What do you think about giving away our tax dollars to people who don’t need it. The big question is if someone makes 69,000 dollars per year and has 500,000 in the bank should they get any stimulus. What if they are retired, make 60,000 dollars... — read more 

Thoughts?

Any thoughts on how this new layer of middle managers may help improve the bottom line? Another idea from JB on siloing folks under incompetent yes-mam power-seeking young bosses. Reorg is not done yet but damage is.

Wonderful news for Reservoir Engineers and Geos. You got three months to complete the work used to take 6! More power point makeup and spreadsheet filling that doesn’t make sense. Pre approval meetings and more meetings to please the Reserve team... — read more 

So now that our king has declared COVID-19 essentially wiped out Oxy work from home people should go back to work. No masks required. No social distancing required either. This governor is such an id–t and didn’t learn his lesson from last year... — read more 

I heard this from a friend that in the meeting tomorrow they are going to declare special bonus for all people. Is this true? It can’t be we just got some declared last week, but ya never know.

Vicki to be interviewed on CNBC Thursday along with John Kerry on clean energy. Hopefully Q&A is prescreened so she doesn’t say anything stupid. In any event, they will blow a lot of CO2 hot air that should be sequestered! 💨

Market assessment for Oxy is currently stated as over valued. Never has an assessment of a group of people been more accurate.

I've never worked at a company where that saying was more true than here. Stabbing people in the back just to get ahead is a common occurance and I've seen it happen over and over again in my three years here. Taking credit for somebody else's work... — read more 

Did you receive an LTI this week? How does it compare to last year’s?

My time at Oxy I always thought it was funny how male counterparts were always congratulated for whatever successes they had and invited to lunches with managers, but female counterparts were typically told how lucky they were to have a job and... — read more 

Any ideas?

Thanks a lot OXY. Not even an inflationary raise? All while VH gets her salary restored to $1MM. If there are no performance reviews clearly there are no raises...

Explain why we were forced to waste so much time on preparing self evaluations? Also if no Evaluations, does that mean no raises? I can’t see how you could do one without the other? Is that just me reading between the lines? Grateful to have a... — read more 

Way to go Oxy! You came in and reduced LAPC bonus targets, laid off many people, won't re-staff positions from people leaving/retiring/quitting so we all have more work to do, less time to do it, working from home (many more hours than normal office... — read more 

Anyone heard anything. We normally hear by now.

Someone explain to me, how Oxy is going to transition into a renewable company with a $55b purchase of anadarko. How is it possible? Are we dumping permian for pennies? Who is going to buy it for 80% of what VH paid for it?

Anyone else think we will go back before the original May date?

WHEN WILL WE FIND OUT THE BONUS? This week?

I know a lot of folks have issues still working for Oxy, but really they have been great with WFH during the pandemic. They were very understanding about the freeze, and have reached out to help employees that need help. Say what you will, but Oxy... — read more 

WB sells yxo to buy Chevron Great job kayaki https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSL1N2KG23Z

Current first aid & recordables are on pace to double. 2020 numbers. If you don’t think bonus, pay increase & continued contractor pay cuts are making an impact you are crazy. Don’t see things getting better anytime soon, morale offshore is at an all... — read more 

Heard word we are getting a bonus this year. Anyone else hearing the same?

Why is the workforce not back to the office yet? Apparently there are other oil companies with significant numbers of people back. Is it because people at this company don’t really do anything anyway so whether they are at the office, at home, or... — read more 

I heard that half of the aviation workforce was laid off in November 2020. Anyone else hear about this?

Another award for her incompetence. Gets salary restored when she should have been fired for what she did to the company and to stakeholders who didn't get their say. That's Oxy for you. Also, shows she isn't some angel per HR, she wants her money... — read more 

If yes, when?

There is very little talk about more layoffs (other than the usual fear mongering) and people at work seem to be in a significantly better mood than they have been for a while. Actually, I don't think the morale has been this up since before the... — read more 

are happening.

When can we expect the reviews to start Dont recall seeing any announcement from HR

Nothing ever really works or makes sense. Goals are a joke, as were performance reviews. Pretty sure this whole BAR thing is just another half-done program that Oxy launches but never fully goes through with it. Performance lies in who you know and... — read more 

Heard a rumor that we weren’t getting bonuses at all. Has anyone else heard this? After getting our salaries cut 30% for 4 months, this would be pretty lousy of OXY.

Wonder what feedback you may hear about this new program. Two new top technical ladder positions were created. LAPC and CVX had them. LOXY didn’t before, there wasn't a need really. I really hope this initiative doesn’t fail but like everything else... — read more 

We all took time to complete the paperwork When are the managers going to give any feedback or respond or was it just a load of BS? HR are truly useless Now they want 2021 BS goal setting without us knowing how 2020 went - The lunatics are truly... — read more 

Article posted today by Texas Monthly: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news/how-the-most-hyped-u-s-oil-merger-in-a-decade-went-bust/ “No one seemed bothered that unlike most modern-day CEOs, Hollub was largely unfamiliar with the financial world... — read more 

Someone needs to bite the bullet and call an All Stop on the Oxy computer migration. IT needs more time to get these machines functional. Instead of multiple people every week, they should do ONE PERSON AT A TIME with all available IT migration... — read more 

Any thoughts on what we will get if anything?

The green people are saying that over the next 10 -15 years green jobs will replace the fossil fuel jobs. They are missing the fact that a solar panel technician or wind turbine technician probably makes far less money than an offshore operations... — read more