Other than that HORRIBLE town hall, where has this guy been hiding?
Someone on here called out he brought in LM from GM and a couple days later HT sent out a personnel announcement on his behalf about it “make sure to say “hello” to him in Houston before he fires you lol”. What about KG who also came from GM and is also now reporting to him? No personnel announcement there.
I work in the data and analytics areas and feel relatively safe and also very happy with the work that I get to do right now even in these dark times. I really trust my leader who is also my old hiring manager and consider him an awesome mentor... the biggest thing that I worry about is that LC provides no messages, brings in his guys, who also have not been made available to people so the only thing we can do is look them up online and read what we can… which gives me zero confidence in the future of what we will have. We have an awesome analytics organization, and I get the sense that it will be completely ripped apart, especially if the leaders who built this up are cast aside by the new administration and leave for greener pastures.
I’m not one to push for DE&I just for the sake of it. Performance matters. If everybody agrees that AG is not good, then she’s not good. If TK or KB aren’t great, then it is what it is. With that said, LC is destroying the years of progress made and if he keeps doing what he’s doing, this is NOT the chevron that people have come to know. He brings in the OWGs in KG and LM. Of the current FLT, he favorites only MA, CL, and possibly RS.
I guess MN is cool with it because he’s an OWG, too. If KG is brought in to run IT operations and LM is running data, the normal fair process is to have an executive search for these roles. LC picked his pals from GM and Dell, both of whom do not know the oil and gas business, while we have plenty of people who know the business much better and have the experience in running IT operations and certainly old school database management that LM knows well. MN and BK blindly letting LC pick his people. How many GMs and directors have Chevron hired from the outside and have been successful? The answer is none. Building a new big data team with somebody who doesn’t know the business and who doesn’t have the business network to be supported is bound to fail.
The question is who will be jumping off this sinking ship?
Potato Potatoe, the bottom line is GM AG of DE SE Agile xyz and beyond su-ks.
Why do people keep referring to AG as DE. DE is one chapter reporting into AG.
@9bdk+1v1bfK
Who’s the only one real option?
Sounds like ex-CVX fake data GM SK and the only 2 friends she met at Chevron are now on here throwing MC under the bus. She has never wanted to be a GM. She is a Chevron fellow through and through. The only reason she even took on that job is because she had the PSG and stupid a-s chevron way would not allow for other actually more qualified people to do that job. Yes, IT just plain su-ks and has su-ked for a very long time, but there is really only 1 real option if you are in the data and analytics area if these brain dead execs actually care about keeping good people, maintaining culture, and have the knowledge and network in the bu to get sh!t done. But they don’t give these roles to babies who are not either balding or head of white hair. I predict all this focus on data engineering and AI to be obsolete or shadow IT happening by this time next year as a whole group of the good ones who all came in together decide and say f it. Let’s all go.
For ITC, I don’t know what you consider to be great talker, but RS can barely right and speak at an elementary school level. So that was a weird one. Where has KB been?
@1ire+1v1bfKRb That’s a funny one. They are indeed very old. But look at what this data whisperer dork already put on his profile on Linkedin. A contractor already put himself out there as an IT Executive in the company even though no one knows who the f he is. MN and BK are out of their minds to give a dinosaur CIO who has only ever had experience building databases with outdated technology, and asking him to fix data and build up data engineering in the engine.
I watched him speak at the SOMOs event because other than the sorry IT townhall, that was one of the few events he actually had to show his face without reading a script. Talk about an uninspiring dud. All he cares about is number of apps. BB probably laughing his way out “do u miss me yet?”
We’ve got a dude who is only here to cut jobs, and he’s brought his cronies with him to enjoy the party together. Employees shouldn’t worry about India. We should be more worried about who we are going to be working for.
MN and BK think they’ve brought in some knowledgeable guy, but I guarantee you that CL knows more cyber, RS knows more about IT and cloud than any of these resume-fluffing buffoons. And as much as we like to bag on AG, KB, TK - they know more business than them.
Just ki-l the entire IT department. Why save millions when we can just save billions.
@1ire+1v1bfKRb unfortunately MN BK EB are letting LC do whatever he wants because those leaders are pretty dense and only look at benchmarking. They think CVX IT is expensive because they looked at studies comparing apples and oranges. Core IT is only half of what they believe it costs. Exxon, Shell, BP, and every competitor they are fawning over are not counting things like earth science apps and compute as “IT”. All those other companies are much more expensive.
So they set off and hired a CIO from an even less good IT company. General Motors IT is a piece of sh-t, despite that industry being very simple compared to Chevron. The environment that these guys are going into is very different.
When MW is done destroying the company because all of the digital capabilities (stuff as simple as running Petrel or SAP) is eroded, it will be time to divest even more assets because we will no longer be able to operate.
It is disgusting that MN and BK actually thinks LC can be a good CIO.
He fits right in to the absolutely terrible C-Suite we have of greedy and un-inspired leadership. Layoffs, cuts and selling pieces of the company are the only ways to make money to them.
The IT leaders have been bad but got even worse after transformation in 2020. The same survivors keep cycling at the top of the chain and are too out of touch to make decent decisions.
I fear the poster below is right and many of them will weasel their way through this haircut and come out in new leadership positions again.
@ 1ppw I don’t think KG and LM are coming in to replace the GMs. They’re in here because LC doesn’t trust anybody and he is hooking up his friends with a sweet pre-retirement gig, lining their pockets before they all leave. This is their playbook. KG and LM have no intention of being GMs at Chevron. They are about 500 years old. Have you seen them? You should probably go ahead and salute them because back in those days, everybody was in the army.
MW and MN want to have short term Wall street wins by massive headcount cuts, and it’ll work and look great in the short term, and LC is part of that plan, but I think they also brought him in because IT has su-ked a long time, former CIO BB had a lot of time to implement his bad ideas/processes and promote a lot of bad bad bad apples and now we need to pay that price.
I’m an external hire that came from another major and let me be frank, I’ve never ever worked with so many bad IT leaders, it’s really shocking and horrific from a technical and behavioral perspective. If I was LC I’d wipe the slate clean and gut it all and start clean, but that probably won’t happen, when the smoke clears you still have the AG, RS, MC and such still standing and the rank and file will have paid the price.
I think he has been hired to get rid of BB's favorite GMs
it's not like IT was doing so great before lol - new blood!