As a shareholder and retiree I am always surprised to walk by the tower at 9:30 in the morning and see people working out in the gym and staff walking on the waterway. Firstly, you can see through the smoked glass from the outside and secondly, if you are going to take a morning stroll you should stow your security badge which has the very visible Oxy logo on it. It makes it hard for me to feel your pain when the promotions and raises aren't what you are expecting. WFH has made it too easy to quiet quit.
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If you think OXY Hr isn't following this website... I've got swampland in Florida to sell you. Since the post not a soul in the gym during core business hours and the morning coffee strolls along the waterway have stopped... Back to creating shareholder value. That's what you are paid to do.
An acquisition will likely happen when the stock market gets hammered due to the debt ceiling problems. What a great buy Oxy will be at 40 a share.
Y’all deserve the future you make. I see an acquisition by a major soon and your precious work life balance will be a distant memory. What an entitled bunch you are.
Wow. Sorry you didn’t have the flexibility and workplace culture to plan a day that starts and stops at times convenient to you and your family and have time to exercise and get fresh air. All these things are healthy, promotes good mental health and allows you to split responsibilities with your partner and support your family in ways that’s not just financial. It is always so shocking to see people being annoyed/upset at others trying to live well and having better/healthier workplace environments than they had. But yes, age checks out except I’m also old and have never resented the younger generation for trying to live in a more sustainable way.
Oh I wish I was your boss...
I don't do either but how can you knock someone for using amenities?
@3cat+1mlUihtQ you are part of the problem and clearly misunderstanding the expectations. Mondays and Fridays are the most productive days of the week and you aren’t even using them. So you want to demand that everybody come into the office on Mondays because it’s too hard for you to start your week on Tuesdays? Get a little self motivation and actually work from home on your Mondays then maybe the lightbulb will go on for you you dimwit. I hope your manager cracks down on you before you ruin it for the rest of us.
6am to 6pm... If this is true, I salute you. If you commute to the office that means you probably wake up before 4:30 to dress and drive to work. Do not get home till after 7 pm each night. Pretty tough schedule for you and your family. Given the generation currently posting on this site , you are not one of them. Isn't even close to the work/life balance they desire and expect. I do believe there are a few people at Oxy that are dedicated to the cause but not enough to explain the open nerve i've touched here.... You are professional staff, compensated better than most.... Give Oxy your attention during core business hours. Save the morning coffee clutch gatherings and mid day workouts for your weekends and paid time off.
@5jcs+1mlUihtQ - Not everyone. I usually end up working 6-6 each day and might walk up the street for a break. It is no different than walking down the hall for a break. In my case and many others Oxy gets more than the hours I would put in the office. With that said there needs to be a way to weed out the ones that take advantage of it and move them back in the office. The balanced work week at home and in the office keeps a lot of people working when they would of left or retired.
9/80 Friday is for scheduling your doctors appointments, too.
They need to move more senior oil and gas management to The Woodlands to keep an eye on things. Even when the corporate office was in LA there was senior management at Greenway watching over the people and projects.
By the way Flex time establishes your starting time and earliest ending time in the day and isn’t meant for you to take a few hours out for a workout, extra long personal lunch, shopping trip, etc. those activities should be limited in length to a standard lunch period in length.
The WFH picture is emerging as one of liberal interpretation of being at work. Lots of people on Mondays are walking the dog, cutting the grass, and doing other things while they should be working. The company is getting cheated out of worker hours.
I think you are lucky to work in satellite office where senior management isn't paying attention. If you were in Greenway, I'd start packing. Flex time...Nice one.
OP can’t understand how flex work actually works…if the work is not being done then those people are fired. They clearly are getting their work done and management understands that. So happy I don’t work for some insecure ego like you.
Below is from a recent survey. Before you pin it all on boomers take a look in the mirror. I know many boomers that would be more than happy to WFH. With me being one of them. Maybe we are not allowed full-time WFH because so many of the younger employees lack a work ethic.
Gen Z hardest generation to work with, according to survey: ‘They lack discipline‘ and 'like to challenge you’.
'They think they’re better than you, smarter than you, more capable than you,' one manager said of Gen Z workers.
A new study reveals that nearly 75 percent of managers and business leaders say that Gen Z — anyone born from 1997 onward — are "more difficult to work with than other generations."
Even more concerning, a whopping 49 percent of business leaders and managers surveyed said that it was difficult to work with Gen Z all or most of the time, according to a survey from ResumeBuilder.
A number of managers also agreed that Gen Z workers lack communication skills, effort, motivation and even technological skills.
Sounds like a lot of dead weight management has no empire to lord over if people don't darken the doorway. With an empty office it becomes apparent these high paid useless big title people are not needed so get rid of them and save some $$. If the work is not done by the worker bees in the office or on the moon you fire them. Location is irrelevant. The work got done during the pandemic so what is the big deal. This points to the fossils still in the office we always did it this way and i sacrificed my life to be a slave to the office and am bu-t hurt that the next generation did not have to offer the pound of flesh. Gotta have the office monument to prop up the ego since so insecure about that titan of industry fragile sense of self which is a hollow shell.
It is time that the workforce goes back to Mondays in the office. What happens now is a compressed workweek. You spend Tuesday catching up and meeting physically with people to start the week off. Thursday is spent wrapping up the physical work week with weekly reports, etc. That only leaves Wednesday for productive work. That is a 67% reduction in useful time. It is a good thing office people don’t impact the day to day flow of oil, otherwise this company would be in trouble.
@2gym+1mlUihtQ, exactly WHO was asking management and WHO in management was being asked?
The arguments about WFH are very strange. It’s like any other benefit/perk that an employer might provide, such as gym memberships, company cars, bigger office, stock options, etc. Companies have to make sure their pay and benefit packages are competitive, while at the same time, keeping their overall expenses down. If your employer does not provide the level of benefits and perks that you want, you can always look for another employer that does. Whatever your position is on this, debating it on this site or really anywhere else is a waste of time. No matter how brilliant your points are, the company is going to do what the company is going to do. You are not going to convince anyone of anything. Even if you make a better argument, pro or con, than anyone else on this site, what have you accomplished?? What do you intend to accomplish?
A lot of people come in at 5 and 5:30, so working out at 9 is like coming in at 8 and working out at 12. Should not matter when you workout if you are getting your time in. Many companies would prefer their employees to stay healthy. It makes for a better company as a whole.
Find a hobby boomer.
I can assure that Oxy management that isn't sold on the wfm model. Being only recently retired , I know what a difficult sell it was just to have a 9/80 work week. You do what makes you happy and before you know it you will be back in the office, five days a week 8am-5pm. As for my Oxy stock, I will sit on it and wait for the next acquisition. Won't be long....
You don’t know anything about these individuals work or work schedule. We are glad you aren’t working at oxy to make our lives all miserable with your presumptions and prehistoric attitude. Sell your stock and move on. We don’t want or need your continuing engagement.