Thread regarding Chevron Corp. layoffs

No.

Not "they are" family.

Not "they're" family.

Their family.

Yes, please let the young guys support they are family.

People are old ass hell like the walking dead and still don't want to retire, get a life,let the young guys support they're family

Hey 4qck, from your comment, I would conclude you are not or ever have been a Chevron employee. Have you ever felt any pride in your work or workplace. It seems you don't recognize the difference between honor and betrayal. The way Chevron let longstanding and loyal employees go feels like a stab in the back. Go troll somewhere else, loser.

Let's face it. You're "retiring" with a big fat severance and you're whining about a retirement party? Seriously? If you want your silly party, volunteer to give up your severance and properly retire. Or take your severance, your pension, etc and take your co-workers out to show them how much they meant to you. Get a grip...

Any respect you received at Chevron was PC corporate fluff. You will eventually be working again at another organization and have a breathtaking realization of how fortunate you were to leave the hot mess.

@3oof, thanks for sharing your comment. It is a positive outlook and one I'll follow up with. I'll invite my closest friends and colleagues to a neighborhood pub this weekend for a celebration. Your suggestion is uplifting and appreciated. Thanks.

Just take a trip down to your favorite Korean spa and you will feel alot better afterwards. Might even forget why you were worried about this in the first place. You're welcome.

OP, Chevron can't throw you a "retirement party" because technically you are being laid off and if they did it for you, they'd have to do it for everyone. Don't take it as an insult. Instead, take some of your severance money and go on a "kickoff to retirement vacation" to somewhere you've always wanted to travel. While there, raise your glass in toast to Chevron for being the type of place you were able to make a living at all those years. Another option, if you really want a retirement party, is to just host it yourself. Call the closest bar and book a party room and invite people you want to celebrate with. Use some of your severance money to pay for drinks and appetizers. It would likely be way more fun than a send off in the office anyway!! (And if you tell people on the invitation that you are providing drinks and apps, they'll probably bring you a present.)

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@3djc, I think you explained the situation correctly. When I was left standing, there were many who found out I would be laid off. Most of them never passed by my desk to talk to me. Some did walk by and didn't say a word, though it was their usual habit to say "hi" or mention a few words while walking by. Only the handful of colleagues I was closest to approached me to express their thoughts about the situation. I suppose the awkwardness you mention is a natural thing. Some people prefer to be distant and pretend you are not there because they really never cared enough anyway.

You have to understand there is a certain awkwardness when it comes to dealing with employees that are leaving the company in these circumstamces. Best way to avoid the awkwardness is to just pretend they don't exist and never worked there.

Precisely, 2uqz, it's only about money! It's a cruel world out there. If you don't like this, move to France or go crying to Mommy.

It's capitalism, nobody cares about you or me or anyone else - all what matters is money

No, Perhaps the real problem is people like you who can't compete in the tough world. The strong survive. The weak don't.

Then your ignorance to work place hostility, that amounts to nothing more than picking out someone for being different like a pack of playground bullies, indicates that your are not only ignorant, but more than likely comfortable to participate in it. Perhaps the real problem is people like you. Blindly loyal employees who regurgitate arrogance that is nothing more than written word and easily avoided in practice.

It is Chevron's position verbally in in writing that it operates with complete transparency, adherence to the laws and acts with respect and honesty to every community anywhere it operates in the world. So the answer to your question, 1ifg, is "Yes". My impression was that respect always had something to do with Chevron... that is until these layoffs started. No longer is that the case.

OP - are you under the impression that respect has anything to do with Chevron?

Chevron will long pay a price for the way it blundered through these layoffs. It will take 15 years or more for greater than half the employees who remain to start forgetting the totally unprofessional manner in which these layoffs were handled. Management will not be given the trust they require to change the culture of mistrust for a very long time. This will cost the company dearly. It's only human nature.

EOI "expression of interest". To be left standing.

Is that like a trawl?

Troll

What does EoI stand for?

As one who also did and EOI and retired, I sympathize with the OP. I was lucky enough to be given a goodbye luncheon that was arranged by a co-worker, but no everyone was so lucky. I think the problem with a mass send off is that it might embarrass those who were cut and didn't do an EOI. Do you include them or not? If you distinguish between those who did an EOI and those who didn't, you might run the risk of jeopardizing peoples unemployment insurance, etc. Knowing Chevron's risk averse legal department, I suspect they figured the best thing was to do nothing official, regardless of people's feelings.

Under normal circumstances? What kind of a company tells an employee after many years he doesn't have a job then sends him home for 60 days before he is knocked off the payroll? In all those 60 days he is left to his own with no contact to email, his own boss or HR back at the office. They treat him like a nobody. That's the way I was treated and many others too.

P3, I think under normal circumstances this would not have happened. I was working rotational 28/28 when I learned I was left standing. Probably the only reason my boss was able to arrange a celebration for me before final departure and repatriation. Your career is appreciated by those that matter (family and friends) and you should feel proud leaving with many years of loyal service.

For those who remain behind with a job at Chevron after this is over, Don't Forget. Your loyalty and hard work won't get you much in this company.

I agree with OP. If someone is retiring they deserve a dignified exit. What one can do is sponsor a private celebration with close friends and the management that should have done something not invited.

I'd take the severance package over respect any day...including the day I EOI'd. Cheers!