#morale

I don’t need to see the survey results, I want to see the actions and outcomes. It’s the same burnt out feedback as prior years but with less passion… so what’s the point?

“Improve culture” and “improve moral” without improving (or even addressing) the fundamental asks of the employee base.

My favorite, the other day I heard corporate will be removing the coffee machines because with RTO we’re drinking too much coffee, so… lol.

Anyone catch the trimester update yesterday and enjoy watching Penny feigning “empathy” while standing in her $5k custom spray painted EJ blazer?

God what a pathetic excuse for an executive. She and the ELT live in a complete bubble!

Disgusting.

Coming to work every day expecting your job to be eliminated is no way to live. Get out of this company. They live by one rolling layoff after another.

Punish first, play favorites second, repeat. After a while I stopped thinking of this as a career and started seeing it for what it is: a place where it's all about surviving another day without getting crushed.

When will we be rid of the worst leadership is company history? I know the board of directors have no brains at all for keeping this clown car of a ELT team we have. Whoever decided MW was the best choice for CEO should be absolutely embarrassed. He's absolutely the most hated CEO in Chevron history. Can't get worse than this. Fire Wirthless!

If MW and our ELT think that the absolutely dreadful morale is not going to crush the company, then he's an even worse leader than we thought he is. ELT needs to wake up and do something POSITIVE to stop the apathy. I have given up and just dont care at all anymore and any self respecting person would do the same after this atrocity of a re-org and tone deaf leadership raking in the cash while destroying a historic company!

Our managers love to say that we’re all in this together while handing out more work to already heavily overworked people. It’s like that old joke about the beatings continuing until morale improves. At some point you just have to laugh or you’ll end up losing it.

Citi has turned into a never-ending layoff machine. If it's not a major round, it's surgical cuts, removing a few people here and there so most don't notice. It’s like Groundhog Day but with pink slips. These days, every time I see a 1:1 on my calendar I get a stomach ache.

My relief of still having a j-o-b has worn off and reality has set in. If CVX was trying to be forward thinking in any capacity, they’ve failed miserably. This model won’t attract (or retain) top talent. Who signs up for a culture that lacks flexibility, provides minimal promotion opportunities, limited resources, and maximum workload? Certainly not the kind of people Chevron will need to stay competitive. This reorg is a joke. This isn’t about not being able to work remotely (solely). My primary complaint is that legacy CVX professionals have been placed in “supervisory” roles (again) in areas of the business they don’t have the capabilities to lead. I KNOW I’m disposable. One voice amongst thousands, but I am just so disappointed that I’m back in a place of looking over my shoulder for the next best opportunity.

Can someone explain what the heck the corporate strategy is here? There have been so many layoffs that most teams around me were barely functional to begin with. Then came surprise voluntary severance, so now all of the most knowledgeable people are leaving voluntarily and probably won’t be backfilled. Teams are literally non functional, no one knows wtf to do, and instead of spending money on what we need (competent people) leadership is wasting money on sh-t like in person SKO and a completely pointless, expensive, disruptive IT migration. If you told me leadership was trying to go for another bankruptcy I’d believe you.
Every day I just smile and nod and try to survive because we don’t have enough resources to actually do anything … meanwhile supposedly AI will come save the day!

You look to your left and then to your right. You did it. After months of uncertainty and awkward days in the office where you and your peers were told to report to work only to be cut by day’s end - you survived. You feel pretty good, pretty relieved. You still have a job. You are better than everyone else. That’s what leadership will tell you. You were ranked higher than those who were culled. Your role is valuable to the company and so are you. As the days pass, the office is quieter but work quickly starts to pile on. As the months roll on expectations increase dramatically and you find yourself working endlessly, stressing about work when you come home. We need to do more! Better than last year! Last quarter! Last month! By the end of 2026, you sort of wished you were packaged out - free from having to do more with less. Sure the job market su-ks and yeah you saved yourself from the embarrassment of being laid off but there are opportunities out there. Sometimes a fresh start is nice - sometimes it is actually better.

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Word on the street is something major went down in Houston mechanical today. Can any one confirm? Word is they have no locomotives to work on and some announcement went out but can’t get any details.

