IT, Finance and Commercial are expected to layoff ~300 people in 2 waves starting with IT in early Q3 2025. A majority of operational support for IT will be moved to outsourced providers. Major IT restructuring will be done using the “spans and layers” concept suggested by BCG to reduce management layers.
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@79x *you’re … if you’re going to insult someone’s intelligence, make sure you do it intelligently.
@6xm quit starting cr-p!!! Let it go and go get a job.
@6xg do you have proof? Sounds like he said she said. Show the proof or STFUP
@74a i support the CIO, CFO, CEO and all the smart people left at the company. I have followed most most of them before they earned their titles. I am wasting my time replying to your ignorant post but you are trash, stupid, incompetent. I bet you dont have a clue what those upper management position even mean.
There is a shortage of HVAC people. You should go to training school and “may be”, you might get a job!!!
@78d your an id--t, not HR here
@OP LTIM is going to take your jobs.
@78s It's too bad there's not more attention put on the quality of of a worker's skills and productivity and less on their job titles. (This is why we feel like numbers rather than human beings!) Some contractors are better at their jobs than some untouchable "leaders." (Anytime you work somewhere where HR insists you substitute the word "manager" for "leader," you got problems. "Leader" is earned.)
@78d all departments! Some will be managing two sites and/or supporting. They are letting go of more contractors as well.
@76h Thanks HR.. but no one here is going to tell you how to fix your mess. It’s already a horrible working environment and will be until HR is beheaded.
Will there be an impact of lay offs for admin assistants, OSC, community relations, and coordinators?
@76h Better start looking for another job, but don’t hate each other.
@74x what would you have the people do that stayed or got to keep there jobs? We are all co workers this is business. We can’t hate each other and create a horrible work environment
@765 Hilarious and true
I was gonna say no way this is true until I read:
A “Commercial Transformation” group is being created to further cut people.
This sounds exactly like something cpc would come up with: “justify laying people off so we can justify building a team that justifies laying people off”
@761 yes. And more this Friday and in 2 weeks from Friday- they’ve already been told
@74x Was anyone laid off from HR? Sorry if someone's already said.
@75z and what about central engineering, ehs&s, and gpe, etc
@75m Hey, Oracle. What about other overhead departments like Legal & Public Affairs and Sustainability?
@75w just for you to respond to this to say it won’t happen acknowledges it’s on spot. Thanks HR
@75m maybe 20 percent of what you stated will happen.
Well, at the end of the day, they won’t be able to operate if they have mass exodus of people.
As an insider with intimate knowledge of what’s coming it’s really hard for me to sleep at night knowing what’s coming….so I need to at least to give warning for people. Here’s what I know:
- Manufacturing is next…dead weight will be cut…it’s going to be bad and will be the next phase
- A/P, A/R, Customer Service, MA’s, Finance, Credit, etc will be outsourced or offshored. You will be required to train your replacement to get your severance
- A “Commercial Transformation” group is being created to further cut people.
- Most likely combining NAO/PAO with Spec Chem and eliminating Spec Chem GM, Spec Chem Business Manager and Product Managers
- Aromatics will be absorbed into Petchem or Specialties, eliminating Business Manager and a Product Manager
- PE will reshuffle their deck and eliminate a few marketing managers and get rid of their Business Manager and Commercial Manager
- PE international and distributor sales at HQ will be reduced
- The Borger truck fleet will be outsourced
- Supply Chain/Procurement will start another round of reorganization eliminating positions to consolidate functions
- Finally the best part…upper management will be affected. Supply Chain GM, Specialties VP, and Manufacturing VP will all be let go after they’ve completed their reorganizations. They don’t think they’re on the chopping block, but they are.
This will all take place from September to October if CPChem doesn’t hit the $300M…
NO ONE IS SAFE! If I was you, I would start trying to get out now. Withdrawal your pension and move on from this sinking ship.
This was once a great company but they let engineers who thought they understood business convince the board to build two more world scale cr--kers in an oversupplied market. CPChem is about to learn that you should keep engineers as engineers and let the business trained people make the decisions. But as we all know, engineers know best even when comes to business. Now we’re all going to the price.
@74a and yet our illustrious CIO sitting at a table in the lunch room laughing with her cronies like she doesn’t have a care in the world! Oh wait ….. she doesn’t- it’s everyone else that is worried! Our company is so embarrassing right now and HR you can downvote all you want we are past caring
@704 What else to expect when the CIO has no technical background but an accounting degree? Should have been CFO with that accounting degree. But wait not qualified enough to become CFO, so let me take CIO position. And let my cronies hire outsiders with fake resumes that never saw ERP in their life and make them architects. Keep promoting friends, family members even if they are d-mb as rock. Those LTI d-mbers cant construct a sentence but are running the show. All this on the IT leadership.
