Been hearing that a PSG realignment is now onto voting from big Mike. What do you guys think? Should it be approved? Will this finally make us equal to our upstream and midstream folks?
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We had a PDR telling people this was up for approval for downstream FEs earlier this year. Sounded like it would be happening sometime around 3Q, and it would be a single PSG bump not accompanied by a salary increase. Just matching PSG to FL for U/S and D/S. It would be nice, but I’m not buying any new toys just yet.
Sh.t! They moved me to midstream 🥲
Look for official news by August!
Any news on this rumor?
Is this for the people who got laid off or need to find info about layoffs or is that another site?
You’re smoking something and need to be tested or you’re giving HiPo numbers. Most people in upstream retire at 24 to 25. To get a 26 you have to be blessed or have a sponsor looking out for you.
Announcement in June. Stay tuned.
MW..not sure if you read this, but if you do, please approve this. You came from downstream. You know the struggle is real. Never forget where you came from. I know you just got a big raise, but don’t forget about us hard working refiners. The folks that slay and contributed to the 1Q profits
downstream realignment? how about IT Agile realignment? my project management IT people are higher PSG than all my technical staff!
@2jki, very, very few upstream personnel make it past psg 25. Only exceptions are some CTC folks. Even for them, 26 is about tops unless they get into management.
California cost of living has always been high; nothing new there. The payoff comes at retirement when you have a $2-3 million home instead of some dump in the Houston swamp.
MW is the king of ki-ling company growth and individual career opportunities. Downstream was his 1st 'cut and castrate' exercise. For Cali workers complaining about cost of living, 'let them eat cake'.
A two paygrade bump would be welcomed by most of the staff, I can tell you that. I've been stuck at 25 for almost six years and 27 would be sweet.
Couple different ways to view this, not the only views of course.
- opportunity for execs to say they took action on CES results related to cost of living in California operations (which are primarily DS&C assets), while realizing this is just to bridge BUs versus actually increasing pays based on regional differences/locations,
- anything related to bridging the gap between DS&C and U&M could be viewed as a win towards the OPG mindset,
- help the techncial talent and retention bleeding rates for assets in California,
- one example of Downside is that increases in OpEx are an opportunity to streamline certain functions, reorgs, etc in the idea of OPG nomenclature....already seen in some functions as to how they support numerous assets in more of a regional type approach.
George would never have let this happen
Haha no way MKW goes here . Trolling happening folks.
We will have another reorg soon though as I heard about new org charts in passing.
Surprised you found out it as it is top secret. The 1-2 grade bump will happen for most grades in a couple months.
I wouldnt be surprised. DS has been bleeding technical talent for decades.
MW will probably get mad that they’ve added so many people since he did accelerate downstream in ‘09 that’ll kick off a new reorg. I wouldn’t count on psg realignment. It’s always been 1-2 grade difference.