Thread regarding Chevron Corp. layoffs

We are bad at A LOT of things

  1. We don’t hold anyone accountable to their “deliverables.” From the field all the way to upper level management. Instead let’s use this woke feel-good bandaid called Human Performance and say it’s the system because be don’t want to upset anyone.
  1. Our workforce is filled with mediocrity. It’s evident with new hires to promotions. It doesn’t matter if you’re good at your job, but if you sound like a Chevron poster or are in the right cliche you will do well.
  1. Which brings me to my next issue. The PDC is a joke. You have PDC Reps that hand pic other like minded or close friends at work to pick their top choice candidates in the PDC and those groups are not openly made public to hide it.
  1. We are hiring id--ts out of college. The bar for the selection process is extremely low.
  1. The wells/D&C organizations have the most incidents.
  1. We are stuck with more mediocrity in MCBU because getting people to live in West Texas and New Mexico is challenging. Every setback that has happened and still occurring today is due to the continual progression of mediocrity promoting to higher positions and still making the same poor choices. Most people with talent are not staying in the Permian Basin for long if at all.
  1. We bleed money. We are paying top dollar for low performing engineers to work as project managers only for them to spend individually in a year, literally hundreds of thousands of dollars for firms to do engineering work they could be doing. Our cost tracking system is also a joke. Millions of dollars are getting approved without anyway to truely look at the validity of the request.

Bumping from @mvj+1tQRfL08, perfectly said.

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Post ID: @OP+1tRBAMPu

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We don’t perform well because we don’t have the caliber of employees we had 10 years ago. It’s that simple.

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Post ID: @4kwv+1tRBAMPu

You're not "bumping", dude, you're Plagiarizing. There was already a thread on this. don't muck up the process. this adds nothing.

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Post ID: @3jfl+1tRBAMPu

@1mgz+1tRBAMPu Same here. Its a black hole. Used to be better at one time, but we’ve regressed these last 4 years.

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Post ID: @2kzd+1tRBAMPu

After 15 years with CVX, one thing is clear: it doesn’t matter what any one of us does - when the tide is up, we make money. When the tide goes down we don’t. “Leaders” ( of which there are FEW ACTUAL LEADERS) can only control costs. So keep up the performative work.

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Post ID: @2kcf+1tRBAMPu

Human Performance is just Systems Thinking. If you are bi--hing about it, maybe you don’t understand the system as much as you think you do.

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Post ID: @1xhh+1tRBAMPu

Cost tracking is a huge problem, I can't even get a grasp of my IT costs as a Product Owner. I'm failing. Tracking as much as I can on spreadsheets now, in 2024!

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Post ID: @1mgz+1tRBAMPu

Walking out on the California governor. Strike him! Cvx holds $1million jobs in California…sad

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Post ID: @1euf+1tRBAMPu

It yet we are winning in any environment

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