Mine has already been reduced to bare bones, and apparently, more cuts are still coming. We’re exhausted—and exhaustion leads to mistakes. The overtime is relentless, and none of us have had a chance to catch our breath. At some point, productivity will hit the point of diminishing returns. It’s starting to feel like the job isn’t worth the pay, and I’m growing indifferent to the uncertainties and risks that come with losing it.
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@mg+1jrxay1mb
You got everything right, except the part about getting new hires to do the work. Very few university hires were offered this year, and we’re keeping a lot of the useless middle managers. There is a huge hit to the early career population in this ROM because Les thinks ENGINE can replace all of them.
I also find myself caring less and less about the outcome. I’m on autopilot . This situation ki-led my spirit.
Remember 80% of the work is done by 20% of the people
Always room to cut, but will it be the right ones to cut?
@fr+1jrxay1mb
I like the phrase "do less with less" translated to "doing less with Les Copeland (New CIO)",
because there will definitely a lot less being done in the new IT org after July 1st. They are bringing in a new IT staff from India to support a very complex IT environment. The wages they are offering will not allow Chevron to hire experienced people so Chevron will be getting new college hires with little to no work experience. The support model for the IT at Chevron will be much worse than it has been in the last 5 years but it will cost less, Les Copeland that is.
There was term that was used during the Accellerate Downsteam years: Cut and Cope. I.e., Cut staffing then make the remaining people Cope with the workload. The justification is elimination of unnecessary/non-productive work and “do less with less”. In my over 40 years in the business elimination of work is rarely done since much of it in the O&G industry is required by regulation, legal, and necessary to support PSM. Additional reporting requirements of CoE, chapters, and HSE added more work with IOM little value or efficiency to the business. Then we have the whole Reimagine IT effort trying to standardize and centralize IT functions which as resulted in more overhead, higher costs to BUs, and little value add. Like deja vu all over again, it appears it’s Cut and
Cope time again.
And by understaffed, you mean teams still extremely bloated by any external benchmarking standard, especially compared to independents who actually still know how to safely find and produce oil and gas without our crazy opex.
Wow, @f9, that’s a very astute observation; how delightfully clever of you. It’s not like that phrase has been somewhat commonly used since 1977, even recently being used in a Stephen Colbert episode, and possibly picked up and reused by people across generations. No, an utter impossibility that language can transcend age and generational barriers. Well done. Truly.
Yea, I like to pretend that I can profile people and also I like to claim that my generation made up terms in use 40 years before I was born too. Kewell.
@av+1jrxay1mb
Just appreciating the fact that you used the term f*&k that noise, which lets me know that you're between the ages of 48-56. Gen X rulezzzzz
@de+1jrxay1mb
I worked with a guy that had a heart attack at Chevron several years ago. One of our coworkers drove the guy to the hospital and got him medical care. The driver returned to work and thought he did a good job taking care of the guy, then he found out he did not follow the correct procedure. He was supposed to call 911 and report the Incident to HR or some other team that no one would think of during a crisis. So the driver got in trouble but the guy lived. The leaders were not around to assist but the individual contributor got reprimanded.
Oh like wow, man, we have to work for a living to put food on our tables now and like man we're all gonna like keel over and drop déad because adulting is so stressful
O..... M.......G....
Just wait for the day that one of us drops d3ad at work from the constant stress. Not that MW or the rest of these 🤡s will give a 💩, but I hope it makes the news and gets some public scrutiny
It’s been like that since Transformation. Just going to get worse.
Why should MW care, if the compensation and work place flexibility, hybrid working model, free coffee and much much more don’t fill your cup, just leave and make it easier for the rest of us. Literally instead of complaint just do something.
Don’t overwork yourself. It’s not worth it. Do what you need to get your paycheck. Don’t burn yourself because our leaders made such bad decisions.
This is why I jumped ship. Working 70+ hours a week on an understaffed team, only to get a 2.5% raise for the second year in a row. Fck that noise. It's easy to see that the grass is greener on the other side when the cvx lawn is dead and withered.
Stop people going to pointless conferences and seminars and networking events and advocacy nonsense and theyll have so much more time to work.
Oooooooh, they're making you actually work? I hate that!
Chevron and understaffing. Not sure those words belong in the same sentence.
Least your working! What's the issue? Nothing!
Make sure to score all 10s on the CES! You can feel good knowing the shareholders will benefit from your being overworked.
MW doesn't care.