I had quite a few so it is hard to pick a favorite. I worked in one of the European offices for a while and we had a very generous entertainment budget, even for in-house visitors. I remember my boss laughing at an eye-watering dinner bill and then dance club drink receipts I submitted. The last one was stamped at 2:30 am on a Tuesday. The business entertainment justification was a visiting ETC engineer - an old man with white hair who sure liked his whiskey.
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Free food on the 40th floor of 1500 Louisiana. Every fricken day, followed by a 15 minute dump.
BBQs in Malongo with good friends.
A team lead sharting himself during a 7am diversity moment.
There were mornings I'd have chosen a beating, rather than walk through the office doors. LOT's of those mornings. And, there were mornings I couldn't wait to get to work! Looking back, it's evident that the "good" mornings/days occurred while I was assigned to a field, or plant, location. The closer my orbit took me to HQ,... the more ugly the atmosphere. I'm rather happy to no longer have to endure it.
Handing in my resignation letter earlier this year and seeing Houston in my rearview mirror for the last time was one of the happiest days of my life. I have no other fond memories of Chevron.
The good ole days before PASA forced rankings, Safety Moments / Ergo Breaks / LPS, Sh--Dip, when we still had international downstream.
Drats - that was before CVX gobbled up Texaco, Unocal, Caltex and became a bloated bureaucracy.
Made a ton of good friends
Walking out the door for the last time.
My fondest Chevron memory?..... maybe it is taking a crap in the CEO's toilet and not flushing it while he was out sinking an eagle at Pebble Beach Golf Club.
I think both you and the white-haired drunk from ETC should have been fired by 3:00 am on Tuesday morning.