At this point in my career, I admit I’m all about keeping it simple. I show up, get the essentials done, and leave it at that. I don’t have the bandwidth required for anything extra. I used to stress about not giving it my all, but now I’m just glad to make it through the day. Maybe that’s not the ideal mindset, but it’s working for me right now.
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@1ijm that's good, those folks will be the first ones to get better jobs and from the looks of it on this site they don't have very much competition.
I’m sure all the folks whose jobs are about to be offshored had great work ethics too.
rotfl So having any kind of a work ethic at all to people on these boards is being a self righteous pearl clutching toadie, lol. I guess I am not cool enough to be in this gang bro, because I work hard and appreciate it myself at the end of the day, regardless, I am a producer and the minute I'm not I'll move on. You guys stay bottom feeders and do you.
Someone says that they're worth 30 times more than they are paid but mysteriously can't leave and get another job paying even 20% or 30% more. Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha you should be running the company. This is comedy gold on this site, Hilarious.
Oh lord. Listen to these self righteous pearl clutching toadies: “but your slacking hurts your team.” 1) it’s a manager’s job to be tracking that, not mine or the teams. If a team member is underperforming, that’s a management issue. 2) teams are so should be properly staffed to allow for resilience, which they are not. 3) this isn’t band of brothers. This is lord of the flies. Don’t believe me? Talk to your supervisor about how raises get distributed. It has so little to do with your performance it’s ridiculous. And most folks are on 18 - 36 month job assignments, never to be seen again. I’ll be respectful and professional, but I could care less what most of you corporate shills think of me. I have a rich personal life, and that’s where I get my validation. 4) if you leave tomorrow, none your precious team members will remember you, or even care.
We are here to collect the gravy and do the minimum until we see progress and sound strategy from the real slackers at the top of the pyramid who are making catastrophic decisions for cvx because of their lack of long and short terms strategy.
I have different sources of income because I went through the cycles and learnt my lesson.
I am still here because I bring 30 times more value to cvx than my salary. I only show up few hours a week to office. I don't have to be sitting in office for 10 hours to bring value. The 21st century 8 hour slave schedule was forced by Henry Ford. No cvx brain works for 8 hours; people are there physically but most likely 2 hours of brain power
I wish I had interesting things to work on. I once had so much passion. Now I just try and subsist in a leadership vacuum.
Wow, it sure sounds like most of you guys don't like your jobs, don't really like working at all and should quit and go work somewhere else or maybe just do nothing and collect welfare and such.
Oh wait, the company is getting ready to do that for you and dump many of you out on the street anyway and you'll have no choice. lmao, my bad!
By “just enough” do you mean PMPs, compliance training, attending agile ceremonies, updating user stories, attending town halls for the sixteen different functions you report into, training and one on ones? Because thats about 70% of a full time load just there and it’s all supposedly essential to the business.
Sure, hurl meaningless irrelevant insults. "bootlickers"? "fighting for"? So showing up to work an honest living to earn a paycheck is now "fighting for" something and some opponent of some loser's political ideology. Sorry if it offends you that some people understand the concept of a job and a paycheck and that there are no promises that it will be fun. If you don't like it. move along. no need to insult your coworkers because you don't like to or understand the concept of working.
"own a car or house" That makes you feel safe bro? Tell us if that's all it takes. Must be nice.
I’m still working hard. Not for Chevron, or some loyalty, but for the rest of my team. If I slack off none of the executives know or care but the rest of my team suffers because they have to pick up my slack.
All of you who think you’re sending a message by slacking off and sticking it to the man, when the only people you’re sticking it to are your friends and coworkers. How nice of you.
I will take advantage of this sinking ship as much as I can. We are not stupid. The company is loyal to greedy bankers. Take away from the employee to give more to the fat belly banker. If you accept this situation then shame on you for selling your soul and country. The looser boomer is the one who got us in this sh-tshow. Looser boomer is the generatin that led to the decline of america and they are the ones posting the childless comments here. Get lost and take MW and MN boomers with you. Cvx keep sending your brigade of loosers to downvote truth and upvote BS.
@ivr this company needs more plebs like you. In your mind you think you're doing the right thing by being a loyal company person. But in reality you're just a paid slave who is forever at their disposal and they don't actually value you. Well done sheep.
The amount of corporate boot lickers is insane. You're being blatantly disregarded along with the rest of us (minus c suite) yet just because you possibly have a home or a car you feel safe and morally elevated to call people slackers when they're tired of being fed shi* sandwiches. Know that, historically, corporations were actually made "for the people". It was only until they gained power that this came to change. Don't forget what you're fighting for just because of you get to sit comfortably in your home, at least temporarily.
