REG here but have upstream background at small independent. Am absolutely shocked by all the nonsense corporate and center initiatives I see taking away from focus on core business. Perhaps good intent but wow inefficiencies are insane because there is so much opportunity to waste time on things that don’t seem to add commensurate value. I am honestly shocked but it’s only beginning for us and I see a future where it’s only more more more. Has it always been like this? CVX personnel seem to be amazed how we run so lean. The org charts I see from other parts of the business are mind blowing. It appears we’ve made up so many roles that don’t focus on base business - but at what value to the bottom line? Nervous for the future - please tell me I’m new, naive, and seeing it wrong!
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Yes and it’s so sad. We could be so much more profitable and awesome. We have good people bht only the faux Stepford wives type people who do all the BS initiatives get ahead. No straight talkers or hyper business focused succeed it feels like. It can’t go on if things get more competitive
GOM management the last decade has been nothing about results, and everything about jumping on the latest fads. Their specialty is selling assets, much, much easier to do than finding and producing oil and gas. It's no wonder that our zero-accomplishment VP of Exploration came out of GOM.
I remember in 2010 WW the GOM bozo and p**n hound was hiring women consultants he met at airport lounges to do work for 300 an hour. Truly comical. His biggest concern was sponsoring local NFL and NBA teams for suite access
Working at Chevron used to be a career, now it's just a game of appearances and agendas.
Just to chime in with others, yes, you are seeing the real Chevron. Nobody in upper management cares anything about the future, only until they can get to a reasonable retirement. Being trendy gets us CNBC and Forbes time.
Haha - a Workplace warrior is here with communication (kiss a$$) skills. Hope you are spending most of your time liking whatever top brass is doing :)
Since the currently employed Chevroids have no communication nor social media skills, you can check the layoffs' site for info. Those people know more than the ones who still work there.
Welcome to CVX, you’ve figured it out!
Don't just blame BCG, remember their backer MW-JG-NH-MN. After doing a bang up job in Richmond, LB and Pascagoula, they basically got rid of AMBU, GOM, CPL and CUE. They each have a cohort of enablers and you all know who they are. They hire these management consultants (BCG and McKinsey) since they don't have any vision on their own. Just consultant slick talk parroted by these id--ts without any substance.
Welcome to the nuthouse! If the ranks of senior management weren’t such a bastion of mediocrity, this company would make a scary profit.
A whole lot of fad surfing directed by ladder climbers. Reality is that most of what is done on those initiatives isn't done to make CVX better, it's done to make the project manager better and to assure their ascending the ladder. Classic cases are like with BCG, who lived on our payroll forever and not only did not improve us, but left us organizationally unsound, in shambles in some areas, and almost certainly contributed to our catastrophic drop off in safety performance, particularly with fatalities.
Welcome to big oil!!! You’re a cog in the machine that’s on the fritz. What you’ve described is the norm here and typical of a fully integrated oil company that not only explores for and produces hydrocarbons, but also refines, markets, trades and transports numerous products around the world.
Those of us that have worked outside Chevron aren’t amazed so much as frustrated by all the corporate and center initiatives that distract us from our everyday focus of exploring, producing and refining hydrocarbons, but it’s just part of upper echelons and “SMEs” justification of their existence, aka “adding value” so you learn to go with the flow, draw your paycheck and go home.
If you want to be a rock star, have a bigger piece of the pie and truly move the needle you probably should have stayed at that small independent. Best of luck and welcome!