Thread regarding Chevron Corp. layoffs

That would be:

Executives: JG (gone), KC (gone)
GMs: AG (gonna be gone), KB (hello), JU (still sitting in his pile of sh!t he created himself and leading the platform)

This is what happens when you send non-technical people to decide for the technical future of the company.

And then we double down on OSDU - aka outrageously stup!d data undertaking with a bunch of IT d0rks who don’t understand G&G and RE data or work and designing this future for us when we can’t even have reliable tools today.

For triple crime somebody needs to do a lookback and make sure all involved in the decision making aren't allowed to touch anything important ever again.

So does anybody really know why the future GM of data got canned before he had a chance to take us to greater heights?

All talk is right. Nobody remembering that Triple Crime was the work of KB, who knew nothing about subsurface work, and hitched her wagon to who she thought would get her places in ex-ETC president PS and subsurface VP KC. And now MN/BN/BK see the waste that is 3C, and the IT leader responsible for getting us into that waste of money has already distanced herself from it. Not everyone forgets the black tie party in Monaco that started this. Hope they had fun, while we can’t even do what we used to be able to do 5 years ago and the HPC costs have skyrocketed into unimaginable heights.

Oh god, no. Yet another so called leader who is all talk and not sure what they actually know.

It’s probably going to be KB.

1. Her role is going away
2. Every FLT member who does not EOI will land a job
3. Chevron doesn’t care about who has what experience if it has nothing to do with safety. “Everyone can be developed to do anything” is the belief.

Outside of ITFP or whatever it becomes, this is the biggest org in the future. Because ITFP is mostly ENGINE and Manila, this is also likely the org with the most number of US employees. So you’d want somebody not just playing roulette during selections.

No, because this leader matters who gets a job and we want somebody we trust, not some outsider who don’t know us. This absolutely is related to “worrying about our own jobs”. And way to manipulate votes 7 times on your own post and 7 times in the previous one, loser.

Should you guys be worrying about your own jobs or gossiping like little children about who got hired and promoted when and where and why? Just a thought.....

We’ve swung and missed for how many senior external hires in the digital/data space?

First, the director of digital strategy came in under FC and BS’d his way for a year about how great he is at digital transformation without doing anything. His saving grace was AS, brother from another mother, giving him the important task of building up ENGINE.

Next, we have a terrible external hire into SCM in EN. And instead of doing something about the problem during the last layoff, the SCM officer gave BB the gift of this chief data officer who was really unqualified in SCM and in IT. Amazingly, she then brought in SK from Exxon, who was also a terrible hire. These two only focused on their external presence and SK somehow landed in a head of AI job at weatherford.

Then LC brings in his buddy LM and that guy didn’t even last 2 months before being walked out.

If LC had just a little bit of common sense, he should stop looking externally now.

It’ll be somebody from California trying to reset their home base for tax purposes in retirement. Who cares about data. It’s about getting what’s theirs

Well, It would be about damn time.
I remember when we first started PollEV many years ago in one of the big IT town halls, and “jlo for cdo” was the people’s choice that KW had to frantically hide in real time, among other great comments that were not questions at all… which ultimately to the death of pollev, which leaders who are chickenshit wanted transparency but didn’t really have the cajones to answer. Everything is scripted.

Well if nothing else, at least it adds some competent diversity to the flt compared to where lc was headed with his external picks plus who he calls on the most in town halls. But I agree that this is a long shot at best because we aren’t optimising for anything other than cost

@2y9+1w7she08 interesting take, but this is not a PDC. This is a ROM. If there was actually a management PDC (leaders outside of IT) going on, then that is a possibility because the business leaders involved with that process.

This event seems like it will be entirely up to LC and the FLT will be all for themselves. How many ROMs have we been there where the top deck actually changes? The impact or any big changes is on the rank and file.

Sorry but that is not how Chevron works. Data is a hot area like digital used to be, and they usually give it to people like FC for digital, so it’ll be whoever is on the fast track in other functions. Too many up and coming business hi-pots looking to be slotted into assignment to give them “experience”, like EB who knows nothing about finance to be CFO. This is the way.

LOL if we’re just making sh!t up here, I heard that the CEO on Microsoft is being hired for GM of data at Chevron because MKW said pretty please.

