Thread regarding Chevron Corp. layoffs

So it’s not about the snacks, but about firing all the staff that stock our snacks.. sry guys… need to add a few more bucks to the bottom line.

Maybe ai is too expensive so we have to keep cutting deeper to justify

@hw
A lot of USA workers are losing weight because our health insurance covers GLP-1 medication so we can stop our diabetes.

You didn't like the community jar of mixed nuts and a few yogurts?

This is giving AD (Accelerate Downstream; I think it was this one, but could have been over of the many others) vibes... Anyone from the San Ramon office remember when they brought the big plastic dumpster wheelbarrows through and chucked all the hot chocolate and tea, and then switched the coffee to Seattle's Best, literally gas station swill? CBRES's way to show that they felt the pain of a reorg they were not part of. All reverted back less than a month later if memory serves. Also, CVX cheaped out on the consults because there was no "fun" title given to the recent enterprise reorg, or wait, maybe it was ENGINE.

It’s not about the snacks. It’s about the whiplash decisions, zero transparency, severe cost cutting, and basic lack of any real support for employees.

To maintain competitiveness with a $3 billion cost-reduction target, Wirth noted that Chevron must "change where and how we purchase some of our snacks," which includes leveraging global vendors and cheaper snacks in hubs like India.

This wouldn’t be a big deal if you weren’t all so fat.

Griping about snacks...really? Sad state of affairs...

I noticed a new ENGINE posting, “Senior Snack Rationalization Coordinator.” Maybe it’s related?

@gp Exactly. What a bunch of d-mbasses. For a few snacks, they’re pi----g off a whole bunch of employees. Also, since our floor is unassigned, who’s gonna know who belongs there or not. I strongly encourage our brothers and sisters from regular snack floors to come raid the enhanced snack floors.

The funny part is they still have the enhanced snacks on nearby floors so we still have access to them. Not a big deal but highlights what a petty group of leaders we have.

Who made this decision? Which executive? Why no communication? We need accountability. Also, how fu--ing petty.

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The Grinch Who Stole Snacks came onto our floor before a Monday morning a few weeks ago and emptied all "enhanced snacks" in the drawers and every last bit of healthy snacks and milk in the fridge. Didn't even allow the stock to deplete naturally like a GOM reservoir. All because we moved from a floor where most people were unassigned to a floor which packed us into assigned (mostly) cubicles. This company has gotten so penny wise, pound foolish.

Any chance we take all snacks away and get our Mondays at home back?

I’m amazed at how someone, so bored, decided to say, “oh hmmm not unassigned, I could save a few books .. this is gonna be great on my pmp - take it away asap!”

Really? Bruh didn’t have bigger problems to solve?!

Do I care about the snacks? Nah. I got sick of them cuz they never rotated what was available .. but it was annoying to see, this company will do anything for that penny saved.

As a consultant, having been at 5 different firms, I have never been at a company with a stocked employee fridge with snacks, only the meeting rooms where clients show up, just for comparison. But, of course, I enjoy what I do, so there's that.

I worked for a company with a much smaller budget 8 years ago that definitely had a fully stocked fridge at all times on multiple floors. This included stocked beer fridges (that was new for me). Not saying CVX needs to do all that, but it’s silly that they’d take snacks away just because designated office space was the preference of a working group.

I miss having an office.

Spoiler alert: at most small companies, the fridge is stocked with drinks and snacks in kitchen. Alcohol is occasionally consumed in the building by team to celebrate milestones. AND the culture is driven by delivery and performance while actually rewarding employees who enable that. AND pay is better. How I know, because I've worked both and you're stuck in the CVX toilet vortex. Get out and enjoy your job for once!

Boils down to they used the enhanced snacks as incentive to go to unassigned space. If you are in assigned space, then you don’t need the incentive.