After all the analysis, evaluation and problems/issues we've had over the last 18 months, what is this big talk about dress code? I've seen many posts from staff and even some team leads/managers about this. Talk of a big drive about projecting professionalism and acting professional and the big, million dollar idea is to dress properly? REALLY? That is the big, corporate solution that is being arrogantly touted as solving the current crisis? Oil tanking, MCPs an embarrassment, processes strangling every day work, work place hostility rampant and rewarded and the Chevroid answer is to DRESS SMART!!?! People posting lengthy garbage about dressing professionally. THAT'S your big solution. THAT'S what the big answer is? If this is the mentality, and I'm not sure how this became a serious topic that certain people aren't embarrassed to talk about in public, then we are in more trouble than I thought.
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I've always been told by career guidance experts to "dress for the role you want, not the one you have." Well, the role I wanted at Chevron belonged to a guy wearing sneakers, high-water jeans that were pulled above his waistline, and a polo shirt that appeared to have been washed 1,000 times. I just couldn't do it.
In all seriousness, I believe CVX just wants us all to dress nice so that we can be prepared for the interviews sooner, once we get laid off.
The fat ones are on the friends and family plan. They would not have ever been hired let alone survive ROMs.
No, suits will not fix these kind of overly fat people. A good layoff will fix that.
I see fat ass women and men wearing tight jeans that belong at Walmart, not at a major oil company. I'm talking about morbidly fat with hygiene problems. Suits will not fix the problem.
You need to share your thoughts on the "Deadbeats and Parasites" discussion thread.
I usually show up to work in my denim overalls without a shirt underneath. I can usually be seen chewing tobacco and spitting it into a cup throughout the workday.
If you dress appropriately to go out to a fine restaurant, to church, to an important social gathering or even a service anniversary at work, then why not dress that way to go to work. Your clothing and your general appearance speaks volumes about yourself. At the very least, people perceive you as serious and educated. Isn't that important to you, whether you work in a professional setting as a Chevron office or elsewhere. One of the previous posters said "everything has a time and place", and what do you think this discussion is about. The time and place to be seen and to act professionally, is at work. Dress and act the part, unless you work at KFC or Burger King.
Agree with @FcivDhL-1iqv
The short answer to the OP is: this talk about dress code is just another sample of "Chevron Way" thinking.....lose focus on essential tasks and zero in on what this person said, or what the other person wore. Or even better yet: How did so-and-so make me feel ! Of course, I have witnessed the ugly tennis shoes worn to 1400 and 1500 buildings too (and not a big fan at all), but I agree with you that everything has a time and place, and this is not the time to focus on people's skirt length.
I am an hourly office employee in Houston with a pay grade of PSG 15. I dress rather well and better than the average salaried PSG 21. If I can do it, so can you. Have some self esteem and look successful, if you work for Chevron.
Well as soon as they start paying me what other companies pay, I will dress the part. Until then, all my budget will allow is the rustler jeans and Velcro shoes
Loser... most likely you're no longer with the company. Good riddance. These layoffs do have a positive side by throwing out the garbage. Lol.
Stop it fat bas+ard your going to make them cry...
Just my point, 1bad. You want to look at T&A, go to the local gentleman' club. Then again, that's probably where you live after work hours, jerk. Can't get a serious post going in this damn Layoff site. Full of losers who were already laid off or will be soon.
I like seeing all the young, pretty and shapely girls walking around in short skirts showing their sexy legs without hose. It is a real morale boost.
We are talking about the business and support offices, not the field offices. Dressing like professionals promotes respect and disipline, which is lacking at Chevron. Just head over to an ExxonMobil office and take note of the average person there. They dress and behave like the professionals that a company paying the salaries they do are expected to. Most people at Chevron do dress and behave like professionals. The few that still don't get it, need to be laid off.
Actually the "blue jean coalition" led chevron to being number 1 in ROCE, project execution, and #1 by far in Safety, particularly fatality prevention for over 10 years. It was executed with hard work and smart efforts by a combination of real people with their eyes on the ball who actually knew what they were doing.
It's been eroded some in the last 5-10 years and unfortunately Chevron has some hard lessons to learn before someone with those same smarts and work ethic hopefully takes it back from the "sharp dressed guys and gals" who often don't have a clue about how to get anything done.
It's fairly predictable that there will be a high price to be paid in dollars and blood until that time.
"People Do"
We all know who you are and the sequins/shorty skirts need to go!!!!! People from all over the office are disgusted.
@hwp is right on the money. This dress code isn't a solution, and it's always been there (varies by work location) but we got lax in enforcing it. No, enforcing a dress code doesn't necessarily make more money, but it shows professionalism, pride and respect.
It,s a proven fact that dressing smart (or better) no only increases the overall respect of the company, morale, and even profit! Yes, dressing smart increases profit by up to 15%!!! A few years back there was a study of one company called "Jingo's duds and suds" a bar/laundromat chain. The company started forcing all their employee to dress "smarty" and before long BAM!!! we now know that company as "Google". See what dressing smartly can do?
That's not the point. Dressing professionally and respectfully is not a solution for anything, but more a symptom of the lack of dedication, self-respect, and respect for others which has plagued the industry for the last decade or so. That symptom is only one of many, of course, but a manifestation of the disease which is over-acceptance of incompetence and lack of professionalism, dedication and self-respect which has progressed to the point of a destructive plague leading to the very lay-offs which this very website so graciously allows discussion of.