Thread regarding Chevron Corp. layoffs

People who say Midland is not remote have never lived in Midland
Why do you think there is a 10% uplfit?

@aq+1, you'll have to tell us exactly WHAT that Exploration VP is responsible for, other than offering vapid 'keynote' addresses at trade shows and professional meetings. It is undeniable that she has no significant discoveries in her entire tenure (Nargis was Noble acreage). It is also true that this dismal performance coincides exactly with the (then) GOM takeover of DWEP, which had a decade of very significant discoveries up to that point, the only significant discoveries for Chevron anywhere in the world during that time. It is also true that her prior experience was with GOM (surprise!), which hadn't had an exploration program for almost 20 years, and an unremarkable couple years in CTC in a low-level management position. You be the judge what her qualifications were to be elevated to Exploration VP.

I am a Chevron Employee in the 20 to 25 year category.
I am a white male.
I am a FE.
I am in Houston.

Now to the OP. You are spot on. I don't know if you are Chevron or not but your notes are 100% spot on. For those that think Midland is not remote, you have not been to Midland. We have had to pay people extra to go there.

If you think that Chevron did not deliberately terminate qualified white males to make room for unqualified females and minorities in 2019/2020, you are completely delusional. All you have to do is read the names of the personnel let go. Page after page of white males.

To the poster that says a VP is not responsible for the performance of their organization, you are obviously a woman.

@c1+1jhzq0a60 Understood. Initials it is.

@av+ if you have to look up names for first name last name initial combos that are senior leaders, start polishing off that resume for work elsewhere. You're not prepped for the upcoming Hunger Games that will require not just knowing those names by heart but kissing their rings enough to get a role you want to stay in. (Also, this site deletes posts with full names, hence seasoned posters us initials)

Sarcasm is lost on some

This post by the OP is a fake. CVX doesn't discuss in public internal issues. Think about it.
All those training videos telling us not to divulge any company information no matter how much you think it is irrelevant. This "person" who claims to be from HR post this stuff?? Where else have you seen or heard anything like this in the public discourse? It's a phony.

“There aren’t that many “consequential” jobs.”

Duh, then substantially reduce number of27+ positions, seems like a no-brainwr that even McK can see.

How about we hire some people that know how to get oil out of the ph--king ground and quit with this DEI D&I nonsense. Just hire the best person for the job…man… woman…. Non- binary i don’t give a s*** I don’t know if you folks understand how this works but an oil company that doesn’t produce oil won’t be an oil company for long. And buying out competitors just to run that asset into the ground will only keep you afloat for so long and I’d like to retire from this place at some point.

There aren’t that many “consequential” jobs. There simply aren’t that many positions up there. Do the math.

The facts of life are that there are low risk, high level jobs for people to move into, and most of us won’t get it. And the really good people are needed in just a couple of assets.

@ar+1jhzq0a60, isn’t that the root of the problem, people in consequential jobs get nowhere and the “in-consequential” grade 27+ keep traveling upwards. I hope you see the irony.

Btw, at that level a job is what you make of it, they have sufficient clout to swing thinks around if they have the expertise and the cajo..NES

Just curious to know. Why people are using first name last name initials on this site? I have to go look up org chart every time.

@ac+1jhzq0a60 I don’t think these positions are actually that important in certain business units and are used purely for “development”.

You don’t see them putting drilling managers with zero experience over deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Or ABU, MCBU, TCO Ops.

On the other hand, people like BK roll through CBU and EBU where nothing happens. All the GM and GM+1 positions in CBU, SJV, AMBU were safe spots for future leader training ground and you see that with the movements. You also see woman leader like MP in GOM AD, where there’s not much going on, and now NMA, a declining business.

It happens. Get over it.

Obviously commenter knows nothing about how exploration ACTUALLY works, or is just a male chauvinist pig like the others on here. It’s not the VP’s fault that strategy and business development or NOJVs chose to go into plays with no oil. Or we bid on blocks with trash assets.

You can only do so much with what you’ve got.

Funny OP thinks Midland is a remote location and OP works in Human Resources?

Like the exploration VP who hasn’t found anything in 10 years?

I saw this happen so many times. Experienced, high-performing individuals with leadership skills pushed to the side for mediocre and inexperienced females and justifying it by calling it a “stretch” assignment. Those promoted typically wash out, but are moved into coveted individual contributor roles before it becomes unavoidable.

Then people support this for the sake of padding their PMP through virtue signaling. Those who disagree are either benefiting from this, ignorant (willfully or otherwise), complicit, or a MARC si*p.

I remember one lady who was an IT manager in GOM (I interacted with her a few times) a few years later I see she is strategy manager for EMED.

WTF, this is prized and a critical position, would have expected substantial asset development and subsurface or project development expertise. Don’t tell me the company did not suffer by putting this person in that position.

Although the data may show that some women are less willing to relocate to less desirable areas for various reasons, I really think people should look at this information objectively rather than jumping to blame women for the troubles at Chevron. In reality, those women just took different jobs within the company while someone else filled the roles in the undesirable location. Unless you're saying that the men that filled those roles were less adequate leaders than the women would have been in those roles?

Ooh. I thought D&I was Data and Insights. Really appreciate the clarification.

TROLL

So now we're blaming women for CVX performance?

Get out of here with your misogyny.