Before you are laid off:
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Update your Chevron HR and Vanguard accounts primary contact information to your mobile or home phone number and personal email. Make your Chevron work phone and company email your secondary contact preference for now.
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If you have external accounts such as LinkedIn, update your contact settings to your personal email and mobile phone.
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Print or save the last 3 years of your payroll statements while you still are an employee. Once you can no longer connect to the company server with your badge, the payroll info on the Benefits Connection website will be unavailable to you. Only your pension and medical benefits will be available externally at www.hr2.chevron.com.
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Print an "Employment Verification" fax containing both your current salary and initial date of employment. You can do this through the Benefits Connection website. (If you send the fax to your company fax number, stand watch at the fax machine, as it could take up to 10-15 minutes for it to be sent). You can also send it to your home fax for more security.
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Run and print a "Retirement Estimator" report from the Benefits Connection/Retirement website now. - Set the parameters to show your retirement on your supposed termination date and set both assumptions for salary increase and bonus percentage to zero. The objective is to have an idea of your lump sum and annuity amounts due to you in case you are laid off. Also it will provide you with a printed statement showing your Highest Average Earnings (HAE).
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Copy or move all important and personal files to your laptop's C drive. That includes important emails, contacts phone numbers and email addresses. This way, you can accumulate everything in one place, before taking the laptop home to move it all off to a thumb drive or external hard drive. Don't risk moving or copying files onto a removable drive from work. That action is logged and can be monitored by the IT department. Do this at home or in an office touchdown room while not logged into the company server.
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Group all your personal printed and documents you no longer need and dump them in the company's confidential document dumpster for shredding.
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Start taking your personal effects home a little bit at a time. Pack things like picture frames, decorative items, cups and coffee mugs, your printed and signed PMP evaluations, resumes, etc.