The annual employee survey is here. What feedback do you have for the company?
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There were many colossal, foreseeable mistakes on Gorgon project but far and away the largest was locating the plant on Barrow Island. This decision ultimately destroyed the schedule and inflated the cost wildly. How we could have misunderstood the parameters of that decision after operating on Barrow and dealing with the regulator for yonks is beyond me.
If he made it to 2016 then criticism of locating the LNG facility on Barrow Island had little to do with it. The collapse in oil prices had more to do with it.
Any one that speaks out at chevron is shown the door. Just ask the guy who challenged Kirkland that Barrow Island was a poor choice to site an lng facility He was released in 2016
our D&C costs are 2-3x industry average. It's a joke comparing us to other majors and independents. Can we NOJV the whole company?
It’s all confidential and anonymous except you have to use the company computer which has web and keystroke monitoring. LMAO
I remember when years ago, these employee surveys were mailed out to everyone. I had once noticed a peculiar small font serial number printed in the bottom corner of my survey form. Being curious, I asked a few other co-workers about it. Nobody quite knew what purpose it served, but everyone I asked did tell me the number on the bottom of the survey form was uniquely different. That said, what exactly is the unique identifier on the present day electronic or web-based forms? Surely, in the IT world, there is a way to trace that survey right back to the person who completed it. Be careful what you say. There is a good way to critique and a bad way as well. The bad way could be a bad career move.
I called my supervisor an a-hole to his face many times privately. He received my surveys frequently. Mind you, I was about 10 years older than him and didn’t mean it in the usual derogatory way. He understood that. I’m an old school field hand and it’s my way of talking and I reserved telling him this in private when it was deserving. I was his right hand man and he appreciated my straight talk. So call your supervisor an a-hole in a respectful manner now and then when it’s needed. If it’s from the heart, he’ll love you for it. You know what I mean.
Survey fatigue, if managers were actually in touch with the business there'd be no need for the endless pulse surveys and check ins
I think the survey has been more useful the last couple of years, as it seems to have received real attention by management. That said, it clearly can be filtered down to team/workgroup level, which means your super is getting direct feedback (good) but also that he/she can likely guess at the origin of some of the responses. As a word to the wise, some level of moderating introspection is advisable while answering to make sure you have the desired impact on those that consume these results (mostly your super and their direct reports...above that it is all just aggregate “feelings”). I am not saying you should not call out your super is a complete a--...., just be prepared to own it.
The worldwide employee survey can be your most effective way to be heard on issues that are important to you. If you don’t like the liberal PC direction Chevron is going in, make your voice heard in this survey. Don’t like the current manner how the company goes about to determine employee performance and salary ranking, this is your chance to voice your concern. Don’t like your management’s style or effectiveness? Fill out the survey honestly and thoroughly. Let your voice in large numbers be heard.
The feedback you provide in Worldwide Employee Survey is in fact confidential because the information is collected by an outside company, not by Chevron. The results go back to Chevron, but only in an aggregate manner. No single result by employee is ever returned to the company. The only thing I was uncomfortable with was my workgroup was a small one within a small organization. I felt my responses could possibly be identified through filtering it down to my workgroup only. Other than that, the data in the Employee Survey is handled independently by a third party outside firm.
I love when they say it's anonymous. Every time I hear a coworker say that they are excited to give honest feedback I tell them to go read about the Hundred Flowers Campaign.
People should realize that Confidential does NOT mean Anonymous.