Pretty obvious WFC only wants H1B or overseas employees. We need to create side hustles. What kind of hustle have people created? I’m in tech and it seems like it would be an easy side hustle but a small biz needs way different things that a large tech enterprise. Any ideas? Suggestions? What have you done?

Just shut it down at this time. Noone cares and each and everyone is looking for jobs. Most of us are envy of those who got CPMd and got a package and are now free from this he-l hole

Are we done with rifs yet??? Kept hearing final rounds but it just goes on and on

Based on my team and what I’ve heard so far it feels like half the people I work with took the opt out. Lot of big hitters and people who have been around a while. And they’re only the ones I know about. Wondering if this is similar across the company or I’m just in a department where people can’t wait to leave.

This week so far has been a Charlie Foxtrot. Leaders aren’t ready for their new team. In Service Division, our schedules are a mess, huddles are scheduled where there shouldn’t be one, 1:1s not taking place with new leaders, etc. Who thought this was a good idea?

Please get a real head of HR. The real HR professionals are about to revolt.

The data is reported by VP/SVP, so it’s not entirely anonymous if reporting lines are thin. I’m hoping not to get too candid, and nothing changes anyway, so what’s the point? Suggestions?

I'm a long service employee and have seen a few RIFs in my time - in fact someone from HR told me that the most common reason for leaving Oracle is being laid off. So we know it comes with the territory.

Sadly we also know that there are people queueing up to join Oracle - it is a good thing to have on your resume. Or at least it was.

Reading a lot of the recent posts, it's indiscriminate - teams across the whole company. People who have had great performance reviews (for what they're worth IMHO). I've seen some really great people get laid off in the past, just because they happened to be in the wrong area at that point in time - although this time it feels like pretty much any area of the company could be the "wrong area"

But the bit that I can't fathom is what the expectation is going forward for our customers. Again, a lot of people have stated how they're committed to delivering quality support to our customers - someone even got laid off and was unable to join a scheduled support call with a customer as they lost their access immediately upon being informed. What message does that give?

I'll tell you what it says - the leadership and shareholders don't give a cr-p about the customer experience (even less about the employee experience). They're after the next big buck - which this time around is AI.

With the pipeline deals recently announced surely there is funding for both the required AI footprint AND continue to offer quality support to our customers.

It's a theme - when Oracle buys a company (e.g. Cerner) yes their product suite is nice to own , but it's the customer base that's the prize. And we always lay off the technical experts from those companies 2-3 years in. Always

Many times I've seen people with no product knowledge trying to support a customer with an issue. Might as well ask someone on he street.

To sum up, quality support isn't a priority - they'll probably claim that AI/chatbots can provide that support. Personally I don't think they can and a lot of support issues can get quite complicated.

Clearly as long as we're delivering stellar results the customer experience doesn't matter at all

There’s no break from the tension. I can barely focus at work, and I can’t really rest once I’m home. This could drag on for weeks, maybe months. No one can function anywhere near normal under these circumstances.

Especially in this economy. The mix of defeat and dread overshadows everything, even the fear of not finding another job or the financial mess that might follow. The worst part is that there’s no payoff to look forward to, no source of motivation to offset the grind. Just the constant likelihood that you’ll lose your job anyway.

Disclaimer: The individuals I am talking about is not the SD/VP/SVP... of Nike

It's just heartbreaking to see laid-off/open to work posts from such talented individuals of Nike, I am so sorry and sad that we are going through this !!

It feels like every solution is just let people go. There are so many smarter ways to boost profits without wrecking the team or morale. Leadership keeps doubling down on layoffs instead of thinking creatively, which just ends up proving their overall incompetence.

This used to be an amazing place to work. Now, you can feel the fear every day. People whisper, avoid eye contact, and no one wants to stick their neck out. It’s exhausting just being around it. I think full RTO would cause me to quit just so I can avoid having to deal with that throughout the whole week. Could be just my location, though.

I hate it here so much that job hunting actually feels like relief instead of a chore. It takes a lot for that to be true for a procrastinator like me.

Can you even picture a leadership team less inspiring than the bunch we’re stuck with? Because I can’t. Every time they open their mouths, morale drops another inch.

