Thread regarding Chevron Corp. layoffs

Chevron remains a great company with great benefits. Many employees easily forget how fortunate they are relative to the vast majority of Americans who have poor-to-no employer-provided benefits, as well as no pension program. I am always surprised how easily people develop a sense of entitlement during good economic times.

Many employees need to remember that the company's main fiduciary responsibility is to the shareholders, which includes us. Be glad that the company is proactively doing so while also trying to continue to provide a benefit package to the employees.

I sincerely hope that I will be able to keep my Proctologist. I have developed an attachment to him and I really would not want anyone else probing around inside me. He knows how to do it just right with the least amount of pain and I have actually started enjoying my weekly rectal exam since I have been using him. I have even faked Hemorrhoids several times just to feel his gentle tool insertions. I am upset that the new insurance may not be able to accommodate my delicate and discriminating sphincter! Didn't Obama promise us that if we liked our doctor we can keep our doctor?

You can thank the liberal sponge parasite bottom feeders who voted for Obama and will be voting for Shillary for these abusively high Insurance costs. . What you are paying for now is OTHER PEOPLE'S HEALTH CARE, folks. Yes you are. You are subsidizing the liberal parasites who do not want to, can not, or will not work hard enough to afford health care. There are some who legitimately can not afford it and are doing the best that they can. I can assure you, that is a very small percentage. The bulk of what you pay goes to free-loaders, thanks to Obama and the ACA, conceived and passed behind closed doors with no Republican votes or input. Yet they refer to the US as a democracy! LOL!

-2wfi, I hired on with Chevron in the early 1990's in New Orleans. The first two years my insurance premiums with Maxicare HMO was zero. Nothing. The third year and for maybe another 2 or 3 years, my Chevron paid HMO medical went up to $5 deducted per paycheck, then $10. When I transferred to Houston in 2000, I recall my monthly medical insurance cost went from around $85 to $125 per month. I suppose the Houston market was more expensive. I always selected the HMO option. But those premiums sure kept going up year by year until I was forced to leave the HMO option in 2012, thanks to O'BummerCare and changed over to the Chevron Medical Plan, Option 1. My monthly premium was now $235. Little by little, we will see our costs increased as Chevron lowers their contribution. By the time most of us retire, we'll realize the 100% Chevron Medical Contribution Percentage we worked so hard to get isn't worth the paper it's written on. It will disappear like a fart in the wind.

May years ago, in the late 90's, I worked for a multinational geophysical company that offered free (no premium payments) health insurance for single employees and 1/2 premium payroll deduction for married employees who opted to add their family. They way things are going with health care, I would expect Chevron to begin having all employees contribute an increasing amount toward the insurance premium. Health care costs are just plain out of control and Chevron needs the money.

Yes, that goodness Chevron negotiators aren't involved in any hostage crisis. But, they remain so incompetent in negotiating our own employee benefits programs. Why do we even have them on the payroll? It's a complete waste of resources for everyone. Dispose of the department and hire the very best consultants available. That's the winning ticket for us, the employees.

Chevron's negotiators for the most part are sh_t. Thank goodness they aren't used in a hostage crisis.

My favorite is the new requirement that if you have to have certain surgeries, you HAVE to use the new second opinion company or you will pay a $400 fee regardless of whether or not you met your deductible. What's next?? I'll need a second opinion to get a prescription refilled? I loved United Healthcare. I've had Blue Cross before and it is horrible. I would have gladly paid more to keep United Health because I know I'll be paying more with Blue Cross. This really s---s.

If you like your Doctor, you can keep your Doctor!! O-Liar-in Chief said so!

-emo, What does a stick smell like? Do you not like the way they smell because you always have one up your A$$? You must, with the anger toward others that you obviously harbor, as evidenced by your post - LOL!

You are totally correct, czk. Chevron is hiding the true pain it's going through and if the pinch continues, expect the employees to pay higher insurance premiums, get a lower match in their 401k benefits, and even further layoffs in the works. It's not over.

In 5 years, Chevron might go back, but I have doubts about that. This company is probably struggling more than what is being publicly released, and it needs to cut costs anywhere and everywhere for all the various ongoing projects in addition to the dividend. Everything is behind schedule and/or overbudget. The next cuts may well be increased employee contribution to the insurance premium and reduction in 401k matching funds. What is happening is a prelude to the 'new normal'.

Chevron negotiators are light weights. They hire BCG to come in and decide the fate of our employees. Why don't they contract with professional outfits to come in to negotiate our healthcare contracts. Answer: Chevron doesn't care enough about their employees.

Welcome to the new Chevron Way - they are proud of it for some reason.

In five years Chevron will do another "benefits review" and go back to United Healthcare. This is a very normal process that we havent had to deal with because oil was at 100.

@J34

OP here, yes that is also my belief. What we have is over-confidence by HR, forsaking and ignoring the OneTeam mantra that we can leverage others OC to make our efforts more effective. Walking away from United Healthcare and embracing a "sub-prime" vendor like Anthem is a major disrupter to the workforce when they are already overwhelmed with doing more with less.

Direct pay is the only way!

OP the reason this is the best they could come up with is because HR tried to negotiate instead of bringing in the right commercial folks who could have likely brought UHC to the table with a better deal.