To begin with I wouldn't hire on at a company that I felt needed so much change that I would become such an unsettled self-serving cuck that all I would do all day is try to figure out out to change the company in lieu of doing the job I was hired for.
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Cut all the BS work we have to do which is 100% internally driven. Get back to the basics drill complete and operate wells. Oh and cut anyone who has or is related to someone in the company.
Open the San Ramon cafeteria.
Stumbled across this thread from 5 yrs ago; funny (sad, really) how relevant it still is.
Joe, needs tog et rid of his buddies in ITC that have no management or leadership skills. I still do not understand how ITC can stay so screwed up and still have the CIO and his unqualified GM's still around. How many ROM's under Louie and Bill must we endure before Chevron realizes, they need to hire outside CIO.
Joe clean out the ITC GM pool while you are at it.
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I believe Chevron is still a great company with lot of good people at all levels. What I would like to change
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Exterminate family clubs for sons and daughters (in laws inc) hiring and promoting. I have witnessed plenty of them in SJVBU. They play it in a way where one manager takes care of another managers family kids and vice versa so there is no conflict of interest.
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More visible accountability at higher levels especially for major f***ups like at PRC MCPs
So maybe this Joe Geagea needs to be sidelined before he does more damage? Maybe he is plowing the inept management types out of the way to make Chevron a better managed company. When his job is done, he will be retiring very nicely. Is that possible?
Joe Geagea is a short man with a jealousy and hate for his executive colleagues. He has eliminated scores of his competition like the kookoo bird.
Thanks Joe, for interjecting your two cents. That's all you're worth.
Joe Geagea is a true Chevron leader.
Anonymous195563, you may indeed be correct. He is an "axe man" for the corporation. If past history in Chevron repeats itself, he will have served his purpose after the last wave of employees are terminated and the last organized chart is published. People assigned to do this kind of task of reorganizing the company, do finally retire with a huge bonus and golden parachute. To stick around only will harbor hatred and mistrust of him, as his legacy was already written.
Joe Geagea (aka Lady Jaja) is the CVX ax man who has cut off his competition but will soon end up "taking a package" as his services are no longer needed.
What does Geagea mean in Lebonese? "Yes,yes"!
Oh how I wish there was a 'like' feature on this board.
He sure is a master bullshitter. I've heard him speak more than a few times. He's a used car salesman in the oil business. Slick and double-speak. Read (or listen) between the lines with this guy.
Anonymous194762, Joe Geagea said many things. He prides himself as a master speaker. Truth is, he is a borderline charlatan.
Cut all the processes and the pre-audit self assessments and all the post audit meetings and all of us getting on jets in business class sipping wine flying off to audit other BUs (wait, that stuff wasn't so bad, keep the jets and wine) and cut out the upstream governance board that approves all these processes without any regard to the cost of doing them and all the staff hangers-on necessary to keep the processes running.
Joe Geagea had it right when he said "processes for processes sake and assurances that assure nothing". But, nothing changes...!
Buffers, not buffets.
Middle management creating "buffets", just like the Corleone crime family. It works too.
The reason we have bad managers (besides family hires) is that they haven't fired the poor managers over the years (or even given them negative feedback). They promoted them or transferred them around to get rid of them and never told them to improve because they didn't want to get sued or something. Now they are making the hiring and firing decisions.
I believe they will cut many of the poor managers as they go up the line (or a least reorg and demote them). Middle management is the most bloated level with them adding about 2-3 buffers between me and my GM in the past couple years.
My last 8 years I have worked for supervisors who couldn't do my job if they put a gun to their heads. This picking the winners before they do anything mentality has to go. They keep moving them to check the box, but I haven't worked for a real leader at Chevron for over 15 years.
I would get rid of the Friends and Family plan for hiring and retention. The new org charts look like an Appalachian family tree.
Cut out all the CSOC, We Lead, Chevron Way, humankind, and all the diversity bullshit first. I am not against any of that stuff in principle but it should be in the backdrop of who we are and how we operate, not the main show like it is to so many. Stop being so damn risk averse in exploration instead of risking even more on huge MCPs like we do now (gorgon!!!) Get away from the " if it isnt the biggest damn thing ever then we wont exploit it" mentality and compete with a higher volume of smaller plays with like-minded JV partners. Re-design and streamline Horizons so the training is geared towards the core business of finding and producing oil and gas. Stop being so paranoid about safety that we increase the cost of operations 3-fold. Safety is important but so is being competitive and sustainable. Most importantly, stop trying to overtake Exxon in leaps and bounds. Exxon got there with measured, conservative, incremental growth over the long season. Gorgon, Wheatstone, BF and all the other debacles are leaving us far behind the pack. There, I feel better now. I am sure a meeting with my CFP to review my layoff package will change that. Good luck everyone. It was fun while it lasted.
There are many managers and supervisors like you described throughout Chevron. It's appalling but true. The sad reality is that upper management knows this but does nothing. Perhaps this downturn will clean house a bit.
My (former) manager was enjoying a PSG 25 salary, the smallest possible team, and a lot of freedom. She does nothing all day (literally NOTHING). Just drives the BMW to work and takes off at the earliest possible opportunity in the afternoon. Reads on the internet all day, attends a meeting or two, and exchanges a few emails. This person would not be able to get a job with a quarter of her current salary outside Chevron.
Get rid of a whole lot of good-for-nothing managers.