Did anybody, ever have a positive experience with our HR? A situation in which they came out of thinking, "well, that was great and really helpful?" Because I'm honestly starting to think that HR is the most useless department in this company and that we'd be better off if they just laid everybody there off.
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?... You do realize that Chevron's HR department and policies are setup such that your boss is the client and the supporting HR business partners are there to serve their causes, right? My boss last year tried to force me out by filling out an "Unfit For Work" form just so I was forced to take a d–g test and see a psychiatrist. I wasn't on anything and the psychiatrist asked me, "Why are you here?" by the end of the I came back to work to find out that my HR business partner had consulted my boss on what to write down on the form so that it would trigger both tests. My boss and HR rep couldn't look me in the face for about 3 months after that ordeal because they were cowards.
Anyone see the Round 2 HR results?
My HR person told me not to update Workday profile for selections. I said “why not? did we not just move to this new system?” and she said “we are still using GTMIS for that kind if stuff.”
What? So HR spent all this time to tell us about how cool Workday is (“so easy! you can use it from your mobile device!”) but with something as important career development they still use an old cr-ppy system? That makes perfect sense.
How about that digital initiative to consolidate the online experience? It’s literally just a bunch of links to SAP, CLMS, hr2.chevron, and whatever the new PMP site is. That’s the kind of backwards-thinking “digitalization” that’s running this company into the ground.
HR is useless. I have given up on them a long time ago. In the past. I would email and call them, they have no clue of their own policies. They rather punt to our business partners that know more about chevron policy than they do. Cut them in this reorg and no one will notice.
HR you actually thought it was useful to employees . wow
F— HR. They need to get off their a– and come up with a plan to protect us from unrealistic expectations and negative performance reviews in the fall when we are all still stuck at home, in new roles, and trying to manage online school in the middle of this sh!tshow pandemic.
Good experience with phone in questions as all have tried hard to help/answer Q's. On site, not much either way...
Working with a really good one now. He's a great partner. Someone who can work in the gray. Somewhat hard to find these days.
In my 40 years at CVX, had few positive experiences with HR. Main function was completion of forms. Outsourced to 1-800 phone number— I didn't miss much w/ HR reduced role.
HR always sat in on ranking sessions, but had little to say
They’re going through a reorg too.
Recognize that HR works for Chevron, not you. That should answer your question. Also, turnover is way too much for any of the BPs to really ever understand their job.
There is one in Houston now who is very attractive and fit. But then you hear the laugh and are thoroughly disgusted :)
I did! Very supportive. But the HR Business Partner (a guy) quit shortly after to go work for Apple. He was fed up with the b—s—.
I had to fire a complete id–t once and they did all the talking for me.
There are a few HR Business Partners I have worked with that are good. Very obvious they know more than their managers because their managers would tote them along to meetings with them and have them ghost write for them and may or may not give credit where it is due.