I'm asking those who've been here long enough to know how layoffs usually work at Chevron. Are oldies or newbies in more danger when it comes to layoffs? My last company usually followed the "last one in, first one out" rule, which is making me quite nervous right now.
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With a center in Jndia opening up everyone is doomed. You will all lose your jobs. It is just a question of when how long will it take for you to train your replacement in Jndia?
The under worked and over paid managers will always survive, in fact it's their only true skill outside of presenting the data of others. Them and the supervisors who pump up their egos will manage to remain and feign confusion as to why surveys show people not tolerating this rubbish state of affairs.
In last ROM (so called Transformation) we lost lot of good people. Poor performers keep their jobs by playing group politics, kixxing their boss axx.
In my experience these events are used to clean house and get rid of low performers because we are otherwise terrible at managing them and holding individuals accountable (I blame HR as I’ve talked with many managers who know they have total duds, yet HR makes it near impossible to cut them out of cycle a major re org event). I’ve never seen the first in first out followed, without a logical reason specific to the individual
MW views non-management high PSGs as overpaid and underproductive (think: 2020 Boomer purge and now, CTC). One thing different this time, all the Boomers are gone. It'll still be non-management high PSGs, but this time there's not enough of them, so look next to recent hires (<7 years) who "haven't worked out". Diversity hires, high-pots and cronies, you're safe. If you're not one of those 3 categories, this would be a good time to put some polish on your resume.
Hopefully me!
This company does not follow ‘last in, first out’, thankfully, as that’s a foolish way to manage talent. If your boss likes you and the work you do that’s a plus, if they don’t, then…also, are you flexible in terms of what you’ll work on and where? If not, you’re of less ‘value’ and more easily sent packing…
High PSGs may be cut somewhat, but it’s more likely that SMEs will be kept to train and oversee new employees in India.
I always find that it’s the high PSG’s that tend to go over the smaller ones. However this cull seems to be quite different to the others, which is really unsettling!
I haven’t found that “rule” to be a thing in our BU, but they seem to only hire contractors so it’s easy to fluctuate up and down as the business requires, have a feeling it will be way more than just contractors to go!