Anyone who worked with him when he was in lower positions, was he always this heartless and uncaring towards others? Did he grow into it or was he always terrible? Ive only been here a couple years and he's a monster in many ways.
18 replies (most recent on top)
his mama raised him that way
I like how everyone feels so invested in the direction of this giant corporation. Like imagine we are Amazon delivery drivers complaining about what Bezos spends his money on. Why do you care
MW has been an axeman for BU’s for decades
@j2 Santa Clause? He's more like Krampus!
I knew him for most of my career. He's not Santa Claus and needed to get to the other side of a mountain of cr-p. He did his job.
MW is a corporate politician (that's not a good thing).
I saw a guy that was resentful that upstream was getting so much money when he was strangling downstream. Now he strangles both and is much more content. We don't have a succession plan for a reason.
Normalization of deviation? In the flesh, he came across well when I got to meet him. He seems more like a person that JW who look and sounded like a CEO from a Hollywood sound stage.
But if you are surrounded by management consultant and angry institutional shareholders, maybe the gutting of OC needed for anything more than the next reporting cycle seems like what you’re supposed to do? And people are ok with it? History is full of general decent people who end supporting systems that aren’t so decent.
And maybe that’s an unrealistic expectation, but you’d hope for that paycheck and in the tail end of his career MKW would be ok saying “wait, this is d-mb”.
MW will be better than what we will get in the future. Be careful with your grudges.
Watching the Investor Day presentation, the stiff, robotic scripting made the leadership's puppet-like nature pretty apparent. Though admittedly, very expensive puppets, tethered to conflicted puppeteers—the Wall Street analysts, directors and consultants who dictate the narrative. By all means Blame the dude, but also look beyond the tip of the iceberg to the far greater issue: a BOD that is largely ineffectual and lacks the expertise required to craft a truly original and differentiating strategy. How could they succeed when their governance is a circular economy of conflicting allegiances and self-congratulatory performance reviews?
Having worked at Chevron, how can your take-away be that we need any more staff than we have today?
Simple fact of life is that the industry has seen productivity gains with technology and workflow standardization. Layer on top that Chevron was fat going into the cycle, and...
@OP Visit the Chevron website, Investors, and peruse the Investor Day presentation. There is not a single mention of our people or culture, the only mention of the workforce at all is headcount reduction.
He's really not a bad guy. Very personable .I feel for him because I can't imagine how stressful it is. Also It's lonely at the top.
I know an engineer who started with MW decades ago. According to him, MW was viewed by his peers as a below average engineer. Nobody flinched when he quit to do basketball but they were shocked when he returned to the management track.
MW has systematically been destroying retirees. People who dedicated their lives to Chevron working toward their retirement and pension are being let go. They tricked people with those pensions and now people won’t even be able to retire with a full pension. It’s not so easy either to get a job elsewhere when you’re over 50 years old. My advice to any young person looking to work for Chevron is to only use them for your resume for a few years. Work for a company that is loyal to its employees. Chevron is not that company.
For 38 million a year, I’d look your kids in the eye and tell them that daddy won’t know how he is going to pay his bills next month because I’m firing them and offshoring their job to India.
I feel the same way and sometimes I feel so bad about him that I want to just go curl up in my cubicle and cry for a while. I usually bring my comfort stuffed beanie baby teddy bear to work with me all the time now to help me through these tough times.
Just an observation, as I did not know MW back in the day; power and wealth corrupt people, particularly those with a weak moral compass, and I think it has become blatantly obvious that our dear MW hasn’t one clue as to what that is. Someday he’ll have to face up to his misdeeds. None of us escapes that, and while my bank account balance is tiny, I am thankful that I do have some morals to guide me in life.