Thread regarding Chevron Corp. layoffs

GOMBU. Last Rigs 68 and 173 to suspend operations for 4th quarter proposed Someone in Management opinion of field hands

I have been working in and around the Gulf for many years and can tell you in no uncertain terms that the Mandeville office staff is one of the most hard-working and professional as I have seen in decades. And I've been around since way before everything was Politically correct and smoke free. On the the other hand, the field personnel are the most petulant, childish and have the most entitled, spoiled brat attitudes of anywhere in the Gulf. How long has it been like this at CVX? Where do you get your field people, from the Spoiled Brat Romper room uppity class? I've never seen so many crew members who think that they can do anything but consistently Botch everything up from incompetence and then always cast blame on others, primarily on office personnel, as if they are jealous and envious that people with credentials get better positions. What do they think, the world owes them a living? They're lucky to have a job these days. I've never come across this level of arrogance, petulance and entitlement with any other major or independent.

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Who run Barter Town?

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Chevron's excessive contractor headcount was necessary because employees were in endless meetings about this or that initiative. SOMEBODY had to do the work. Where Chevron went wrong , and continues to do so, was in relying on these expensive and out of touch business process "consultants" with their arsenals of MBAs and Phds but no experience. Their charge, and they will all admit it, is that they MUST find (or fabricate) deficiencies. Otherwise there are no billable hours.

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Well Mr. Insider you have your opinion and I have mine. I have been in the Gulf for almost 35 years now and not all with CVX. I know many competent people in the Covington office but boy oh boy do they have there share of incompetent people. As far as O&M goes, most of the engineers we currently have could not do half of what the average operator does in a day. Working on everything from a well to a washing machine. On the flip side I think 75% of O&M could call EDG for a project to be completed. I could probably list out 10 projects off the top of my head that operations asked for X to make operating easier but we got Y. It ended up costing the field more time and money in the long run. What operations sees is that the engineer comes to the field or sends a EDG Engineer to scope a project and ask for feedback and they leave an design what ever EDG tells them what they think we need.

Part of this whole problem stems from the OS not having final say so on projects and our liberal HR group. An OS can't fire anyone even with documentation for poor performance. When enough people see that then they don't have to worry about performance. I think the comment you made should be we both should be glad we have jobs. We all make decisions in life some good some poor. I can tell you that just because I dropped out of college and didn't get my degree doesn't mean you are any smarter than I! It also doesn't mean I can't do your job with a little studying, and your degree doesn't mean you can do mine. You can drill all the Wells and install the platform but without O&M you won't get a drop of oil out the ground . One last thing with the changes in CIP over that last few years O&M CIP award percentage has fallen off and at the same time office personal have had gotten higher base percentage and larger modifiers. We need a fair playing field. Office without O&M won't work nor will O&M without the office.

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