Yes. It was today.
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Why post on a 4 year old post? How many pages back was this as it was not active when you posted on it.
CPL is a joke. They have a special hand shake club when it comes to their leadership. Basically “ I take care of you and your family and I will take care of you”. Lots of leadership has family working. They will screw the rest and replace them with with contractors, so it doesn’t show up in the corporate head count
CPL is around today as a much smaller business unit. I don't it will be here by 2019. Employees will be transferred to the new owner and operator. No severance pay from Chevron.
Chevron's layoffs have shaped a company of mediocre, ruthless middle managers who survived ofer the years by weeding out potential competitors by simply giving them 2s and 2-s on PMPs. The better, more qualified people, volunteered for layoffs, or left standing and gained handsome packages. Most had little trouble finding better positions, they are more attractive employees and have more options.
CPL reduced their total operated miles of pipelines to less than half toward the end of 2014. It was expected that the support staff at Bellaire also needed to be reduced by that much, but that hasn't been the case. We cut our staff by 25 or 30% of what it was before we sold the first pipeline system in the 4th quarter of 2013. There may not be a direct correlation between total operated miles of pipelines and number of personnel, but that is a common metric used in the pipeline industry for measuring costs. CPL is not a pure-play pipeline company like most midstream companies. CPL serves Chevron's upstream and downstream business units. For CPL to remain a viable and strategic asset to Chevron, it must keep its total operating costs as trim as possible. It gets harder to do that when total costs have to be divided into the fewer miles of pipe we now operate. If we are unable to cut personnel further, we cannot afford costly upsets or accidents. Chevron may one day consider paying a tariff to another operator, rather than retaining operating control, but also the high operating cost and environmental/safety risk.
CPL laid off the people in the Bellaire office with a formula of years of experience and salary and maybe age, I don't know. Keeping a lot of inexperienced people who don't have high salaries. Don't take it personal. The list of lay offs was developed with this spreadsheet that has nothing to do with your job knowledge, contributions, or past performance. And don't ask them any question about the selection process because they don't have time to discuss anyone's concerns.
There were also other people who were offered demotions, jobs at lower pay grades. I wonder if the folks making the decisions, who decided to have so many large projects in progress with no contingency plan for the drop in the price of crude for so long, will receive the same lay offs and demotions?
'Chevron is way too PC' is spot on. Most of the people who currently work at Chevron or have lost their jobs have only worked at Chevron, so they have no reference point for comparison. Those who have other companies in their work history will mostly agree that Chevron is the most PC company they have ever experienced. This corrupts the decision making process at all levels. This PC, LGBT and multiculturalism corporate environment is also applied to vendors who want to do business with Chevron. Just check the website.
-7aip, It could be the result of a "friends and family" arrangement or simply CPL saving labor burden costs. Maybe a little of both or HR muddying the waters with their affirmative action initiatives or balancing the demographics scorecard. Chevron is way too PC and that will be its ultimate downfall.
Layoffs are the same everywhere. Too often, it is based on personality, politics or something that is not relevant to knowledge, skill or productivity. It has always been like this. Everyone has heard the phrase that life isn't fair. Just be thankful if you keep your job for whatever reason.
Probably the manager was taking care of friends and family
Unfortunately, several folks were cut from my group. Management decided to get rid of a productive worker from my group and the replace this person with a crappy worker from a different group. This whole situation makes no sense whatsoever...
The only way cpl will make cuts is if upstream management forces them to. They don't have the management expertise to do it on their own nor do they understand profit and loss. Poor management at the top of CPL is the problem. Not the workers fault.
The next big accident this pipeline company has will be its last. Chevron execs are teetering on the fence for reason to sell it all to a new operator.
CPL was designed to fail. Not run as a pipeline business. Best to sell it if management doesn't want to turn a profit. Too bad for the employees though. Management t sold them down the drain.
Many of them will now be joining the 'laid of from the oil industry' club. Welcome aboard. Membership is growing every month.
The CPL people are being called in today and tomorrow. The majority are in Houston. The fat lady is singing.
Roughly what percentage is that? 120 out of how many? Are these all Houston based?
I think you are right, -1ygn. On Monday, August 29 or by Tuesday, approximately 120 employees will get their notification of being laid off. Who knows if this ends now or if by December we're looking down the barrel at another round of cuts.
Most of the CPL employees with jobs or job offers were notified on Thursday last week. Some may have received offers in Friday. The remaining employees who didn't get an email with the good news will get the bad news on Monday and Tuesday. It's a shame many good people will be pushed out of their jobs but things like this happen in life.
@J4miCl6-fgw, Correct. And you will go through both but most of us with real jobs, careers and talents, unlike you, will not.
Everybody will die, but not everybody will go through financial collapse
Also there is a 100% chance that you will die someday. Prepare for that too.
As I told you earlier, most employees will be laid off within next couple of years, prepare for the worst
Yes, starting today through next week. Many sent out today.