Thread regarding Chevron Corp. layoffs

What a foster cluck the new announce by chevron to revise application for Kitimat t o 20 mmtpa. This will come in at $4000/ton by the time completed. This will make Gorgonzola and whetstone look like well executed benchmark s for major capital project execution

New World Order b---s---. That’s what big brother is forcing down everyone’s throats. Glad I’m not part of the rat race anymore. I’m out of the biz and living large in retirement until big brother starts encroaching on me. I guess no one is ever safe.

I aint a pdr but a supervisor in hes. I posted a job for this cycle and four excellent highly qualified male candidates applied. I short listed two as perfect for the role with my boss and pdr concurrence. I was advised one day later that I needed to encourage some females to agree to be added to the slate. I went out and got two females that were not qualified and that did not want the role to say they wanted to be added to the slate. I was informed by my supervisor, not the pdr, on friday that one of the females was selected.

What the gypsy hell is going on?

I agree, this is part of the new garn payneful process that we are stuck with for the next five years.

Well my boss finally told me at the end of work that I did not get placed so we and another PDR went out and got wasted last night and I am hurting bad this morning. The wife has decided to move back east without me. I will stay here in Houston until I land sometime in AMBU or with another east coast company. We have agreed to do this for 6 months. If nothing happens, I will just quit and move home with her. My boss told me that if you are a white male and a sustained 2 performer, there is no way to pass the PSG 24 in HES (it is now a girls function). All the PDC talked about this go round was promoting as many women as possible. I guess that is our new reality. It is just payneful to watch.

I did not know they made an SJV selection. When did that happen?

My parents live less than an hour from the AMBU office and we have two small kids now. I grew up around all of my relatives there and had 13 cousins all within 2 years of my age. I thought it was cool to travel in the early part of my career but now we don't have any type of support force here in Houston. Both of us work so we have to schedule when one is going to be out of town. It is just really hard. My heart breaks every time my mom cries when we leave to come back to Houston. My wife is pushing me to leave Chevron as she can do her job anywhere. I saw where HES created a job to help another guy move from AMBU to San Ramon but I got shot down when I asked for the same consideration. There is just a lot going through my head right now. I do appreciate the note. AMBU may be career limiting but it is home.

@1khe, Don’t feel down. I too had a PDR who was a complete -don’t give a sh!t-. I may have well been represented by a chimp.

@1cqd, You really want to get into AMBU? Why are you looking to cut your career short? That’s a dead-end alley career path. It won’t be long before that unit is sold or a massive layoff hits it. Do as you please. It’s your destiny.

This is so unfair. I applied to one job and the only thing I got from my PDR was an email saying OK to post. Do PDRs all get the same training? How do you become a PDR?

I am @Yd6v6ek-1cqd. My PDR and I finished our meeting at the Hyatt. He moved the meeting up so he could go to some dinner tonight. The Hyatt is packed with PDRs.

He advised that my plan to get back to AMBU is just not possible right now. He said I do have an option in MCBU for the Superintendent role. It is a double bump but the slate is week. He said he spoke to the sponsor and the superintendent is going to SJV and they need a replacement in MCBU fast. The other option I have is the GOM PP role.

If I was lucky and got the MCBU role, I would be trapped in living hell Midland for 3 years but I would have a 26.

If I was lucky and got the GOM PP role, I would stay in Houston and only be required to stay in role 18 months. By then several AMBU jobs should come open. I would also get my 25 which seems more realistic.

He said he would keep texting me with updates as the day plays out on Monday. He said if I don't hear from him, I did not get anything.

I hate PDC week.

My PDR spent literally 8 minutes with me and said good luck 3 weeks ago. That does not seem fair. Mine seemed completely uninterested in what I wanted to do or to discuss the open jobs.

My PDR even asked me to review their answers to the questions they filled out for an open job they wanted and to give them feedback.

Why and how do I get myself into these situations? I never get a good PDR.

I am a little different, I am in Houston and really want to get to AMBU. My PDR and I have a meeting this evening to go back over any changes on the slates. It seems that each PDR has their own style. Mine is pretty cool about giving me the number of candidates and what he thinks are my best opportunities but he never shares names. He said he thinks a lot of stuff has already been decided during the simulations and the OCSC.

He is really good at helping me focus on the best opportunity where I am the strongest candidate. His comment to me is that the most qualified never gets the job. The person that is the least controversial that is capable of doing the job gets the job.

I have the greatest boss in the world. We had dinner last night and went over the short list of two jobs I applied. We developed my Pros list over the other candidates together so he can represent me like Jerry Maguire.

This would never have happened in the past. The visibility is refreshing.

I have to be honest, I am a nervous wreck. I want so bad to move back to Houston.

I am a man and I think she is correct. At least I think she is a she. I digress. I think the OP is correct.

I think that we don't have enough posts by the same woman who complains about HES every week.

We need more.

So why do all of the future leaders and e list employee never stay more than 18 months in a job. This tells me that our future leaders and e-list employees would really have been worthless until they hit the 30 year mark where they stop moving and coming to the age where they have to retire. You say where this one lady posted on here where she can only keep a job for about a year but they keep moving her and promoting her.

It takes about a 1 year to learn enough about a job to be effective. Year 2 can be good. Years 3 and 4 you are really adding value to the business by significant step improvements, if you are a worthwhile employee and not just going through the motions. The idea of posting after 18 months is completely ludicrous.

I think all of these horse whispers are creating smoke and mirrors. Don't get your hopes up much. I promise I will not post on this site again if the majority of people I work with think the job selections are fair once announced. That is if they every announce the job selections. I have noticed that when the selections are fair, the notices come out fast but when they are political choices, they come out really slow if not at all.

Hold on to your hats. This thing is going to blowup when the job announcements start leaking. I give it 1 to 2 weeks.

I have to believe that our HES PDC is fair. It hurts me to see that MCBU HES has different posting rules for different people. Just because MCBU chooses to make their BU HES group more like a prison for men with women as the guards, it does not mean that the other BUs will do the same.

One bad apple doesn't spoil the whole bunch.

I am in another BU and our HES leadership tells us that we can post anytime after 18 months. No one is held to an artificial rule. My only advise is to stay away from any job in MCBU especially if you are a man.

@nmc, Don’t go believing in the fairness of any scorecard. If they want a particular person selected for any job, the PDC will only give it a solid gold. Don’t you know these people are more subjective than objective? How long have you been around?

I want to see these scorecards everyone keeps talking about. How do we know if we are green and can we see the colors of our competition for the same jobs.