Mostly miserable after 3 years - Anonymous employee Chevron Employee Review

1.0
May 15, 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Some training in advanced navigation skills and piloting tank ships. However, training received was not acceptable to any international standards and needed to be repeated.

Cons

Tasks not within job description. Over hours and unpaid for it because of salary. Company is afraid to fire incompetent sailors, from the top down, in fear of legal retribution. Pollution regulations not understood. Redundant paperwork. Redundant corporate redundancy. When I quit, for very valid reasons, exit interview was a mess, just going through the motions. Cut medical, retirement, and vacation I had earned without a phone call. Required to sail when they call you or they cut your benefits the day your vacation ends without overlap!

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Cons

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Cons

The RTO Charade: Leadership loves to talk about "collaboration," but the 4-day Return to Office (RTO) is clearly a quiet layoff tactic. They want people to quit so they don’t have to pay severance. The "Invisible" Office: It’s impressive how Mike Wirth can demand everyone be in the building while simultaneously removing the basic infrastructure of a workplace. No assigned desks, no storage, and literally no trash cans. Apparently, "Human Energy" includes carrying your own garbage home and spending 30 minutes every morning wandering the floor looking for a monitor that actually works. Leadership Vacuum: Les Copland is the definition of a CIO "yes man." Instead of standing up for the integrity of the tech stack or the US workforce, he’s overseen the systematic gutting of IT. It’s a race to the bottom to find the cheapest labor possible outside of the US, leaving the remaining domestic staff to clean up the inevitable mess. The War on American Workers: There is a blatant, aggressive push to minimize the American footprint. We are being phased out in favor of massive outsourcing hubs. You aren't a valued engineer here; you’re an overhead cost that Mike Wirth is looking to delete.

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