what happened to the thread of truth bomb?
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we've digitally transformed by changing the name from D&C to Wells.
this thread has been quiet. any rumors of more reductions?
Do you think VP wells puts in her conflict of interest disclosure. MCBU GM . He has earned it though. Could you imagine being married to that hellcat for 30 years. Now he didn’t earn it off technical skill or knowledge but then again neither did she so promote them all.
Wonder when their kids are going to start working here for the wells group. They need to get them in the system so they can have the next generation trained up ready to take over.
I think its safe to say everyone in Wells is happy to see tweedle dee and tweedle dumbazz move from there current jobs. That being said, nothing tops the selection of the new MCBU GM of Nepotism as they are calling it, in Round 2 being promoted by his wife. Then again if I was a VP of Wells, I would want to make sure at least 1 of the Wells Managers takes me seriously, especially given that the ones reporting to me today clearly don't give $h!t.
hallelujah... but it is a shame that we didn't do this earlier, and now we are paying incompetence to leave the company. if I was a shareholder, It would tick me off to know that chevron is paying these people to leave the company
new digital platform manager and IT manager! hallelujah!!!
Only people losing jobs in round 3 are individual contributor SME and engineers. Not a single worthless person in BU or even central management will lose a job just like the Leadership intends. All the cuts are saved for us DSR/WSR and engineers in round 4, how nice.
30% roughly globally.
BU Breakdown (more or less):
35% CBU
30% MCBU
30-35% GOMBU
20% CTC
10-15% SJV (not quite sure I know its very small though)
50%? TCO (expats are being pushed out, maybe half of them, not sure)
?% SASBU
does anybody know the % cut for D&C
if digital is about making our lives better, why does she keep the two miserable digital and IT managers around who make our lives worse.
The corporation cut the hell out of our staff, and finally cut down all the wellsafe examiners in UC and yet the VP insists WellSafe and all the beauracratic pointless c-ap that it wastes our time with is not going away as along as she sits in her chair. Can somebody please hide her chair?
If we change our function name from Wells back to D&C, do we get to keep more jobs? Cause we clearly need more digital product owners! LMAO Also clever BS from the BU LT saying they beleive with digital efficiency we can do more with less people, after the VP of wells said digital is not about headcount reduction, it's about making our lives better. WTF!
Don’t worry digital will save us!
As long as they swap out the digital and IT managers for D&C, the world will probably be all good again
Ofcourse D&C would, they plan to put leftover round 2's in round 3, put leftover round 3's (that are useful and liked) in round 4, and show round 4 people (especially in the field) the door. Sad, but its always those of us at the bottom who get cut, not the top. Clearly the CEO's remarks about cuts at the highest level (not just EOI's) being larger did not get to the VP, or she just ignored it thinking we wouldnt figure it out. shameful
Anyone here the round 2 results yet?
I speak for all D&C/Wells staff when I say, they Unocal old prehistoric dinosaur t–ds need to go. Time to put the young D&C/Wells Chevronites in charge.
Few rigs but heaps of people.
I use to work at Exxon Mobil, where the management is strict and severe, but nonetheless is always held to be accountable. They never amounted to the level of stupidity that Ive seen in Chevron UC and ETC management. Any of these dinosaurs worked at Exxon, they would be forced retired by now. However, as always the buddy-buddy system in UC/ETC will save most of them, when they shouldn't. They need to be put aside and room needs to be made for the next gen LT.
We don't need UC or ETC at all. Slash it by 100%. We didn't use them pre nor post covid.
The biggest winners of the coronavirus pandemic is the D&C digital program. They have less opportunity to push stupid initiatives and have mostly stayed under the radar and people will forget that they wasted $30MM on consultants who didn’t actually build anything. Lots of workplace videos, change managers, and weak@$$ talk about change culture. It’s easier to change the culture when the IT leaders actually know just a tiny bit about what the function does. Talk about a bust. Maybe FT can fix this...
