Thread regarding Chevron Corp. layoffs

Not too big of a leap to imagine why they may be nervous about layoffs. Just think along the lines of what strategic advantages does EMC and CBRES bring to the company? CBRES oversees the management of Chevron-owned buildings where personnel work. EMC is supposed to specialize in managing the company’s significant environmental remediation (Super Fund) sites and long term spill clean up activities. First, CBRES duties can be handled by a third party management company. There are several well know national businesses that can do this at a fraction of our cost. As for EMC, our biggest risk used to be pipelines and storage facilities. The pipeline company more than decimated their total operating mileage and tank farms at the end of 2015. Much of the super fund sites have been remediated or can be handed off to third party environmental management firms that are experts in the business, again lowering costs to Chevron. The employees and middle management at CBRES and EMC have much to be concerned about the talk of more layoffs.

My team lead isn’t as confident about surviving the EMC/CBRES integration as they were a few months ago. Something is up.

With interest rates rising I expect Chevron to step up recruiting to backfill all the retirements.

@Cwkq, Houston and San Ramon are the largest centers in the US for Chevron employees and contractors, so any truth to layoffs would surely affect these two areas. But, I don’t believe Chevron will be holding any so-called layoffs this year or next. The company will manage any reductions through upcoming voluntary retirement of older employees and not back-filling the position. Any other reductions, if any, will be targeted work centers and the number of cuts will be too minimal to be called a layoff. Maybe a small selective ROMs.

I heard that there may be more getting cut in Houston also. Let's quit the clowning around here. There may be heads on here that will roll.....

I doubt seriously it’s you who you are referring to -Bcnc. If you’re not the clown we all take you for, order the lookup of my IP address and have me fired on Monday, asswipe.

Everyone loves to see how the former head of EMC, who was a major Upstream MD before that, has now slid all the way to a lowly advisor of environmental topics and general Boy Friday around the office. No doubt while retaining his 41+ PSG and crying all the way to the bank come CIP and Stock Grant time. Someone should develop a list of people pulling in seven figures annually who have zero direct reports and minimal authority/responsibility. I bet there are close to a 100.

@Bnhe really going out on a limb there. The entire company has known these groups were getting whacked for months already.

The news is out, CBRES and EMC will be gutted in 2018. The smell of fear is in the air. First, watch for contractors to get whacked. They are the canaries in the coal mine. Next, watch for "retirements" of executives and 2- PMPs for even the bootlickers.

arfw, Yes Indeed, I heard exactly the same, you are 100% spot on target, unlike some of the thick-headed numbskulls on this site spouting irrelevant French colloquialisms completely out of context.

The axeman indeed doth commeth. "Prepare ye".

Don’t you clowns have any self-belief? Do you lack self-confidence or are you just plain thick? Then why don’t you wake up and try a bit of ‘travaux préparatoire.

I see things the same way as you, aplv. Announcement of CBRES President retiring is a telling factor that a big change is forthcoming.

So, back to layoffs. I happened to visit one of our domestic locations and it is clear that the CEMC folks are nervous (overheard watercooler gossip) I guess that will be coming down in the next couple/three months. I'm told total CEMC/CBRES body count is right around 700. My guess is that post ROM that number will be closer to 500. President of CBRES 'retiring', JG needs to be show he can make the tough decisions.

CBRES got hit hard during Alpha so I'm guessing that the major chunk of layoffs will be CEMC.

Is Big Foot headed to first oil in November?

8etk makes a good point. Natural attrition will take care of the numbers. I predict there will be more hiring than firing on the horizon.

Dont need any layoffs. Lots of retirements about to happen because of interest rates.

No, not trolls. I heard the same. Layoffs are on the horizon.

This is just trolls trying to stir crap up!

Yes, the OP is correct. I heard the exact same story. Very reliable source. 200-300 minimum will need to be cut. And the other poster was correct, layoffs have been a way of life since I hired on and don't expect them to end anytime soon, especially in these days of market and oil price turbulence. No, the layoffs are anything but "over" and never will be during my or your generations. Learn to live with them as a part of you everyday life is the best solution.

You're welcome.

Most of the comments here are juvenile, delinquent, immature and really just represent plain nastiness. Glad I don’t with this lot.

The layoffs are OVER! Get that through your thick heads. After two years of full scale layoffs in 2015 and 2016, it’s over. We will always see very small numbers of incentivized attrition and department scaling, but not what the rumor is trying to propagate.

1jqz, That same comment could be made about the OP's post. Many people starting or propagating rumors about layoffs are not only not CVX, but often just salespeople and recruiters, who are more in tune to the gossip grapevine than anyone else. 90% of it is false.

To the recent poster, I am still employed by Chevron. My intelligent question is because as an employee I want to stay on top of what is going on. You would benefit from etiquette training. Hopefully, you are not an employee. If you are sad for the company. Ugly, snide comments are a window into the type of person that you are.

-1gou, are you hoping for bad times to come to others? It’s evident from your question that you don’t work here anymore.

Has an announcement been made about possible pending layoffs?

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