entire villages relocated.  Or look at California: They’re fueling Israel’s gas ops, propping up what critics call apartheid and war crimes while communities back home deal with refinery flares belching carcinogens into the air.  A 2021 report clocked dozens of unresolved environmental lawsuits against them, with Chevron ghosting fines and cleanup costs like it’s optional.  These aren’t accidents; it’s a pattern. They swoop in, extract, pollute, and bounce—leaving locals to foot the health bills. Communities aren’t partners; they’re collateral damage.
Oh, and the lies? Chevron’s greenwashing game is Olympic-level. They’ve been caught peddling this “climate-friendly” BS while funding denial campaigns for 50 years. California AG sued them in 2023 for decades of deception—hiding how their fossil fuels torch the planet while smiling for ads about “net-zero” dreams that are pure smoke.   In 2021, watchdogs filed an unprecedented FTC complaint: Chevron’s ads claim they’re slashing emissions, but their plans? A measly 5-10% cut that’s basically a rounding error while they drill like tomorrow’s canceled.  And just last month, October 2025, they’re in court again, falsely smearing a lawyer in a $51B climate fraud case as the bad guy—Oregon county called it out as baseless BS.  Even in New Mexico, they got busted allegedly faking remediation reports on oil wells, lying about cleanup to keep fracking unchecked.  Shady? This is criminal. They lie to regulators, to you at the pump, to Wall Street—anything to keep the cash flowing.
Look, if you’re a Chevron employee watching this—I’ve seen the X posts, the layoffs hitting 8,000 of you this year alone, the burnout stories from rigs to refineries—you’re not “essential.” You’re a number on a spreadsheet, squeezed for overtime, exposed to hazards, then pink-slipped when oil prices dip.  They use you daily, wear you down, and when you’re broken? Next applicant. It’s not a job; it’s exploitation wrapped in a uniform.
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Yes, I agree, this is AI generated and mostly lies and half-truths. Likely posted by an environmental activist, not a Chevron employee. Being such, this thread did not age well, lol.
@1b0 You are EXACTLY right. These are FACTS and despite the new generation of managers who believe they can make facts disappear through downvoting them, these incidents frame the new Chevron philosophy of insuring dividends at any price. This company is now willing to sacrifice the lives of its employees as well as those of the public while doing irreparable damage to the environment to insure their lofty salaries and bonuses are paid out. They dispatch their public affairs people onto this and other websites to downvote comments and postings that they perceive may cause the public to view the company in a poor light. It's cheaper to pour money into downvoting rather fix the root cause of the incidents. I worked for Chevron almost twenty five years and had to battle with management to implement process safeguards to meet the expected risk rankings. After all the layoffs this year, there is no one willing to risk their career to stand up to these swine. So these incidents are just the beginning. I sold all my Chevron stock and told my stock brokers to never buy Chevron stock as it's too much of a risk to own. After all the layoffs this year, I stopped purchasing all Chevron products as I refuse to support a company who does not support the people that made it the iconic company that it once was.
@r3 funny thing is tho that all this is FACT not “slop”. Now got clock in and be a good boy Monday morning.
Amen!!!!
Since we are all sc--wed, Sounds like quite quitting is the way to go….
Sounds suspiciously like the AI slop manifesto I generated a few months ago just to see what it could do but didn’t share 🤣
In response to this, this month, the S&TB severely cut the contractor field staff across the board by up to 50% in some BU’s…because money. I’m 100% convinced they decided a life lost is worth the money saved.
Remember no matter where you work that you can love what you do but NEVER love you company because you never know when the company will stop loving you….hence reorg….
Yeah, but I mean other than that stuff, CVX’s not too bad, right?
Well written. Increasingly glad I left voluntarily in 2020.
Very well written. When a company like Chevron only cares about profit and nothing else you will see the decline in the company sh-t just in the last two years how many fu-k ups have they had and how many jobs have they outsourced out of the USA …. And now they’re moving people from position to position with way more workload without any raises… you are a clown if you continue to work for this sh-t show of a company. And you have no backbone.