They’re moving repeatable work to India. Why not just automate it if it’s so repeatable?
They say that the India office will standardize processes. We’ve been trying to do that for decades, but BUs don’t allow it to happen. How will India have any more success?
Don’t believe them when they say it is just the repeatable work. This is how it starts and how they trick you into not seeing the truth so that you train your replacement how to do your job. In a couple of years ENGINE will be ramped up and coming for each and every one of your jobs. Just look at Exxon.
You wouldn’t want to be in an FE role looking at a screen all day, that’s going to India for sure. BU engineers y’all need to look for jobs especially if you pass your work to a 3rd party anyway. SCM and IT teams are 1/3rd of the size of what they used to be with zero drop in service as the critical work still done by local teams
Exxon here. This is how it started at Exxon as well. Saying that it was just the easy repeatable stuff. That is where it starts but it doesn’t end until they have moved every single one of your jobs to India.
Why are you all still acting like IT is the main victim? It's petrotechs that are lambs for the sla-ghter.
Les is gone in two years. They just wanted him to do the dirty work. Say what you will about BB, he knew how to maneuver and survive much longer than most CIOs at companies our size.
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That data center sank Louie. Imagine IT sank Bill B. Now this entirely foreseeable India disaster will sink Les in 5-6 years too when costs are just as high and quality is down the po---r even further.
Sooooo, we going to fund another India scam call center?
How about not giving a fu--ing data center to Microsoft and then get ra--d by Azure costs?
“Exxon, Shell, and BP - the ones we’re following all have local IT still”
The one in the middle doesn’t. We are already moving maintenance planning to India. Sad to hear about what’s happening with you guys. None of these companies care about you so keep your options open at all times is all I can advise. Good luck.
Is it 600 by 2025?
Why does it require a billion $ to hire 2025 people, seems so wasteful. Are we d-mb or are we being lied to?
And aren’t we going to get scraps of Exxon and shell?
This has disaster written all over it. What a d-mb idea
an old saying: once there is one indian in a group, eventually there will be all indians in the group. so true for CTC!
We are gonna lead in AI? Didn’t realize it stood for “Actually Indian”
How about getting rid of D&I teams first as a start?
You can easily prove this to be false, visit the XOM career website, they are still hiring in Houston.
All XOM tech job will be moving to India. 600 will become 6000 in 10 years. Get ready folks!
I can't wait to see all the used king ranch f150s at CarMax on 45
@twk+1u7gxJ5y, whatever local IT other oil and gas companies you mention having is contracted out and the level of service is worse than 3rd world.
@ixi+1u7gxJ5y no Indians won't work in your timezone but you will work in theirs since they will become majority.
This will not be limited to IT in the long run. They are coming for IT first but will send HR, Finance, and any other white collar job outside of Executive Management will be overseas. Got to start speaking up about this or our kids won't need to go to college.
Exxon, Shell, and BP - the ones we’re following all have local IT still
You just don't get it, houston will become irrelevant the work will be done in India without any need for houston/usa input. Do don't worry about time differences
Will the Indians work alll night so they are in our time zone? How will they be compensatted?
Those people that think this is restricted to only 600 engineers are clearly not listening, This will be ‘transformative’ for this Company, MW isn’t spending $1B on a center in India for a lousy 600 jobs…there will be many thousands of jobs moved overseas, this is simply a first step to pave the way…
@fmo+1u7
Once the work is in India they won’t be requiring your input/participation any longer…did you hear the comment the EL made in the last minute or two of the TH? “All functions is CVX will have a presence in this new center…”. This is big, beyond big, thousands of jobs will be offshored in the next 2-3 years…
F that - I’m not getting on 9 pm meetings just because Chevron decided to move jobs from the US to India.
They can get on at night or we can take an extra day to get everything done.
Actually make that several days because the lack of communication skills in India will mean multiple emails back and forth overnight.
Don’t know why they bothered with the town hall. Only 30 minutes and no actual information, just corporate speak and a couple of slides to say “see!! we’re not the only ones doing this!!!” Nothing about positions or how it will affect the people who currently work here, you know, the humans in the human energy company. MN saying “it will take all of us” was in poor taste. Idk who advised him to say that but it wasn’t inspiring, just depressing
Hmmm. I wonder how communications are going to go. Bangalulu is 10.5 hours time removed from Houston. Early a.m. / late p.m. video calls? Email that gets read 12 hours later?
@zob, i had the exact same thought listening to him during today’s call.
@zob, akshay sahni is just another of a long line of "native/ethnic" (but western educated and corporate dressed) corporate flunkies brought in as "country managers". Think Mexico, Brazil, Angola, Nigeria, Russia, Aberdeen, etc., and formerly Indonesia, Thailand, and Myanmar.
Any insight on where will that 600 come from?
This is going to be the massive failure that gets Balaji K and others fired or demoted in 5-6 years.
That's assume management is held accountable. Which is a farce
Company executives "leading" by following, not to mention paying a fortune to, McKinsey & Co!
This is going to be the massive failure that gets Balaji K and others fired or demoted in 5-6 years.
A real headline: “Why Cutting Costs is Expensive: How $9/Hour Software Engineers Cost Boeing Billions”
What’s the future headline going to be for Chevron?
Mark Nelson: “it’s going to take all of us to make this successful.”
Technically it’s going to take all of us except about 600.
Wirth says Chevron needs to lead, Engine guys say we need to follow competition.
Did they really only take 1 question? What a joke.
India will save our American company!
Lmao Is this American ingenuity in 2024?
Who is this Akshay guy? If he’s the leader over the new office it’s clear we’re already sc--wed.
Globalist utpoia is upon us! Aint it great!?
More Americans being set aside for cheap labor with less regulatory oversight. Maybe we’ll all start to wake up to the corruption in government and crony corporate America that has caused this. But i wont hold my breath.
“Other globalist companies are doing it so its okay!”
We deserve what we tolerate.