Thread regarding Chevron Corp. layoffs

well this is a gem that I found from the past. After #imagineIT proudly said they will have a goal of building a powerhouse organization of software engineers so we can run a better IT shop. You still have your high PSG 25/26/27s managing technical people even though they aren't technical. You still have the majority of your software engineering services leadership in San Ramon and all the key people calling the shots in San Ramon for IT, especially for ImagineIT. Have we ever stopped to think that we will never be able to build a "powerhouse" software engineering organization when great (and even just good) software engineers who live in the Bay Area are not working for Chevron. On the other hand, there are good software engineers who live all over the country (even Houston) for personal reasons and can work remotely to deliver more than the losers in San Ramon, when they can't get a job elsewhere in a tech company in the Bay.

I certainly wish I was in IT, a coder, software engineer, etc. at this point. I would proudly and happily take any criticism from idiots on sites like these for the pay, benefits and marketability of IT and it's related fields at this juncture. No Problem.

Facilities Engineer - 27 years experience. laid off end of last year, still no job. No one's hiring. Don't get me wrong, I may have passed up a few timbuktu odd-ball positions doing trash work, but nothing decent.

I lost my IT job at Chevron earlier this year. I got a job right away. I'm getting paid more and I also have better benefits, but that's typical in IT when you switch jobs. Also no longer in O & G, Don't give up hope. Good luck to all.

Nah there's just that many of you chasing the same pie. Did I hurt some feelings? Help desk monkey out.

Yeah, because no other industry hires engineers? F' off help desk monkey.

Important enough to be employable in other industries compared to you one trick oil and gas ponies. Good luck when you get layed off.

Awwww look, another IT nerd that thinks he's important. How cute.

Chevron threatens the layoff, whenever someone posts details on nepotism and gutter-level back stabbing. Keep a lid on it. This is a great company, everyone has stop work authority. The Deepeater Horizons cold never happen to us! Right?

-1fbj, I'm not sure who you are directing your comment at, but you cannot take one incident as a basis for judging decades of performance. There are much more frequent accidents, including fatalities, with independents than Chevron could ever match and I am lucky that I am still alive after all those years. I have worked for quite a few of them. Count your blessings that you work for Chevron, from an HES standpoint, if that's your main concern, for most it's not, at this time it's simply having a job at all.

@-1scy: Exceptional record? What are you smoking?

You tell that to the families of the 6 folks that perished last week at the Heli crash in Malongo.

And still one is missing... Our prayers with their families; tragic event.

Looks like -jfn is the poor wittle baby who needs a glass of warm milk. The poor little politically correct indoctrinated victimized liberal sponge douche-bag Chevroid mental midget simpleton. All of the fatalities in every O&G operation onshore and offshore and in all mining operations, manufacturing facilities, and chemical plants are all Chevron's fault to him, in spite of Chevron's exceptional safety record, better than any of their competitors. To him, the Horizon disaster was Chevron's fault also. He is also the type who would believe that Obama's is directly responsible for anything good that happens during his watch, in spite of his opposition to it or voting for bills opposing it's progress, and will pin blame on Bush for bad things distantly unrelated to anything controlled or even remotely affected by the presidency. So sad. I will try to remember to say a prayer for him to regain consciousness and lucidity. That's of course if the effects of man-made climate change don't burn his house and family to ashes in the next few months, which is pretty much a certainty, it's only a matter of time.

What life? What fatalities? According to some ignorant fact deniers on here, Chevron hasn't killed anyone during the course of their business. Its all a lie - their families are only imagining that their spouse/father/son are gone. Listen to Chevron. Its all a lie that there have been fatalities. Urinate on those grave stones like a good Chevroid.

Many Fortune 100 companies have for a few years projected removable hard drives and flash drives from being used on their company computers and laptops. Chevron still enables this weakness in cyber security to continue. Would blocking this access not be one simple line of defense Chevron ITC can employ against data theft and abuse? Seems like a low cost measure that would take only one hour and a low level technician to get done. Why doesn't ITC and all Chevron departments first consider low tech solutions before embarking on million dollar pie-in-the-sky whims?

Chevron has gone overboard on cybersecurity recently (this year). It's begun to affect the productivity of me and my co-workers. We work in an engineering function. We now have big brother watching us anytime we log on, click a webpage, send an email, message a co-worker. The spyware they have put on our computers is bad enough to bog them down. It's out of hand and based on this half billion figure reported by the OP I see why. Well... I guess IT folks know how to keep jobs in an O&G downturn... Scare the board into spending big in this area. Meanwhile incidents/injuries/fatalities during routine work are on the rise...

Your sir need a big hug. It's going to be alright, grab a glass of warm milk and just breath.

Yea

Chevron is F-ing Up everywhere, not only in ITC.