Now that TPS is about to get sacked along with upstream BUs' wells staff, I hope the VP has learned her lesson that all the cheerleading D&I and force promoting young white females to supervisor roles
over those more qualified to meet a metric was in vain. The selection committees will not be following her orders anymore when it comes to what diversity groups stay and go. Hopefully the VP will EOI out herself and we can have someone competent running the function, who isnt more focused on D&I Performance and is instead focused on D&C performance.
DrillIng was at least a verb, an activity. Now people just manage wells, perhaps reflecting the drastic reduction in drilling them. Everyone in drilling will be assigned a few wells. Make sure the docs are in order. Abandonment plan tidy.
The new Wells function sponsor, was just announced. It's the Wells (née D&C) Chatbox, and the Wells LT hired her back and thinks she will do an amazing job. Please wish her good luck, as the rest of us play musical chairs for DSR/WSR & Engineer jobs come the transformation/upstream evolution in the fall.
what's up with d&c? well, well, well.. wells. rig count down. people hanging around doing digital, systems thinking, more digital. not making too many holes in the ground. big changes are coming.
I heard that the digital managers for surface and subsurface got to be on the reorg team. The current D&C IT and digital managers are not on the D&C reorg team. That should tell you something about change is coming.
Are we trying to mimic Shell now?
Do we need to change this thread fo What's up with Wells?
The UC D&C chatbox just submitted his expression of interest (EOI). Lol
UC keeps talking about liberating the data because it is a chevron asset. We have all the data we need to do business. Giving it to UC just means more work to get nothing back from them. They can look at our data all day, but it wastes more of our time explaining our data to them than if we just looked at it ourselves, which we are already doing today anyway.
These UC D&C IT "engineers" keep asking us if we want to use this cost estimation cr-APP they built for us. Nobody in our BU wants to use it, and whoever "partnered" with UC to build it just did it to get their LT off our back so we can do our day job. We never intended to use it, and only did it cause passing on digital is now considered career limiting, just like now being a white male is.
Is UC and ETC just a pension fund but for old people who work still here? So many old people that add no value, yet AMBU is the one closing up shop. Unbelievable.
UC Digital "Engineers" are such a joke. But at least they are a funny joke.
That WellView central team provides terrible customer support. I suppose thats what happens when UC engineers are told they are not accountable to us folk in the BUs. I am glad the upper leadership is finally bringing in BCG to ROM groups in central who are entitled. Hopefully, they will put another group in charge, who's leadership that will actually support the BU's.
Awesome, Mike Wirth is no longer putting up with UC D&C and ETC D&C's LT high cost, no value and accountability support model. Looks like those employee surveys are being read.
Im glad another ROM is coming, the one good thing that will happen is BCG or McKinsey will get rid of UC D&C and consolidate it with other central orgs that add no value along with the D&I, DIA, and that Decision Making c-ap. Good job Wirth. Time to cut those high psg UC managers not adding any value .
"UC work is steered by the VP and GM" - LMAO, those luddites lost credibility along time ago. The old guard needs to step aside, and empower the new guard to make decisions instead of just talking about it once a year at a townhall. Too many Cooks in the UC kitchen trying to show their opinion is relevant when it comes to making decisions. Need to push decision making down in the org. Remove the ego.
What was I going to say? Oh, never mind.
UC isn't accountable to the function. That's the problem. It started off with good intent, but turned into an org that houses high PSG managers that BUs determine as too high cost to take & a home for BUs to put mostly expat engineers that aren't a high priority for the BU to keep during a downturn. That coupled with a sense of low expectations that Chevron cultivates across all functions in central orgs is what's made them ineffective over the years. So don't look to UC for leadership to help your function in digital or anything else other then what their managers dictate. Figure it out in your own BU like the rest.
If you have not seen the products from UC DC, then you are too far down the organization yet to make an impact; if I were you, I would focus on your own work than that of others. Also the UC work is steered by the VP and GM, it’s not like they are rogue here. If you have a DS saying to pay no mind to the VP/GM, he/she sounds like a poison pill within your local org.