Chevron seems to be a morale ticking time bomb. Let’s recap.
Can morale ever recover or is the beginning of something far worse?
How can we get morale up if the same losers who got us into this mess and made the worst project decisions are the ones running the show? How is the top guy in UC (CM) still here? They had to give him that role after CEEME bc it was clear he wasn’t fit to run anything. And yet he’s the one directing Upstream Evolution?
Every time we ROM it's the 'fun people' leave. Most of the core tenants of this company are the same as 20 years ago...Chevron Way etc. But things are a lot more boring. I never hear people laugh when walking through the office. Bring your 'authentic self' to work...as long as you're a robot.
Omg those flatbreads tho!!!!!
Of course is low...our pathetic inability to execute our own initiatives (Lean Sigma, FrAgile, Projects Production, etc...) eroded every bit of credibility we had. Here we are, choosing from the bunch the best connected ones while the rest finally realize that they are indeed disposable.
I am ready to leave this place, full of media divos (as) wannabes. I did not go to school five years to waste my time in Workplace like 90% of the people I know do. Still young but with the skills to join a serious place, work hard and learn something. And to my manager and my "sponsor": I still want that rotational job in Monaco.
I will miss the flatbreads in 1400 though.
That happens normally, periodically in all forms of industry. How do employees anywhere cope?
With all this happening during a pandemic and upper management not taking a hit at all anything I can't see how morale will go up in the future especially if work loads keep going up.
It's obvious that there are a lot of younger folks on here who have never been through a layoff. It's not the end of the world, kiddies. Happens all the time, routinely and not just in Oil & Gas.
You are big boys and girls now, Grow up.
Morale will never go back to what it was before. Deep down people will always have the same feelings and will eventually leave. For other places.
Tic tic tic tic tic tic ......LOL
@1qxe, I pretty sure the depression and playing victim is all in your head. Most of the rest of us are fine. Seek professional help. Quickly.
It’s ok to leave. There’s a life outside the depressing sycophantic nepotistic snake pit that constitutes a career at Chevron.
It used to be a lively, enjoyable, technically challenging place to work. Such a shame
Morale has been severely damaged at Chevron for the foreseeable future. Massive layoffs, longer working hours, outsourcing many IT jobs all while upper management did not sacrifice anything to save the dividend. It will take a long time before the company can recover.
The correct response of the US Govt is to change the tax system to penalize using contractors not penalizing them for using Employees. The cost of Employees is really very high compared with contractors . There has to be a way to rectify this. Despite my dislike of Trump I guess he is attempting to restrict H1 visas. But he also need to over haul the tax treatment of contactors so as to stop companies from using them to replace employees and to limit the use of workers in India as well. Force them to pay living wages
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I believe that was the CEMREC call on Thursday. I found it laughable — truly absurd — that the very people responsible in that org for inflicting so much pain and misery are now telling us to use the next couple of months to recover. I was flipping the double bird to the screen the whole time they were talking; what hypocrites! I’d at least have some respect if they simply spoke with honesty and integrity. Somebody asked what was the reason for the massive outsourcing that CEMREC is doing, and they couldn’t even give a proper answer to that. I wish someone would post what MB (president) will get as a bonus for putting hundreds on the chopping block. Yeah, I’ll take the next two months to recover because that org has been venom for the past two years.
One town hall I listened to mentioned a plan to use the rest of the year after the Round 4 announcements for people to “recover.” I assume that is NOT how the left standing people will feel about that time period. PS....take your vacation.
They told us in January before covid that this was going to happen. Morale ??? It’s a business and it’s there to make a profit. It’s a great culture and the pay is good. Unfortunately, the corporate decisions are out of the worker bee’s control. C’est la vie
It has been decreed by Kublai Khan!
Actually. The layoffs were announced way before covid...
It's going to be a long, long time before Chevron morale returns to something positive. The industry is starting on a slow decline, and quite frankly nobody outside of Houston likes us. All the social engineering in the world is not going to change that. Notice there was no Employee Survey this year? If you've got more than 10 years left before retirement, you should be working on a career Plan B.
Don't forget- Current Prez acts like a GD lunatic and people in the industry continue to pull their pants down for him.
That morale ticking time bomb went off long before Covid came along.
Morale WILL improve, or else the f—gings will continue!
That’s not what I’m hearing. Morale is fine. Love, Rhonda
PS: Take a staycation. They’re amazing.
What morale? The core transformation team morale is high and everyone else is somewhere between medium and none. It’ll stay that way for at least 6-12 months based on what I’ve read about the psychology of reorganization and layoffs.
Try having a life outside work?
No.