Thread regarding Occidental Petroleum Corp. layoffs

Speculate on the percent of today’s employees who participated in or “seemed so excited about” those games and lunch.

If they don’t believe in corporate culture then why several years ago did the people seem so excited about the arm wrestling contest and the games and lunch held outside of GW5. Young people in particular need some company culture to bond to.

The corporate word keeps talking about how WFH will ki-l their corporate culture. Sorry but no one has bought into corporate culture for at least the last 2 decades. Only the executives still believe in corporate culture BS. No other employees care, they know they are expendable at any time so why have any loyalty to a company.

The previous 9-80 will be back by September. No one will be allowed to work at home after that. Masks will be optional.

WFH ends by Q1 2022. You will have to just record your daytime TV shows. Do your yoga at nite. Stop staying up past midnight. I don’t see any way you can keep up with your video games though.

Jamie Dimon is the MAN!
Public companies have one purpose. Make money for their shareholders. Not to make whiny millennial employees happy. Not to make sure there is equal representation of every victim group in management. Dimon understands this. Not sure woke OXY management gets it.

Those spontaneous chats are a lot easier now that we can just ping someone in teams to see when they’re available for a quick chat. Then they can choose when to respond instead of having you show up in their doorway and interrupt whatever they were being productive on. Granted we had that functionality in the office too but we use it all the time now.

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You are obviously not involved in the core of Oxy where interaction in person is key. Many leveraging decisions are made simply from a meeting in person with nothing is ever written down. No emails or PowerPoints. Perhaps some phone calls.

Banking and oil and gas are completely different industries, with very different working requirements. Vicki and the rest of the oil and gas world finally realized that most of the white collar workers mostly send emails and present PowerPoints all day, something that technology can allow us to do with Microsoft Teams from home. Applause for her for making oxy a more competitive environment attracting the future working generation.

Trust you? You aren’t a decision maker so no does or cares to hear your thoughts on life.

Nah bro BWP is here to stay. Oxy is no where near the same level as JP Morgan Chase. You go in 5 days a week the rest of us won’t care and neither will your wife.

Trust me OXY management is in the same camp as Jamie Dimon. They will p u s s y foot around with balanced work schedule thing probably until the end of this year. In 2022 it will be back to normal… in the office every day. Bank on it.

Love all these losers blasting Jamie Dimon. Hilarious!

Lol the post below said it very well. Jamie dimon is a total tool. Only acts like he cares about diversity initiatives after investors blast him for not doing it!

Jamie dimon is a total tool. He is exactly what is wrong with corporate America. Thanks, but no thanks.

WFH

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Jamie Dimon on WFM

It does not work for younger people. It doesn't work for those who want to hustle, it doesn't work in terms of spontaneous idea generation. It does not work for our culture”.

Enough said…

The post below has a valid point. It isn’t worth the time or trouble to say this is going to happen or that won’t happen. Time will tell. The company will do whatever it needs to do or thinks that it should do. Management itself may not know which direction it wants to go at this point.

And you know this because you have been told BWP isn’t going away. We’re you told by the same people who said they would protect the dividend? Honestly, this going around in circles on this WFH issue is getting old. Let’s just see what happens in a few years.

The BWP isn’t going anywhere. Sorry millennials.

The BWP isn’t going anywhere, sorry boomers.

You guys crack me up thinking these guys want call you back in the office full-time when they want. They don’t care about you youngsters like you think. There are enough 3o to 50 year old employees to keep this company going a long time. I will bet you there are more people that want in the industry that can’t get into it because there are no opportunities. I know many technical folks that would give anything to get back in the industry, but there is nothing there. We had a job opening for a technical person in our group and HR said they had over 500 resumes, and we interviewed people from 2 years experience to 30 years. We could of kept interviewing people for two years out. You better watch what you wish for because you could be in the back of the line any second. This WFH schedule we have is great, and as good as any oil companies. You could be at Exxon and back 5 days a week. Again, free country and go find that perfect WFH job that pays you that great salary. I think you will be surprised at how few they are in any industry. Don’t take what we gave for granted, and appreciate what we were given. If you went back to Dec 2019 and were told you could have this schedule everyone would of signed up.