With the way they’re handling this, the damage is going to last long after it’s over. Nobody here trusts leadership anymore. Nobody believes in them or their ability to steer the ship. I don’t think they grasp how bad it is for a company to completely lose employee trust, but they’re about to find out the hard way.

In two years I had to deal with more cr-p than during ten years at my old job.

Not literally, but it sure feels like it. I can’t sleep the night before, my blood pressure is through the roof all day, and the stress makes productive work impossible. I know I’m not the only one who’s less than productive on these days. Instead of dragging it out and losing productivity constantly, why not have one major round every six months and let us work normally the rest of the time?

Just heard that unless you land a placed positions through the wave 1 or wave 2 selection events at a higher PSG, there will be no promotions this year.

Great news all around. 4 days in office, and no merit based promotions. Really makes things motivating around here.

I hear that Q3 progress check-ins managers are given a strict guidelines not to exceed 4.0 rating . I hear people getting rating from 3.1 . If this is the case then the people are near the axe for cut ? It doesn’t give a good vibe given how situations have been and now this

Is the bs they are telling claims. Even the wfh employees that they are needed. But no promotions or openings for wfh, only in hubs. Very suspicious. Appears as if they are moving jobs to the hub but with 40% of the workforce being fully wfh how would they ever get it all into the hubs? Everyone is miserable and praying for the exit offer.

Lol I feel like we complete this back in June and we used to review details in team meetings but I've yet to see anything aside of that X amount of people responded to it. I'd like to see it this year for sure. I bet it's pretty bad which is why the details have not been shared. We also used to pretend (lol) to create an "action plan" based on what the team wanted to focus on yet no follow through has ever been done.

So from what we can tell, John Stankey lives right near Highland Park, which is basically the Beverly Hills of Dallas, TX. He gets driven to the Dallas Downtown HQ, which is a 15 min drive for him - but typically 45+ min for his employees. He gets the closest covered parking available at the firm - but most employees either have to take public transportation or pay for parking further from the building and either take a shuttle or walk amongst the homeless.

If you have ever wandered onto the 4th floor where the executive team works, the floor looks instantly and noticeable different than the 34+ floors in Whitacre tower. The floors are covered in artisan Italian tiles. The walls are outfitted with art deco paintings. Chairs, couches, and flooring are plush leather and carpeting. While there are no public pictures of Stankey's office, he did an interview with Sal of Khan Academy from his office during COVID - which shows a rare view of his office. He even mentions towards the end of the interview the importance of setting healthy boundaries with work in order to be successful and tend to all the areas of your life such as relationships, family, and health.

As you would expect, his office has a sleek executive desk, plush leather chairs, floor to ceiling windows, and even an own lobby for his office! Yet, we are thrown to work on the rest of the floors that look like they are straight out of a 1990s Manhattan skyscraper - economical carpeting, average desks, plastic ergonomic chairs, old computer peripherals, and paint peeling off the walls.

Guys - always remember - this guy only cares about himself. Only the best that money can buy for himself. Nothing but the worse for everyone else.

Look out everyone, orgs are now monitoring everyone's AI usage to fit with our glorious leadership's new decrees that we are now an AI-first company. If you aren't shoehorning AI into every part of your daily workflow, you are considered a bad employee and will soon be replaced by someone who is better at kissing a-s and BS'ing about how much they've multiplied their productivity by using the custom cr-p tools from the Copilot suite. Dadlani's posts asking everyone about how AI has improved their work experience are always met by shameless a--kissing from offshore managers about how their team is 3x faster than before and getting head pats for it while level headed managers who are pointing out how AI is not a magic one-size-fits-all panacea to this company's tech debt and other core issues are being completely ignored.

You've been warned, this company's headless leadership pivoting towards AI and making it a priority is not an idle threat. They genuinely believe that if everyone, even the janitors, are not using AI, then they are replaceable. Absolutely clueless and out of touch people forcing managers to choose who to fire based on unrelated criteria to their work.

Its 4days a week RTO. Where is everyone?

Used to be proud to say I worked for waters, now feel more ashamed. The morale and life has been su-ked out of everyone

The building was empty today and parking lot was less than half full.

Doubt it, but I guess we’re supposed to “hope”.