Thread regarding Chevron Corp. layoffs

There are a lot of useless 26’s. Once you have access to the data, you almost sh!t yourself when you see how PSG’s are distributed.

PSCM Is filled with grade 26’s and you won’t believe the number of them who are below 40.

I bet RPE doesn’t have as many below 40 grade 26’s as PSCM.

Similar to earlier post, how anyone in a Corp Function can get to PSG 26/27?

Especially in PSCM!!!

CEMREC is also a disaster!

Can you image going into the office and sitting at a hot spot office because they have determined that it is safe??!!?? Really!!

Let me continue to work from home where I can control my environment / safety until people are willing to be responsible for themselves and their co-workers when they come into the office.

The three noted functions, HR, IT and HES have been destroying the value creation functions(FE,drilling etc.) within Chevron for years.
While one has to have some degree of sympathy for the lower ranks in the aforementioned functions due to the incompetence and political infighting/woke of the management there are many open positions outside of Chevron where your skills will be appreciated

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Yes, I agree with your last sentence, which applies to your entire post.

HR GMs are reading this site. They are having meeting based on this information. Managers have been told to tell everyone that they will be put up for a promotion next year. Unfortunately, us business partners know its totally BS.

To the people who complain about posts unrelated to layoffs, what information on this site would actually be helpful to you in the event you are either facing a layoff or are laid off? Nothing you read here will prevent you from getting laid off or help you find a new job. There are other sites for that.
Sure, you may hear rumors and speculation about pending layoffs but who really even cares about if those are on this site? If you are at Chevron and are ever surprised at a layoff announcement or get surprised that you’re getting let go then you really don’t pay attention too well and this site ain't going to help you. So let the HR, IT and HSE people vent. They really do need it.

I'm sorry, but the people looking for layoff information and related topics on the layoff's site don't give a rat's behind about a person gainfully employed in HR with full benefits just "looking to rant". Just my humble opinion.

Would you check out the number of all the up and down votes for the post and comments.. HR sending out their horses to downvote???

I’m still trying to understand how anyone in HR can get to PSG 26/27?!?

The goal is for the leaders to ride their work horses until they pass out and d!e, and then they’ll just hop off, get new horses, and ride those until they d!e. Rinse and repeat.

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Very true. I find myself stuck in my position with fee opportunities to move up anywhere with this new organization. So either I just accept where I am at for the next 10+ years or I look to move on at some point. Might be less frustration elsewhere as well.

The morale in this company is at a new low. No motivation, no going up the ladder, people leaving left and right. Something has to change. And this "flex" (very loosely phrased) is not going to fix much.

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I agree! IT is a disaster right now. No real plan and morale is absolutely in the dumpster. It doesn't help that most BUs don't respect IT much either.

You can vent here any time and if you need people to talk to, find your equivalent in IT because as a function, IT has been doing the same ridiculous adopting of a model that fundamentally doesn’t work. Sadly though, top mgmt decided the support functions like HR and IT cost too much money so we are stuck with doing less with fewer people. Problem is, nobody made clear to the business that by HR deciding to do less, supervisors in petrotech would need to do more and as we all know, that never goes over well in a BU. If HR’s path continues to follow IT’s history, the likely next step for your function will be “shadow HR” where BUs hire analysts from their own payroll and give them the tasks that HR previously performed. I’m sorry you are stuck in this cycle. If you want to commiserate, IT is here for you.

jobs are opening up and available on linkedin for application

The irony of HR complaining about this, after years of doing exactly the same thing to every other function. Joke of a "function"

The only thing HR leaders seem to care about is hiring a outside firm to change our mindset and embrace the pain to not play the victim. Fix the actual problems and don't blame the employees mindset. Its brutal!

1,000% agree with OP. It makes me sad that HR leadership doesn’t seem to care. I saw another survey was sent out about well-being. Give me a break. Even the mentally and emotionally healthy get weary of the bs that goes on in HR. Makes me so sad and angry all at the same time that this is our only outlet and safe space. It’s insulting when leaders claim they don’t read this site. Either they do read it and just don’t care or they don’t read it because they don’t care to hear the truth. Only one leader I know claims to read this site and although she isn’t perfect she does appear to try to be better than she was before. Granted she too was marginalized by RM so maybe that has something to do with it.
OP was so spot on about the Transformation being a chance to correct the leadership but alas another group of people promoted for reasons unrelated to skillset, ability and experience.

Work harder to compensate for the lack of staff. It is managements responsibility to properly staff the organization. Working harder and longer hours just to make management look good does not make sense, unless the workers are recognized and rewarded for making the sacrifice. Not likely to happen. It seems like meritocracy is a dying organizational value.

ExxonMobil eliminated 50% of it's HR personnel in the US in the past year.
At the same time they eliminated 10-20% of total US employees.
HR is Contracted out.
It is all just a series of scripts written by external HR experts and lawyers at this point.

Just sayin.