Buried in an HR post was the increasing number of consultants. Does anyone know how many of these guys are imbedded in Chevron? I was on a call where one of them said they have been "with Chevron for 4 years". Why did we just lay off hundreds of people, yet continue to hire consultants to do the work?
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The CEO has BCG on speed dial with a personal BCG advisor for decades. I don’t want to think about all the consulting fees.
Do a little internet detective work and you’ll find that nearly every executive has a son or daughter who works at a major consulting firm. NEPOTISM
The motto is to have inexpensive and inexperienced staff with no field or office experience manage consultants to do all the work and spend all the CVX money. If you don’t have experience how would you know a consultant isn’t taking you for a ride. It’s been seen over and over again but continues to happen. I’d ride that train as well if I was a consultant for Chevron. Suckers!
Can we do the next round of layoffs already? Contractors are much easier to control and they cant take upper management jobs. Eradicate the competition, easy peasy.
purpose of consultants is to be the maker of decisions when mgmt does not want to be seen as the real decision maker. anything wrong, just blame consultants. easy peasy
Please stop complaining about HR. Everytime someone posts something true, my boss gets nasty. Just stop.
Every decision make (psg 26+), that had anything to do with transformation should be fired. What a failure. It should make us sick, every Teams call we have with a consultant.
RM just fell for the oldest trick in the consultant book. Have consultant design the organization, where it's vital to keep them in key roles. How d-mb are you and the transformation team? Now all the people that do ALL the WORK are leaving because there is no opportunity to move up and guess who fills in for their jobs. You guessed it. More freaking consultants. My boss was just budgeted 4 more because she doesn't know how to do her own job or even know what her role is. Congrats.....HR is now more expensive now than before transformation.
Chevron has been told that outsourcing to consultants is the best way to go. Do I agree.... NO!! The consultants are not at all interested in doing what is best for Chevron.... just what helps their profits.... why no one at Chevron gets this is beyond me!!
Thoughts??
It's nuts... and getting worse. I just got off a call where we reviewed a deck showing all the value these consultants had created for us. All so (wait for it...) they can get their NEXT consulting contract with Chevron. I guess the new strategy involves not having any capable employees on staff.