Clear and simple: RM and LJ are wishing to remake Chevron into a company more diverse than it currently is. They claim that diversity isn’t a selection criteria but clearly diversity was favored in R2. Inclusion councilors guilt committees into selecting diverse candidates. They send a clear signal of who must be eliminated. Now GPA isn’t even a selection criteria for college recruitment. There is no threshold, no nothing. They want diversity at any cost. Clearly there is a hidden affirmative action quota system taking hold. They are abusing the silent “Chevron Yes” culture of not disagreeing. They know the year of mass layoffs will further silence the silent majority and will push whatever gains they can make before people start to get wise. If Chevon wants honest discussion on inclusion they need to affirm that honest discussions are welcomed. Right now people won’t disagree because they want a job. All we are having is folksy Workplace posts replied to by shallow cheerleaders who don’t actually do any work themselves. We don’t need the “Ask why, a**h&&&” culture of Enron, but we need one with more backbone and calling a spade a spade than we have right now.
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Stay on topic, don't use personal identifiers, no swearing or whatever else the rules state and I'm pretty sure you won't see any more of your posts gone. So many people seem to have a problem with this and it's really not that hard.
@3lfl, Why would making a simple factual statement deem someone a "bigot"? Not sure I understand your post, seriously. Does claiming that Chevron's current practices are leaned towards creating a more diverse workforce possibly at the expense of other desirable employee qualities make someone a "racist"? Please let the commoners know when we can state that the Emperor has no clothes without retribution.
@dvx, The problem with your unpopular post is just what you are attempting to project upon others, your own opinion vs facts. The OP's post is based on factual information that many of us have identified in the workplace in real life and your biased opinion is pure conjecture, your own opinion only with no basis in facts.
Threads are often censored when posts are too raw, too critical, deemed rude or obnoxious, mention people by name, and for using a variety of overly colorful descriptions which describe the business, leadership or other employees with a negative perspective.
Personally I think its BS but it happens often enough.
Why do some of these post disappear? Is it out of bad taste, or does chevron have some control?
Who controls what stays and what gets taken down?
I’m talking about the the post where the bigot says “only the white man needs to worry” and all the responses to it.
It wouldn't surprise me to see at least one mission critical systems fail rather spectacularly after this layoff and those left behind scratching their head on how to fix the situation after some SME's get EOI or are are left standing. Do you really trust the bean counters to retain the experienced staff , who might be let go because they are the incorrect demographic?
The inclusion and diversity statistics will improve with the layoff automatically. Assuming the layoffs are proportional by protected /gender/race/class, the diversity stats improve because older people hired 20 to 30 years ago were largely male and largely white, particularly in STEM. Recent STEM hires are more diverse with more women and minorities than 30 years ago, so with older population leaving, the diversity stats automatically improve. CVX problem is if they statistically bias the layoff, toward older white males, they leave themself open to big lawsuits. I expect proportionate layoff.
Chevron is doing all this to pacify their board of directors, stockholders, and the media hoards. If they sacrifice a few for the sake of progress then so be it. When you make D&I a value it no longer becomes a decision criteria or a tradeoff, it is a value that can’t and won’t be compromised. It cannot be argued against. They cannot hire or fire based on these factors but they can select people to do the hiring that will embody those values. All of this bias training I have done has taught me that they really only care about eliminating implicit bias if you are a white man, for anyone else it’s perfectly fine.
Chevron does s— at stuff. There are lot good people. There are a lot of racist ones too. Self-serving is the biggest population of them all. Chevron has a terrible time at satisfying the need to be diverse and have a terrible time at being transparent. The harder it tries with more processes and factors plugged into these decision, the worse it becomes. This allows the management to be ever more clever with their actions. What does that get... less transparent. It seems management does not like K.I.S.S. They would then no longer be special smart.
OP’s post is riddled with assertions that on the surface appear to be factual when, upon closer examination of the reality, they are unsubstantiated opinions. For example, OP asserts: “Now GPA isn’t even a selection criteria for college recruitment.” That is a blatant lie! Not only is the GPA requirement a criterion, but recent conditional employment offer letters were rescinded after background search revealed candidates embellished their GPAs. This is just one example to illustrate OP’s comments are not factually true and are only his/her opinion; but as they say...opinions are like a$$holes: everybody has one.
Agreed! In all honesty I have no clue why they would even track the stats of the races who are let go and who stays. I have heard the question asked in town halls and the answer given is we are just trying to make sure there is not an unconscious bias.
I am calling this answer BS.
If decisions are being made based on merit it is nonsense to even track race.
Good thing I am going to EOI this year. I can’t handle the hypocrisy anymore.
Yes. The social engineering that’s going on is incredible. Frankly, they appear to be more interested in it that job performance..