Thread regarding Chevron Corp. layoffs

This post will come true, nothing will change after this “reorganization”

@OP+1vfDP1dG
You absolutely nailed the formula.
"The formula is simple; brown nose, stay in your lane, do your job, mostly agree to things, but if you must disagree, disagree in the right way and under the right circumstances and to the right people “cautiously” and get paid and get the F out office."

You rightfully left out the part about being good at your job. Not required.

@b-m+1vfDP1dG

The grand ol’times, onetime an operator had parked a truck next to a pole next to our unit and we took a high pressure hose and shot it at the driver door so he couldn’t get out, man we could hear him howling through the window! If people tried to do that now they’d be written up so fast on a GO form and terminated. Those were fast, free and fun days, those are times gone and almost forgotten.

Great post @b-m!

there isn't a magical CEO that's going to save the company you seemingly cling to and love like it was your highschool sweetheart.

they wanna make money ya'll are rubes.

Let me give you all a history lesson about CEO MW, I was there when he was the downstream manager and I worked on one of his project teams, Mike’s entire claim to fame is a couple of things: divesting the European assets and several major downstream ROMs, and it all has to do with headcount, he’s a one trick pony.

However, the downfall of the culture really started with former CEO JW and with him we entered the bean counter era, JW was a agricultural major and got his MBA from Chicago so he was purely a numbers guy, hence with no context of any actual oil experience and history, he over leveraged Chevron on the major projects (which Chevron cannot ever execute properly) and ultimately lead to his downfall.

Now enter the MW era and it seems he’s been influenced by the worst of JW and couple that with his reputation in the industry as always a dollar short and a day late, we have what MW only knows how to do which is cut people. The problem with MW is although he’s a hard worker and great talker he has no ability to deeply judge character (that’s why we have EB) and he seriously lacks broad thinking and cannot for the life of him execute on the details, but he does one thing right, he gets the returns for the shareholders no matter the cost so he can keep his job.

So we’re here now, again a ROM and offshoring and rinse and repeat. This is Chevron culture now, we’re not going back and I’m nearing retirement and glad I got experience the golden years of oil.

To the younger people, when it’s all said and done and all this stuff settles down, Chevron will still be a good company to work for, and it’s a great thing you don’t have the grand ol’ times to compare to because then it won’t drive you nuts compared to people like me.

It can definitely happen. And if it does it’ll be a business school case study for years to come.

Op, that is one ironic note, if history tell us anything is the long list of large corporations that failed as they did not adapt to changes or were blindsided, some examples are: Sears, JC Penny, Blockbuster, Borders bookstore, K mart, Eastman Kodak, and the list goes on and on. Chevron is no different than say Lehman Brothers, they were also big but went greedy and that was their downfall.

When you are ready for a real change, hire a senior Leader from Exxon to take a flamethrower to Chevron and get it back on track.

Esso will buy us during the next calamitous oil price collapse.

Sure it will. No TCO extension, drilling uneconomic wells in MCBU chasing gas for boe metric while depressuring reservoir, no new gas supply at ABU...two of these things happening together will eliminate the company...
Downstream hardly makes any money, so they don't matter...they don't help anyway since they are q4 performers... you have d-mb leaders like MN, EB and JG who will accelerate the downfall...