How does Chevron pick who needs to be in the hit list? Are there any thumb rules?
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If your boss and a boss in another department don't get along, you may become a drive-by shooting victim. Speaking from experience here.
The good news is the recruiters are calling. Late in the year, companies start hiring to fill the new positions for next years business plan.
I got laid off in 2016 (over 55). Spent several long months with no nibbles on my resume until mid-October, then got three interviews / 2 offers in the same week. Been working elsewhere for almost a year and I'm pretty happy.
In the last week, I have had phone calls and emails from bona-fide O&G recruiters (not Aflac or Life Insurance). So the end-of-year cycle recruiting is firing up again.
If you are in any of the categories mentioned here, I would not wait to get moving on making contacts and reaching out proactively to recruiters.
@PEY1dLD-4yhf, good to hear that you are safe!
Current sons and daughters...safe.
Unocal....safe.
Chevron friends...safe.
Texaco...dodgy.
Minorities....generally safe.
A-- lickers...safe.
Over 55's not already covered...need a new plan.
Ability...apparently doesn't come in to play.
Good luck!
This is the best layoff forum ever. JW would soon be deadwood too folks, so don't despair, it's not a bad group to be in.
Remember Millennials......we were all "hi-Po's" at one time. :)
I have found that key executives in a BU get together and suggest candidates for a reduction---- so much for ROMs and other processes---- comes down to perception of your performance held by key decision-maker. Good Luck out there---- you're "betting" on your BU's management to know their staff
Anyone not in the club, not in the friends and family group, anyone born differently, anyone who is an acceptable target, anyone different etc etc.....the usual mature, responsible way that a professional company chooses.
Best of luck to everyone in the next round of layoffs. I hope the total number affected are few. It’s never nice and always untimely.
2bsk, You don't know who I am, my position, skills, intelligence, work ethic, etc. so that says a lot about you, anonymously insulting strangers from your keyboard. I would suspect that you need to work on your own skills and ethics so that you can consider yourself "safe" also.
Age definitely comes into the equation.
1afe-You may be safe, but not because of your intelligence, experience or ethics. You must be a "high po."
Besides a sub-par PMP ranking, if you are in a business unit that is under-performing or "non strategic", or if you are over 55 years old, better work on your Plan B.
Optimistic losers get a PIP that delays the inevitable but at least they go out swinging making a managers life miserable for a few months.
3 ++ is nothing less than an optimistic loser.
What exactly is a 3++?
I got 2-- and 3 ++ still not laid off but waiting to be laid off in the next round.
I'm safe and I don't have any family or friends working for Chevron. Of course, that's quite an anomaly on this forum which consists primarily of losers who need someone or something else to blame for their own incompetence.
If you got family that is a manager or higher you're safe
Office politics dominates the decisions on who goes and who stays. It is the same at every company in every industry.
Get a 2- or 3 even if they tell you 5% have to be a 2- so you do t really s---. Actually you do and you’ll be gone. Deadwood.