I would rather see this done quickly than drag it out like this. If I am to be let go, great, I would like to know that soon.
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Very true and can attest to your comment, @2oqh. I worked in a workgroup where there were two positions with the same title. I had the senior position and was paid at least 1 pay grade more than my colleague. Although we shared the same job title, our job duties were different. But, as you said, this downsizing has nothing much to do with who is most capable, but with cost cutting. I was laid off and my colleague keeps working there and trying to cover the important aspects of both positions. I don't have any animosity toward anyone for what resulted. I'm cognizant enough to accept the reasons why things happened the way they did. Maybe if I had stopped a while to think six or none months before these layoffs came (and there was ample writing on the wall), I may have posted out for anything that was out there. I didn't do that and here I am at home looking for work now.
I lost several of my project team on the last ROM. None of them were what I'd consider "low performers". I had a great team. I wasn't part of the selection process, even as a manager (PSG 25). I was in the ROM myself, but made it through. Don't believe for one minute that being a top-performer is the deciding factor, especially if you are highly compensated. This is a cost reduction effort. Who can perform well in each role, and cost CVX the least? To be brutally honest, some of those who weren't good performers made it through last time, because of their low PSG.
It is taking that long because Chevron wants to make sure the process appears fair and protect themselves from discrimination lawsuits.
This is why 60% (!) of all CNAEP (Chevron North America) Upstream jobs will be open for posting.
That means that all the people in those positions PLUS at least 1,500 expats returning to the U.S. from their assignments will have to post (and compete) for those jobs.
Just wondering why we don't send home all those expats currently in the U.S. as well to make room for our returning expats ?
Ready to layoff the next round of very poor performers. The first round of layoffs took the absolute worst workers. Half those people slept during the day and the other half would be fortunate to pass a Louisiana GED. Let's get the next layer of pure dead wood. At $30/bbl - there's another three or four layers of dead wood to trim.
I'm ready. I am just hoping for a severance for the final push, then I head to the Silicon Valley where hiring has exploded.
If instead of talking like idiots, you would put yourselves in the position of actually running a business like Chevron, you would already know the answer. Chevron cannot afford to layoff its employees so casually. This downturn will reverse itself eventually. The $64,000 question is when. Chevron knows that cutting too deep can be a disadvantage when things turn around and hiring picks up. Once a company our size gets rid of specialized workers who have the training and knowledge of our assets, it's very difficult to replace them. So, this is the main reason that Chevron (and others in our business) are taking what seems to be an eternity to decide how many it may need to layoff and when to do it. As updated forecasts show possible improvements or setbacks, the plans will change. It's unfortunate that the uncertainty creates stress and anxiety, but wouldn't you rather still have a job for as long as possible?
Its taking longer because the bullying and bigotry targets and people not from the local area, as well as those who team leads have a personal dislike for, have all been run off by now. They are running out of ideas on how to identify the next group. They also have to assess which of their friends/family they like the most - I guess that's one category that can be used.
I don't understand why it takes another 3 to 4 months to do another reorganization and layoffs when managers have all the info they need from the last round. It's only been 6 months since the last one. Just make the decisions, place people, layoff the low performers and those that won't fit into the new structure, and let's move on. I'm speaking of bu specific roms, not enterprise wide.