Lately, the stress at Chevron has been relentless, it feels like six months have stretched into six years. Every week leaves me more drained than the last, and it's taking a toll on my health. And the fact is things are only going to spiral further before they improve. I keep hoping that finding a new job will be easier, but no luck so far.
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2013 was sure the peak of Chevron. Morale, job satisfaction, career development, all in tailspin since then.
The stress is taking a serious toll on my mental and physical health. I wish they’d just get on with it instead of keeping us in limbo. If you’re safe you get to stress about the timing of Houston move and all the chaos and challenges that entails.
Agreed, why should I work my bu** off after seeing how callously employees are being tossed aside. MW and MG straight up lied to everyone at the SR townhall … ‘everyone’s jobs are moving to Houston, no severance because you’ll all have jobs, they’re just moving to Houston’ …for all you fools doubting the timeline bc of space in Houston, not to worry, they have just enough space for the folks they plan on keeping around.
Same here, no motivation whatsoever to perform for this company and what it’s become. Keep relying on consultants over employee feedback, see where that gets you…a number of jobs were likely cut just to pay exorbitant consulting fees and salaries… yes, they walk among us!
Let’s see: been going above and beyond only to learn EE rating will be nearly impossible, guaranteed low CIP factor, and high possibility of job getting offshored… where is the incentive to continue working?? It’s exhausting pretending to give a damn anymore…
PL or DM?
@1vau+1vaKf0Bw
Which leader are you talking about for HR IT?
Fair points. I’d rather stay here if I can. Selfishly I just want human being, empathetic hr leadership.
I notice a bunch of comments referring to MW. MN and AW are the true threats to the company. Oh, and they are unaffected with great mental health.
Talent required to be an HR leader = have a pulse. Doesn’t matter if MG runs everybody off.
Seems like a lot of people who boot lick and would like to back to pre-1860s America where the elites had absolutely everything. Don't get people who attack those struggling and support a company and management who don't care about their employees or customers.
If one of the casualties is HR IT manager PL, then as far as I’m concerned, she’s profoundly successful and she’s done her job.
It’s a free country. Take your talents elsewhere.
I wonder what MG is doing to keep the strong leaders at our HR XLT level who will actually make things tolerable. She has to be worried, maybe not…
Anyone else notice how quickly any comments critical of leadership, (especially HR) are heavily downvoted, almost always overnight.
It's incredible how elaborate the explanations become for individuals not wanting to take responsibility for their own work or lack of abilities to perform it and continue to shift the blame for incompetence on others, namely their higher paid supervisors. It's really easy to jump ship and get a better position elsewhere if you are capable of it, those if you who actually are and not just belly-aching. Have you tried or do you think posting on this site will somehow help?
Use the free company provided mental health service. Nobody at Chevron knows, not even HR. You call a third party and they hook you up with a local shrink and pay all the bills. HR gets a monthly report on the total cost and number of employees using the service but no names. Free therapy is amazing and I recommend it to everyone I know. You have nothing to lose.
A$$ poster below must be an arrogant, pi---d off middle manager that relies on the labor of direct reports for recognition and pay. Are you sad the work you take credit for isn’t getting done bc people are waking up to corporate bs?!
Oh my goodness, I'm such a big person, "I decided to push back" and do less work like a useless POS, oh, I am so proud of myself, I can tell all of my other underachieving cohorts that I purposefully do less to "get back at the man", oh, I am like, so kewell, and I like, ruhley ruhley just invented that all by myself, I am the first useless POS to ever exist.
I have something to tell my grandchildren, that I am useless, did nothing and wouldn't get off my lazy @ss to get another job.
What will it take to stop two faced self absorbed backstabbing gaslighting a$$holes getting to positions of impact and authority? While few, some individuals in power seem downright sociopathic.
Yeah but I think that’s an isolated group of HR peeps you are referring to. Unfortunately they are the new future of our leadership.
Seeing nasty nasty nasty behaviors from Hr leaders. Where did ANY human decency go.
@flh+1vaKf0Bw: Great perspective by pointing out that even putting in all the extra effort won’t yield tangible and impactful results.
I feel like we have been so conditioned to strive for the 1s and now EEs that we lost sight of the what’s in it for me, particularly as promotions are practically nonexistent, especially for the over 45s, raises are laughable (how did they justify not even keeping pace with inflation earlier this year?), and benefits continue to be eroded. Did you all notice yet another takeaway in the HR newsletter? We won’t have access to that mental health tool that they launched with much fanfare just a few years ago.
Where in the past the compensation and benefits justified the extra effort, now, with the degradation of these PLUS the increasingly authoritarian climate where pretty soon they’ll track how long our potty breaks take, this is simply not worth it anymore.
I would advise colleagues, especially the younger generation, to do the bare minimum and refuse to go above and beyond. While you might see marginal benefit now, trust me, it ain’t gonna last, and this company will just sp-t you out without a second thought. MW cares only about lining his pockets and doesn’t give a rip about all the pain and suffering that he has and continues to inflict on other human beings. I hope someone will hold him accountable at some point.
Let’s be real if you are gonna ride out 4 and a half more months of such a bad situation to collect what will be the weakest CIP ever, you aren’t in a position to leave, at least without something else already lined up.
A bunch of id--ts up there making stupid decisions one after the other. This is not the workplace to be in anymore.
I was in your place, and just decided to pushback. A HUGE issue here is jobs are poorly scoped, and no one does the man hour math to realize there are literally not enough hours in the day to complete things. So I sat for. With my supervisor and told them to pick (“prioritize”). It also helps that I realized that I’m not of the chosen class, and promotion is basically impossible, so all that extra effort is only going to enable leadership’s incompetence. Sure, I went from EEs to meets expectations, but it has no difference on my trajectory, apart from a marginally smaller bonus.
I’m only here until the CIP. After that I’m sure a ton of us will be leaving.
I keep going back and forth between finding another job ASAP and moving on from this dumpster fire or holding out for a severance payout mid next year.
Either way, f*** Chevron and what this company has turned in to.
To the OP:
I think at this point other than the hard core conservatives on here that seem to love authoritarian situations like is going on here at Chevron most people are drained and down in the dumps morale wise. I'm exhausted and find little to motivate me to work harder for the company like I used to. They are destroying productivity and any culture we have left. MW recently said in an interview basically that employee well being and culture is super important. He is so out of touch and untruthful in everything he does. He's single handedly destroyed a great company.
OP: Thank you for your post. I relate 100%! This company has deteriorated so much, especially in how it treats its employees. I see a lot of colleagues who are struggling with mental health and just drained.
Please take care of yourself. Try not to let things get you down and maintain some hope that, despite the current situation, something will work out in the end (not easy, I know).
I am not going to allow these weasels to push me out. It is important for us to share what this company is doing to the workforce, especially because, unlike 2020, some of the layoff actions are happening quietly. There are some real abuses of power at play, and it is highly disappointing to see what our once great company has become.
Some people are just di-ks, fu-k you milk and cookie guy, you su-k and nobody likes you.
Poor baby. Why don’t you go home to mommy for some want milk and cookies.
Take care of your mental health, use the benefits while you have them
hold out for the cash. They want to out wait us, take their money.