Does anybody find it odd that the bottom three results from the recent pulse survey were work-life balance, simplicity, and survey to action? Would this not be indicative of a false sense of security in the higher ranking categories. It feels to me like these surveys are just a part of the motions and that management/leadership will not heed the advice of their people...... Any thoughts?
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These surveys over my years were/are self-serving and very little "action" resulted from any responses.
Career development (you have got to be kidding if you think Management will buy-in), work-life balance (uh--- learn to manage your workload and your boss) and great pay and benefits (yeah--- go out to the marketplace and determine your FMV--- quit CVX if you think that is better option) are always the top responses.
There is palatable angst that survey responses can be traced back to your work group and/or to the individual respondent---- be candid at your own risk :)
Glad i don’t have to participate in these useless surveys anymore. I would not read too deeply into the questions. Work life balance, just be grateful you have a job.
Let's turn this completely around:
Assuming the capitalist system is a system designed to transfer the energy and work at the bottom to the top, bascally a system enriching the elites at the top of the pyramid. One could argue the evidence shows exactly this because domination and exploitation” of workers by capitalists that “degrade” workers to the “level of an appendage of a machine.”. We see the staggering pay and remuineration amongst thetp 1% and yet most folkd don't see and continue supporting it, The sad fact - we see inside these corporations like chevron , are the mechanics of it. People Like the OP have totally bought into this sytem and argue that life-work balance is pandering to the "lazy workers" who are not working hard enough to enrich the higher up. Most of these discussions revolve around trying to make Chevron more effieient at exploitation. The recent Layoff is simply the result of the system's in built method of culling dead wood and shocking the remaining herd to work harder.
Work harder you lazy bastards, and of course keep you head down as you elbow aside your fellow humans as you pretend its all good
I suggest you get a life
All the middle managers are compared and held responsible for those stupid survey results. The low scores are always simplicity and career development.
These surveys are all eye wash. They will manipulate the results to fit their conclusions which means keeping their high paying do nothing jobs.
Those are the lowest because the last time we all biatched and put those at the top, management used our own survey results as part of the justification for the the re-org and layoffs.
Uhhh, work-life balance, isn't that another way of saying "less work" and more - "life activities" i.e. - "me time" than a normal job? So, That's like going up to your supervisor, or prospective employer, and saying yes, sir, one of the most important things that matters to me in my career with Chevron is "less work" and more time for myself. I'm not sure how anyone actually believes the new woke phrases are not exactly that, and that's what they really are, and that you are somehow dealing with ignorant naive employers, who can't see through the ridiculous smokescreen of, "sure, as long as I can do "less work" or as little work as possible, I'd love to work (less) for you." Why not throw in, and I'd like double pay? It's right out of a Dustin Comic strip, lol!
The funny thing about CES, if upper management really supported honest answers and really acted on the shortcomings they highlight, Chevron could be a much better company. With vaguely worded and leading questions, the CES only serves for management to pat each other on the back. Been that way for at least ten years.
I was brutal in my answers for the first time ever in the company survey. No Pollyanna, no sugarcoating, just pure honesty.