We were told, not what low value work to offshore, but change mindset to, why can't the offshore centers do? It is getting hopeless in the company, offshore problems cleared by soon to go staff, yet ELT are only focused on short term gains
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What the he-l are you on about?
Top IT guy was in lakeside talking one on one and small groups on the ground w tons of folks in SR entire week. Unless a CVX employee had experienced work layoffs in other companies like AT&T, Safeway, Dell, etc. - i would not assume it will be the same model
The top guy won’t be the one making personnel decisions.
He’ll still be somewhere holed up hiding from all of the employees.
It will be different because the top IT guy now is external and he was hired for the big change and no relationships to worry about. i could be wrong but ive seen it happen before w certain cut throat leaders within parts of IT - also change like this already happened in some parts of the CVX decades ago (accelerate Downstream)
No question there is deadweight in IT. But every attempt to cut it out has been unsuccessful because the IT leaders are incapable of identifying where it is. If you think this time will be any different I have a bridge to sell you. We’ll lose a good number of high performers mixed in with the deadweight and replace them with low quality new hires offshore
Lets be honest here, Offshore is going to be big to remove dead weight. CVX IT needs a DOGE (Dept of Government Efficiency). Almost any group i go to, there are people who say many folks not adding shareholder value - just being “super nice” and doing busy work will be fine. A senior IT manager hired from outside shared to me that CVx is worst than the government. Most IT Managers are NOT technical and not accountable to cut people who don't perform. Any experienced hire you talk to knows many people are not getting fired for just being “nice” and not producing - the weight of Chevron Way of being super nice and being a good partner is way higher than actual results they produce for shareholders.
I hope new CIO and his team called in already listened in a surprise in a few IT standup calls across various IT functions… it will be very obvious to them where the gaps
I guess we’re going to have to learn this very painful lesson about sending too much work overseas again.
We have id--ts with short memories at the top.
Read the XOM thread on their global capability center in India. Taking time and not providing results quickly and as expected. I would calm down, they have not even built out the facility - and you know how quick we are.
This is the line of questioning we’re getting from management also so it’s coming from the top