Walking through the buildings this morning that has become an endless and never ending corn maze of “improvements”, it dawned on me, Chevron is lost. From elevators, escalators, college dorm style offices, orgs that don’t work, consultants ripping us off, workflows in the name of simplicity that accomplish the opposite, lack of accountability, zero clarity and more, we are lost. None of this helps us make more oil, gas and profit and YES, that is what we are supposed to be doing. All this waste and not one thing is improved. Not one. All are worse. No project should be considered without answering the question of how it makes things better for employees so they can help Chevron make more oil, gas and profit.
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@m3
If you are spending $250k for each wedding you are probably an Indian woman. There are very few people in the USA that would waste $250k on a wedding when you could buy a nice house either that deposit. Paying $250k for a wedding is a waste of money u less you are rich as he-l
@m4, but, when these pillars start to crack and they will
has been the situation since the beginning of all of the Oil and Gas Industry companies, large and small, many, many decades ago. No one took their jobs for granted then and neither should you now. Enjoy the ride.
@m3 OP is courageous for sharing an observation with us. It’s evident that the work model and ways of working are flawed at many oil companies. This is not specific to CVX. We’ve had over a decade of initiatives and counter initiatives that has resulted in a demoralized workforce. Investment in facilities have occurred but, there is something underlying that’s tough to express…as long as Permian is over 1MM bopd and Guyana rocking…all is well…but, when these pillars start to crack and they will…you’ll then realize what this post is about
@h7, Completely wrong, I am neither white nor male, yet I am the primary earner in our household. I just put forth what I assumed was a helpful statement of a real Chevron office employee and finances, which I handle for our family. The OP does not work in the field, per their post. The idea is, maybe OP "feels" lost, but there's a reason for putting up with it. Thanks for reading.
@h7 you need Jesus.
@f7
1st world problems, you are an arrogant entitled white male pr!ck living in a make believe world. I hope you have a stroke and your wife puts you in assisted living, divorces you and sleeps with the pool boy. HaHa!!!
@ep Houston modernization plan (laughable)
@OP how long can this charade last? There is institutional rot and everyone is so enriched that change and improvement is resisted
" I am 52 and if I include lump sum and severance should have about 5.5. That’s about 240k per year with the 4% rule well below my base pay, bonus and stock that I make every year. To maintain the a lower standard of living, tuition for kids for another 8-9 years, health care, property taxes, taking care of extended family, two weddings in the next 5 years at 250k each, vehicles, insurance, taxes on retirement income and have at least 250 k in disposable actual income, I need at least 350k in actual income in a down market . Projected over 20-30 years accounting for inflation long term care, hospice care, assisted living etc. Iwhich will get very expensive over that time period, so it could be quite tricky. So Social security, Medicare would help but only after 64.5 years, so my projection is 8 MM with the 4% rule factoring in all of this. I need 3 MM in the next 5 years or in a shorter timeframe if I am let go sooner than later."
Fourth reorg for me now. Each one promised simplification and more profit and of course we all know it never happened, just cooking the books for a few quarters. All for some new alphabet soup made up by consultants to yet reduce headcount, again.
@by HMP is garbage just give us a regular cube with our name on it and stop wasting all this stupid money
@by what’s HMP?
@by HMP is a stupid waste of money.
Management are considering putting a pause on HMP.
The HMP PM is mad that it's not getting pushed out more.