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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@3fj MFG support could be further consolidated to a corporate level. Other companies do it.
Manufacturing at the corporate level or site level?
@3cz Mr B Can field him self! Nice huh?
How does this make sense?
The new HQ was unveiled, all those massive projects? We were growing and growing. From the town hall’s and other information it was just how great things were.
What in the world happened?
Now we are going to outsource support groups?
How many engineers do they have placed in support groups they need to bring back to the plant groups?
@3cs Soooo- the head of HR gets caught with a sr vp and manages to get out of it - what happened to the hotline call? Was it deleted? Swept under the rug like everything else? What would these same people do if a couple of employees did the same thing? I can guarantee that hotline call wouldn’t have disappeared! So unethical!
@3cy post your journalism link
This was an executive?
@3ch good thing you can’t use names. I can’t think of one finance person that needs to stay.
@3ch is this a good time to talk about why Han ka mer was force retired?
@3ch you mean the names like
Ma ri cella got caught with Can Field and hid it?
Leadership having tryst while the ship sinks is mind blowing.
@382 Beth please tell us more as to how our head of HR MC and Mr Can field got caught in a compromising situation but yet nothing was done about it- where was your investigation then? Different rules for different people cause a lot of issues for regular employees
@3cn amen. Look at your commercial leadership. When you take guys out of the labs and put them over commercial teams you will have major issues. Can not believe that method failed.
@3ab then the evidence points that Chevron Phillips has been doing the wrong things for an extended amount of time.
People are jaded leadership failed them short term, and long term.
This is what eventually happens to a petrochemical company when the majority of people in engineer roles are at best mediocre. It all stems from there. I'm surprised the show kept going for so long.
The nepotism is also hard to hide. Zero shame.
When you operate unethical as Chevron Phillips has then you will see the fall out .
Hiding major leaks such as the MESH incident at the Borger facility is one primary example.
Underreported , hid, and pushed under a rug. Dangerous chemicals leaking that could ki-l someone were allowed to leak for days. The supervisor responsible (all red) took his team out for a team building experience in an escape room while the toxic chemical was allowed to leak. All management and commercial leaders were aware and just let it happen.
Incredible.
@3ce lol this guy is obviously in accounting without a degree!
FYI.
You can’t use names or post will get removed.
If you’re going to call out people, use initials or spell with a gap ex. J oey or J o e y.
Happy commenting!
@38x
I’ve worked in industry for 25 years. The only accounting manager I’ve seen worth a damn is one who didn’t have a degree
@3ac same- in my group an unqualified woman is set to leapfrog men that were there before her and set to move up- very sad when they will be awful managers and everyone knows it
@38h unfortunately I've seen the opposite... for the mid career employees the men have been managed moved out of the way for up-and-coming female leadership. In 2024 cpchem did a women's in leadership program with all the fanfare of a homepage article and picture (and the traditional ALDP hasn't been held in a while). Those wldp participants were assigned LT mentors who were to help them find their next promotion. Well you get what you measure...
Furthermore in dec 2024 cpchem did a womens and minority leadership program that targeted FLL types...
@3a8 I may very well get laid off! I have a family and a need for the pay as well like everyone else. What I do know is that I’m currently happy in my role and wouldn’t leave otherwise. If I felt such hate for the company prior to the lay off announcements, I would’ve made a CALCULATED decision to leave sooner. I’ve done it before and if needed, I’ll do it again. But you are correct everyone has a right to be upset. I simply pointed out that some of the comments started to lean into conversations about feeling jaded long term and not recently. This thread seems to be the perfect opportunity to voice that.
@39x I think you will be saying “look at me” when you get laid off. People have a right to be upset. Horrible choices were made that led to this path. Some people like to claim they can leave toxic environments but when it comes down to it. People have to stay for the pay. Reality rules most of us unlike you. Good luck on your next job!
Ge-z. I’m not sure what’s more depressing the possibility of a layoff headed my way or reading this thread. Some comments here are very objective and informative while others just straight up say look at me! I want to join the echo chamber circlej--kof disgruntled employees who want to gossip and complain anonymously! Either way I suppose it’s your right but it seems it would’ve been more logical and less painful to leave voluntarily a long time. You couldn’t pay any amount of money to continue working in a ‘toxic’ and ‘woke’ environment as it’s being called. It’s not worth your mental health people! I hope you all took advantage of the resume writing workshops and the mock interview help because we may all soon need it. And for God’s sake, don’t listen to the comment below suggesting to take a cr-p on the pickle ball court. That’s so unhinged!
@38w can you believe they had people dedicate their time to offer various options so employees could choose which chairs would be at the new hq?
Promise they spent more time on what chairs stay than people!!!
Accounting/finance is a specialized field and CPChem has made a habit of putting unqualified people in these roles. Anyone without a degree in accounting or finance that holds one of these positions should absolutely be let go because they offer no value in the position.
What are we going to do with all these chairs that we wasted colossal amounts or time and money on for the new excessive HQ?? There won’t be anyone to put in them.
Laying off finance and outsourcing I understand. I don’t think anyone in the company is competent enough to handle the responsibility. However IT? Outsource that and you get canned answers and minimal response.
@OP I hope every employee that gets laid off takes a sh-t on the new pickleball court on their way out.
@OP are the barista’s jobs also in jeopardy? How can the LT have their fancy coffee in their completely excessive new HQ building while they talk about which employees besides themselves are expendable without the baristas??
Get rid of the under-performers, having to do their jobs while they get is demoralizing. Quit protecting the nepotism babies.
You could have saved money by letting us be remote, unfortunately now with the shiny new HQ it’s all about optics. Butts in seats. Lots of places to “collaborate” aka hide. Let me take a three hour lunch to use that pickleball court on CP Chem’s dime. 🙄
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@387 I am sure there will be more than just these 2 upcoming rounds of layoffs. There’s no way this company can keep paying its employees while also trying to pay for all the BS projects they’ve been paying for.
@1n2 Great company? Are you serious? A company that is trading your job for pickleball courts and a flashy new HQ? They traded your job to bring in their friends and buddies from other companies.
If you look at examples of toxic companies Chevron Phillips fits all of the examples perfectly. There needs to be change but not by laying off support groups. They need to whipe management as a whole off the slate.
I have seen women in this company take a back seat to the “men” in the room. I’ve seen HR help cover that up.
I have watched them promote every engineer and award them raises even when they were not warranted. In the name of keeping talent.
I’ve seen the elitist mentality win out to the demise of what was once a great place to work. Ego is the issue.
This is no surprise that layoffs are coming. It is a surprise some of our coworkers never seen it coming. I am also surprised with the amount of changes that the new managers brought it took this long.
Would not shock me a bit if TOTAL bought us based on the rumors - “ Canfield is making such poor decisions he has to be purposely sabotaging Chevron Phillips.”
@va that’s not true at all. Canfield said as much during a town hall. He said we were spending faster than we could make it. They knew the problems were coming. They thought the mega projects would save us.
This company is absolute trash and unfortunately it won’t be the Canfields and caballeros who get what they deserve. Full management change over is the only thing that could save the company. But at this point, who cares? Even the owner company’s investors are calling for someone to stamp out this fire so they can stop hemorrhaging money. Hopefully this is just the first round of layoffs.
Transparent? Are you kidding me? The management team talks about the plant status at family gatherings and good ol boy events. Transparent I say not@1fz
@2t6 Amen! Look at all the commercial managers without any experience in commercial!
How many in IT would be laid off?
@379 manufacturing contractors or actual CPChem employees? I would think the employees like operators out in the plants would be safe.
@378 yes September is what I heard as well. Manufacturing supposed to be hit hard.