With Delta roaming and evidence pointing to far less effectiveness of existing vaccines agsins it, do hou still think we will be in office in the US in September? More deadly variats are emerging and makes me think we might WFH for much longer.
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It's very simple. If kids are back in school this Fall, there's no reason at all for parents to stay at home (WFH). Watch what the schools are doing, and you will see what Chevron will be doing.
The COVID numbers are low, no reason not to return to the office, at least part time. Are BUs still paying CEMREC for unused office space? Management, especially new management, can’t micro-manage via TEAMS, and nobody gets promoted WFH.
I thought Chevron was back in the office. That seems odd because most of the other oil companies are back at least a few days out of the week.
@4hid
and the "mouth-breathing m0r0ns" are ????
Salk's vaccine was approved by the US "government" (1955) whereas there is currently no FDA approved vaccine that prevents Covid-19.
The delta variant, initially known as the Indian variant, is not more dangerous than any other. variant by definition. If a molecule were more dangerous, the label would be "strain".
This is correct. The FDA has not authorized any vaccine that prevents Covid. Their fact sheets all include the following:
"There is no U.S. Food and Dr-g Administration (FDA) approved vaccine to prevent COVID-19."
@3ofi Here's the nice thing. You're free to quit and try to find a job that gives you everything you ever wanted including the pay, free time etc. Don't worry about how ill you'll feel if you don't find what you're looking for.
Man, must be nice. Did we all hire on as remote employees? I forgot when that happened. Someone please refresh me. If you want a job where you work remotely, from home or anywhere else that your heart desires, I suggest that you go get one. There are many out there. This isn't it.
Yup back to the office we go where the BS is high and the morale is low.
@3ofi, Nice dream, but now it’s time to wake up. Start your own home bound business if you choose, but your boss is calling you back to the office where team collaboration and real work gets done.
Pre-COVID, when I was accostomed to the commute and working in the office 40-50 hours every week I looked forward to it because probably was just a well trained mnkey. Now, after getting a taste of what a real quality of life is like being home more and around the family while still able to work and be productive the thought of going back to the office rat race all week makes me ill at the thought.
@2seg For those of us living in reality, yes, the government was/is democratically elected.
@2bul Democracy may be the worst system there is, but it’s the best system we have. There’s a world full of authoritarian nation-states that give an idea of the alternative.
If neither of you wants to get a vaccine then don’t. I really don’t care.
@2oid, Did you say “ democratically elected government”? You sure have a good sense of humor or were asleep all day on November 3, 2020. And let me assure you that EUA means exactly what the poster said it does. In other words “TAKE IT AT YOUR OWN RISK”.
”democratically” elected governments are inherently trustworthy!
Imagine being this naive.
management prefer everyone or a % of us back in office. we are still paying lease / rental for offices regardless the situation.
waiting for management to rethink on right-sizing our office spaces before we can look towards wfh / flexi-working as a new norm which will shift the "office cost" from company to employees.
@2rsv That’s not what the EUA means.
If you don’t want the vaccine, don’t get it. I don’t care because I’m not the one paying your medical bills or otherwise dealing with the consequences of you getting infected. I’m fine with evolution by natural selection.
If you don’t trust your own democratically elected government then I can’t help you.
The vaccines are still administered under Emergency Use Authorization from the FDA. That means exactly what should concern everyone, it’s not guaranteed to be 100% safe or effective. Once you take the shot, for which the federal government doesn’t even want to have a centralized database for knowing who has taken it, it simply tells me they don’t want to know. Nobody knows with certainty if this vaccine will have secondary effects in humans in a month, a year, a decade or if it will have effects showing up in later generations in newborns. Allergies, physical deformities, mental illnesses, anything can happen, even harming one race more than another. I don’t trust the government and I don’t trust this Covid 19 shot. Neither should you.
@OP The existing vaccines are very effective against the variants. The people who need to worry about the delta variant are those who aren’t vaccinated.
I wouldn’t expect Chevron or any other employer to alter their RTO plans because of the variants. If anything, they’ll mandate vaccines while continuing to make everyone come to the office. WFH in an O&G company? Forget it.
Yep, back to the office. By definition, a variant is not more deadly, and neither is the Indian/Delta variant. Virus "strains" are more deadly.
Because you are worried about layoffs if you all have to go in? Wondering the significance of posting your worries and concerns here as a current employee.
With everyone vaccinated should be safe.
I ain't gettin no vaccine. It infects people with that there virus....
I will be mask free always, even in the men's lockeroom or when I'm admiring a rig.
yes--- back in the office
Nope. If kids will be in class, our a$$ will be back in the office. Dream on.