IT, Finance and Commercial are expected to layoff ~300 people in 2 waves starting with IT in early Q3 2025. A majority of operational support for IT will be moved to outsourced providers. Major IT restructuring will be done using the “spans and layers” concept suggested by BCG to reduce management layers.
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@3n9
You ever work at a job where
HR felt more like a shield for the company than support for the employees
We should definitely keep this thread going after they lay all of you guys off. This is good stuff.
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@3kv If you get a job offer take it. People are leaving the sinking ship. There are not going to be giving any packages. I wish everyone the best of luck.
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Leadership has just hinted at layoffs or insinuated them coming. CPC will have to make an official announcement of layoffs 60 days prior if they plan to layoff 50 or more employees at any one location. If not they will have some law suits. So, time is running out if they plan on executing this in September. WARN Act.
The hard part of all this is the waiting, LT has been planning this for months and little to no information other than rumors and speculation on this website. When will we get the “plan”? Should we look for new jobs? What timeline will we have? If nothing else this has opened my eyes on my dedication to the company vs their dedication to me.
Get on with it already so we can either move on or move out
This should all be taken as a grain of salt and people venting.
This is frustrating and details and facts get stretched as they get repeated.
A great example of keeping dead weight is when you demote a manager more than one time instead of getting rid of him. It’s that exact mentality and poor leadership that drives a company in this direction.
@3h7 agree with the statements about these two. Who decided to put these two mo.r.ons in charge should be fired too. Our new HQ that will be empty, great leadership.
It’s a shame a great company has turned into a disaster under new leadership. The top layer needs to be fired and replaced with competent people. The board should see how incompetent the leadership of CPChem has become. If they stay we will all end up unemployed and looking for new jobs. As someone who’s been here since the start of the JV, it’s sad to see where we stand today.
The board is reading
The Chevron Phillips leadership team is reading
Journalists are reading
Most important Elliot investors are reading
@3ac exactly.
@3h7 amen to this. What’s left of top talent is dedicated to the end (small few), or to broke to leave.
The rest of the top talent has exited over the past few years.
They seen this coming, our competitor companies seen this coming. Everyone except who should have. Embarrassing.
I wonder if members of the board are reading this…
@38m nepotism babies is right! One commercial manager has a husband and wife team reporting to him while they wait for him to post bail and no call no show.
@3h3 Be th was overheard talking in the hallway about a photo that got sent into the hotline about Can’t Field and Mur cella. She made it go away but couldn’t help but gossip about it. One day someone will find out what all has been going on in this company and it will be a Netflix special.
He helped her push her D&I initiatives, she helped get his friends from total hired. The ones who got sc--wed the most while they used it as a personal playground is the employees who walk past the pickleball courts with their boxes stuffed with service awards.
The leadership has failed the employees. People have been placed into positions who have no qualifications to be there. Jus…(commercial executive) has zero understanding of commercial and everyone has to tiptoe on how to explain simple concepts to her. Br… (manufacturing executive) has zero background of who in manufacturing can be in a leadership position. Both of them have failed the organization and should not be in their current positions. Much of the failure has been on the LT and these two have resulted in complete loss of trust in the direction of the company. Top talent continues to leave while dead weight gets dragged along.
@3h0 YES! All of this! Mean girls? Absolutely ! Those stupid videos were ridiculous and offensive! LT making awful decisions- not every going to mention Can fields shenanigans! Enough already
@3ag the obsession with DEI at this company disgusts me. Women and minorities being hired and promoted just to check a box. Zero qualification.
Those of you who aren’t management defending the id--ts who got you here is astounding. Lemmings.
@3g7 that’s incorrect.
It’s been said over and over on here. Can field stated we were spending more than we were making. Look at our competitors they didn’t make incredibly bad decisions such as investing in major projects that were also being pursued in China.
This is not a market condition primarily. The market conditions brought numerous bad decisions to light.
Look at your commercial team
Led by engineers and lab scientist.
Look at your HR team led by the mean girls clique.
Your plants are ran by incompetent managers.
Your leadership team is consumed with meeting HRs quota for watching diversity and inclusion videos.
They spent so much time showing them, watching them, and talking about them no work was being done.
As any manager how many times they had to watch the same video?
With their team
As part of their bosses team
Part of the leadership team
On and on
Get off the market caused this. Most companies were preparing for the downturn instead of watching HRs latest nonsense.
@3g6 why does everything have to go to corporate? Leave things alone at the plant level. They need to be able to have sufficient resources to operate reliably and safely. People's lives depend on safe operations.
@3f0 you weren't lied to. Three years ago things were good. You can see it in our competitor's stock like Dow.
May 2022 = $ 68, Aug 2023 = $55, Sep 2024 = $55, Dec 2024 = $40, June 2025 = $27. Things were "good" industry wide till 12 months ago. Decisions were made assuming the trough wouldn't be that bad. Pickle ball courts were trivial costs to improve image with employees. Mega projects seemed reasonable with the then assumptions. You ask what happened? Straight line projections caught us and all our competitors off guard.
@3fj MFG support could be further consolidated to a corporate level. Other companies do it.
Manufacturing at the corporate level or site level?
@3cz Mr B Can field him self! Nice huh?
How does this make sense?
The new HQ was unveiled, all those massive projects? We were growing and growing. From the town hall’s and other information it was just how great things were.
What in the world happened?
Now we are going to outsource support groups?
How many engineers do they have placed in support groups they need to bring back to the plant groups?
@3cs Soooo- the head of HR gets caught with a sr vp and manages to get out of it - what happened to the hotline call? Was it deleted? Swept under the rug like everything else? What would these same people do if a couple of employees did the same thing? I can guarantee that hotline call wouldn’t have disappeared! So unethical!
@3cy post your journalism link
This was an executive?
@3ch good thing you can’t use names. I can’t think of one finance person that needs to stay.
@3ch is this a good time to talk about why Han ka mer was force retired?
@3ch you mean the names like
Ma ri cella got caught with Can Field and hid it?
Leadership having tryst while the ship sinks is mind blowing.
@382 Beth please tell us more as to how our head of HR MC and Mr Can field got caught in a compromising situation but yet nothing was done about it- where was your investigation then? Different rules for different people cause a lot of issues for regular employees
@3cn amen. Look at your commercial leadership. When you take guys out of the labs and put them over commercial teams you will have major issues. Can not believe that method failed.
@3ab then the evidence points that Chevron Phillips has been doing the wrong things for an extended amount of time.
People are jaded leadership failed them short term, and long term.
This is what eventually happens to a petrochemical company when the majority of people in engineer roles are at best mediocre. It all stems from there. I'm surprised the show kept going for so long.
The nepotism is also hard to hide. Zero shame.
When you operate unethical as Chevron Phillips has then you will see the fall out .
Hiding major leaks such as the MESH incident at the Borger facility is one primary example.
Underreported , hid, and pushed under a rug. Dangerous chemicals leaking that could ki-l someone were allowed to leak for days. The supervisor responsible (all red) took his team out for a team building experience in an escape room while the toxic chemical was allowed to leak. All management and commercial leaders were aware and just let it happen.
Incredible.