As a laid off employee, I would at least like to stay in touch with whats going on. Would like to hear from current employees, those who are still in touch with current employees, and anyone else who cares. Good luck to all.
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@5bos: I thing you're the biggest loser on this board writing the same crap for over a year. Go get a life mofo.
The Corporate Human Resources ROM is coming up to bat next. Justice for those who were unfairly cut, now the shoe is on the other foot.
there is a layoff pretty soon.
@JBrHY9T-3htr, WOW what a unique complaint coming from a poor wittle victimized douche-bag BAYBAY!!! You poor wittle thang!! I haven't hear that one from any losers crying on this board before. Did you come up with that all by yourself or did your mommie help you, sweetie?
The Chevron Way is to reward the friends and family and their underling tattle tales. Keep employees isolated and in fear of talking about nepotism and kickbacks, PSG levels and rankings.
Your manager handing you 2-, 2, 2-, is your friend. Don't question why his brother-in-law gets 2+, 1, 2+. It's above your pay grade to ask.
-2evg, Speak for yourself if you don't have any friends or have never made any along the way. I have plenty and some very good ones after being in the business for over 35 years. I get contacted daily by old and new friends. However, I have heard your story before and it's usually from people who can't get along with others. Maybe you should consider an attitude adjustment before you go on lecturing people.
Almost everyone you work with, at Chevron or elsewhere, are not your friends. Those are called acquaintances or simply, colleagues. A true "friend" are few and far between. Count yourself as fortunate if you can honestly say you have more than two real friends. A friend is someone you can confide in with your life, just like a brother or sister. So don't be confused or hurt by the fact why former don't contact you anymore. They have other acquaintances at the office to break up the monotony and you're no longer there. Let it go and find yourself new acquaintances to pass your time with. Hopefully with time and more socializing you'll meet people who will eventually become friends.
2opm, how true!
2yov describes Chevron's tattle tale culture accurately. At this point, it is clearly the real Chevron Way.
to 2bwv, you are the stereotypical chevron person who is full of self-importance, arrogance and condescension that infests so many people who work there. It seems that you have no social contacts apart from your chevroid friends. I have many friends that I have met that work in other industries. I also have had real friends I have worked with at other oil industry jobs. You are probably a Chevron lifer and have no work/life experience outside of that herd mentality, political, back-stabbing, PC culture company. The people in the BU I worked in would never socialize with anyone, or talk with anyone, always staying in their little glass cage office. Most would eat lunch by themselves in their office. The reason is that everyone was spying and tattle tale reporting on each other to score brownie points with their direct report or manager, and scared that someone would report them to HR if anything was said or done that might offend someone else. What a weird and paranoid work environment. Human energy is great when thousands are laid off. Another OE moment.
@JywPE3D-5kyc, You stay pathetic, anonymous and a non-loser and everything that you want to dream about in the anonymous safety of this site and in your fantasy-land that we call the internet. That's the beauty of it, it's the one place that you can declare yourself not a loser and no one else knows any different. Have a nice day - LOL!
Why do you want to stay in touch with those still employed? Once you are cut, you become a non-person and no longer exist for those still working. Do any employed former coworkers contact you to check up on how you are doing? Nobody cares. You never had any real friends at Chevron. Everyone there is fake and no one is concerned about you or whether you are dead or alive. Sad, but true.
2cci, I don't believe that I am a loser, actually quite the opposite. Please stay strong behind your keyboard.
@2svh, with that many words and the time to respond to that a anonymous poster, I doubt you are working for anyone. If you were engaged in something else more lucrative, you wouldn't care so much or even respond. Let Chevron go, 2svh. Move on and forget it.
-2lyp, You gave yourself away by responding like the asswhipped loser that you are showing that he proved his point.
2svh, why not just ignore? Instead you come off as a bigger jack a$$ than the person you are responding to.
Don't pratronize me with your condolences, 1lxl. First of all I know your insincere about what you say. I even doubt you're employed at this moment though I wish you luck. You're out of Chevron and I'm still here. Enough said.
Moral in general at Chevron across all BU's and Opco's is fairly low coming off the recent rounds of heavy cuts. The mood is still somber because everyone is still not convinced we had reached bottom. There will be more cuts coming. Besides, many of the same useless supervisors and managers remain. Expectations and sentiment are not picking up.
@1zlx, Judging from your tone, it would seem that you're the unemployed sad sack. Maybe there's a real reason you no longer work for Chevron and I still do. I'm a person who gets things done and I hate others who hold me back, like my lame supervisor, who thinks he needs to prove his worthiness to his manager by keeping me busy with useless re-work and waste-of-time projects.
-1srb
Its Chevron.
More work, less pay all while the Executives keep raking in multi-millions... The mood is absolutely fan-freaking-tactic. Who wouldn't be happy?
Some insider view: well, chevron is collapsing right now, the same like the us collapsing at the moment. And what do you think mood should be on the sinking ship, of course, most smart rats run first, and cashing all wealth asap, and most idiotic rats try to stay on the sinking ship, stupidly hoping that this is the same temporary problem. But actually this the the Final collapse, with the Great Justice is waiting for most patriotic morons
How does a serious topic on a layoff board degenerate so quickly into an inflammotory name calling exchange? Pathetic!
Fvckoff, nij. The only complacency I have is about going useless rework that wastes time. That's what my lame supervisor has me doing. Else, I'd be kicking a$$ and getting something productive done. My moron supervisor should have been canned in the April ESP, but here he is wasting Chevron's and my time both.
Forget Chevron and move on!
-jwf It's a shame that you have complacency about your job. Have you tried doing something else with your life?
Swf, jwf, that is good. Stay busy and keep your jobs!
I am seemly doing more these days, post ROM, because my lame supervisor keeps giving me "busy work" just to make him look like he is still needed. What a crock, because the stuff he is requesting is only cosmetic changes to the same reports we've been using successfully for years. It still provides the same results. That's what I mean by busy work. I guess this BS will calm down after the new year, when everyone slides back into complacency and business as usual.
I have more work than ever now. Asset development is still drilling my area heavily and I have the work of three people post ESP
Mood is somber. We are thankful we still have jobs.