Thread regarding Chevron Corp. layoffs

I think you mean culture and values. Fairly clear to tell the difference of the people who succeed and those who fail.

@7qmm - hundred percent agree poverty is a critical factor in lack of opportunity. The origin of poverty for African Americans certainly is racial with a history of nearly two hundred years of unequal treatment, segregation, and discrimination in housing, education, employment and advancement. The slate hasn’t somehow been wiped clean with no on-going disparity in poverty driven impacts. Yes, there are more poor white people but that numerical quirk is largely due to the fact that whites vastly outnumber African Americans. Believing we are in a post racial America, no matter how well intended doesn’t make it so in real life. Just this week the Alabama legislature defied a Supreme Court order to redraw racially discriminatory congressional districts that would provide reasonable representation for the State’s African American population.

Yes, well it's not 1965 anymore, so there's that. I think characterizing the opportunities available for people of all races/ethnicities today as if it is still the same as it was 60 years ago is a bit short-sighted. Many people of all races struggle for the same reasons, also. The effects of poverty are not racial, they are economical. I can tell you a thing or two about that first hand.

@4ago - I don’t disagree w your characterization of job selections at CVX. Dr. King did advocate for equal opportunity for all, but also knew that some are fortunate to start at third base while others begin at the plate with two strikes.

Based on the comments, it seems people have missed that the company has been preferentially promoting women and minorities at all costs for years. It came out in the open during the last round of layoffs. Remember when you applied for your job and were told not to expect or try to get a promotion? Then they published the files showing who got what job. It blew the lid off what has been going on for years. If you aren't in a specially protected group or a HiPot, you are a target in the next round of layoffs. If you don't have a plan or one in the works, you'll be in for a surprise.

When Dr.King talked about equality for all, the wiah was that everyone was given the exact same opportunities in all fields of life. He was not talking about one race or gender being given priority over all others.....our company has clearly a very different interpretation of equality.We are using race gender and se-ual orientation as the criteria for job selection and promotions.

I don't care at all what color someone is, or what s-x they are or claim to be. I can work with or for anyone from that point of view. What I do care about is performance. If you can't or won't do the work then you don't deserve to be here. You should be able to call out poor performance without the fear of being called a racist or bigot because they happen to be a certain s-x or color that isn't your own. However, that is a we-ponized tactic used by those to get away with doing the least and getting paid as much as possible for it while the people who actually want equality and do right by their fellow co-workers get walked all over. This isn't a Chevron problem, but Chevron definitely has this problem!

So fun reading the whiny comments of all the scared middle age white men who know they can’t compete if the playing field were level.

@2vbm. Even most of the team leads and advisors and managers agree that the work was gone to far. The problem is almost all of them need the paycheck to keep their house running so in return they are a hostage to the system. The only people I know who speak out are those who have their house paid for and a few million in the bank.

Wonder if management recognizes that if all of the same employees who stopped drinking Bud Light and shopping at Target decided to stand up for themselves and protest coming to work until D&I is not shoved down their throats, then the result would be operations coming to an abrupt halt, and thus their bottom line being negatively impacted just as the bottom lines of these companies have been. The worker bees are not in alignment with this agenda and only keep their mouths shut and heads down to continue getting a paycheck and good benefits.

Except the anti diversity crowd absolutely looks at peoples skin color. They are suspicious of any black person at work and will not stop whining about how they must be under qualified for their job.

It’s just a matter of time. You can’t judge someone on their religion, skin color, reproductive organs that they claim to have. Someone will eventually bring a corporate case to the Supreme Court just like they did for collage admissions and guess what the ruling will be. The pendulum went too far and It was pushed too far. It will be corrected so get on the correction side as soon as possible or be forced to overcorrect. Unfortunately a lot of the people who were proped up by this will fall.

Let's hope so, if this company is to survive we need to have the right people ,best qualified and experienced in every position.
Getting rid of Diversty and inclusion executives along with all the positions related to this failed initiative we might have the chance to become a great company again.