Thread regarding Chevron Corp. layoffs

Amen my butthurt brother and Merry Christmas to you too!

I agree with the last post, if someone is happily retired, the last thing they are doing is surfing the layoffs threads, they have left that far behind in another life. In any case, You guys Better be Good, Santa Claus is coming!!

Merry Christmas! Ho Ho Ho!

@gbss , I am so happy that you have found your calling. I do similar, except without the RV. I can't deal with having to haul so much around just to get from point A to B, but I have many friends who love it. Appreciate your honest positive post.

Life after retirement is fantastic. I planned for retiring in 2016 a long 32 years ago. I was lucky to have worked for Chevron and don't regret a single day of my entire career. My wife retired earlier this year from her 30 year corporate career at AT&T. The icing on the cake has to be the severance check I received from Chevron after I was allowed to EOI this year. That one year paycheck was not planned for. We treated ourselves to buying a luxury mobile home with most of that money and have been touring the USA for the last 3 months with 6 more to go. Greetings from an old CVX hand, posting my well wishes today from beautiful Yosemite National Park.

1uuw my sentiments exactly. Although I enjoyed working for Chevron (almost three decades) in the last few years it did feel as if we were spending a lot of time doing business with ourselves and not doing it very well. We became focused on processes and lost sight of what the process was trying to achieve. Then just as we got the process half working it would be changed. I retired early when the opportunity came (EOI'ed) and to be honest like you glad to be out of it. Am afraid my tolerance for the 'e-mail senders' you refer to was wearing a bit thin towards the end.

Am sure Chevron will survive for all its issues and will come out of the current down turn a better company. Hopefully the quality personnel who contribute will rise through the organisation and succeed.

Have a good retirement.

8qxr Good response but probably way over his head. I doubt there is much between his ears!

@8qxr , That's so sad, the situation that you are in. You can't retire comfortably with a lot of debt. I would start looking for a job in another field right away. I know a few people who did and they are very happy with the change. Some even got a better deal, pay and benefits. There's a big world out there outside of Oil & gas. Good luck with your new career whatever it is, and hope it works out for you.

Ok then, 6krn.... I'll say the opposite. I'm broke and so sad. I'm so bored and can no way retire comfortably. I'm saddled with debt and will never pay off the shack I live in. I was laid off involuntarily and only got a miserable severance. Oh, I'm so unfortunate that life and planning didn't work out for me.

Is what I just posted okay for you, Freud??

I agree with the previous poster, not that I have any idea about the person, but that typically indicates a materialistic mentality. Having enough to live on + some to party 'til you drop does not bring you happiness, contentment, nor satisfaction. There's a lot more to be said for having a role in life, be it a career, paid or voluntary, hobbies and sports, social groups, etc.. if that is your passion. Money has very little to do with it once you have reached what you need for basic expenses. Many people with much less are so, so much happier, fulfilled. and content than those with more that it's stupefying. Including much less than the average Oil and gas industry worker accumulates in a career which is above average. Getting on here and simply bragging or implying that your (relatively small) amount of wealth accumulated is the key to your happiness is pretty much admitting that you are in denial and have no true happiness or fulfillment. Sure, it's easier to be happier without financial issues or problems. That's not my point. Don't make it into something that it's not.

"But best thing is no longer responding to e-mails from people I have no respect" .... you must miss it as you post here instead;-).

To quote Paul McCartney (You Never Give Me Your Money):

"But oh, that magic feeling, nowhere to go. Oh, that magic feeling, nowhere to go. Nowhere to go"

My husband retired at 56 with 37 years with Chevron. I don't plan on retiring anytime soon. My husband seems to be handling it very well. Although he too is really starting to miss networking with his former co workers... my husband always liked his job at Chevron. It just took him away from home and so after 37 years he was ready. The reality is setting in that his family and friends are all still working and "can't come out to play" with him. He really misses interacting with people day to day.. he really is such a people person. I believe after the holidays he may start to look for a 2nd career. But he does miss his Chevron peeps.... and yes my husband comes out of the Gulf of Mexico Business Unit and the Covington office where he worked with some really great and wonderful people his entire career. Quite a few we consider family friends.

