Thread regarding Chevron Corp. layoffs

I'm with @Ex-CVX. I hope after the 3Q earnings report, we will be able to say good riddance to "All Hat And No Cattle", Joe Geagea.

I don't think Joe Geagea is a bad person. He certainly didn't create this situation. Joe is trying to hold people accountable. I believe in accountability also but if you try to fostee such at Chevron you're told that you are too hard on employees. Many of the managers who are promoted are the ones who haven't delivered. Now look at the situation we are in. Seems to me like most of readers here believe that Exxon executes well, expects accountability and we seem to admire that, So I think that's what Joe is trying to do.

I remember when Lady Geagea was a high flier in CVX Downstream. After he f***ed up the heavy fuel marketing group (i.e. FAMM), he was rewarded with a nice promotion to Upstream. Good riddance to bad rubbish, I hope that he gets the boot when the Shareholders and Board of Directors hear the fire alarms after the 3Q Earnings results.

I retired from Chevron last September. Prior to that, though, I worked in Australia for several years. Joe was not the DE; that role belong to Roy, the MD. Make no mistake, though, the driver behind this project was Kirkland. Period. The choice of Barrow Island was based on economics at that time - the preliminary cost estimates showed it was far cheaper to land the gas at BWI. FWIW, the original concept was, indeed, to take the gas to the mainland. While the government supported BWI, there was a significant portion of the public and employees that were against the idea

BWI is a special place. That said, Gorgon impacts around 3% of the island.

Joe Geagea thinks he's smart and he likes to talk to impress. I've always summed him up as as a bullshitter since the first time I heard him speak yo an audience in Houston.

And Joe has no shame in his game. He still acts the tough guy. Why shouldn't he he keeps getting promoted. He called Gorgon the smartest decision he has made. Also the easiest back in 2011-2012. He punted it to the Pollock as soon as trouble appeared. He has been well groomed in his 33 years.

Chevron can't order paper clips and the want to add complexities by building in a national nature preserve. So who was the decision executive who signed off on this? That would be the same as building this is Yosemite....yet no one is held accountable. Oh wait is was old Joe Geagea that was the decision executive and was all over the press touting his decisions. June of this year everyone knew that Gorgon was touted as "How not to invest and run a project"

So they held old Joe accountable. They gave him a promotion. Can you imagine giving that boner a promotion. Any other company gives him a good smack in the mouth and a kick in the ass out the door. Old Joe is the perfect example of why Chevron is f***ed up. Has worked his whole career here and the huge increase of ETC and Gorgon and Wheatstone is 100% his making and the nuts acknowledge gets promoted.

Agree, same old same old. Tepid response to a fiscal crisis in the land of HPOGS ( highly paid old guys / gals)

Chevron is like the drunk family member that is a functioning alcoholic. Everyone in the family has known for 5 years but his behaviors are finally catching up to him and people are asking questions. It's only a matter of time before the shareholders want blood. What I still have a hard time coping with is the Project Alpha ROM 1 org charts. Zero change in our corporate leadership. Chevrons leadership truly believes they have no responsibility for this mess and are the ones to fix it.....also fix Angola, Big Foot, AMBU....I can go on and on. Anyone of these horrendous decisions would have created a change is some leadership. Not a Chevron.

Why didn't we build this thing on the mainland? Seems like a better option.