The cost of lost productivity.
The cost of damaged team morale.
The cost of recruiting and training a replacement.
But here's the biggest cost of all:
The loss of someone who genuinely cared about your business.
Stop thinking of your people as an expense.
They are your most valuable (and important) investment.
@722 It is heartbreaking to come to terms with a layoff and to witness the greed that has taken root in American society. Companies that were built by Americans three or four generations ago are now outsourcing so that the rich can get richer! These great American companies are selling out for cheap labor, even though they were built on American sweat, tears, and sacrifices! It feels sickening to know that the wealthy are focused on getting richer at the expense of everyone else. It's especially frustrating when a majority of the board members are likely American. These companies are outsourcing their data for the almighty dollar.
@70m I do agree with one thing you said … I truly believe that a company that would violate so many laws and regulations and so many of their own rules would truly attempt to violate our basic right to free speech as well.
@71k The cold, callous tone deaf insensitivity is astounding. For a company that lauds themselves as “caring by choice” leading you to believe that they’re different because they care. They have definitively and irrevocably finally shown everyone what that tag line really means. They could choose to care but it also means that they can choose not to. They have chosen the latter. And chose to openly rub it in everyone’s faces as they are dismissed from the company with extravagant celebrations, unnecessary expenditures, and more meaningless words from tone deaf executives. Truly shameful…
@70m whatever HR. The truth is getting out.
You guys had 3 senators at your HQ unveiling. Then talked about how employees are the backbone of the company and success.
You should be ashamed of your antics. The board should be ashamed. The CEO should’ve said no we won’t celebrate this in the face of what’s coming.
None of the people who caused this are losing their jobs.
The plants are hiring to appease the unions so they can continue to cut people at HQ and on. This is embarrassing. They have job postings right now during a lay off.
Then these careless people did it by teams and made sure to cut us off at the end of the call in case we tried to gather evidence.
At the end of this teams call it’s over.
Those of you moved into new groups. Good luck! Once they understand your task bye bye.
@707 Also off-shoring especially services where CPChem needs immediate help during working hours in our time zone. Off-shoring is the trend in IT and it can work, but it often doesn't.
@6z9 Before you speak out, please take your severance paperwork to a lawyer. You need to know what you can legally say and to whom before you publicly disparage the company or one of its officers. Do this especially before speaking to or emailing a reporter, as someone here suggested. Ask an attorney to spell out what acts of free speech are prohibited by the agreement. Also ask your attorney about requesting a mutual non-disparagement clause, confirming that HR will not mischaracterize your exit, and preserving the right to speak confidentially to investigators and regulators.
@707 well 3 of the 16 PE sales people were let go on Friday so….
It would be a huge mistake to outsource customer service. They are the lifeblood with customers along with sales people and are ranked in the top (first in most categories) year after year.
@6zt CIO Should be fired. People she now has inked for the new roles have NO prior experience whatsover. Just “yes” men. Infrastructure/Architecture to be run with someone that was configuring SAP Security a few years ago (zero experience), and person that just came back from Singapore running all of the business-facing applications with no prior experience (was a technical lead prior), and an SAP ABAP Supervisor now running Strategy and the SEE Office? No experience with OCM whatsoever and no background in strategy. Are you kidding me? CIO needs to be audited by Chevron or P66 to understand the crazy poor decision making process. Makes no sense.
Any signs of impacts to engineering roles at the manufacturing sites? I don’t understand the push to reduce third party spend while also wanting to outsource more… Seems counterintuitive. The whole thing just rubs me wrong.
CIO should be fired for
1) Wasting $ millions in PBD
2) Failing of numerous IT projects.
3) For allowing hiring of unqualified people (buddies, family members)
4) Keep giving kingdom keys to LTE d-mbers
5) on and on
Elliot should see this. Save millions by firing all managers.
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If you are afraid to speak out against them you should ask yourself why? A non toxic environment would want that honest feedback but it’s like someone else said. HR is vindictive. Just like apparently they have been telling people not to post on this site, they are being watched. Even if you are laid off no doubt they have you scared to say something until you get all your final paychecks. Don’t be afraid of them. Speak out!
I know I am not leaving my pension with this company before it magically disappears.
In all of these threads about who’s next - all of the departments that are probably on the chopping block - not once have I seen HR mentioned. The main non-revenue producing department of the company and the most top heavy. Why? This is beyond ridiculous- a long time IT employee who was invaluable is gone but not one of those b#*!he’s will be terminated! This has become such a s%#t show of a company
@6xc at least two more rounds and possibly more if they don’t hit financial targets. Next big round will be all the positions that will be outsourced. accounts payable/receivable, finance, credit, customer service, support services. This will probably happen in late September or October. It’s not even remotely close to being done.