How has return to office been for you all? So far been a waste of time the past several weeks. Just sitting at a flex desk doing teams meetings with still no face to face collaboration. It all can be done from home so we can have better work life balance and cut the cost of the commute especially with the high gas prices. It would almost be patriotic to hault return to work as it would lessen the fuel usage a bit. MW doesn't care...
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@1spa+1fKHFR5D very entertaining, you describe most of my team mates and of course myself
The boomers were first to give up. They wear white tennis shoes and JC Penny slacks to work.
I'm surprised the boomers haven't showed up whining that you slobs need to clean yourselves up and dress appropriately for the office environment.
I agree - a lot more t-shirts, jeans and tennis shoes in the office these days, and that's a good thing.
pajamas? I haven't worn a pair of pajamas since I was a kid and I don't even remember doing it then. what are you guys, all nanny-raised entitled woke kids?
Im loving how the dress code at work has dialed way back since most of us got used to pajamas working from home.
Plenty of cases like that, left and right. What's laughable is that some employees don't have a fragment of a clue why they should be required to actually show up to perform the job they are being paid to do instead of being at home.
I knew a country manager who had three offices in different countries. He kept jumping between them but was always on his phone instantly so everyone thought he was working at another location. In actual fact, it turned out he was at home!
Years ago we had a guy in our group he was always at a vendors office. Maybe showed up to the chevron office 1 day out of the week. Anyways that went on for 2-3 years before people realized. Even then no one did anything about it. He keep his job until he jumped ship for a better role
Back to the office is okay. It’s nice to work with my team and collaborate. However, 3 days is too much. I was more productive with less distractions. Working 2 days in the office would make more sense. In those 2 days we could schedule collaboration. The other 3 we would be more productive. While the hybrid is a nice change the requirement is to excessive. Our 3 days are longer and wasted with commuting and chit chat. They need to be more flexible to retain employees.
I’ve been WFH for 2 years now and not going back. No reason to drive two hours a day to get on calls from my computer when I can do that from home. I’m going to WFH until they threaten to fire me, then I just say I’m sick. Too much stress thinking that I can get COVID if I go to the office. It’s been nice to take breaks during the day to take the dog for a walk, work out at the gym a few hours, go for a bike ride, now they want me to have absolutely no work life balance. Going back to work is harmful to my mental and physical health. Life is more important than Chevron. Looks like we are still in the blood for oil business.
Fewer hours and less work now than the previous two years. Other than the commute it’s fine.
@ler hehe $4 a gallon. it’s $6 in California. we popped our $4 cherry like a decade ago
@keq+1fKHFR5D sounds like someone doesn't have a good family life if the job is all you are wed to and you want everyone else chained to thier desks as well.
The description of your work day sounds like there is not a need for your role, regardless of whether at the office or at home.
Chevron should not have, and continue, to push work life balance. Just gave the mostly lazy people a stamp of approval to work part time for full time pay. Team leads and managers have no clue what their people were doing or not doing. They themselves were lazy and not held accountable to run a cost effective and productive team. Chevron can cut at least another 20% and the same work would get done. As many have said, WFH has enabled many to take a second job. Time for true leaders to wake up and stop full time pay for part time work!!!
MW and management are a bunch of bellends
$4 a gallon is crazy, I have to fill up the tank now once a week just for driving to work at it cost more than $60 each time.
Chevron management can't adjust to the new normal of WFH. They know the power and control they lost with two years of WFH, let alone the embarrassment of people working a 2nd job while pulling a full Chevron paycheck. That's why their knee-jerk reaction was RTW, where they could schedule meetings ad nauseum to be sure you're "working". On the dark side, WFH educated them that people can get their work done in a fraction of a full office day. You know there's a black ops study team determining how many more people they can cut while increasing the remaining staff's "workload" from 2 to 4 hours a day.
Another lead post from the admins of the layoff.com.
These computer trolls like to ask a lot of leading questions.
Just stay home until someone notices! That might get you another year at home!!!
Go home then
You drive to the office, Chevron makes money. You use their building, Chevron makes money. You buy food and coffee, Chevron makes money. Simple as that.