I started out dreading these layoffs, but now I’m hoping I’m affected. What happened to the Chevron I joined over a decade ago? The company used to treat its employees with respect, not like we don’t matter at all. Sure, it was never perfect, but it was definitely better than whatever it’s turned into lately. I’m done with this place.
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Me too. I wan milk and cookie, my blanky and a safe space to go pout
With California gone, we're going to lose a ton of our top talent and expertise.
Here in Houston, we simply lack the same abilities particularly in IT. When I went to San Ramon, it was always intense with everyone so informed. In Houston, it's a lot of uninforme folks without solid IT skills ... it's actually embarrassing to show our talented colleagues in other industries what our Houston team takes to conferences from data science to dashboards.
Houston's nepotism is a huge reason for this layoff as incompetence accrued at the expense of productivity. Too bad, it's got potential
It’s a business. Hello. Layoffs have been and always will be an unfortunate part of the company strategy. This is not an MW thing. Was going on long, long before him.
2015 (10 years ago) was brutal too actually …
Damn our new employees are soft. What has the world done to our youth.
Pull up your big boy pa-ties, put your head down and work. You would have been eaten alive here 30 years ago.
Being done with this place is the mindset that is ki-ling this place.
It has definitely changed. We don’t lock our laptops down to the desk anymore people openly walk in the hallways with their face planted in their phones that would’ve never happened in the past someone would’ve stopped you and said hey that’s not a Chevron way behavior.
Managers, do and say whatever they want to you, they do not treat their employees well. This company has always given too much power to the manager. Managers have favorites and managers have people they don’t like too much.
Newsflash. Oil and gas has been shedding jobs since 2015, the writing has been on the wall for a long time but the high salaries turned the industry into golden handcuffs for many. Let me be blunt. There will be more layoffs and less pay and nobody can stop this trend. Not just at CVX but everywhere.
What happened is our industry ran sm--k dab into a decline curve and our CEO and BOD had no strategic response other than to cut costs. When you aren’t replenishing your reserves and your best chance at acquiring new reserves is held up in a fight with your rival, the only option left is to slash and burn yourself to reduce cost as much as you can in order to survive as long as you can.
MW is a destroyer for sure, but our board of directors deserves equal outrage over its toxic influence.
The truth is there is something much bigger at hand and it starts with the influence of the institutions that run our investments. You can control a shape a company's & industry's agenda by simply investing in a sector across the board. If said company or industry does toe the line of your agenda then it's hard for them to get the loans to invest in future projects.
Mikey is happy to do their bidding.
MW. That’s what happened. He set out to be Wall Streets cuck boy and put money above people and product.
The new desired culture seems a lot more like XOM
Much of the value proposition has deteriorated. I joined a company based on the prospect of international opportunities, variety of US work locations, and a long term employment mindset. It’s now truly Texas or nothing. Think that it’s time to find a better mountain to climb.
You’re not the only one feeling this way. I’m so done with this place too!