I'll start...PMPs, workpace breaks, my old boss & his boss, people telling you to hold the escalator rail, the messed up elevators, security guards as receptionists!
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Thanks for the laughs!
I don't miss having to pretend I agree with poor decisions just so I am not labeled a complainer. Nor do I miss processes replacing good management practices. Or the ETC contracting process taking 3-6 months.
Pure Gold, @1gev. Love the idea of getting the boss up at 2:30am to drive you to the helicopter pad. That's another one for the Chevron Corp Layoff webpage Hall of Fame.
nobody should get up at 2:30 am to go offshore. Inform your boss that a 20 hour day is unsafe and if you get in an accident his asswill be in a sling. Get a motel near the base and cite safety as the reason. Or next time tell your boss that he should drive you at 2:30 am to insure your safety.
I don't miss painting a turd golden and calling it a nugget. I don't miss leaders saying how good we are when in fact we were failing miserably. I don't miss work packs or the jackasses I had to explain how to write them to. I don't miss 3 year old senior staff deputy manager engineers who couldn't wipe their own a$$. I don't miss Chevron at all. Crazy train gone......beyoutch.
I don't miss the people of GOM persecuting you over holding hand rails, backing in, using mirrors, walking up and down stairs properly and then blowing a hypocritical gasket when you politely ask them to do the same thing when they aren't doing it. I don't miss the concentration camp attitude of the Covington office from arrogant security guards, cameras and microphones always watching you, bullies attacking you and then sniveling when you stand up to them. I don't miss the persecuting team leads who spend every waking moment looking for something, ANYTHING wrong with literally every thing you do. I don't miss the team leads who watch the clocks over minutes on arrival and leaving times, then demand you get up at 2.30am to go off shore and get back 9pm at night while they never go offshore and have a pool vehicle time that takes 20 minutes off their own time. I don't miss the pathetic, childish and cowardly school yard that is Covington.
I won't miss the monthly office requirement to produce 1 BBS report. For over 2 years, I never actually did one. I faked every report I made, even got so bored at dreaming them up, that I had to rehash the same scenario again and again. What a waste of time this crap was. Won't miss it and hope my next job doesn't require it either.
1) Office environment.....I worked in the field for 29 years, the last 15 months in the Houston office. It's why I selected the EOI, not an office person.
2) PMP's
3) Writing worthless documents for POP.
4) BBS, what a joke!
5) Commute to Houston office!
I think someone already said it, but it's worth repeating... My boss and his boss.
You just reminded me of the guy who would clip his nails in his cube whenever he was on the phone. Everyday. Multiple times a day!
And PM for ETC! Monthly highlights no one read. Journey management plans.
Working with guys who wear corporate kneepads
We Lead, Tenants of Operation, Shariq and all that Diversity nonsense, trying to avoid Watson when he wanted to sit at our lunch table to mingle with the people, Healthy Haert and Heath Trails, the list is endless. San Ramon truly sucked
I really miss having to provide CSOC feedback and BBS observations.
Other than the paycheck, I don't miss anything. That whole PC chevroid backpack culture made me feel like I was working in the twilight zone.
@HApM4Y5-1cot, did you stick your dork through that wide gap for your boyfriend? You seem upset. You must miss him.
The wide gap in (or lack of) @kba sense of humor. Dork!
By far, the hellish commute to and from work during Houston rush hour traffic
Hahahahaha. The wide gap in the bathroom stall partitians! That's your number one? Sounds like the process worked if that's what you were focused on.
1) Wide gaps in the bathroom stall partitions for peering eyes to see what's going on inside.
2) The coworker's flatulence problem one cube over to my left and the coworker who hacked and coughed all day in the cube to my right. Not to mention the coworker who talked loud on the phone forever behind my cube.
3) Resubmitting reports time and time again to people who claim they didn't get it last week or they lost or deleted it somehow.
I could go on to 10, but you get my drift.