I wonder if folks will finally have to guts to speak out again after June 13th (last day on CVX payroll).
This board has been far too quiet recently.
There are still many skeletons in the closets all around CVX.
Good luck making your payments on $400/week unemployment.
Time to cut the children's soccer, baseball, gym, swim, etc. memberships and cable TV.
Have you made a list of non-essential expenses yet ?
@2fdx, I agree with your comments inasmuch as I accept that I'm only an asset to the company and I shouldn't be emotional about being laid off. But if everyone's an asset, why is it that I got laid off while other less productive employees got to stay? Where is it that you take emotion out of the equation?
Never get too attached to this sh!t. Just save your money and go on about your business.
Doesn't matter what advanced degrees you might have. You are still just an asset. Leave all your emotions in the sh!tter.
You are welcome.
What's to say I got 38 years of the company I'm getting a bonus to leave I got a great retirement I don't think there's anything to say Chevron Was good and Getty and Texaco
Everybody sounds make it so subversive like they're calculating on how to be mean to employees or something
The price down didn't have any money that's one of the thing
it's a big company and when you get the bigger company on a big project there will be wasteful
This site has been very quiet lately because of the many immature insults being thrown around, the lack of helpful information, and the genuine worry most serious employees are having right now.
Tomorrow is indeed the last day for many, myself included after 34 years. I just wish everyone well. If you're young good luck with alternative opportunities or hang out until our industry recovers. If you're at the other end of the age scale I hope you have enough banked to survive comfortably until your retirement date or have opportunities to supplement your income. The industry will not be hiring soon and many will have to tighten the belts a little. But be positive, occupy yourselves and try to be optimistic. I will struggle with all of those but the alternative will be worse. Good luck to all !
saf - glad you brought up the whole essential employee fiasco. Chevron made everybody "essential" for CB&I's LNG tank the last train. When we all knew they (CB&I) needed to be left alone. Chevron did not know who did what. I would say the average essential employee bonuses for these projects on wheatstone and Gorgon were $250,000 per employee. Who gets a quarter of a million dollars for NEVER delivering on these two projects. I also have done sh--, in 3 years. I was deemed project essential for safety sensative tasks.
I was supposed to produce the critical lift plans, when in fact I play the market and bet pro sports. We make so much money doing nothing, I am ashamed. Ahhhhh, well no I am not ashamed to tell the truth lol. I still literally find myself laughing at the money I make adding no value. If Chevron is that stupid I will take the pay check. The OP can hate as you said and think the long term employees who got laid off got screwed. When in fact they made enough money for 5 jobs combined into one in which we worked 5 hours a week feeling out expense reports and BBS observations for the most part. The foreign expats are the only ones who have it better than us. Have you met any Nigerian you would hire for your own company. I have not. They do have nice suits though lol.
• I do have one question. Who is this guy Nigel Hearne. He came in talking trash on all of his coworkers. Nigel don't tell us how bad these managers are. You are right, but it shows no class and makes everyone weary that you are a bacouple stabbing Ahole. The guy is a senior manager, he needs to keep that confidential work performance to himself. I wonder if he talked that way about his Pittsburgh management team or California team? I am sure he did and got rewarded for it. Nigel will get you alone and talk about Roy like a dog. The Chevron Way. Talk trash on your boss to junior employees because it makes you feel powerful. Nigel needs that affirmative because it is obvious he won't add value. So let's talk sh-- about Roy.
Hmmmmm I wonder if the beach front home I bought in Costa Rica is non-essential. I bought it last August knowing they wanted to fire me. Or the S class Mercedes I bought this spring. I recommend the VP 12. I don't think the custom metallic red paint job was essential. But it is nice. The care out the door was 174k.......to me it was essential, especially the VP 12. The car was still less than my bonus. I got fired a month ago and to my surprise found out that my "retirement" income I will make $721.78 more a month. And on my wife's insurance, we will take home more than 1k than when I worked. The old Chevron retirement plan can't be beat. No way no how. The best part is I have done nothing in the last 5 years. I tried but no go....and I still got paid. I was part of the Gorgon team. We screwed the pooch and I needed a shipping box just for all the money I made doing absolutely nothing. I can promise you we would not have had the propane issue if we were not removed and replaced by 20 something contractors. But I enjoyed the naps I took. In 2014 I bought my daughter and an E class from the retention bonus that we got as "Essential Org Capacity." I went back and slept after the presentation of the checks. Essential????? Many are afraid to admit making so much money and truly doing nothing these pasteps 5 years. There a lot of us who made well over 500K......so keep hating while I watch the waves and dolphins.....and count my essential income. ....
No OP, I have not made a list of non-essential expenses but I have made a list of non-essential employees and my guess is you are on that list. People leaving soon need encouragement and not another insult. Sorry you feel the need to share your misery with others. To those leaving on the 13th or whenever, and that may be all or most if poor markets prevail, I wish you the very best and urge you to perservere and stay positive about your future after Chevron. You have a great company on your resume and no doubt many solid accomplishments while employed there. Leverage this to your advantage in your next career and don't let the bitterness expressed by the OP and many others take root in your life.