I have watched this site without commenting due to not holding a grudge. I am still a stakeholder and wish all a safe work environment. I have brought many of the skills with me to my new job. I am still invested in this company and wish them the best. My money still sits in pension and 401K. However, this is what happens when you let your peers layoff other peers. The Houston/Midland Layoffs where bias and it was a buddy, relatives and cousins fight. To stand in the Midland Office and watch as they created a horrible work atmosphere. People on edge, productivity went in the toilet and people calling out others for mistakes. The CEO/Board, you put decisions in the hands of people who did not care less of the skills and experience that these people brought. The company wanted to hit the bottom line of laying off people who were making some serious money. These are the people who did not have fatalities. Now we have 2 dead. MCBU was a prime example for all business units when it came to fatalities and drove safety, the layoffs should have been handled just like the global layoffs were handled. Those who handled the layoffs need to be accountable. Yes, you can get someone in there right out of college and pay less, but now you have to pay more due to these deaths. The layoffs need to hit right in middle management where key decisions have been made. Project costs need to be pulled and layoffs needs to be based on performance. When I left, you keep people who had overran their projects, massive nonproductive time and no accountability. Their excuse was oh I just took over the project or it was already planned. One can easily go back and look at historical cost, planning and other projects in the area. You had one engineer that had overran a project by over 1.5 MM dollars. Really, you keep them. All parts of MCBU and all the business units have cost tracking. Hold these people accountable I really hope everyone can sleep at night. Just sad. At this time maybe the whole board needs to be gutted, so since we are a public company, lets send out anonymous voting cards and see how many of you are left standing. Put it out for a vote, is the Board scared that they will come back the next morning and not have a job!!!!! Then you can see how it feels to get your walking papers. Compromising when it comes to peoples lives it just plain unacceptable.
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4kvd, Uhh, No college graduates frequent this site or even know about it, at least not the ones I know. They have much better things to do with their time. STEM grads are having decent luck finding jobs, out of them all. Your pathetic, vengeful, and envious suggestions are in vain.
who's mcbu hes manager these days?
The toxic culture within this company is for all to see. Not the type of people I want to call peers.
4idk
No stepping stone for me either. My whole working life, 35 years, managed great team who were all on board with safety, continuous improvement, positive results and a fun work environment. No desths, good results and fun. However, chose not to broadcast results jingoistically (therefore apparently they didnt happen), failed to s--- up to the high fiving managers and was not a direct result of manager's insemination (son/daughter). The latter three qualifications appear more important than results, team and joy.... so yeah, I was cut. Good luck CVX as I have a lot of future vested. But please make correct business decisions without bias.
College graduates please read this site. This is one foster cluck of a company. Stay the hell away from Chevron. Go to total, or shell or one of the midstream companies Read these blogs and see what a miserable place chevron is to work
@1ogb, Chevron was no stepping stone for me. After having invested 24 years of hard work and loyalty, it was my career, until some d!ckhead several paygrades above me arbitrarily ended it for me. I don't like to hear of fatalities at work, but I wouldn't shed a tear if it happened to the d!ckhead who let me go.
I'm surprised so few. Fatalities are difficult moves, but with a little practice you can get one every time!
1whc, Then you are right where you belong! Welcome!
Have never seen a bigger bunch of crybabies than this site. What's wrong with yu people?
Name-calling and petulance is for the school playground and, oh, for this layoff site too.
Yes Indeed, they need to unleash a toxic virus on the Butthurt Loser's device. That will teach him. He claims that he is so great and that CVX was run so well when he was there but now that he's gone it if going to hell in a handbasket. Wow, that's a new one - lol! The Audacity of that petulant butthurt steaming Pile of dung! Let's get on here some more an proclaim as anonymous cowards that we are so great and everyone else is unsuccessful and losers and that their computers should be infected with viruses, but we are all great and our $hit don't stink - LOL!
I am not holding a grudge let me assure you, I learned a great deal at chevron and very thankful. This was a great stepping stone. My concern is fatalities and people losing their lives. I am still invested in this company. As doors close many more open. As far as being but hurt. I am actually in a better position now. I don't want to put the ones that were still at chevron in jeopardy to ask who lost their lives. I worked with a lot of the FMT's and hope this is someone that I did not meet while working there. Let's pray that their families can get on with their lives. Regardless they lost their lives. Someone still needs to be accountable.
What the moderators should do is redirect a malicious virus back to that poster's device. That will fix his childish a$$.
Why can't the admin block khh from commenting on this site ... Khh, GET OFF THIS SITE AND SHUT UP
I am the OP, and I am a piece of Butthurt deadwood with no life who was laid off and also a disgruntled POS loser who only posts hatred and vitrol and spews insults. I also make up stories about how well I am doing since Chevron cut me as the steaming dump of petulant stinking feces that I am. But you trolls all took the bait. Look at yourselves.
Geez you folks are toxic! Bet looks can kill on here.
Good point, OP. As you can see, CVX is more interested in name hurling and denigrating people than actually being accountable for what they do. Mr Butthurt Deadwood is right back as you can see and fits the mold perfectly despite his advertised insecurity about how great he is and how much he loves his job (insecurity keeps him posting because the only person he is trying to convince is himself). You covered a great deal of what is wrong, but CVX will keep their heads high through tragic fatality after fatality.
Pretty much confirms my earlier comment, on another post, about intellectual pygmies on this site.
Khh, I see you are back again on a LAYOFF site bashing everyone. A stellar example of the typical behavior expected from a kool-aid drinking Chevron employee. You must be very proud of youself. Now go back to the bathroom to pick your nose, take a greasy dump and exercise your right hand.
Butthurt loser in the house who falsely claims he has some great job now and was the cat's A$$ when he was at Chevron and everything was all well handled when he was there but he was wrongly laid off and the entire staff reduction was some bogus scam or conspiracy. Another piece of deadwood. Good riddance.
A man of few words you are not
The real heroes were kicked out the door and the clowns were kept on. This is a familiar tale in this industry as is the bull you get in every company. I think you need to pull yourself together and just deal with it. If you're expecting everyday justice and fair play you're in the wrong business.
The MCBU management constantly bragged about how "MCBU is the place to be". They constantly let their ego's get in the way and made decisions based who they thought would be the best follower and who would be the one to say yes. The selections all along throughout the corporation have been based on the "yes" sayers and nothing to do with who has the skills. While in MCBU I was passed up several times and then I ended up training the people that were selected for the positions I posted for so that they can come up to par and deliver results. What you are talking about Midland is not just location specific. Employees who can take credit for other people's deliveries did and kept their jobs but the real ones were sent out the door. What used to really irritate me was the empty words of praise coming out the middle management to me. And then there was the rap video that they published ... I am sorry about the lost lives ...
You are holding a grudge. Seems like you were laid off and you feel you shouldn't have been.
It is pretty clear that you were not part of management. There is a corporate filter that exists in every company. You don't become a manager unless you support and make the management culture part of your belief system. Outliers, such as yourself are mostly filtered out. Just remember this, the more silly slogans a company has about its employees, the more hypocritical they are and the more they have to hide. You know what I mean. It is absolutely immoral for any company to sacrifice safely for profits and basically consider a few deaths here and there are acceptable collateral damage in the quest to cut costs and boost profits. Don't forget the total out of touch video of HE playing golf at Pebble Beach when massive layoffs were occurring. The Chevron Way, cough, cough.