Thread regarding Chevron Corp. layoffs

Project Delta

What is your general feeling on project Delta?

I have worked for Chevron for 5 yeas now. Only once did I try and get a new job through the PDC, however, I was told that I was unsuccessful because there was someone coming back from overseas and they needed to place him somewhere.

The PDC is going to come up again soon, and there are a couple jobs I am interested in, but they are listed as "contingent" They are also located on the upstream side of the business, (in AMBU) which makes me a little unsure as they were one of the units hit hardest by the latest ROMs. Do you think they will get hit again with project delta? I certainly don't want to take a job where they start laying people off again. While oil prices are still low, I feel like they have started to stabilize and we have at least stopped the bleeding for now. I can't imagine CVX hiring new people only to lay them off 6 months later. thoughts?

by Chevron Boy
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I know what "contingent" is, I am just curious as to what the morale is like there now.

Yes, this is oil, and things can change in a heartbeat. It always has, and probably always will. I think (and hope) I have weathered this storm. It is boom or bust.

Lets hope oil goes back up.

by Chevron Boy
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You can't get a contingent job unless the incumbent is successful in transferring into whatever job he or she is being allowed to apply for. I would think that statistically contingency jobs are unlikely to consider the applicants for it because the incumbent doesn't get selected for whatever they applied for. Until prices of crude oil move above $70 or whatever it takes to make Upstream projects profitable again, if I were you I would not move into Upstream and especially not into an unprofitable BU like AMBU. Isn't the scuttlebutt that the assets are being packaged for sale? I wouldn't want to take a job in that kind of environment.

by Anonymous
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My suggestion to any chevron employee that is on a project is to sandbag like all the others. You will avoid being layed off. I worked my a-- off at chevron completed my area for FGP on time on budget and got the layoff since I completed my job. Sandbag..sandbag..sandbag. I can't emphasis enough. That's how prc is maintaining their jobs

by Anonymous
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The project code name is so that the layoff can be a CPDEP project and have a PRC organization associated with it.

by Anonymous
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The stupid Project Code names for each wave of ROMs and ESPs (acronyms for layoffs) are only used so the company can document details for the specific "layoff". The Project Code name will document things like the reason, scope, etc. I guess it's better than calling it Layoff #1, Layoff #2, #3, and so on.

by Anonymous
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1RG, not sure what part of the business you are currently in, but upstream is where you should head to. AMBU, ultimately, my not be where you want to end up but it gets your foot in the upstream door.

If you are looking for a place without the potential for layoffs, forget it. This is the oil business and layoffs go in cycles -- count on it.

by Anonymous
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Yes, the cute project words help to dehumanize the layoff process. Politics and the English Language.

by Orwell
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Why do all these re organizations require a cute little project code word? Is that to make HR feel like they are really working on something important?

by Anonymous
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The PDC is a rigged scam. "Personnel Development Commitee", my A$$.

by Anonymous
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