Why is no one talking about the real problem! The people that have made it through time and time again. These are the friends or family of the upper management and the ones that are sleeping with other people. You have people in ITC, high level... — read more 

No, the Dividend is not next. That won't go away since it's for the shareholders. What's next to go is our Pension. It's likely our private pension will be the next thing to take a hit. As Chevron reduces the pension payout or eliminates it, the... — read more 

Anyone with a -2 or 3 from any of the last 3 years is gone. Feel sorry for anyone who just moved to GOM and made commitments. All for nothing,

Example: closing the Concord, CA office park and moving those 800 employees to San Ramon. The lease on the Bishop Ranch building is 10 million a year. The Concord facility is fully owned and could absorb the excess personnel who don't fit in Chevron... — read more 

WTF Chevron an email to say u may be laid off not even a sit down conversation with your supervisor. Even better the supervisor has no clue HR sent the email. Though it was a great company but obviously some higher up managers can't get it right and... — read more 

People will be scattering left and right out of the company because of how this went down and they will be F'ed.

Just an FYI anyone with any rating can be nominated for the Matrix list. If your super does not like you with 1 performance for the last three years, you can be put on the list. If someone else's manager does not like you because you are a Texans fan... — read more 

25 years as an employee, 10 years upstream contract. I have been through 7 rounds of layoffs as an employee and 4 as a "silver mining" contractor. There are two things that have been devised within the company that have reeked havoc. Don Paul had his... — read more 

Who has heard the rumor about changing the travel policy so that only PSG 26+ flies business class on flights over 6 hours?

Chevron was the first major which in January suspended its stock buyback blaming the collapse in cash flows.

http://i.imgur.com/Ij6Nylp.jpg

Do we know how IT will be affected in this round and how many people may get laid off.

If my position is open and I have to apply for 4 positions during my assigned ROM, would that mean I have to compete and defend my current position against potential candidates? Could I just leave my current position out the selected pool?

The downward shift occurred around 1998 when we changed our focus from taking care of 'stakeholders' (customers, vendors, employees, shareholders) to taking care of 'shareholders' - it's all about profits now, it's all about shareholders now and... — read more 

Do we know if our severance package for this round will be similar to what we have seen in the past?

What do we know so far?

Do we know where the cuts will come from? What geographies? We heard it's going to be 50 (I am hearing more than 100, but I'll leave it at this) - I am not sure if we know for certain what locations will be affected and what would be ratios of people... — read more 

I worked at Chevron Chemical (and then Research) in Richmond for thirty years: 22 as an employee and 8 as a contractor. I'm not concerned that someone might identify me by my posts in this forum. I don't intend to smear Chevron...or anyone who works... — read more 

Project Goldtouch will study and quantify the amount of time wasted by RSI Nanny software locking workers keyboards several times a day. Now that's a project that really should be given the go ahead. Let's all take a f*cking micropause to think about... — read more 

Project Alpha, Project Matrix, Project Tiger, Project Transform, and what other goofy name they can all come up with are nothing more than a way to pack a GANNT chart in the hope it will bid you more time. When corporate slogans become the empty... — read more 

ETC town hall was arranged at the Hyatt downtown in Houston today. They were going to announce how they are going to carry out a mass lay off. Five minutes in the presentation, Paul Siegele, ETC president, stopped and asked the people standing (that... — read more 

http://fuelfix.com/blog/2015/07/28/chevron-to-cut-1500-jobs-including-almost-1000-in-houston/#34195101=0 Chevron plans to cut 950 jobs in Houston by the end of 2015 as part of a plan to eliminate about 1,500 jobs worldwide in an ongoing environment... — read more 

Has anyone heard anything about results from Project Tiger? I assume any cuts coming from Tiger will be in addition to the recently announced reductions, or do the Alpha cuts include MCP organizations (capex)?

see story in the San Jose Mercury News

MCBU Employees, Please note that the originally scheduled communication to alert employees that they are in-scope for RAE has been delayed. This notification is now scheduled to occur by August 7. We appreciate your patience and apologize for any... — read more 

I am a rather large man. I was an offensive guard for a Major Div I program. 6'5" 325 pounds. I never thought in my wildest dreams that being big would come in handy at a fortune 3 company. Chevron being nerd central, means I am not threatened or... — read more 

John Kerry continues to fend off his title as Chief Useful Idiot. Let's look back to when further momentum picked up on oil's decline and factor how many winners the present administration can create while it checks more and more names from its... — read more 

LABU will lay off 51% of employees by January 1. So we are feeling the pain down South. I was told two scenarios that it just was Argentina and the other LABU. So for any Expats in the U.S. from here....there arte no jobs to come back to.

So we are losing 28% the function I am in. This is not counting Project Matrix. They have hired a consulting firm to rank all employees by ranking for the last 3 years. The target is to cut another 10% based on poor performance outside the ROM... — read more 

The cost to business is at least 10% in productivity, according to Dr. Phillip Zombardo (professor emeritus, Stanford University). Sick call offs and resignations increase under a bully's leadership according to Dr Z. Dr Z documented the cruelty... — read more 

I've been with Chevron for 28 years, gone through 3 major reorganizations, transferred out of state one time and been promoted twice within my job. I never received a bad PMP rating (mostly 2, but sometimes a 2+). I'm not an engineer and consider... — read more 

My supervisor appears to be more distant lately. He doesn't always look me in the eye when we talk and he provides vague responses to my questions? I'm not sure if it's him that has problems or a tell-tale sign that I'm in trouble. Is anyone else... — read more