What about CPL reorganization? Anyone have information on this? All we've heard is that we're going to have to apply for the jobs we are currently doing.. which makes no sense!!
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We're going out of business. Everything must go!
Dig the lyrics of this Steely Dan song.
http://youtu.be/iGgtfz5qaaU
Agreed about LinkedIn. Use a good photo of yourself for the profile. No stupid pictures of you climbing a mountain or with the family. It's your profile. Make it a good one.
Thanks for the advise, lyzm. I just did that. I also removed some old irrelevant contacts I had. There's no reason to have contacts that don't support your professional profile. Having the most contacts is not going to help you. Employers and recruiters you look at your LinkedIn profile are judging you by the quality of the connections you keep. They look for contacts that blend with your professional background. Any comments you leave on LinkedIn is also scrutinized, so be careful to remain professional. Always offer to give fair endorsements and look to build your own credibility with receiving endorsements from your contacts.
Update your LinkedIn profile. Create a secondary personal email address then change from primary Chevron email to the personal, making the personal email your primary email address.
Cut the CCAAT team!
New org chart out today. 20-25% cut.
CPL ReOrg townhall this morning.
This week we'll finally know if our job is at risk or decidedly eliminated. This process was drawn out far too long. Good luck to all this Thursday.
Hey aqmi, If you are a CPL employee, speak your mind to us again after June 23. Let us know if you feel the same way.
Yes, like -asrt, you need to be a little victimized weenie!! You need to record stuff and sue!!! Remember, to be a true liberal parasite dorkwad weenie, There's no payoff like the one that you didn't earn and don't deserve!! Then you can go around wearing your "I am a Dick" dunce-cap!!
@aexp, when the body language of your superiors start to tell you something, it's time to put fresh batteries in your digital voice recorder and have it ready to go at a seconds notice. It may not save you from getting laid off, but the transgression could serve as payback for that arrogant ass
A month before I was laid off my boss and many of the leads couldn't look me in the eye and my manager avoided me altogether. He even admitted this to me when he was letting me go. Beware is all I can say.
@9mgh, are you my former supervisor/manager? Sure hope so. The IRS will come knocking soon. Better hope you've been conducting your personal financial affairs like The Chevron Way.
@-9ufn, Yes that's very mature of you. Seek a little petty revenge because a company had to make a decision to cut some of the deadwood. They chose wisely. They got rid of the useless trash.
Same here. I used to work in upstream. My supervisor and group manager ignored me for a month before I told I was laid off. I had 12 years invested in Chevron. They never showed any empathy. I hope to have the last laugh, though. I have a close relative with a high ranking position in the Internal Revenue Service. Very soon, both these dicks will be getting a random audit notice in the mail. It would be justice if both of them are found to have some serious issues uncovered in the audit.
If the pipeline reorg is really a shock to you, you must not understand or even read trade magazines. That is a dangerous way to plod through your job.
I feel your pain. My boss ignored me like I was invisible for my last month. I knew emy rtime was up and was mentally prepared. Sure enough, the axe hit me, but I was calm and at peace with myself. All the strest and sleepness nights went away. Very strange.
I'm nervous about the new Reorg announcement. Some say it's going to be devastating. Between 30 to 40% overall reduction. I have teenage kids, a big mortgage and two car notes. My family depends on me keeping my job. I haven't been getting a good nights sleep for a couple of months. I can't concentrate at work. My boss doesn't very supportive to me or others on the team. I don't feel good about what's coming.
Countdown has started. 10 days to go before CPL Reorg.
I'm sure that black f@ck is laughing hard at what he did to CPL. But a Saturday comes to each and every pig. I didn't know he had a white wife or girlfriend. That white wh--ehas no self respect.
Big Al's probably laughing his ASSoff at you poor butthurt losers as he rides off into the sunset with his beautiful hot white wife that he porks every night with his big black man-sausage.
I'm glad Al Williams took his black asson!!! And he can take that little white hoe that's suckin his dick with him!!!! We are all sick of the bullshit that goes on at CPL
Al "the exterminator" Williams won't be missed. He'll be despised. He did his job on CPL and now is off to another place where no one really knows him. Who knows if off to oversee another massacre.
