I went through one of the earlier ROM's. It truly was the most bizarre process I have ever been a part of.....There is a ROM 1 where the 20 or so leaders get thinned out....WAIT they only got rid of this crazy HES manager John Cornwall or Cornwell ....and the only reason was he had to get professional psychiatric treatment for his anger and bullying issues......How do I know that? He miss sent an email intended for the HR manager and VP to his staff that went into how he knows he is crazy and will get help????? So of course, the HES staff showed everyone in the BU the email. Now they got rid of him in January (AS A TEMPORARY POSITION) and he is still at that BU?? And was in the same roll until the new HES manager came in to the BU this summer. NOT ONE OTHER CHANGE OCCURED. So to continue....they went from strictly functional lines to creating "Project Performance Teams". Thinned out all staff positions and field positions and created two thinly staffed project teams. When the org charts were posted you had a few weeks to choose one of the positions that had a few line description of it's duties.....this was ROM 2. After 2 weeks the ROM 1 folks that screwed up the BU in the first place choose the ROM 2 people (Again zero change in the 20 leaders). Now this is where it gets dicey. They took people and placed them in positions that made no sense. WAY OUT BIZAAR stuff....like the alcoholic IT guy Mike Nemic that has never seen a drill rig getting a Drilling and Completions advisor position.......I can go on and on and on.....to continue I then was part of the of the ROM 3 selection (because I did get a ROM 2 position) and this was just as bizarre. Everyone was in a room bitching and pushing for there friends. If I said I think we need to talk about the HR BP because she was not qualified.....Or the HES specialist was fresh out of Interior Design school with no experience....I was told my opinion did not matter. So.....everyone just picked their buddies. to continue....before the ROM People were promised positions and even told not to take other jobs offers only to get screwed and fired. Can you imagine job offer in hand Nigel Hearne (VP of BU) tells you that you are a key player and please stay and then they lays you off????I left right after the ROM....several of the competent people got out and then called the other competent people. I am sure this will happen in Houston. I do keep in touch with two people back there and of course they said as bad as it was it got much worse after the ROM. The reason it did was, they took young completions engineers, FE, Directional Drilling SME's etc. that were extremely competent and put them in project execution roles, Supply Chain, Construction....with zero mentoring...so they lost a great FE and got a shitty civil engineer?????? SO THIS IS ONLY THE BEGININNING OF A CRZY IGNORANT BROKE PROCESS. I am sure there are folks in Houston that went through this shit so ask them! I am not trying to worry anyone just prepare you for it. When all the dust settled you could make a list of the top performers and most qualified people in each department and there was an 80% chance they were layed off!!!!!!!!!!!! Just an example the HR people that were picked had no HR experience so all of them are required to go to a certificate class??????? So one be prepared and two do not take these outcomes personally. Good luck and we were brain washed with "Chevron is a good place". Once you get out you will really understand how bad it is there.....I will try to check back if you have specific questions.....the last two ROM's this year were exactly the same at each BU.
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Oh hello Ms Nemic defending her husband.
Chevron is a joke. They came up here arrogant, thinking the "chevron way" was straight out the bible. Truth is Atlas the company they bought had more talented, hard working people then chevron has all over the world. They have no idea what to do and how to be profitable in this basin. Do everyone a favor and sell to a company that can operate here.
Wow f***tard OP... You complain about the ROM not changing any of the leadership, needing to put right people at right places with some logic; then proceed to say that all the lower level people got all changed up.
Nobody with high potential now will want to go to AMBU, but you want the L1s to be switched up? You want your Ops GM running IT?
You've got identified high performers filling in the rest of the TL spots, regardless of previous function. Water was such a clusterfuck so it made sense to get one of D&C's better guys to fix it. I'm sure you weren't a f***ing water major in vocational school either. Truth is that a lot of people don't know what they're doing, but at least you don't have lazy asses in those spots. And somebody else already mentioned that Nemanic hadn't been in IT for awhile now and isn't a D&C advisor but a performance manager. Get over yourself that you didn't make it through the ROM.
The amount of punctuation used in this post is directly proportional to how f***ing out of touch you are. I can see why you were ROM'd.
lol sounds like somebody wanted his job in the ROM and didn't get it...
D&C OE performance manager... Not advisor. They're looking at cycle times and shit like that. Nothing to do with choosing drill bits. And before that he was in ops, not supply chain. Get your story straight.
Bullshit that he was not named D&C advisor. He was just moved to supply chain. But his job after the ROM was D&C advisor. After reading this I looked at the org chart dated April 1st. D&C advisor. You do know why right? Nigel Hearne was his mentor. Truth!
