I’ve been working non-stop, taking on the tasks of multiple people for over a year. If they let me go, my team would be scrambling, and they’d need at least two people to fill my shoes. Truthfully, I wouldn’t mind if it happened. Watching everything unravel would be pretty satisfying at this point.
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I keep on taking on what other's don't want, it's saved me 22 years in Downstream and Upstream. I'd love more slackers to get cut
AI will take over your workload and more.
They’d need 2 people to fill your shoes and do things the way you do them today maybe. Who’s to say losing you doesn’t force them to reevaluate processes and finally streamline things so that one person can do it
What’s sad is chevron’s tolerance is failure. Theyd happily replace you with someone who can’t do the role, and just deal with the fallout. And in reality the position churn is so high, by the time it’s felt, it would be 2 supervisors later before it got noticed.
No one even has the opportunity to “out work” others. Your team doesn’t “need” you. The work here has been nuked here so badly that experience and skill isn’t needed to perform any role. There’s so many processes, guardrails, and group-think decision making… new hires and Indians can perform any task up to recent standards.
Y'all ever heard of the Dunning-Kruger Effect? Not everyone except you can be incompetent at this company. I sort of feel the same way abouy everyone claiming the PMPs are BS because they didn't get the raise they hoped for.
Meanwhile, incompetents and the favored few continue to be promoted...