Thread regarding Chevron Corp. layoffs

I think everyone complains about something at one point or another, we are all human, but once you start playing the race card, you pretty much label yourself a whiner. No this isn't even about liberal vs conservative, not everything that goes on in your mind needs to be dictated by Fox news or CNN. Just use common sense. The fact that you would call someone a liberal just because they call you out on your BS speaks volumes about you. This crazy sense of entitlement that some of you have is only getting in the way of logic. Welcome to the cold, competitive, and capitalistic world that we live in. No handouts, no free lunch.

-3srx, and yes, the posters like the one below who do not like that term or claim that it does not exist are most likely the ones who are in a protected class, or are liberal parasites who ride off the hard work and accomplishments of others, without contributing much themselves. We have a lot of those bottom feeders at Chevron.

@-3tch, I thought that was a made up or misused term also, until I checked Merriam-Webster, Oxford Dictionary, Wikipedia, Dictionary.com, United States Department of the Interior law records, and numerous other sources and sites in the internet. Fortunately, whiners and complainers on thelayoff.com website do not get to decide what "reverse discrimination" is or isn't. The law does.

@GLkr2Iu-3tch, You poor baby!! Is someone figuring your poor pathetic liberal PC game out? Have you been supposedly mistreated because of what you are claiming is the color of your skin or ethnicity and people are finding out that you are truly just an incompetent piece of deadwood? We understand that your undeserved entitlements are becoming more and more at risk here. We all feel so bad for you!!! Remind us to cry you a river when we get cut and you get to stay because you are in a protected group!!!

@GLkr2Iu-3wva---

Reverse discrimination is just about the dumbest term ever used. Discrimination is discrimination period. In this case the cold hard truth is that the issue revolves around people with a strong sense of entitlement. When that sense of entitlement isn't satisfied, that's when you get all these pathetic complaints about "reverse discrimination". Next time try harder, like if it were a do or die situation, and do it from the beginning not just when layoffs are on the horizon. You might just surprise yourself.

Straight, white, U.S. citizen, expat, 40's. I got cut today. Look out. Deadwood coming through.

@2gna, I also received a demographics breakdown report with my severance papers last year. I looked it over very well and noticed the majority were over 50. What irritated (pissed me off) the most was that not long after I sent in my signed waiver papers to get my severance pay, several younger 30+ people and minorities I knew were part of the layoff cut, got offered "internal jobs". I would venture to guess if the original demographics report were required to be updated a month after it was created, would net out almost 90% over 50 years of age. A clear class action case for age discrimination. I know Chevron and HR use lowdown tactics all the time. The Chevron Way is only a slogan.

@GLkr2Iu-2nxf, Actually "reverse discrimination" is alive and well in many forms of industry and in many corporations these days. I am not certain to the extent that is in play at CVX, but it is nothing to take lightly. It is a corruption of a pure, naturally competitive, and fair employee selection process and the American way. Sure, there are those who could use that as an excuse to whine, bitch and complain instead of owning up to their own inadequacies, but that is an entirely different argument. I honestly believe that these employees can smell a fly in the ointment when there truly is one.

GLkr2Iu-2vhx... too late for the advice to not use the race card. Alot of these bottom feeders knew in their mind they were getting canned and they started making excuses ahead of time like "reverse discrimination".... Useless and lame defense mechanism.

I sudden to hear about the layoffs. Please keep in mind that you can and will bounce back. You just have to began to think outside the box regarding next career move. Try not to be bitter or play the blame game i.e. race card , gender or age. Dig deep and bring that self innovation that helped you stay in the game this long.

Godspeed to you.

M

Thanks for the reply. Wish more newly unemployed chevron people would post here.

If you get laid off, when you finally receive your settlement agreement form in the mail, it will include a breakdown of demographics of those laid off, and those that were not (within your same career ladder field). The lists will show: Position Title, Age, PSG

A quick scan of the Dec layoffs showed that nobody under age 35 was laid off, within my engineering group. Most were 40+ age.

Just got the ax.

Mid-30s, white, single male, 10+ yrs industry exp, multiple degrees, US citizen, worked in drilling

f----ts, all of you. Have fun !

Everyone who gets sh---canned tomorrow should post their approx age, race, yrs w/ Chevron, citizenship, and general work group so we can see if there is in fact discrimination.

This is interesting because looking back a few years the OA for the BU I was supporting at the time didn't want her birthday acknowledged - when I asked why she said Chevron will find a way to replace you if your over a certain age... she was well into her 50's but at the time I thought her mindset was just silly thinking, paranoia perhaps.. but then again maybe she was on point!! Not sure if she's still there, as I found a way and moved on. Best of luck to all.

