Looks like there are close to 1000 jobs posted to date....any idea as to how those jobs will get filled? Are there jobs available to every person that is coming back from a rotational gig in "must move" positions? Or will this be another ROM in a sense?
17 replies (most recent on top)
Wow. Reading this makes me wonder if any of you have stepped back to look at how you have evolved. Do you think your 18 year old self would look at you now and not recognize you. Do you remember any of your dreams and aspirations? I doubt any of them involved discussion on a layoff board using corporate abbreviations.
The frustrating thing is year after year management say they understand there are too many meetings and processes and vow to make things more simple. Year after year they fail and we suffer with more meetings and processes than the previous year.
PThere next time I hear someone say they are going to streamline anything I might throw up on their shoes.
2bfb comments hit it right on the nail...... prior to joining Chevron I was with an oil company with 6000 employees. Most of the work flow in a simple description is "Just do it".... however, Chevron took up half of my working hours in meetings. A manager told me that that is what work is. After 15 years with Chevron I am happy to be gone taking the severance package.
I heard first hand that there is an oversupply of butthurt losers employed at CVX right now and they are getting lined up to trim off a lot of the dead butt weight.
"Oversupply" is a buzzword. Like so many others coming out of the mouths and empty heads at top levels in the company. Why don't they just speak clearly and say "we have too many on the payroll".
I hear the word oversupply many times when talking about 1H2017 PDC especially in FE function.
To 2qwf, you are right on target with your comment. Chevron is the most process and meeting centered company I had ever worked for. Every hour in a meeting is an hour not getting actual work done, unless you are one of the many team leads, supervisors and managers that spend 30 hours a week in meetings and the other 10 hours working on spreadsheets and power points for the next meeting. The company 'work' culture is a reflection of the top executive management. JW is a creature of Chevron with a finance background and his replacement will probably be the same. Chevron is what it is. Remember, it is more important to follow procedure and get along than it is to get actual work done.
A word of advise for everyone, because this downturn is not over yet. Pay down your debts, don't take on new debt. Save as much as possible and don't make too risky of bets in the market. The tide has not turned since the layoffs of 2015 and 2016. Another wave of hurt is on its way for 2017 and 2018.
1ex1 is right on the money. Still too many people around, some were intentionally parked during ESPs. Attending meetings, passing on reports from one to another. Some younger employees don't have adequate technical background even though they have/or are going thru structured Horizons program. Unfortunately they are missing the experiential learning because attending meetings is no substitute for hands-on working. Company will continue to cut staff as they sell more assets, merge BUs, pivot to better performing assets, etc until balance is restored.
ALL sounds like the ABU to many managers no MCP / oil ans gas experience faking their way,yea, yea thats life but after a while it gets old
1exl ....my god is this cat on the money i have seen total morons in cvx breeze through on the OE dog sh-- run well done
There are fundamental problems at Chevron that no one wants to correct or seems to care about fixing, 1exl.
This company is stuck in "hire and fire" mode. Still massively over-staffed. A 20 percent reduction is needed. Too many collecting a paycheck and doing nothing but attending meetings. Too many lack industry skills. Too many rely on corporate bureaucracy for existence.
@1uyl, In the last 2 years it's been my experience to see too many cases of duplicate PDC job postings and others that get ranked at last moment. I'm not sure if it's all done intentionally or there is a lack of coordination in the process. To me, things get reinvented as the needs arise and in the end there will be more layoffs coming.
There were a lot of vacant positions in my function. Most everyone should get a job even if they eliminate some positions.
Sounds pretty consistent with what I have been hearing
It's hard to tell if all 1,000 posted jobs in the PDC will be filled without some employees getting the axe. I suspect the younger employees working expat positions will get a new gig in the PDC. Any older expats will get punched out. If any ROMs are started up in US based organizations, same thing will happen: young capable employees will be successful in the PDC and those over 50 will get their walking papers.