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MCBU Employees, Please note that the originally scheduled communication to alert employees that they are in-scope for RAE has been delayed. This notification is now scheduled to occur by August 7. We appreciate your patience and apologize for any... — read more 

I am a rather large man. I was an offensive guard for a Major Div I program. 6'5" 325 pounds. I never thought in my wildest dreams that being big would come in handy at a fortune 3 company. Chevron being nerd central, means I am not threatened or... — read more 

John Kerry continues to fend off his title as Chief Useful Idiot. Let's look back to when further momentum picked up on oil's decline and factor how many winners the present administration can create while it checks more and more names from its... — read more 

LABU will lay off 51% of employees by January 1. So we are feeling the pain down South. I was told two scenarios that it just was Argentina and the other LABU. So for any Expats in the U.S. from here....there arte no jobs to come back to.

So we are losing 28% the function I am in. This is not counting Project Matrix. They have hired a consulting firm to rank all employees by ranking for the last 3 years. The target is to cut another 10% based on poor performance outside the ROM... — read more 

The cost to business is at least 10% in productivity, according to Dr. Phillip Zombardo (professor emeritus, Stanford University). Sick call offs and resignations increase under a bully's leadership according to Dr Z. Dr Z documented the cruelty... — read more 

I've been with Chevron for 28 years, gone through 3 major reorganizations, transferred out of state one time and been promoted twice within my job. I never received a bad PMP rating (mostly 2, but sometimes a 2+). I'm not an engineer and consider... — read more 

My supervisor appears to be more distant lately. He doesn't always look me in the eye when we talk and he provides vague responses to my questions? I'm not sure if it's him that has problems or a tell-tale sign that I'm in trouble. Is anyone else... — read more 

Just like there projected financials Chevron used $70 a barrel benchmark for this ROM. We won't see $70 a barrel for at least a year.....the next ROM will be out of a cash flow problem. BCG was told to only run staffing number at $70 a... — read more 

By firing Watson and his executive VPs and managers, the company could save thousands of jobs. Also, the entire HR team should be fired. People in charge of hiring at Chevron have hired thousands of incompetant people that were hired only because... — read more 

Secretly record with your iPhone every town hall meeting and conversation with your supervisor/manager regarding Chevron layoffs. It could prove to be useful if you want to file a lawsuit against wrongful termination. I had a previous job where my... — read more 

As a sophomore petroleum engineering student wondering about future job opportunities, how are strict are the criminal background checks for field engineers at Chevron? I have an arrest record and a dismissed class A misdemeanor, no conviction, for a... — read more 

I strolled over to the ConocoPhillips blog. Appears their severance is 3 or 4 weeks for every year. Far better than ours, who would have thunk it? We work for the Walmart of the oil patch.

I know as long as you are laid off that you are supposed to be able to file for unemployment. Curious to know if this will be under Louisiana or under the state you live in? I remember back in the day you would get $220 a week, or will it be based... — read more 

Anyone with a -2 on their PMP the last three years will get a letter or an email Tuesday. Does anyone know anything about this? Then you will hear if you're cut August 11th? If you get one of these letters are you gone for sure? Seems unfair that... — read more 

We landed on a $147MM cost reduction target or 17 percent, inclusive of what we delivered last year with our Wave 1 activity..... As we did last year, we looked hard at non-labor, and again inclusive of Wave 1, approximately 40 percent of our cost... — read more 

If my job is eliminated in HES, do I get a shot at the ITC jobs? Are we all really going to ROM together and who gets first dibs ?

We used to do so good, what happened to us? Anyone?

I know some people think Horizons are totally worthless, but you have to start your career somewhere. Nobody leaves school as an industry expert. And the whole point of the Horizons program is to develop people quickly since there is such a huge gap... — read more 

An intern here - anyone?

Would someone be able to tell me what a typical Chevron severance package is today? Thank you in advance.

Why hasn't Chevron offered early retirement packages to those 58 and above? Instead, let's keep those who are making North of $175- $225k! Surely the industry learned from the 80's when they released all their potential next generation and lost the... — read more 

It is targeting the elimination of 1500 employee positions (270 unfilled) and 600 contractors (40% down). There will be 3 ROM sessions to be held on August, September and October

1230 Jobs cut... a lot of jobs (or all) in CBRES, Law, HES... but looks like a lot of these posts in this forum were greatly exaggerated. Good luck, everyone.

"You have to be organized before you can re-organize" "This isn't rightsizing. It feels more like circumcising!"

No worries. Remenber that TRUST and INTEGRITY are the 1st two core values of the Vauntrd Chevron Way. And don't forget that we aim to be admired by disciplined application of our OpEx Mgmt. System. You know, the one that resulted in BigFoot debacle... — read more 

Be sure to print out your very own Project Alpha Bingo Card in time for the next Townhall. Each player is entered into a drawing to win a 10 blood pressure monitors, 15 hours of counseling, or the grandprize of an all expenses paid heart attack... — read more 

A lot of us have been through the cyclical environment of the oil and gas industry. What makes it worse is consultants are not going to be touched as they are not considered G&A. The further away from the well head you are the more nervous or worried... — read more 

I went through one of the earlier ROM's. It truly was the most bizarre process I have ever been a part of.....There is a ROM 1 where the 20 or so leaders get thinned out....WAIT they only got rid of this crazy HES manager John Cornwall or Cornwell... — read more