I am a DWEP contractor that has been working for Chevron for a period of time. I have been impressed with the quality of the personnel that I am associated with and the hard work that has been consistently displayed. If my position is eliminated, I have no complaints. They gave me a fair price for my time and they have allowed me to put food on my table. I have been blessed and appreciate the leadership. These are hard times and difficult for the industry. I can't control the price of oil but I can control my attitude. Thank you Marcel for the wonderful opportunities that you have given me.
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Where should we go for lunch today? That is the pressing issue of CVX middle managers today. They are the ones insulting people who were labeled, branded with a 2- and let go. Got to be proud!
Agree strongly with the original post - Chevron remains a great company, in spite of our "summer soldiers and sunshine patriots".
Go F yourself. Chevron is Sh-- at every possible level. It makes me PUKE. You're a Efing WEAK individual to just make this statement,
-3ubf, I definitely wouldn't have anything to be proud of if I were you either, unless you are are simply proud of being a coward A-hole with no balls who rants anonymously on the internet about the company who feeds him and allows him to exist.
Only a bunch of arrogant, self absorbed idiots would be proud of Bigfoot, Angola, Gorgon, Wheatstone, Richmond refinery, China Gas project, Pro+, AMBU and all the fatalities that Chevron has had over the last couple of years.
Whats next? You gonna go and say how proud you are of your company to the families of those you've killed at your 'perfect' company? I bet you would as well. Really put the icing on the cake of everything that is wrong with Chevron. Keep being proud, piss on their graves, eh? I wouldn't have anything to be proud of if I were you.
My god man get marcels balls off your chin and stand up !!
3iru: I agree and feel the same way. Tough times. That is the o ly bad thing about being o. The oil business.
I don't like to see other people lose their job or suffer in any way, no matter who they are, but that's just me.
Karma is sweet. The ROM sweat is a strange, mixture of pig and skunk. I have come to enjoy the smell as the friends and family are finally harvested.
CHEVRON USED TO BE A GOOD COMPANY
The company is now run by the most incompetent dipshitz in the industry. It's pretty hard to blow 120 billion in 10 years and not have $hit to show for it but a bunch of idle iron. This is not the result of a few bad leaders. It is the result of having only a few good leaders. Chevron has some good folks left. Problem is that none of them are in positions that can make changes that matter. Second problem, which I will state again, is that good leaders are in the minority. A tiny group of good folks can't reverse the ignorant decisions and processes created by the majority. Chevron is not a good company anymore. Good companies have good leaders that make good decisions that result in good outcomes. if you can stand in the mirror and say that about Chevron with a straight face you have a future in car sales. Chevron is doomed.
I was chosen by my department's manager or my own supervisor to be the sacrificial lamb. I have no idea what reasoning they used to select me, but gone I am. It didn't take too long for Karma to come back at them. Within a year, both of them were laid off too. I busted open a bottle of fine bubbly I had been keeping since leaving Chevron. Although I drank it with my spouse in celebration of our anniversary, I privately celebrated to myself, the demise of these two people's careers.
That last post made me laugh. I'm still employed by the company but it's so true. I'm regularly fascinated by the environment. I've learned to fake it so well I nearly forgot what a misfit I am here. There is a fork in the road once you've clocked 8-10 years: submit to Lifer status and just keep nodding and smiling to some of the most horrendous leaders/processes-with this option its imperative to create Outlook recurring calendar entries with smiley faces on the 7th and 22nd of each month indefinitely. Aka soul money. OR (and this is a risky and rarely done) you can leave. You're obviously employable if you got this far. The go-before-your-pubes-turn-grey-option.
The chevron lifers are the fat underbelly of a decaying oil company. They stabbed so many in the back to survive, they thought they could coast by now. Instead, the vultures are circling. The smell of fear is in the air. The sows are squealing.
OP: you must feel serious risk to so blatantly brown nose up to Marcel. Have some pride and dial back the s--- up.
Yes Indeed there are some Butthurt losers who have been singled out for discipline and rightfully so. This is not a popularity contest, gents. This is a business, If you cannot hold up your end of the load then expect to be severed from the organization. We can understand also that after you are cut and thrown out as Deadwood how bitter you must be and need to whine like a stuck pig. Go ahead and get it out fellas. That's what this site is for.
You do realize that there are people who have been singled out for persecution and treated like crap as well, right? You are not so arrogant as to think that your experience alone is the defining factor? Chevron has good and bad points, as with any company, but don't just arrogantly dismiss someone elses experiences simply because they aren't yours.
Chevron is a good company for those still working there. Chevron can can go to hell, as far as most people care, for those who are no longer there.