How much does your group spend on social things each year? Ours has like a few retirement lunches and aN afternoon Christmas function and that’s about it. Rather boring, I must say. I miss the old days.
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Uh, yea, if I were an actual expat in Kazakhstan, I think I'd know how to spell Kazakhstan. But this is the place for dreams, wishes and tall tales, so, please continue to flatter yourself as a fiction writer!
I am in an expat role and we recently celebrated our managing directors birthday in Kazachstan. I can tell you, it was fun and you would have no idea that there as a pandemic.
Other than you, @3cvy, who would that be?
Some of you have obviously never worked outside Louisiana ...
@2ewb, oh my goodness, stop projecting on here about your wife. you have to be projecting because you obviously don't know about an anonymous poster, but you do about the love of your own life. we don't hold that against you, buddi, just make sure you don't hold her against anyone else. Thanks.
yea , I was privy to both of those parties, overseas and in Houston, and I enjoyed them all, but the hot ladies were at the Houston parties. The people at the overseas parties, were, well, they liked to partty and we all had a great time. Let's not pick it apart fellas. If you worked overseas you know what I'm getting at. And it's not the false image that "never been there" @2una is trying to depict, as anyone who has been there would know.
I agree there was very little oversight which made for some awesome parties overseas. Heck a Tuesday night business dinner would run into the wee hours what with booze, disco etc.
Nice try, Cajun popcorn, with the wife in the circus tent dress.
I worked overseas extensively as well as here and found the overseas locations had pathetic and cheap cheezy parties during most of the year, which is anytime that they could afford it, no rhyme or reason, just blowing company funds because they could. Most of the expats as well as the locals either went solo or had a local homely date who had nothing better to do that night, and was their last choice. The US locations would have some elegant hotel dinners with everyone bringing their gorgeous lovely wives and girlfriends all dolled up to the nines in high heels and dancing and partying the night away with friends and lovers. So I can understand how some expat only types on here harbor some resentment towards those of us who enjoyed the good life in the US and would make up lies and claim things. . It's all good, no need to be rude about it just because you missed out. Carry on.
I found the overseas locations had amazing parties during all parts of the year. The US locations would have some horrible hotel dinner with some hideously ugly fish wives in bad outfits and dancing worse than a hill billy wedding.
I hired on with Chevron in Louisiana in 1987. What spectacular and no-holds-barred end of year parties Chevron put on, and they weren’t ashamed to call it the Company Christmas Party. Every operating company and business unit would do their best to top each other. These Christmas parties were for every employee and spouse to attend. From the door prizes called out several times all night long, the unlimited open bar with premium drinks, fancy hors d'oeuvres and delicious appetizers to the main dinner meal, it was really something to not miss. Live band music and dancing was great. The affair was lavish and the men wore their suits and the ladies, their fancy gowns and dresses. How Chevron ever went from those great celebratory days to now is nothing less than a real shame. I lived those great days in Chevron and retired in 2016 when the last of the lame office group luncheons were the standard fare. Man, like falling down a high floor staircase in 1400 and not stopping until busting your brains out on the first floor. I’m so glad I lived and worked during Chevron’s hay days. Long gone are those great days.
Team Building is corporate BS. I work for Chevron for a paycheck and not because of the opportunity for Team Building. There are a few people I work with that I genuinely get along with but most I really don't care about.
I can also live without the occasional opportunities for a drink/meal on the company dime because that just increases the potential to offend some woke social justice warrior by telling them what I really think when they spout off after a couple of beers. That is a big risk in the Chevron corporate PC world.
I am glad to see the MARC nonsense finally abating. That seemed like utter nonsense to me.
@kjp, yea that's pretty much it, every time I come to this site it's just the same pathetic losers who still work at Chevron with no life. All of the laid off and EOI people have moved on to bigger and better things, no lie.
Remember the 'world religions seminar' series garbage they shuffled everyone into for PMP diversity requirements years ago?
Does Chevron still have the Texaco executive dude ranch in Wyoming?? If the bunkhouse walls could talk...
It’s still possible to snag tickets to the Astros skybox. I have seen some very drunk managers at a couple of those...
I worked with a group that when we had Week of Caring volunteer projects— senior management NEVER participated (which I, guess, I can understand if they were heavily scheduled).
What I will NEVER understand is that my group manager complained about footing the bill for a sandwich and soft drink lunch for the group which volunteered and worked a volunteer project together (smells like team building). It got so bad that he finally refused to have the Company reimburse the cost of the lunch (his choice).
I am surprised that the Chevron Christmas holiday lunch has survived all these years. Limited "happy" hour (i.e. one drink minimum), a few boring management speeches and a "no physical contact" w/ the opposite s-x (Heaven forbid you greet someone you worked with for 20 years plus w/ a socially acceptable hug or peck on the cheek).
It's NOT a party but instead each year— more employees choose to work instead of attending
We all post on the layoffs site and discuss non-layoffs things, even though we still work at Chevron?
Which BU will have the best Xmas party this year?
You’re right, those are things of the past. Other than lavish retirement events for upper management, no more extracurriculars. You can do team-building on your own time, and besides, in a matrix organization your team members change daily. Most people who retired last year got nothing, allowed out the back door after they turned in their laptops to some tech. MW believes in nose-to-the-grindstone work ethic for all the non-high-pots, you work for the dividend, not your team.