Lol O.K. we get no look back. U must of posted from a cell phone. I to was part of that ROM. I think the best one was promoting the illiterate construction specialist that put a loaded gun to a coworkers head over an affair with the guys wife. IT WAS BROUGHT UP IN THE MEETING YOU WERE IN FOR ROUND 3 ROM DISCUSSION. Did you catch it. I thought it was truly a joke but it was true. They kept him because they were afraid he would shoot them. Man I can't remember
his name???? Maybe a paper reporter wants a great story. Knives, guns and promotions. Thst would sale papers :-).
Nemanic is not a D&C advisor. He performed well in IT, but they're not expecting him to give advice on how to drill a well. It's tough out there but you guys are either getting second hand info and playing a game of telephone, tweaking the truth little by little
Chevron will not do a look back on the AMBU ROM for that exact reason. I was there in May. And talking to the guys that I know echoed exactly what the original post did. Chevron is ignoring the ROM there as a look back would show complete and utter failure. But there buisness plan call for only 50 wells. Chevron forecasted 270 wells for break even on ROE and they planned 50. Why? They literally can't do the work. Equitable Gas a local Pittsburgh independent drills 350 wells a year and do not kill people like Chevron does. Have you
noticed that buisness unit has just dropped off the radar. Remember when they purchased that independent and opened that BU it was a big thing. Now nothing.
Chevron will not do a look back on the AMBU ROM for that exact reason. I was there in May. And talking to the guys that I know echoed exactly what the original post did. Chevron is ignoring the ROM there as a look back would show complete and utter failure. But there buisness plan call for only 50 wells. Chevron forecasted 270 wells for break even on ROE and they planned 50. Why? They literally can't do the work. Equitable Gas a local Pittsburgh independent drills 350 wells a year and do not kill people like Chevron does. Have you
noticed that buisness unit has just dropped off the radar. Remember when they purchased that independent and opened that BU it was a big thing. Now nothing.
Chevron will not do a look back on the AMBU ROM for that exact reason. I was there in May. And talking to the guys that I know echoed exactly what the original post did. Chevron is ignoring the ROM there as a look back would show complete and utter failure. But there buisness plan call for only 50 wells. Chevron forecasted 270 wells for break even on ROE and they planned 50. Why? They literally can't do the work. Equitable Gas a local Pittsburgh independent drills 350 wells a year and do not kill people like Chevron does. Have you
noticed that buisness unit has just dropped off the radar. Remember when they purchased that independent and opened that BU it was a big thing. Now nothing.
Chevron will not do a look back on the AMBU ROM for that exact reason. I was there in May. And talking to the guys that I know echoed exactly what the original post did. Chevron is ignoring the ROM there as a look back would show complete and utter failure. But there buisness plan call for only 50 wells. Chevron forecasted 270 wells for break even on ROE and they planned 50. Why? They literally can't do the work. Equitable Gas a local Pittsburgh independent drills 350 wells a year and do not kill people like Chevron does. Have you
noticed that buisness unit has just dropped off the radar. Remember when they purchased that independent and opened that BU it was a big thing. Now nothing.
Chevron will not do a look back on the AMBU ROM for that exact reason. I was there in May. And talking to the guys that I know echoed exactly what the original post did. Chevron is ignoring the ROM there as a look back would show complete and utter failure. But there buisness plan call for only 50 wells. Chevron forecasted 270 wells for break even on ROE and they planned 50. Why? They literally can't do the work. Equitable Gas a local Pittsburgh independent drills 350 wells a year and do not kill people like Chevron does. Have you
noticed that buisness unit has just dropped off the radar. Remember when they purchased that independent and opened that BU it was a big thing. Now nothing.
Chevron will not do a look back on the AMBU ROM for that exact reason. I was there in May. And talking to the guys that I know echoed exactly what the original post did. Chevron is ignoring the ROM there as a look back would show complete and utter failure. But there buisness plan call for only 50 wells. Chevron forecasted 270 wells for break even on ROE and they planned 50. Why? They literally can't do the work. Equitable Gas a local Pittsburgh independent drills 350 wells a year and do not kill people like Chevron does. Have you
noticed that buisness unit has just dropped off the radar. Remember when they purchased that independent and opened that BU it was a big thing. Now nothing.
It was a wow moment for me! It blew my hair back. The names are in there for a reason. How about John San Clements the D&C manager of the BU. He is the first person I have met in D&C that truly did not understand how to drill a land based well and he was running the show???? Oh but wait it gets better. He pulled put a knife on a coworker in his office over a disagreement....there were several people present. Last time I heard he got a promotion to the Gulf of Mexico.
Wow. Just wow. I believe Chevron execs hoped the news of massive ROMs would raise the CVX stock price, but when stories like this get out, the stock price will continue to dive until it reaches $70.