Thread regarding Chevron Corp. layoffs

Whatever happened to getting ahead based on QUALIFICATIONS???

If I have to listen to any more of this D&I rhetoric being misused, it will push me over the edge. I just wish I had enough money to quit now.

For anyone who is a minority (and I happen to be one myself), WORK YOUR A$$ OFF and get ahead on your own merit, not because CVX or any other company needs to fill a quota. Trust me, there is nothing more satisfying than savoring one’s fair and square accomplishments. Even if there will be those who are truly biased and attempt to hold us back, we can persevere and still achieve. Nobody can take self-respect away from us.

This article made me sad. This former exec got it wrong — with each and every opportunity he had to connect with employees during his time here, he chose to use divisive and victim speech. That didn’t do squat for advancing my career or that of many other qualified minorities, but it did foster a spirit of exclusion and mistrust. So LJ can keep his opinions and shove them firmly where the sun doesn’t shine because he still walked away with MILLIONS and left the rest of us holding the bag.

work hard, do your best, black or white and cream rises to top. Period. Chevron seems last 20 years or so to promote non whites, almost obvious. You have to look also have general fields of study, and what races enter before skewing numbers. When I started at Chevron in office with like 1000 people, there were only about 10% or less coming in door. But end of day, you should pick best talent/contributor. Imagine whites complaining about make up Rockets, Cowboys, Alabama CFB race make up and saying, "Hey racist!". No, coach would say he starts 11 best, period.

"But Tom he said he had to tread carefully, mindful that the energy industry was relatively conservative and more White than other sectors. "

I think what you'll find is that LJ wanted career progress but was stuck permanently in the diversity job where management put him up on a trophy pedestal but didn't listen to him. He wanted to be promoted to head of HR, was told he was not qualified but then the job was given to someone less qualified. He asked to be moved back to a real job in a business but they told him he wasn't really qualified for those, so he quit in a huff. Simple as that. I don't blame him.

Seems unfair to me that the Blacks have marginal rolls in advisery or service functions. Warner William was the only one who did well in a business line, but the employees hate him. WW is very active in the American Association of Blacks in Energy (AABE, not AAPE).

Oh, great. Now we’ll probably see another email about how Whites need to stop acting so White in order for Blacks to feel included. That’s why no one wants to return to the office after all. Bbbwwwwhahahahah. How can someone talk about racial inequity and visible inclusion in the same sentence??? Wonder how many PDRs didn’t know a White employee in order to fight for their survival but where afraid to ask if anyone else knew them?? We’re moving backwards as a society. How about we quit with the constant racial divide and unite. Can’t we all just get along??

its quite obvious in the exec team
blacks not holding much key positions in business related functions

Just read the story. This was real personal and I think there is way more to this story. Something happened that must have made LJ “retire” because he sounds somewhat angry at Chevron.

Why are you changing the subject? Don’t like the LJ press?

I was searching for the layoffs site, to learn about the frequency and amount of layoffs, is this the wrong site? It looks like a chat room where adolescent children of the employees play while their parents are at work.

I worked with Lee for a short while and he is a decent guy, well intentioned. What he misses, however, is that with only 8% of Chevron’s workforce, you’re not going to miraculously create, say, 15% of management. Look at the women in Chevron - it took nearly 20 years of preferential hiring before there was appropriate experience to put them into management. Look to Chevron’s staffing demographics 10 years ago, and it should mirror your current managerial demographics. (The only way to change that is to hire externally, which Chevron does only sparingly [like RM]).

Oh jeez! Maybe Chevron can call in BCG to do another "study" on our diversity problem. It seems we can't do anything or make any major decision without calling in some over-priced annoying consultants.

Lee Jourdan, a black executive, says black people cannot become executives at Chevron.

“oh sh-t i probably was the one who quoted MLK”

How about we just view people as individuals instead of pawns in some imaginary Marxist class struggle?

Oh boy...Lee I thought we paid you well enough to send out those monthly diversity emails and keep your trap shut! Where's Josetta....- MKW