Thread regarding Chevron Corp. layoffs

Because I'm a butt head loser that spent 36 years of my life dedicating 24/7 support to this company at the exclusion of my family.. Apparently that wasn't enough. Not bitter. No, seriously not bitter. Well maybe a bit.....

At least the payoff was good !

Because I volunteered and to smoke weed :)

I got laid off because my supervisor and his manager were both pricks cut from he same cloth. I'm laughing today, though, because I'm in fine shape and those two imbeciles are out on their @sses and SOL.

Wishing this thread would take off again-classic clean fun! Come on already!

It doesn't look good for oil prices in 2017 either.

The events are coming! Run asap to Canada or Mexico at least

these are my last warnings to you

1dyj... lucky to have such a big package that pleases your wife

I Ticked the EOI box after discussions with my manager and PDC rep. Was told as only a few years away from the big 60 it was highly likely I would get severance If I requested it. With 27 years of service and facing limited time remaining in the BU due to visa issues it seemed like a good opportunity for semi retirement and a chance to do somethings I have been planning for years. So no regrets and grateful to Chevron (a good company to work for). My advice to anyone looking to leave to retire is simply make sure your are financially secure and have plans in place to keep you busy. There is life after Chevron.

An oft-repeated sentiment on these layoff boards is "I was laid off because I was expensive" or "management laid off the highest paid people". These are both misnomers. I think if you review the layoff figures you will see an even distribution across all the pay grades. However, the higher the pay grade the higher the expected impact to the business. If you are PSG24 or higher and you are not impacting bottom line business results in a consistent, positive way, you need to go. Sorry!

The simplest response is that I moved into Upstream right before oil crashed after over 13 years in other parts of the company. I never had a chance to leave my mark in any significant way because projects were being killed left and right forcing me into yet another PDC every 9 months. These key things played against me during the layoffs:

1. Unless you are a future exec, Upstream wants specialists. I had a lot of broad experiences and skills that didn't amount to a hill of beans. When they are filling Business planning jobs, they want someone who has done it 15 years in upstream rather than someone who as business planning experience, project management experience, etc.

2. I was expensive. With over 15 years in the company and still under the lucrative pension plan, you can't tell me managers weren't thinking about the broader expense.

3. I wasn't in upstream long enough to build a strong enough network to protect me which is probably what hurt me the most.

Had a bigoted supervisor who took ever opportunity to attack and malign me in a 5 month window leading to my first, and only, 2- at the company. That was enough to cost me my job after 15 years of performing well. The Chevron way and integrity is a joke.

OP, I got laid off because my department had one too many redundant job positions. Rather than keep the most seasoned and problem solving employee in the group, HR and the department's manager decided to follow the consultant, BCG's advice to cost the highest compensated employees. They did not place the proper intangible value on the knowledge, experience and problem solving skills that I had, but only concentrated on end pay. Several times in the 3 months after I left the company, my former supervisor and two former colleagues called me at home seeking my help. I was gracious enough to help, but when I got a call into my 4th month in retirement, I reminded my ex-supervisor that the company found me redundant and no longer needed. I asked him to tell everyone to stop calling.

The layoff percentage is close to 25%. This includes office and field personnel. The service sector has been hit worse than oil companies. Early retirement alone probably accounts for at least 5%. You don't go from $100 to $45 for crude, along with all the cancelled projects and budget cuts to only achieve a 15% staff reduction.

I got laid off because I was not very much "into" my job much anymore, I suppose and my work suffered. I had become dead weight that they needed to carry. Being near retirement, I was also higher paid than many of my coworkers based on my experience. I do not regret my years at Chevron. Chevron has been very good to me and gave me a generous package. My wife agrees and says that she is very happy that I was given such a big package and it pleases her very much.

@KdWpVv5-1jeb, Thanks for proving my point perfectly and unequivocally to all readers of this thread and site. You indeed are a lonely, pathetic , poor pitiful fool with no life trolling this thread and responding to and insulting another repeatedly for doing the exact same thing that you are doing. You have nothing else to do with your life and are lonely, pathetic and pitiful and are trolling this thread. I am not the one falsely claiming to be "happy as a clam". Please keep working on your pathetic predicament. As an adolescent and lonely loser with no life and nothing else to do, since you have no goal or purpose in life, you will indeed insist on getting the last word in. I suggest that you try prayer, since there is not much hope otherwise for someone in such pathetic denial of your miserable dead-end situation, which is depression. May God bless you, I will pray for you, dear.

1vfr, your quick comeback to this site to again lash out is very revealing to the readers of your true situation. So pathetic. Keep stewing.

@KdWpVv5-1ctg , No dude, but thanks for revealing that you're so pathetic and falsely sympathetic. I do not need your sympathy because I am not a laid-off butthurt loser such as yourself. Not laid off at all. It's nice that you are breaking through your depression and funk enough to insult others, though. That shows that you are making a wee bit of progress albeit in the wrong direction. It's not a good sign when insulting others is your method of "helping others and reminding yourself how unfortunate you are" That's the first sign of trouble after a pathetic laid off deadwood loser with no life who has been cut comes to this forum to seek closure. They start to insult other posters, thinking that will lift them up and give meaning to their lonely, pathetic, miserable dead-end road existence. Keep your tiny little miserable head up. Trolling this forum and insulting others is not the answer though, my pathetically lonely asshurt friend.

Is it that sad for you 1gng? Too bad. Not for me. I occasionally this layoff site just to remind myself of how fortunate I am and to offer my help and advise to my former colleagues when possible. However for you, I'll wish that you stew a bit longer in your own misery. But don't worry, it takes some folks a little longer than others to finally lift themselves up.

The funding for the project I was working on was cancelled. Later, the entire project group was cancelled.

I do not believe the statistic of OP... 15% of US oilfield workers... even if it does not consider the many, like myself, who took the package. Maybe considering just the people who physically work in the oil field... rather than back at the office.

I put in my 28 years after the last 5 were wearing me down. I EOI'ed and took my 1 year of severance and other parting gifts. I'm so glad I did since I had paid off my home 3.5 years prior to retiring. I did well enough financially and I'm only 3 years away from early Social Security. Happy as a clam.

I got tired of working and my performance showed it. It was time to go. I'm just glad chevron has a good severance plan to ease the pain.

Having a good rapport with your manager is very important. Be very careful about going to work for someone whom you don't seem to click with. Surround yourselves with good people, people who are not just out for themselves, who share, and who care about your success and development. You can only go as far as your manager wants you to go. Working for someone who has values similar to your own is important, as far as getting along and building rapport.

That's impossible. Just by rig count alone