It is more likely that LC leaves to work as a low level peon for SG’s PE firm than for SG to return to Chevron to work FOR LC as his data bagman.

Ahh yes the vampire with dry skin back to run IT

Who would that be that they’re supposedly pursuing? SG who went to some VC firm?

Rumor mill is that EB and BK aren’t thrilled with what happened, and are pursuing the former IT GM who left during ImagineIT to come back to run data.

With LM’s quick exit left, I guess AG, KB, or RS would just naturally fall into this spot because LC doesn’t have time to hire a new crony before February when the orgs are announced.

I don’t care who LC picks to fill this spot but for the love of god please pull all of data science and analytics out of IT and closer to the business where the work won’t be a complete waste of time on platforms!!!

We need to get some H1B's into leadership positions at Chevron to alleviate the bloated management we have.

Or LC can actually attempt to engage the next layer or leadership and figure out who might actually be important to key. If not LC, maybe EB and BK can help him figure it out. Right now the only thing LC knows to do is to meet business plan. He has not spent any time to understand the business or the people he inherited.

Apparently he didn’t really know his GM buddy very well either.

and that last comment is exactly why it has to be external, good luck to the next candidate in the hunger games!

Whatever they do, expect some key leaders to exit the company. If SK can fake her way into a VP job at weatherford, you can bet that more competent people already have things cooking and just waiting for EOI.

What do you think LC will go with here?
Another try at bringing in an external person, this time with a proper exec search service? Or just giving it to one of his existing LT members just to be a figurehead over the data group while all the knowledge is at the next layer? Or maybe he surprises everyone by giving the role to a darkhorse at the XLT level?

But the only people who actually were su-king up to LM were the sales people. None of the employees I knew were actually thinking this guy was worth a damn compared to any other data professional already in Chevron

no, what’s more entertaining to see if all these data leads who were kissing that LM @$$ the last couple months, see how many of them start to say they always knew the guy was a knob

we dodged a bullet there. LM was a guy who sounded like chatgpt hallucinating with all sorts of hyperboles about his accomplishments.

Hopefully LC brings in another one of those so we can all be entertained.

Uhh no, not the same at all.
Google guy just went back to Google and resumed work.

GM guy’s team was cut at GM, got hooked up a CVX by his buddy, and before he actually landed the job officially, he was fired for something. He isn’t going back to GM as there is no job for him, he is just open to work now, according to LinkedIn,

Like that Google guy that was an employee for half a second a few years ago before he saw enough and bailed.

Is, ETC should’ve won out. The same POS tech computing org that brought us Triple Crime and the all of the gadgets that no business units can use.

It would’ve been interesting to see how much IT’s bill rate would have been had they stayed in SBS. CTC loves having IT because we can recover the overhead that is CTC subsurface leadership and SMEs at extra high and necessary PSGs, of course no BU wants to pay over $200 for some DBA in CTC. But if they were only $150 from SBS, which had lower PSGs in orgs like SCM, maybe it’d be a little more reasonable. How many PSG 27-28s do we have sitting in CTC that provide hardly any value at all? But yea, let’s just blame IT for the tools they give you.

Verily, I say unto you, if the stewards of technology had actually focused on their work and performed as they should, there would have been no need for such a shift in leadership. But alas, our analytics capabilities are utterly terrible compared to what is readily available to the world. I can find answers from Google, Statistica, OpenAI, and the like much faster than the tools we’ve been "blessed" with. Truly, ETC should have triumphed over ITC, yet we were left with the lesser of the two, which floundered even more after transformation. Without fresh leadership and true talent in IT, we are but sheep waiting to be led to ruin. That group spends more time dodging excellence than pursuing it, constantly blaming others and deflecting from their own failures. It’s almost as if they’ve mastered the art of doing everything but their job.

His crony probably got busted for inappropriate use of company laptop, or some unethical business, which would not be surprising. All eyes on LC on who he tries to sneak in next. He should get somebody who listens more than he talks. Yes, I said “he” because LC seems to only know how to hire one type of people to be on his LT.

The original post got deleted. I think LC monitors the board and was sad.

Isn’t MC supposed to be the GM of data and insights? Gone?

LM?