No layoffs announced. Every one is safe. Keep working hard and abide Chevron way. You will be fine.
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-4oco: As far as I could tell your experience not so different from the rest of the BUs, other than maybe by degree of gentleness. Hard to make these matters anything more than unpleasant, but there is a line between open management and letting folks roast over the coals too long.
4pgi- I have been around a long time and have seen both sides. I will leave you with your happy thoughts even as I chuckle;-). Pease be with you.
3lby-there is a fine line ,but what you call arrogance may be competence and confidence. XOM trains, mentors, develops and then gives broad global experiences. Competence and confidence are the result. Arrogance also is a result when they see incompetence. XOM has a high negative reaction to fools. Yes there are exceptions but in general, XOM is highly competent that's why so many are being seconded to TCO.
I do not know about the other BU, but everyone in Operations at MidCon literally had no idea if they were going to have a job for about three months before the announcements were made. Everyone was told to bring in everything and get ready to be let go from the company. When you were ready to turn in your stuff, that is when you were told if you had a job or not.
Having gone through something like that for three months is not something one forgets. If chevron announces another mass layoff again, I imagine all the old timers will opt out and everyone worth a damn will find another job. What does that leave?
I give XOM credit for management that appears to have a longer time horizon; showing more workforce structure stability not just during this downturn but over a longer history of market fluctuations. They have proven less prone to immediately calling for a workforce cull in crisis each downturn and consistently hire from Universities even during the troughs. That said the military-style top-down management, chest-thumping blow-fish arrogance across the organization and cyborg implanted group think mentality means less innovation relative to the large R&D spend, longer stints on side tracks travelling in the wrong direction, and a greater percent of top talent that gets sick of the repression and departs for deep water ports. We all pick our own poisons, and our strengths are commonly derivatives of the same attributes as our weaknesses.
3edm, its best to not feed the trolls. Ignore them and they go away after a while.
IEQt8bF-2rxk: The troll strikes again! Small d--k wonder. Get a life!
The industry will consolidate in interesting ways. For sure XOM will outlast CVX.
You all in the oil and gas industry are going to be laid off soon. Take all your money from banks and stocks, pension funds and other places as soon as possible , you have several months left, if not weeks
LOL. XOM didn't lose 20% by moving to Spring. But maybe CVX should've relocated the Houston office to Midland. Would've been cheaper than all the severance packages!
@IEQt8bF-1rse didn't XOM also have significant attrition (>20%) due to the move to the Woodlands?
My wife works at XOM. There are no mass layoffs planned. XOM has real forced ranking and cuts out 10% of its work force every year. They also did not over hire. Which puts the average employee in a good spot. They supplemented with competent contractors on many of the ramp up of projects. CVX and XOM are two completely different cultures. XOM does not back stab....they implant the knife firmly in your chest.....you know where you stand even before reviews. XOM has cut back on raises and bonuses of course. But there is no panic among the rank and file like here!
This one would. He's in the 9th hole biting is nails and soiling his pants. This SOB is no leader.
They should make John Watson stay on Barrow Island until Gorgon reaches its nameplate capacity. A true leader wouldn't just hide away on the links at Pebble Beach.
The additional several thousand layoff announcement will come after the crappy third quarter results come in. I am waiting for the next delay to happen at Gorgon, It will be this year.
OP,... THANKS, man. The Dude was beginning to worry.
CVX does not keep people based on their productivity. CVX keeps people on their ability to kiss a-- and go with the flow.
@IEQt8bF-flg, I am an XOM employee as well and I can assure you that either your wife is putting up a big smoke screen for you or she is extremely naive. If you don't believe me, check out the XOM layoff forum. We are no less apprehensive about getting laid off throughout the ranks, including good and poor employees, new and old-timers, than anyone at CVX. Either your wife gets to see through her management rose-colored glasses or there's just a lot of lower-level employee sentiment that she not privy too in her position.
@IEQt8bF-wwi, oooooh you poor little Asshurt loser BAYBAY!!!! did someone at Chevron take your candy away? You are the reason for the Chevroid PC police. You are one of the little whiney loser babies always getting offended. Thanks to people like you, the place is a pathetically politically correct miserable place to work and no progress is ever made!! Maybe you should just let your boyfriend take care of your chaffed nutsack and keep the details to yourself, we don't want to hear them.
@IEQt8bF-dil, - That confidence and a couple of high school level English classes may at least get you an interview - LOL!
OP: I realize you are trying to get a nibble. We all know there are some tough times ahead and some more folks will leave. Just keep your noses to the grindstone and hopefully a the right people will notice and you can get through this valley. Things will get better but it will be next year or later.
Unfortunately for CVX, the oil industry has shrunken and everyone knows everyone. New G&G graduates will hopefully be in the know and make the right decision. These G&G folks tend to have great memories. Good luck.
My wife is a geology manager at ExxoMobil. The difference between ExxonMobil and Chevron is 95% feel safe at ExxonMobil. At Chevron 95% do not fell safe. At XOM only the low performers are unsafe and they are informed, everyone else is safe from layoff. At Chevron we watch great performers get the axe, because of random bad luck of being in the wrong job at the wrong time. No one at Chevron will ever feel safe again, and when market turns, people will jump ship
Yes, I'm safe in my house, but I'm no longer able to enter a Chevron building since I was laid off.
wwi: for those nuts of yours, halite or Potassium Dichromate?
Chevron Way?
Bigotry, persecution, fatalities, Gorgon, Wheastone, Angola, AMBU, Richmond, China ....Chevron Way?
Id rather cheese grate my nut sack and salt it for an hour or two.
A JW appointee. Maybe his caddy.
@IEQt8bF-dil ... You're one of 4 things: 1) in a very unique position, 2) Donald Trump's narcissistic protege, 3) totally oblivious to the current economic crisis at CVX or 4) JW. I guess the most likely 5th alternative is your just a troll. LOL
I knew I was safe. I have to much street savvy and intelligence. I will leave WHEN I WANT TO LEAVE. Chevron won't touch me. In fact I have more opportunities now than a year ago.