I’ve been working successfully for nearly 30 years and this has been my approach this whole time. I’ve honestly never understood why folks wanna put their nose to the grindstone day and a day out.
Wow, I am such a "tough guy" I get away with "coffee badging" aka F-ing off and still collecting a paycheck as I allow my coworkers to handle the extra load. "F- them because I am special and deserve free stuff. I am just entitled like that. I am so tough and special and I am the first one to ever think of that thieving scam, no one has ever committed fraud and cheated like me before" ROTFLMMAO!!!
When my comments are unpopular I always put on my tin foil hat and blame HR, lmao!
Lots of HR flying monkees down-voting a lot here. Truth of the matter is Chevron is a company with declining competency with no long term strategy in a declining industry. Best of luck if you're less than 40 and expect to make a career out of Chevron. Best advice for everyone? Sharpen your resume and work on your skills outside of Chevron and outside of the oil industry. Until then, pay lip service to the Chevron "initiatives", don't make any disparaging remarks publicly, save as much as you can. This ain't 2005 Chevron anymore.
The problem with my role, it was the consolidation of 2-3 roles, but clearly no one sat down and did the man hours math. And, when we point out this oversight, the LT just pats us on the head and says “we know, but you’ll figure it out I bet”. I’m so sick of being handed sh-t sandwiches by these empty suits, only to be demanded make a 4 star meal. And me working nights and weekends only enables their incompetence. This is the fundament problem here. And generally talented and ambitious work force has been overcoming severe managerial incompetence. And only they benefit, since they get the marks/promotions for “driving efficiency” - but you get a 3% raise and have to give an-l just for chance to stand in line at the PDC. I’m shocked at all the corporate cucks on here that don’t realize this. All that extra effort is just going to enable this nonsense.
But, alas, the rent has come due. F@ck these clowns - I’ll do the minimum and they can figure it out. Except they won’t notice, because they couldn’t manage a night shift at Wendy’s. I’ve been coffee badging over a year, and no one has noticed.
Yes, it will be good when all of the slackers have been cut. There is a lot of butthurt loser deadwood that needs to be trimmed to get this company back in shape. Many of them post right here on this website.
That's good, one less person creating busy work.
lol at yall acting all self righteous simping for a company that wouldn’t care if you dropped dead today
LMAO. Imagine thinking “working hard broooooo” for a soulless megacorp that is gearing up to fire all of us will somehow matter. Why would anyone work hard right now? No project we work on will matter if we’re gone in a month or 2. Us young folk know how to grind extremely hard, but only if it makes sense. In this scenario, it makes no sense.
It's not a matter of seeking vengeance against this or that employer. It's what kind of person you are wherever you work, whatever you do, every day of your life, who you are.
You can be a responsible productive person, or a do-nothing, good-for-nothing useless slacker. Everyone knows the difference and who you are, you're not hiding, you may think you are, but you're not.
Who are the clowns that think giving 110% to this sh-tshow some sort of virtue? This company would cut us all tomorrow if it could. Its sole care is shareholder returns, period. Not to mention it’s sociopathic, with ridiculous amounts of gas lighting. If it brings you joy, go nuts. If you’re working hard for some sense of loyalty- wake up.
The people who say that they are starting to do less now and used to work 60, 80, 200 hrs, blah blah blah blah say that BS all the time to everyone and sound like a broken record. Those are the slackers. No one honestly working and putting in the effort brags about it constantly or gets on stupid layoff sites all day to chat about how great they are or used to be "until now". Slackers do , though. And that is nothing new. They have always slacked. It's a mindset. Real productive people cannot be like that, under any conditions, it's in their genes. They like to get things done.
Honestly I reached this point as well six months ago. I work just enough that I meet my obligations and feel guilt free. Otherwise, I show the company the exact same dedication they show me…
Also, I’ve been coffee badging for 6 months.
@ivr you can pull the wagon mr donkey. I used to work 60 hrs per week when this company showed care and offered development. Now, I barely do 20 hrs per week while working on my exit. What you gonna do about it? I will do what works for me and my family. Zero loyalty to this stinky ship.
Chevron has made the rules of engagement very clear. The machine doesn’t care about you (this doesn’t mean that people on your team don’t), so why should you care to do more that what is overtly expected.
Yes, that's called being a slacker. Those are the people that the ones who work hard have to make up the slack of. There's the ones who pull the wagon and there's the ones who ride on the wagon and laugh like id.iots thinking that they are something special when in fact they are nothing. Nothing at all.
I know many people who have done just that successfully for decades at Chevron. Many have been promoted far faster than they expected once they reached the 20 year mark or so.
They pay you just enough not to quit
You do just enough not to get fired