I had the chance to leave with a severance package at 60 after working for CVX for 36 years and am very pleased about this outcome. I had saved up enough money, combined with Chevron's generous benefits, to be set for life. I'm doing volunteer work with my church, traveling a fair amount and spending more time with my wife and my young-adult kids. My biggest challenge is replacing the social network I had with my work colleagues, but I'm making some progress there.

Not bored here, at 59 and left at 36 years I'm just changing gears, a lot like my career at Chevron. I couldn't have scripted it better. Chevron was an amazing ride, great projects and great people. Now on to even better!

I am not financially able to retire, so I had six WONDERFUL months off and am now in a new position which it didn't take me too long to find. The salary is lower but the benefits are better and it is local. the people are rather stiff and unfriendly and I guess that is probably the biggest difference I've noticed from Chevron - they has some real pieces of work but intermixed were some decent human beings. I can't say I have to sit through all that stupid ergo and safety stuff and we don't do things a certain way because "that's the way it's always been done." But I very much envy the people who can retire in their 50's -- why in the world would you get bored? for heaven's sake, have you no hobbies or interests?? That is very hard for me to conceive - being bored. I never got bored with I was unemployed. I like my home and I like my company and my animals. and I felt so much better without having to deal with traffic and just the office b---s---.

1slz: go visit your parents or kids or do some volunteer work. Expand your network. It's not all about the money.

I'm financially secure in my retirement, but "Retirement" is not what it's cracked up to be. The days seem to go by fast and it's the same run of the mill lifestyle all the time. Maybe it's because I'm only 59 and all the so-called friends I have are still working. They don't have time anymore. Seems like the time I had during my working career were the happiest. Life after retirement doesn't necessarily mean "do what you want". There are limitations to everything.

Financially secure and happy as a pig in sh*t. But best thing is no longer responding to e-mails from people I have no respect for or trying to comply with some idiots pointless unworkable process or procedure.

I have over 3 mill. in invested assets alone. No bills , no debt, paid up house, cars, boat, etc,. fat pension, lovely girlfriend, And I am depressed as crap daily and have no life. Money doesn't buy happiness. I don't care for h--kers and fast cars and tacky showy trash. Have already traveled to much of what I have wanted to see, and I will continue at my own leisurely pace.

Also I do not have quite enough to give it all away to charities and try to survive, although some in my situation do. Most retired people my age who have FIRE'd and gotten there by being frugal know no other lifestyle. Not that I want to eat at Ruth's all the time. I can fix a much better filet, it's as simple as that. Their sides are pretty good, I'll give them that. (FIRE=Financially Independent Retire Early). Don't ask again.

I have over a million dollars and no bills, but I'm not truely 100% happy.

I am not one of those who is financially secure, but I am very emotionally and psychologically happy. I feel so much healthier, both physically and emotionally. It wasn't the work I did at Chevron, it was the absolutely unbearable coworkers I had to deal with on a near daily basis. There were a small handful that were decent people, but most were insufferable a-holes. Smug, arrogant and ignorant. The politics of Chevron was stifling. I feel so liberated. Just been laying around goofing off, but will be searching for some bs part time job soon. I have no bills, but not a million dollars saved either.

If money is all that seems to make you happy once you have met your basic comfortable lifestyle requirements and have decent health care, you will never find happiness. That's a common misconception.

-----Old Fart----

Happy, Bored, financially Secure and still have one paycheck. Boredom is easy to get rid of, though. Can't say the same thing for a 9 to 5.

Unless you miss smugly arrogant, self-absorbed, incompetent, power-hungry morons,... life after retirement is wonderful! And,... if you DO need an occasional "fix" of stupidity, arrogance, etc., there're always the politicians to watch.

Life is good. Plenty of money. Plenty to do and do at my pace, not someone else's pace. Sweet! Get you some.