Thread regarding Chevron Corp. layoffs

Come on, get a grip

Get a grip everyone. Hold your head high; it is not the end of the world.

Chevron did not guarantee you employment. It was and is your responsibility to be employable. Keeping your skills up and being marketable. Many I know are hoping to be released, to grab a new life, to do something different but have been afraid to make the move. They want someone to make the choice for them.

Most on here (not all) seem to complain of the company. Why did you stay in the first place if it is so bad? I did not like it, so I left, 3 years ago. I need to be independent. I have never looked back. Today I am doing something different, something that I can control, and happy. If things go bad, I am responsible, good, I credit my leadership. Start today with a plan. Complaining, just might prove (as a stockholder) Chevron does need to purge the system. Good luck.

by Anonymous128651
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Comment! It's anonymous!

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Let's get real folks, this company is overstaffed and needs to reduce a lot of fat to be efficient and survive. We all work for the shareholders - the owners of the company - whether we like it or not.

by Anonymous130250
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To Anonymous129304:

You are right, CVX management is not to blame for low oil prices, however, they are to blame for going full throttle with MCPs when oil prices were dropping faster then the managements IQs. They could taken a more conservative, much wiser approach with their investments, however they did not, either due to their greed or lack of common sense, or both.

by Anonymous129576
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Very good advise. After working for 2 majors over 42 years, retired from both of them, I've seen this attitude over and over. I one thinks they can do better, move on. They blame CVX management for low oil prices. We can talk about CVX management but not in the context of oil prices.

by Anonymous129304
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Good message. If I get fired so be it. This place is unhealthy in a bad way. The oil and gas jobs are dried up but the economy for engineers is great. Many other industries out there to go to work for. This is always a good reminder that no one owes you anything and never be loyal to a corporation as it is only a vehicle for profit. Which is a good thing in the long run as it churns out jobs. Get fired get a new job. I came here mid career and as this board repeats Chevron is bizarrely broken.

by Anonymous128835
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PMPs -- Insulting Performance Review Processes

It’s high time we got rid of all individual performance reviews. They are pointless and a huge waste of time, but some review processes are more insulting than others.

If you give your managers a bell curve and tell them that only a certain percentage of employees can be rated top performers, another percentage average performers and so on, then you are literally designing mediocrity into your team. Is that what you want?

Stack ranking is an abomination and the opposite of a leadership practice, since it pits employees against one another instead of encouraging collaboration.

by Anonymous128832
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You left chevron three years ago, yet you felt the need to get on here and be a dick!

Many you know are hoping to be released? Really? In this shit market? To do what? Collect unemployment @ $485 a week? Go work at walmart?

by Anonymous128811
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Obviously you are not an ES. Eff U!

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