A lot of posts here beat on nepotism as a bad thing and it's not. For example if a manager keeps his white son, another manager white son, and another managers white son in law, instead of keeping 3 black guys some would say that is racism. It isn't racism cause he didn't not keep the black guys cause they were black, he kept the white guys cause they were family or family of other managers. This is a great way to build a great company while being loyal to the company and family. Get over it people, this is a private company and managers can do what they want. Put your race card back in the deck and try again.
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Wow, I've been gone a while but it looks like the nepotism is still running rampant in Chevron. At the Chevron Pascagoula refinery, the group of "family" running the place was (and probably still is) called the Grand Bay Mafia. Be born or marry into the group from Grand Bay Alabama and you have a job and a rocket to rise strapped to your back, lol. Glad I'm not in it anymore.
1idm I believe you. I started ato Chevron 8 years ago out of college. It is very clear and with out don't the more you do the more you suffer. You become the victim of your own success making others, including your super look bad. I have seen this over and over.I started interviewing last summer to leave because of the crazy culture, then the bottom fell out. Still here and at peace with outcome.
Wow, as a shareholder, I am SO Happy that they are cutting all of you useless pieces of Dead Wood!! LOL My, the woodpile is going to be stacked mighty high this year.... LMAO!
Based upon the current financial collapse of the company, I am not sure nepotism is working out very well for the shareholders. Nepotism obviously works for the folks that are in the club, but eventually there will not be anyone else left to rank as the 2's, 2-'s and 3's. So what will the friends and family club do when they have to rank 65% of the staff as a 2 and below, there will be no one left but the friends and family clowns to get the average rankings. Who will be left to do the work?
For the last 10 years at Chevron, all I did was eat, sleep and shit for 38 hours per week. The other 2 hours were spent a minute or two here and there drinking coffee, taking a stress break, or walking to/from the vanpool. My supervisor thinks I walk on water and the best employee on the floor.
Lol at Rue. No one commented on you saying we have not worked a 40 HR week in a decade or more. I get your twisted sense of over the top humor. And yes most, by far the master majority of Chevronites are going for sleeping and eating...not much more.
More companies have antinepotism policies than do not. When you get fired and start to look for a job it will come up right after list your highest level of education. "Do you currently have any relatives that currently work or have worked at xxxxx"
Chevron doesn't have to hire family members in order to be successful. The pool of talent out there is sufficiently large to pick and choose the best. Why hire family when it's not needed. Any thinking person will easily accept that nepotism leads more to demoralization than success in any company.
All that cry about nepotism must not understand how the real world works. If you think chevron is the only company big or small that hires family needs to wake up. If you don't like it quit and start a company and choose to turn your family away.
Rue, I mean Adolf, why don't you get back to your cousin kissing.
Guarantee "rue" isn't a Chevron employee - what an ass.
Fags, blacks, chinks, dot heads, rag heads, women and Jews do not belong at Chevron. It's in the Bible. We like it here. We have not worked 40 hours a week in a decade. We want to keep that to ourselves. We got a fat pay check that is way better than welfare and unlike welfare we get free coffee, good shitters, free computers and phones. Welfare does not give bonuses for doing nothing either. Keep them the FVCK OUT!!! I would say 90% of Chevrons positions fall into the category of Sleep and Eat.
Good to see the Good 'Ol Boy network still exists even though it is not an official employee network. Ha! Y'all got to be kidding.
Nepotism by itself is one thing, but preference given to family members over others in a company is where the rub is. The hiring of close friends and family members is perceived by others as a negative thing as its a natural expectation that they will get special treatment over them. The problem is more pronounced when this is seen in close circles, like when a husband and wife, father and son, or uncle and niece work in the same group, department or business unit. For morale sake, the company needs to be cognizant how this kind of thing can be be negative.
I like what a young woman asked in the CNAEP recruiting webex meeting. I'm paraphrasing: "So we have metrics to hire minorities? How is that not racism?"
*public company, not private
The only drawback of nepotism is that in tight times and ROMS you have to work to justify your job, but should remind youself that soon oil will be back and we can lay back again.
Nepotism is not the bad part. The bad part is when the bad managers don't get fired due to nepotism. This layoff should help with that.
Totally agree also so but what I have seems of different Chevron BU they seem to keep the useless because of the family friend, connection. Chevrons touch/ feely because they don't want to upset there JV partners , this is killing you guys
Well said! I totally agree, that is the benefits of living in the good ol USA. One can work hard, and deliver good results, and make good decisions that enable business to be successful, then allow our kids to get their foot in the door.