Can someone explain to me why many still think that layoffs are based on someone’s job performance?
Whoever has survived just one round of layoffs here knows that job performance does not play a big role in deciding whether someone will be on the layoff list or not. The question is then what is it really for?
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you will get good performance ratings if you remember that your job is to make your manager look good. It took me a long time to figure that out, but it works!
If you’re not on the Chevron fast track, your promotion potential is very limited. “Job performance” is to build up your resume for your next job. Make sure you have tangible, documentable results, and get some name recognition outside Chevron.
@fio, I totally agree. I was a 27 year employee and experienced this firsthand the last 11 years of my career. Sadly, I stayed too long in my last job and saw 4 supervisors it that period. This was evident in other workgroups as well. The quick promotion supervisors and managers to other positions should have been a clue to me to also seek a new position and to keep on moving every 18 to 24 months. I got laid off in 2016, but fortunately, I was financially prepared to able to retire without needing to work anymore. Lucky, I guess. Timing and luck is everything, especially in the oil business.
@ffy, what you say works in some far-away fantasy world. In Chevron, high-p-t managers are only around for a couple years before they're promoted to their next job, so they couldn't care less about 'delivering results', and they couldn't care less whether you sink or swim on the job, those will be the next manager's problems. Avoid these high-p-t managers like the plague, look for the 'career managers' (no delusions of EVP grandeur) if you're looking for someone to help you develop your career. CTC, sorry, your GM is on the fast track and will be doing nothing at all in the year or so she has left in CTC.
Layoffs are mostly not tied to job performance. They are greatly tied to economics and streamlining the enterprise. It’s always the bottom Dollar and how much savings can be squeezed from tightening the budget.
This too is meaningless
Managers are tasked with running their org with fewer people. They keep those they think are most capable of delivering the results required. If your past job performance is not aligned to that goal as well as others, you are out.
performance is an objective criteria which can be easily override by subjective perception
it does matter indeed... I've been involved in several promotion decisions and performance checkbox is always there.
not very relevant for layoffs tho