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Anonymous199411, be proud you work with your hands and actually build something. About your college mates who got MBA degrees and run around in suits all day, most of them only get by in their careers trying to impress. One of these days they will see the castles they built so big and high come crumbling to the ground. While they have more to lose, you can look back on your life and know you actually built things that lasted.
You folks are dreaming about house cleaning! Won't happen. If you don't like it take a hike. The company culture is not one of confrontation or accountability but of political correctness and touchy-feely nature. If you ask tough questions, you are a troublemaker as people start feeling insecure. This is a GIANT corporation and steering it ain't that easy. You need to rely on folks you know and hence the loyalty program and so meritocracy takes a back seat.
I work in D&C, 11 hr days and on call many weekends. I spent 4 weekends this year on the rig, no compensation (I am not a rotator). When I screw up I will be out on my ass in a NY minute.
Ask any of us about Wellsafe and the massive paperwork overhead
That has created.
I chose wrongly in life my college mates who got MBA's are high-flying suit types while I am elbow deep in pipe dope on a long weekend.
Anonymous199289, you are correct in saying we rarely hire anyone externally to take PSG26+ jobs. There is an advantage to promoting from within the company to these high-paying jobs. It creates an incentive to our best people to lead the company. The Corporate Executives, however, can mandate that 1 out of 10 PSG26+ employees will be terminated or demoted every 2 years if they fail to maintain their pay grade. Talk about accountability.
162 is correct. Frankly, Chevron needs to hire a new round of leadership from outside the company. That's not likely to happen though...not the chevron way. Very rarely is anyone hire externally for a PSG 26+ job.
You might be right, Anon162. About 6 months before John Watson retires, he will bring down many top-level executives and BU management that have direct responsibility for the company's biggest blunders. He may indeed clean house from the Top Down, like you suggest. I hope he does too.
You are correct, 126. These postings are from employees still working at Chevron. I can attest to many of the comments as I myself do some of the things mentioned. Until this company really cleans house from the Top-Down and not the other way around, there will continue to be employees like me and others who will ride this gravy train. It's up to the upper executives who need to weed out the inept management below them if you want a well-oiled machine. But things are left in the hands of inept middle management to make crucial decisions. They are guided by political correctness and saving their friends and family first, before keeping the people who will do the best for the company. We have a bad business model, that's all. One day, someone at the top will wake up to this realization.
These are postings about people that is still working there. Are you one of them 092? Enjoy until it last...
With all these losers posting about how they get away with not working much and still collecting a paycheck, it's hard to imagine why Chevron is not solvent and needs to lay off such a large percentage of their staff!!!! ROTFLMAO!
The real decision makers are those who hold an axe over our heads. Real leaders are those who know how to disarm the henchmen and show everyone else the way.
We're all leaders now but everyone knows who the real decision makers are.
On Vaca Muerta in Argentina, soon we will find out what "secret clauses" Chevron had in their contract with the State-run oil company.
The funniest :Chevron Way. Wait for news of VacaMuerta Argentina :http://www.argentinaindependent.com/currentaffairs/newsfromargentina/ypf-to-reveal-secret-clauses-of-chevron-contract/
Working 10-12 hours per day, then 2-3 hours at night answering emails and phone calls, usually 7 days per week. Having our manager tell you she as no money to hire help for you then hires 2-3 "twinkies" because another group in your department needs help. getting slammed for missing a week-long circle **** meeting because a rig issue prevented you from attending. Getting dinged on your PMP because you missed the occasional BBS posting. Having to come up with answers for your customers as to why you had no backup.
Man, that was fun!
You will all be fired soon.
Don't forget to have your buddies shower you with $50 R&A "On-The-Spot" awards. Consider it a deserved parting gift from your friends before you leave.
Love the CSOC tip. I'll get in touch with my friends before Dec 2. They will provide me with stellar reviews.
Anonymous198089, thanks for the tip if going to fancy restaurants and picking up the receipts left behind on other tables. But be careful with your TEA expense reports. Remember the company wants you to pay for everything on the Corp Travel Card. Slipping in an extra expense item like that could end your career. Another thing, forget your family calling you a Gold Digger... You are not. Ride this gravy train off the tracks, just be careful not to go overboard.
We can now give CSOC feedback to people who've been laid off in order to meet our quota.