Just so you know, @GLkr2Iu-1anpI, I read this thread and I disagree, I am a woman, and I may very well have kept my position at Chevron and will most likely keep it after this week. Although I feel I deserve my position and worked hard for it, I do not believe that the evident reverse discrimination is particularly helpful to our overall strength as a company. There are some cases where it does no harm, i.e. the individuals are very qualified, but there are many more cases where it is damaging to performance and morale because they keep people who do not carry their share of the responsibilities for no other reason but to meet quotas.

Classic psychology says that @1guq himself is one of those beta males. He knows I'm correct but will deny it.

Beta males everywhere. You fruits haven't had pussy since pussy had you.

@-1xvp, Excuses for what? and Get a grip on What? Do you have a point to make? Are you one of the protected classes? If so, good for you. Be happy that Chevron protects certain people like you and go ahead on your way. Don't let the door hit you in the A$$ on the way out. LOL!

What a lame assthread full of excuses. Get a grip.

Chevron's political correctness has gone overboard. Once minorities and protected classes are inside, good luck weeding out the bad ones, which by the way are at least half of them. Put a minority or protected class person in charge of the recruiting process and your problem is three times worse off.

Chevron has targeted several top notch schools for minority hiring. Engineering schools, MIT, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, Georgia Tech, A &M. Not only great schools but hands on mechanical experience. The young man that I worked with built a 76 Trans Am. Built the engine.....kid was top notch. If Chevron did this with others we would not be able to n this position.

You can come up with several instances, as one did, which clearly demonstrate reverse discrimination, groups or committees made up more of "previously discriminated upon groups" than of a normal cross-section of the populace. Not exactly a layoff discussion, but anytime ethnic favoritism of any type is paramount to a selection process rather then performance capabilities it never ends well. I believe that organizations like Chevron, who either for economic or public relations or just their own good intentions, try to emphasize this form or favoritism in ends up making matters worse and the overall performance of the corporation suffers. It's one of those situations where the intentions are good, but the outcome is bad.

What a relief, I am a 50+ year old, overweight, lesbian, black female, on H1B visa.

@kwu, of course the cut list looks diverse at first when it published. Then people in the list all of a sudden are offered internal jobs. Those left without jobs are the 50+ age group. That's how it worked for me.

Check that Alpha demographic data again....there's a large bump in the snake full of former CVX employees in the 50-59 age range.

Does it really matter? You can't control it, so why stress out about it. And FYI, they sent out age & gender stats with Alpha. It was more diverse than you think.

@-lqh. Hopefully skills and ability are considered along with skin color and ethnicity. I think Chevron should focus on hiring the best and brightest regardless of demographics. After all we are running a for-profit business not a liberal university. We are producing a stream of hydrocarbons not a line of pc bs. The 12 person board of directors has 2 african-americans, 1 hispanic , 2 women and 7 male caucasians. Guess the board didnt get the memo from org capability about Asians.

I am not aware of any specifics or demographics set out for those who are to be left standing/ those retained after the ESP. What I do know is a workforce target has been set, vetted, endorsed and communicated by the Upstream Organizational Capability group.

Simply put, the goal is that Chevron's Upstream workforce

should & will reflect the demographics of the population of the United States on a percentage basis. For over a year now,

money has been allocated to recruitment at universities

that have an above average

student population of minority students in technical fields.

Increasing recruitment of Asian, Hispanic, and African American students has been clearly communicated to RTL's and the recruiting team. Hiring decisions are no longer in the hand of

Hiring managers at a functional BU level. These decisions are now made by a group who's objective is to make Chevron's workforce mirror the diversity of the population of

the U.S. on a % basis. These are

the facts. This is what OC is driving to. Chevron gets the demographics

reported by the the universities

and then allocates $$ to be spent at universities that offer the better chance of recruiting "underrepresented" demographics to our chevron workforce. That's why there is now the OC review board. That's simply the facts.

Christ, niz - you are a shoe-in for HR Manager at Chevron. When can you start?

I am a metrosexual transgender shemale from Cabinda. Where do I rank? I would like to assess the probability of me getting laid and off.

OP, I would place straight white males over 50 in the #1 spot of the your list, followed by everyone else over 50. Following the aged bunch will be the remaining demographics in any random order. Too bad anyone in management over PSG 25 don't take the #1 spot on the list. Canning them alone would resolve all of Chevron's problems.

Ex pat in our us location is super low performer. If they are not left standing I will seriously doubt mgmt intelligence. I don't want to work with them...would rather apply to another company it's so bad