I'm one of the id–ts from the center that the BUs hate. We actually aren't that dumb. We know that the BUs don't care about what we do. I know that we exist because it's (a little) important to have some governance and standards in how we do things as a company. Assurance reviews and make sure Macondo doesn't happen again. I also recognize that we're now enamored by digital buzz words in the center because that's how you do well on the PMP. Instead of focusing on what the company actually needs to generate revenue, we waste a lot of money in the center, working on c-ap that people don't use. I know this. You guys from the BUs posting on here, bashing your friends from the center... chill out. When I get that job in the BU, I will be right there with you. All jokes aside, the UC individual contributors know these things. I am afraid that it is the GMs and above who don't know this because we collectively have helped them believe that what we are doing is actually useful. Because instead of telling them the truth, we want that nice bonus come 2020.
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With oil in the $20s, UC will get layed off. Start with those Digidorks
I think all of those digital managers and advisors need to be honest and say they have no clue. There just a bunch of hipots that were assigned a an "Initiative" and have no expectations of actually delivering values, other then the perception that they did to their management. Shame
OP - Nice bonus indeed lmao
2020 bonus/CIP was dogsh!t, thanks UC for helping make that happen with digital.
sometimes I do feel sorry for the digital program manager because somebody should've given her a heads up that the IT manager that the upstream IT sent her was one of the worst that the IT group has to offer. Now she's been educated with the 4th quartile.
Yep, sure is.
At the townhall, one of the UC GMs said they will reduce wellview data entry time by 50% and in the same breath said Wellview and DCKA are going away in a few years. Is this guy a mo–n?
The D&C VP needs to stop being given D&I awards by corporate. Let's not reward this behavior. She needs to focus on actual performance and results, instead of talk, talk, talk. My God.
my manager is part of the reorg team. the good news is that the people in that team knows that almost everything written here is basically true, and everybody has seen this site. keep it coming.
Chevron D&C needs a vast makeover. We lead only on recent safety and trail on everything else, especially cost. Digital innovation is needed for sure. Get with the program or get out.
I heard that there is a site/section on here where you post layoff concerns and issues. Do you guys know where that area of this site is?
I attended this D&C PI planning event this week, and it was the most expensive useless meeting I've ever attended at Chevron. Apparently these are happening all over the place. It really shows that Chevron is due for a trimming. For those who don't know, Chevron's gone full crazy with this scale agile framework and instead of PI for performance improvement where there's value add, now we are all about PI for program increment as part of this new way of working that actually shines light on how fat we are.
We have all these groups in UC D&C plus upstream IT from ITC get together to decide what we'll do in the next quarter. But guess what? Where's that BU rep in the high priority BUs? Oh, they are busy drilling wells. It was literally a 100-people meeting for 2 whole days. A bunch of ETC and UC D&C people... thinking that Upstream IT is going to solve their problems of not knowing how to write software.
Just give me the package already... geezus
UC Assurance & Standards Team are a total joke. You can digitize them down to a 0 headcount, let the BU's manage themselves and dont get in their way. Lets not treat every operation like its a Macondo waiting to happen without UC WellSafe in place, that is just rediculous since even the most process driven companies like Exxon, Shell, & BP all heard of our WellSafe process that we showed them and have declined to take us up on it. UC D&C management likes to turn everything into a processed based exercise like the MOC process they have "digitized". Anyone thinking its normal to need 3-8 people to approve of a change in an operation, is not an engineer, just another paper pusher.
agree with global standards and assurance stuff being the goal of UC. the business units are more "digital" than UC. they need to stay the hell out of the BUs' business.
UC D&C is on the right track with all the standards, etc but sometimes the digital initiatives seem less than fully evaluated.
came over here to read about UC, but turned into a D&C thing. let's not forget UC RM, which is led by a dinosaur who is surrounded by other dinosaurs still thinking that UWT and standardizing everything is the way to go while the competition is getting better.
I think the VP isn't dumb enough to throw all her eggs into the digital platform basket. She focuses on business outcome and D&I. She might sound "supportive" with the UC digital people, but in all other types of keynotes and townhalls, she pretty much doesn't talk about platforms at all. Why? Because she knows that she doesn't have the right people in place to execute it. They are pitching tech company aspirations to a bunch of dinosaurs and incompetent IT group in D&C.
Stick her in IRSM or ITSD where the other subpar managers are
There’s no agenda from ITC... it’s just a lack of talent. When you have someone who is just very operational, keep the lights on type of manager go and try to be “innovative,” this is what happens. You’re not going to teach an old dog new tricks. CIO says to spend 20% of time retooling, but I don’t even think she knows at a high level how a well is drilled. And what’s worse, what a digital platform really is supposed to be.
UC Digital keeps bragging about their PowerApps which are pure garbage. Their IT group must be total trash if they rely on Microsoft products for building applications. Their is a reason Nokia was written down by Microsoft years ago u clowns! Maybe use Android or iOS like everyone else who isn't a mo–n. You should fire ur IT department for suggesting this c-ap to push ITCs agenda
platform - n. - a raised level surface on which people or things can stand. Yea, D&C probably knows about that.
There's also this other platform - n. - the declared policy of a political party or group..
I think they've turned digital platform into the latter because they don't know how to do anything.
I heard these digital clowns talk about platforms for the first time last week. Somebody explained our D&C platform like an iphone app store. LMAO... I almost died when I heard that. We can't even get one app to stick in D&C, and now they want to talk about building a whole bunch of apps on top of a platform? Get real!
One of the sponsors said UC D&C IT and Digital will be gutted after the upcoming ROM. All their c-ap that they blew millions ($) of the function's digital budget on, will be tossed in the garbage and they will told they have to go back to being performance/OE engineers at Chevron since they never learned engineering. Sad.
Yeah that cost estimation tool was designed by some UC F-tard for sure. Nobody wants that garbage.
actually that cost estimation tool was the only thing that came close to what a business unit wanted. the well planning tool that gom started and uc took and deployed and destroyed was even worse.
That ucr cost estimation app was total trash, even my engineering TL, said it was more UC trash from trash engineers.
Simple, clear, decisive.....and Value Driven. Something to aspire to, but not seemingly by Leadership
Reuters article says layoffs are coming, UC is going down in flames. UC Digital guys are getting the axe. There is a god!
@3myn - love the overuse of last decade's cliché by the latest generation of simpletons - LOL!
Big Oil makes money despite of themselves
No wonder people say UC is a joke. Even a tool their admits their focus on the GMs. As the old saying goes, you got to go down in order to go up.
Ok boomer
BUs are not a shining light of efficiency and excellent behavior either. The larger the BU the more like the government it becomes. This is not just Chevron, Exxon, BP and Shell suffer from the same. I suspect it is more a symptom of size than anything else.
Independent initiative auditors are needed. This would actually be a good job for the crusty farts with decades of experience. Some of this is already in place for certain initiatives, but others have very little expert oversight.