Even though most are disappointed in the leadership and their moves, they seem to be confident that they are great leaders and do everything perfectly.
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We produce more at crummy Tahiti field than we do in all of South America. Why is it even a BU?
I became most upset with Chevron management the day we all got a Skagen watch instead of a deserving Corporate CIP bonus.
News reports yet another CVX failure in Venezuela. US declined to expand rights or allow production. Such terrible assets anyhow, why bother?
AM never called out for his long term affair wit subordinate MA. Others would have been fired.
When I saw that the worst exec in the history of the company, AM, was still employed on contract because of our love of Maduro in Venezuela and local inability to work without AM.
Now! Two years after the start of our “transformation” to a new leaner flatter more focused Chevron, we have move conflicting overlapping layers of management, more “chefs working full time on project reporting and “contributer organization”, and fewer Indians actually doing any real work. This has become almost funny, is a really sad sort of a way. Agile my a$$!
A certain BUs factory rollout and it’s initial two years, laid open the dirty underbelly of our middle and upper level management teams depending on your function. Beginning of transitioning away from Chevron Way to a more forceful management behavior that continues to this day.
The people on CNBC especially Cramer are in love with MW. You know things are bad for employees when Wallstreet worships your CEO.
Whenever MW goes on CNBC, not to talk about the health of the company or our forward plans, but to reassure Wall St. that the dividend is sacred, and to look good for the wine-and-cheese crowd by talking about D&I and cow manure.
JG saying we all have victim mindset after management dr-g us through a brutal layoff and did no planning afterwards so it was chaos, yet it was our fault morale is the toilet and people want to leave.
MW and his zero commitment to his employees. He will lay anyone and everyone off to move the dividend up a penny.
Return to Office acting like everyone wants it and it will miraculously heal the company instead of make more people leave.
When they said basically to just grab the barbed wire and deal with the pain of their mess for a while.
When MW went to DC at the beginning of the vax era with other O&G Execs to push for a mandate so we could return to normal sooner. These people won't let me update Notepad in production without testing it extensively in TEST. And yet, they wanted the vax forced everywhere before we could even look at the data. Also, whoever pushed for the divisive sticker BS (twice!) needs to be named, shamed, forced to do a few history book reports, then terminated.
These are unforgettable and unforgiveable for me. I was a CVX Kool-Aid drinker for many years, but no longer.
@3pcp+1fO5Gb86 Yes….such an archaic model where the employer gets to tell the employee what they expect them to do. How about you start a company and then you only do what your employees think you should do.
When they decided RTW was a good idea and not an archaic model.
@2sft its scummy laying people off during a pandemic where jobs were hard to find and right before the Christmas holidays when its meant for joy and family. MW is the layoff king and Scrooge to boot.
@2mel, That's so sad and mean. They should have checked with you first on the timing of laying you off.
When I witnessed violations of Chevron and OSHA safety regulations and issued SWA. The SWA was ignored and I was issued a written directive to never issue SWA under threat of termination for insubordination.
The "king of layoffs" MW made me lose my trust with management. You can't trust anything that they say when they put people through terrible layoffs during a pandemic and right before Christmas. MW has no care at all for people. Its sad.
We workers lost faith in SR when they decided social experimentation was more important than performance. When what you looked like was more important than what you delivered. Personally, when I was told I was perfect for a leadership role, but couldn't get it because it was reserved for high pots, sight unseen.
During a BU townhall when JJ said that layoffs were not being considered 2 weeks before ESP was announced.
The day JW hit his ho-e-in-one at Pebble Beach right around when he got an $80 million stock package while the company was going through a 25% enterprise-wide layoff.
When JG told everybody they had a “victim mentality“ despite being ran through a 5-year layoff gauntlet due to executives’ business planning decisions as we minions achieved green dots on virtually all corporate objectives that they set.
When the company implemented the “visual indicator” system right as masks were shown to be ineffective and the vaccine was recognized as “preventing the most serious outcomes of COVID” while not affecting transmission whatsoever.
The leadership of the folks who incessantly post on thelayoff.com about a lot of nothing even distantly related to layoffs? i think they have been doing an exceptional job!
The entire company was disappointed for 20 years that galactically poor leaders JG and AM (Calaep boss) were not fired but in fact rewarded, paraded in front of the press, etc.
A better question might be “When were you not disappointed with leadership?”
MW has made me lose all faith in leadership. He has shown his only vision is raising the dividend and share buybacks. A massive layoff during a pandemic showed me he just doesn't care and anything else is lip service. I won't stick around if he does it again.
Love JW. Has a he-l of a chip shot too.
I was excited to work at CVX during those times. And the leaders behind the curtain were sharp. Leaders today are hollow. I pay leaders in my org zero respect and they do nothing because they need someone to give them the answer. Blessing in disguise I suppose.
I was impressed with John Watson and Hew Pate pursuing (ultimately winning) the Ecuador litigation. "We'll fight them til he-l freezes over and then we will fight them on ice skates" is a memorable quote