Al Williams didn't quit. He came to Bellaire and completed his mandate to decimate the company assets and personnel. Now he's off to a new job wherever the San Ramon brass needs his services. A new CPL President just replaced Al.
Al Williams quit CVX?
5qmv, the 42% reduction I mentioned was for the Bellaire CPL office, not the field teams. Maybe the 5-15% you heard of was something else, like field team reductions. The org chart was a draft copy from a month ago, so the final number could be different. I'm not optimistic and I'm not making up crap. Cuts will be deep. Where can Chevron possibly cram all of us on two floors in the downtown office?
Are you referring to the old CPL president who just left the company? You heard wrong. But if he did say 5-15%, it was only to get out of the building alive. The axe is in the hands of the new president.
Stop making up crap. There's not going to be a 40% reduction. CPL's President already told everyone 5-15%.
Confirmed, org chart draft revised may 3 shows 42% reduction, not half.
Big changes coming to pipeline company in 2 weeks. Almost half to be cut.
1oko, the bottom 10% at XOM end up at CVX?!!! Low performers at XOM are safe middle performers at CVX?!!! Ha, ha. Okay. I think everyone has had that insecure friend that likes to tell stories about himself. XOM must be filled with them because that urban legend continues to live. I've been with CVX over a decade and yet to meet a former XOM employee. They must wash out. I've also seen several CVX employees get poached by XOM. They've even tried to poach me, and I'm not that impressive. So save that lying pie hole of yours for impressionable XOM employees. This is a CVX site.
Get your GTMIS information updated and make sure your GO400-2 resume is complete and accurate. Keep it short and to the point. People reviewing your file and resume spend only a scant 30 seconds before determining to keep or toss.
A friend who has always been a reliable source of information for me is good friends with one of the senior managers at CPL. He was told the reorg will involve significant cuts of nearly 40% of its personnel and middle management. That's pretty high. The plan is in place and will be communicated before the end of June.
Interesting insight on XOM's lower tier employees, 1oko. Thanks for your post. - @myn.
Yes, @HJPL6WD-1fkx is a common troll on this board who is asshurt because of the BU he always puts down. It's either because he is jealous that they were one of the most profitable for so many years or he is just chapped because one of the hard-working old oil field hands put him in his place as the loser & slacker that he is. They are very hard-working down there and don't tolerate lazy do-nothing millennial types who just want an easy paycheck. Most of them run for the hills and cry-baby all the way home like @HJPL6WD-1fkx.
Myn- the bottom 10% at XOM are only vulnerable during industry downturns, during the ride up from 2005 to 2015, very few of the bottom 10% were terminated. These were counseled out and many went to CVX, because job market was good. Many low performers at XOM are safe middle to high performers at CVX. XOM generally develops better people and even bottom performers at XOM do well elsewhere.
Obviously, 1fkx, you don't work for Chevron or know what you're talking about.
Careful - you might get some of the bigoted trolls from GOM. Trust me, you don't want CPL turning in to the next GOM.
New CPL organization to be announced June 23. ROM to start in early August. No reliable information on how deep the cuts will be. Some speculation about 20 or 30% reduction. We will find out soon enough.
The XOM culture is very different than Chevron's. Even the culture in CPL is noticeably different than that of other Chevron BU's and OPCOs. CPL is more relaxed and friendly, almost like family. Not wrong with that. We are a small pipeline company and operate as a service company to our upstream and downstream counterparts. We are not a typical pipeline business that takes on 3rd party activities, so as long as things run smoothly, the days are mostly uneventful. We come to work, put in our no stress 8-9 hours and collect our handsome paychecks. Some may say the ExxonMobil model of lopping 10% annually is the best, but no thanks is what I say. As good as an employee you may be, it's a constant competition where your own colleagues are your enemies. Year after year, it's only a matter of time the 10% will catch up to you. Either your own age will become your worst asset or a small unfortunate mistake will be unforgiven. As the years go by working at Exxon, it becomes a pressure cooker. Bad for your health of body and mind. The floors at Exxon are covered in banana peels. I'd rather work for Chevron any day before Exxon. It's a pity that layoffs have hit the company we love so much, but it's not the fault of us failing to follow Exxon's culture of decimating every year. The O&G industry in general is in a tough correction period, like it normally goes through every 10-15 years.