Thread regarding Chevron Corp. layoffs

It’s not that cut and dry. We aren’t taking any measure to prevent leaks from happening because of the costs. I’ve been told several times that we are just going to anticipate the fines moving forward. Leadership is dog cr-p here. No one wants to be the person that has to sign the check to fix broke shut in systems because we have to reduce our opex by a ridiculous amount every year and when you only spend three years in the BU before being shipped off the mcbu why not just kick that can down the road to the next person

13 million is pocket change. Cost of doing business. We, as a corporation, spend more on coffee. Move on.

Why hasn’t Chevron left Cali and join Musk and other big companies who have left and filed lawsuits to challenge the only state that says you still have to pay state taxes even after leaving the state and get that corrupt rule overturned

When was the last time anyone was fired for sc--wing anything up at CVX? I never saw it in the 40 years I was employed, they were all promoted! In fact CVX used to say we wanted to be like the nuclear navy, which was totally ridiculous because they remove leaders (fire them) for everything negative that occurs in their command.

Oil bubbles to surface around Bakersfield. It’s really not a big deal. The only reason you should be upset is because oil on the ground is lost product that could have been sold. Also it just funnels money to the clean up companies like Kevin Small’s operation.

The reason for that many spills comes down to either a lack of oversight, maintenance or plain incompetence. Which one is it? Now as far as the $13 million fine goes, Chevron just needs to raise the price of their branded gasoline sold in California by 2 or 3 cents for the upcoming Easter holiday to raise sufficient cash to cover that fine. Big deal. Stick it to the Californians and their utopian-minded government.

Op. Have you ever been to Bakersfield and the surrounding facilities? Have you toured the oil rigs at work? Did you look at the ground that’s been pumping over a hundred years. Did you see the workers work? Asking for a friend.

"Keep it in the pipe!"

Or, if not, in a nice streambed in the only environmentally awake state in the US.

Those reponsible were promoted and transferred out in typical Chevron fashion.

As an environmental professional here, I can tell you Chevron has delusional thinking around what a “spill” is. I’m a mid career hire, and I’m astonished at how incompetent most BU EHS professionals are.

I think the problem was the ongoing dispute on the definition of “Spill”.