What are your thoughts on must moves? Will PDC folks really try their best to place them, or is this a convenient excuse for lay offs?

If all or a lot of the high performers quit chevron, do they promote the next best people or do they hire externally? I hear JW say we are a "promote from within company"....Isn't mcbu Vp external ?

Is there actually documentation about why you got the rating you did? Like is 30% of it performance and 50% interactions.....etc?

Can anyone elaborate on CVX 401K, vesting in particular. TIA.

Train 2 production at Gorgon LNG in Australia is shut down again. We Lead, The Chevron Way, OE, Human Energy, blah, blah, blah, whatever.

Years ago I knew a guy who knew he would be leaving the company. He had like $100 in his FSA. He had his vision laser corrected to the tune of about $10,000, paid via FSA, then left. He never had to repay it. Is this legit?

Everyone knows that middle management is PSG 26-30. What happens next? Managing director is 41-45? OpCp head 46-49? SVP 50? Deputy Chairman PSG 75? CEO 100?

Anyone has the latest on GOM shelf asset sale? Who are the buyers?

It is unfair for Chevron to use the Bridges Program to bring in retired employees to work on projects at the same time that employees that still have jobs are being laid off.

The CEOand his his entourage will be in AMBU later this week. Is there anything they should be aware of?

March 20, 2017 - Chevron calls end to LNG Megaproject (Gorgon, Wheatstone) after $88 billion spree. Gorgon will not have 4th train and Wheatstone will not have 3rd train. Chevron's Australian LNG facilities have suffered from cost blowouts, delays... — read more 

Total Number of Rigs is Up - not a game changer, but a big improvment http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2017/03/oil-another-big-rig-add.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Heard that DWEP and GOM are merging. Headquartered out of Covington, LA with offices in Houston. Duplicated positions will be eliminated.

Does anyone have any updates on what's being sold and what our future organizational structure will look like at the local level?

So, I check this place out this morning and notice several posts are gone (again). Some of them were the usual humorous nonsense. There are others much more critical that are still here. What's up with that? Just let the laid off people blow off some... — read more 

Means serious problems ahead. Chevron continues to borrow and pay quarterly dividends. Chevron will be forced to cut more jobs.

For anyone previously laid off, where are you now? Another oil company? Outside oil? Happy and glad you're somewhere new?

While oil industry people have been fast asleep to the changes going on in the world, not even seeing the biggest oil crash coming, here is what is going on. For decades we've heard that renewable energy was the future, and oil industry people... — read more 

CERAWeek 2014: Big JW declared that $100 a barrel was too low a price for oil and that consumers needed to pay more to keep the industry producing. CERAWeek 2017: Big JW opined let the poor get rich before worrying about the environment... Houston... — read more 

Older expat employee that was "retired" last April in the ESP. Any advice on filling out my last tax filing through KPMG or planning for future issues?

Looks like there are close to 1000 jobs posted to date....any idea as to how those jobs will get filled? Are there jobs available to every person that is coming back from a rotational gig in "must move" positions? Or will this be another ROM in a... — read more 

Just heard earlier that cuts over the next 12 months could exceed 600 EEs.

Is it coming on the March 7, 2017 check??

If you have downloaded a Chevron app on a mobile device, dont use that device to post to this message board.

I watched the SOTU address last night and thought to myself, what if JW could give a company town hall speech like that, only just focused on Chevron. Then I snapped back to reality and realized that JW only cares about dividends for investors and... — read more 

What's with the changes to LTIP program this year? Seems like in the good old days we got heaps of shares. No so much anymore. Not much incentive, really. Management seems more likely to go after short term actions which can impact the annual IP... — read more 

A legitimate effort at improved efficiency and cost reduction via streamlined information transfer or a means of team leads to recuse themselves from face-to-face provision of artificially low ratings?

After perhaps my best year ever, my supervisor advised me I'm rated a 2- for 2016. I am gobsmacked! Supervisor I reiterated that that puts me in the lowest 10 to 15% of all performers in my company. The rationale provided was flimsy so I called the... — read more 

Anyone has more info on TVEX? Just curious, been out of the loop for a while now. No need to post sensitive or confidential data, just chime in if you have general info on TVEX.

What is your general feeling on project Delta? I have worked for Chevron for 5 yeas now. Only once did I try and get a new job through the PDC, however, I was told that I was unsuccessful because there was someone coming back from overseas and they... — read more 

I heeded the advise I read on this board back in November and cashed out my pension lump sum in December. If anyone still has not acted you should. The most recent January 2017 IRS segment rates published February 16 leveled off from December but the... — read more 

Expecting to see my partial year CIP check in March. I was Rom'd in June 2016. Can somebody share what the corprate factor is?

Anyone had experiences with EAP? I have an alcohol problem and I'm considering approaching EAP with my problem with the hope that they have resources available to help me. I've tried AA and Kaisers CDRP with no avail. My only concern is that my... — read more 

We are great at finding oil, producing it,refining it and shipping it. Everything thing else - we stink. LNG - OMG. We have sunk multiple billions into an industry that is never going to pay out due to oversupply . At todays LNG prices, we are at... — read more 

Will there be an annoucement of any substance at tomorrow's townhall? Or will leadership drag this out for another few months?