What's new with SJV, anymore layoffs?
HR spends hundreds of thousands to figure out it s---s
Corp HR has retained consulting giant Deloitte to tell it what we have known for decades: HR at Chevron is good at only one thing - wasting the money we make. Project Next HR just sent a survey - easily hacked since HR constantly prints and leaves... — read more
1H2017 ESP
Good luck. Grab your ankles.
Project Delta
Are we expecting another round of job cuts?
Filing for unemployment in California
I was laid off in December in San Ramon and iam now planning to file for unemployment. Any tips from folks who have gone through the filing process in CA ?, does getting a Severance or the Expression of interest have any impact on qualifying for... — read more
Partitioned Zone Closure
Time to let go management in this failed BU. Unnecessary spending by placing managers in London to work the BU so they can continue to have expat benefits when the BU is offline for over a year now. What have they accomplished besides milking the... — read more
Strong employment report, but...
But that is no cause for cheer for the laidoff oil industry employees with this dismal state of affairs still lingering in oil industry. If Hillary is going to get elected, which is looking more and more like a certainty these days what with Trump... — read more
Expats
Do we still have a lot of expats? Does anyone know how their numbers were affected so far in the last two ROMs? Really that is where Chevron can still save money big time. Develop a strategy to get the locals manage more of the work. Fly the... — read more
What?
Chevron has many employees that can retire. What's going on when you have a company downloaded with people that has already reaped in the benefits and gets up every morning just to get double pay is beyond me. These employees have it made and they... — read more
Cobra Coverage
We we talk for a second about how completely inept Chevron has been trying to get us laid off employees cobra coverage? I appreciate the fact that they are covering a big chunk of the coverage, but does it have to take some incredibly long to get it... — read more
Chevron is disintegrating - another $5 billion asset would be sold
The Wall Street Journal cited Chevron is selling off $5 billion Asian Assets upstream operations. This includes: -- The joint offshore venture with the China state-owned company CNOOC Ltd. for $1 billion -- Chevron has been marketing the sale of... — read more
Clint Eastwood and Relevance to Chevron
Clint Eastwood gave an interview with Esquire magazine in which he states that young Americans are both the kiss-a-- and pu--y generation. 'Everybody's walking on eggshells. We see people accusing people of being racist and all kinds of stuff. When I... — read more
Anyone else notice the post RE: S Morrison PGPA in GOM has mysteriously disappeared? Hmmmn.
So once Ms S Morrison was id'd by first name, the post regarding her situation in GOM disappeared. Anyone else notice that?
Louisiana unemployment
Can you collect unemployment in the state of Louisiana if severance was collected. Have not applied yet.
The problem with Big Oil
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/problem-big-oil-too-big-230000665.html Article specifically mentions complacency in the Gorgon project
Question about earnings conference call
I'm not an employee but my company does a lot of business with Chevron. I have noticed that John Watson often isn't present for the earnings conference calls. Does anyone know why that is? is that the same practice previous Chevron CEO's employed?... — read more
Every body is safe
No layoffs announced. Every one is safe. Keep working hard and abide Chevron way. You will be fine.
Congratulations Chevron
Worst quarterly earnings since 2001! On top top of Bigfoot, Angola, AMBU, Pro+, GOM, Gorgon, Wheatstone, refinery outages in China, repeated fatality mistakes and a message board rife with limp noodle idiots obsessed with deadwood and other peoples... — read more
Lowering of Moody's credit rating next shoe to fall.
With oil price point not on the gentle ramp-up hoped for and recent Tengiz FID colliding, cash flow remains heavily pressured. We say 36 billion investment at Tengiz. WoodMac says 40 billion. If Gorgon is an indicator of trends in MCP actual vs... — read more
The Texas WorkForce Commission wanted me to report min 3 job contacts attempt per week. How to get it done in this no job opening world?
There is not even one job you can find advertised for production engineer, or completion engineer, or well intervention engineer, or petroleum engineer, or operations engineer, or well surveillance engineer or artificial lift engineer (or any other... — read more
CPL Reorg
It's sad how CPL leadership is doing the job selection. Some of the positions don't have a location but whoever is more qualified that will be the location of the job. Leadership is not focused on CPL interest, but their own. If someone kissed their... — read more
Q2 Earnings Call
Johnny Boy is absent again. Chevron lost 1.5 billion. The call is ongoing.
How many more Layoffs
After major loss reported for 2nd quarter how many more lay offs can we expect in 2016?
Supplemental life insurance more expensive for severed employee who is retiring than for employee?
I thought a laid off/ retired employee could keep the supplemental life insurance at the same or similar cost as what an employee would pay. The guy I spoke to at Met Life told me, no, it would not be a group rate and would not be term but rather an... — read more
Pension Check
I just got a hard copy check for my July monthly pension even though I filled out paperwork to have it direct deposited. I notice only state and federal taxes are deducted, not Medicare. I thought Medicare would be deducted. Anyone else take the... — read more
Tomorrow's earnings will be telling
If there is clear evidence of continued deterioration of financial health, count on the unfortunate consequences i.e. Continued loss of jobs in 4th quarter and next year. I do hope things improve.
Mcbu ramping up?
The word out there is that mcbu is ramping up, but also heard the cuts there were significant. Re-hire opportunities?
Chevron in deep sh--
Low oil prices foolosh decisions to invest in 2 white elephants Gorgon and Wheatstone has led Chevron into an abyss. No light at the end of tunnel
Oil tumbling down again. Time for some more layoffs Chevron specially ETC
We don't need no stinkin SME's
Better check on your Cobra insurance.
My last day on the payroll was June 13th. I finally got my ADP paperwork on July 8, 2016 and mailed it back July 11th. As of this past Thursday the 21st, ADP still said they did not have my paperwork or check. Finally yesterday, July 25th they... — read more
100 Large Energy Companies
Not sure if this helps with job searches, but here it goes anyway: ABB, Acergy, Aker Solutions, Anadarko, Apache, Atwood Oceanics, BakerHughes, Basic Energy Services Bechtel, BP, BPHBilliton, Burns and McDowel, Cabot Oil, Cameron, CanRig Drilling... — read more
Why is the Chevron board so much worse than the other companies boards?
Why is the Chevron board so much worse than the other companies boards? Are there issues at Chevron with their employees or the work environment? I used to think Chevron was a good, respectable company.
Chevron to sell Bellaire campus and major site near Grand Parkway
Full news article, dated July 22, 2016: http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2016/07/22/chevron-to-sell-bellaire-campus-and-major-site.html?ana=yahoo Chevron Corp. (NYSE: CVX) has put two pieces of Houston property up for sale, the energy giant... — read more
Laid off yet?
Chevron continues to lay off employees but not in mass that way they can avoid the mandatory notices and keep culling the herd.
BEN, AEN decimated
A close friend of mine who is the in the membership committee of BEN told me that the whole BEN is decimated because of the layoff. He expect the same to AEN and BOOMER. Might as well shut down all the network.