What job do you have that you considers yourself only a knowledge worker? Most of the G&G people are much more than that. They are planners, negotiators, technology developers, supervisors, managers, directors. All of these functions involve people to people interactions to really get the most out of them. Forget this last years experiment with wfh. It really wasn’t long enough to see the long term effects.

O&G is the only industry employing knowledge workers that is having this issue. Most knowledge workers in other industries can work from home entirely.

This is just one more in an endless list of ways that O&G is behind the times. Nobody needs to sit in an office to bounce emails around and talk to someone on a computer screen, which is what everyone (especially management) is doing while there, if they’re even doing that much.

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They didn’t go back to the old schedule because they were afraid people would quit. The executives make a lot of money and their time is valuable to the company. They would prefer a work force on site that they can access 8/9 hours a day and 4 or 5 days a week like before. They set the schedule for what they thought works well for now but this wfh schedule could change in the future. I suggest if you want the schedule to remain as is you need to be flexible and come in to office on your work from home days if required by your work to do so.

Our "work schedule" didn't change pre-COVID, COVID, or post-COVID.

The pre-Covid work schedule will be the norm before the end of the year.

WFH fulltime was nice but 3 days in the office really isn't THAT bad. I've been back two full weeks now and already have gotten use to the new schedule. I hope Oxy keeps this plan going forward, it's a good compromise of in the office and WFH in my opinion. I feel refresh after 4 days at home to start a 3-day office week.

They could've went back to the old schedule but they didn't.

You are so naive. Management only gave you three days in the office to appease you for now. That will gradually shift to the pre-covid schedule in the next year or so. All companies will go back to the pre-covid schedule and workers will have a choice to work the schedule or go unemployed. If you don’t like it then unionize and see how far that gets you in Texas.

I don’t get it. There are so many people (or more than likely the same guy) posting over and over again that he thinks the 2 days working at home is going away by either this September or the start of 2022. What makes you say that? It is because this is what you hope for, because no one has heard anything from the actual decision makes (not you) to back up this claim. From my point of view, you got laid off and are jealous that you don’t get this flexible work setup. Or you are a middle level (micromanager) who is mad that you don’t have the same level of control over your staff that you once did. Either way, several companies like BP, Chevron and Silverbow have adopted full time or hybrid work schedules. This is the work schedule of the future, sorry you don’t like it but it won’t go away after the precedent has been set

What is special about sept 7th?

I think they will go back to normal after September the 7th, or at the latest the start of 2022. Everyone that complains about 3 days probably are just making management feel like they can't do anything to please some of these folks. As usual the complainers will ruin it for the majority of the employees.

Once you get used to three days in the office then the upcoming four day schedule won’t be so bad.

I enjoy WFH and especially Mondays and Fridays. My worst days Mondays and my best days Fridays to roll out of bed and WFH. The other 3 days in the office are fine with me and don't cause me any hardships so I am more than happy with that. I really never would of thought a year ago that I would be going in the office only 3 days a week.

@1qgf+1bgnQ0Us He is a really smart tech savvy millennial. He can use Facebook all day long while working from home. He is going to fix this industry.

@1gix+1bgnQ0Us, I think you might be exaggerating just a tiny bit. I think we can debate the pros and cons of working from home without telling you which god you have to worship. Your extreme exaggeration actually weakens your argument, not strengthens it.

Why so much hate and blame for Boomers. Did you know the Boomers love WFH just as much as the rest of you all do?

You can tell who the computer illiterate Boomers are on this site that thinks paper copies in a filing cabinet are far superior to anything that a computer can do “bEcAuSe iTs iN tHe PhYsiCal wOrlD.” Please do us all a favor and retire so that we can start fixing this backward industry. Your abundant ignorance of technology portrays us all in a negative way.

You ever listen to the lyrics from “the times are a changin”. Perhaps some of these thoughts apply to where you young people are now. Only in the 60,s they didn’t whine so much about their selfish needs.

So many institutionalized people on here. What do you care where people work most effectively? Do you also aspire to dictate when they can use the bathroom? How much they eat for lunch? What gods they should and shouldn’t sacrifice grain Ana livestock to? It’s the 21st century. Accept change or have the decency to step aside and not interfere with others progress.