The business trips. Even though we can always use a conference room and use webex to chat with our peers in San Ramon. Our group rather travel from H-town to SR or Lousiana at least once every other month. These trips put you in a 5 stars hotel with all bills paid. The secret lays on going to nice restaurants and saving the receipts from the surroundings tables. I am a single mom and I take my 2 year old child with me. My boss is fine with it. Another awesome thing is that of filling calendars with fake meetings and answering your emails from the iPhone to stay on top of things that always work. Meanwhile I'm home or just kicking it with my kids stuff. Did I mentioned I'm at pay grade 21 and when I shouldn't ? These are the perks or networking and getting rid of the incompetence when you have the chance. My family calls me gold digger, I just think I work smart. Not hard.
I love working in ITC for a team lead, who has no idea what I do, and was put into the job due to politics. It is great that they have no technical input, other than "did you talk to IRM", did the architect approve what you are doing, or is your DE ok with that.
Buy some steel toe boots....they will be closing all the offices. The fields will be better off without you.
What makes it fun to work at Chevron is filling up your Outlook calendar with a bunch of false meetings and private appointments. The boss never checks up on it and believes I'm the most productive direct report he has. Then I'm off to another floor in the building to meet with my buddies for almost half the day. Of course, I do maintain my key work up to date and check my email on my company iPhone to put out any urgent fires. People call me 'Johnny on the Spot' and I only smile and pretend to be modest. I've done this for so many years and I get 2+ on my final ePMP reviews. Last year I got a promotion to a higher pay grade. Like most of us already know so well in Chevron... It's all about perception folks. Just look good and all will be good!
Anonymous197583, excellent comment. What I like best about having the vendors take me out to eat is the vendors turn around and charge it back to Chevron with a 15% markup! ... Lol.
I love going out to eat on the vendors' money. Then coming back to the office to joke around and yes, get paid to sit on the pot!
After working at Chevron for almost 23 years the most fun about it is not working and getting a good check. I mean we all know that there're 5 other people doing the same job which allows us to take longer lunches, hot the gym, take vacations, use out sick days and more. Not to mention that working here was great because there are so many young woman who do anything for a rise. I left the company three months ago and I can't be more happy. Enough of that ridiculous "chevron way" and horrible management.
Chevron? It WAS once a fun place to work. Not so much these days, since as soon as you get to the office, the Musical Chairs tune is playing in the background all day long.
The E&P office in Bakersfield on Camino Media has a huge slogan painted on the wall of the lobby "The most admired company in America" or something to that effect. It would not exist if the statement had to originate from somewhere outside of the four walls of Chevron - just saying.
Anonymous197167 - exactly why we are in this mess
Are you kidding me! If you are a Millenial, this is paradise! I challenge you to find a better job with a better pay, having fun networking with peers, flexible schedule, daycare next to office, 50% of first 5 years spent in training, many other perks.
30 year hand here and for me the best part was experiencing working with different people and cultures around the globe and making life long friends. The satisfaction of starting up new facilities overseas and in DWEP & GOMBU after being part of the initial project team. I have made many friends and hopefully few enemies. I know times are tough now for the younger generation but I have no regrets, just gratitude. I have been truly blessed for 30 years to work for Chevron.
Partner meetings in Paris. Expat assignments in Italy and London. Rotational assignments to Houston (yes, I have seen a few of those...and Houston should be a rotational assignment location anyway, so kudos to the few guys who worked that out). Also, one of the few companies where you can make a career out of spending your entire day "networking", with fit breaks and spin class mixed in throughout the day.
Watching coworkers shop online while I work. Yeah that's fun.
I strived to join the Four-Hour Dump Club. I even wrote a short book titled; "Chevron's Best Toilets".
all the free food (breakfast, lunches, lunch & learns, diversity presentations, Cinco de Mayo, employee networks, LGBT pride celebration including huge banner in lobby, etc.)
Three Hour Dump Club Employee Network.
I certainly enjoyed the diversity and "introduction to world religions" seminars that we had to go to to meet our PMP diversity requirements
fill free to reach out to me we are looking fill many positions
Operations Engineer Superintendents
Process Control Engineers
Maintenance Superintendents
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Truth be told, only 10% of us really work. Another 20% contribute something to the bottom line and 20% more only help out the aforementioned. The remaining 50% actually don't add any value to be the company and can be laid off with hardly a consequence.
Because of smart folks like you