Reading posts here I've come to a conclusion that there are people who work for Chevron who love the company and people who work for Chevron who hate the company. There is no middle ground, no "eh, it's okay," just love or hate.
How can one company elicit such opposite reactions from people? Seriously, I'm having trouble figuring this out.
I am squarely in the middle. As someone said, those in the middle don’t whine (as much) nor sing chevron’s praises.
Also, I think it’s terribly unhealthy for a company to be full of people who are overly grateful for their job.
6tkt - your’s is a classic case of blaming someone else for the choice you made. If you are unable to rationalise philosophically and reconcile your position as an ageing expat within an industry that is having to make concessions then you have to accept you are euphemistically described as sub-par or blunt as a door-knob in other parlance.
Chevron makes lots of promises which are unfulfilled. I took an expat job with Cvx after 10 plus years onshore and convinced my wife to give up her career making roughly 250k a year. Expat job was great but after 8 years chevron went after the 50 plus crowd and found myself on the street and a p-ss-d off wife. Chevron needs to really look at itself in the mirror and all the BS it feeds its employees. College graduates really need to look elsewhere or join with a short term mentality knowing chevron does not have their best interest in mind nor is a family oriented company
For those who actually work at Chevron, there is plenty to be thankful for. But like any other corporation there are some things that are not always as one would like them to be. How can any company please 48,500 employees and many thousands more contractors? They simply can't please everyone. We all have things we would like to change and some things we want to keep. Its just the way life is.
You forgot a category. Trolls that don’t and never did work for Chevron but hate the company.
Those of us in the middle don’t have that much to celebrate or whine about. We stay pretty quiet, but we’re here.
Because of capital allocation and/or relative job security. Talk to a geologist or engineer who works assets that don't get funded because they aren't in hot areas that Wall Street loves to fund (e.g. Permian, shale, U.S. onshore), and you will find someone who loathes the company more than they can put into words. Talk to an HR generalist and you might hear the polar opposite.
And this doesn't even include the number of folks recruited and hired during the boom days of 2013-2014 who now work for a very, very different industry. Myself included, it's been hard to square with.