Thread regarding Chevron Corp. layoffs

It's 4:11pm. If I were in the office I'd be standing at a Metro bus stop waiting for my Park N Ride bus having packed up early to walk out there

After 45 mins to an hour I'd be home and inundated with dinner choices and new math questions. That's a soon to be occurring reality, but for now I am working full out to my end time, have something heating in the oven, and may just be able to assist vs. further confuse my kids in new math. Oh, and post here.

I'm full on supportive of face-to-face, in-office work. When faced with not being able to I picked up the WFH best practices and ran with them. There's good in both environments.

I'm at the office to work, not hang out in impressive skyscrapers. My time at home has taught me that there's a ton of B.S. and wasted time at the office that masquerades as work. All of that plus 2hr commutes mean less value for our shareholders. I could care less what upper management thinks as I'm starting to question the value of what is actually achieved in their full-day, never-ending strategy alignment sessions.

Don't preach work-life balance and then add two hours a day of wasted time back to my day.

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Easier to make it to those 4:20 meetings when working at home.

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Post ID: @eivn+1bX7ycUI

Sac is about 2.5 hours each way so she would only have to be a few hours at the office!!

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Post ID: @bkwh+1bX7ycUI

I knew a lady who commuted to San Ramon from Sacramento. Her boss let her work on the train so she only had to be at the office six hours or so.

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Post ID: @9cxu+1bX7ycUI

Use the park n ride and you can work from the bus. Easy.

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Post ID: @8yzn+1bX7ycUI

Yes, it's going to be hard switching from not having to work and still collecting a paycheck, to having to work. We get it. But I'll never get tired of the creative and colorful anecdotes about how much "more work gets done with WFH". LMAO!

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Post ID: @7aog+1bX7ycUI

It's going to be really, really hard switching from our WFH get-up-late, log-out-early 3 hour work days and going back to the 12 hour commute and coffee-meeting-coffee-3 hours work-lunch-coffee-meeting-gym "work day".

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Post ID: @7vfh+1bX7ycUI

Welcome to the rat race...
everyday I get closer to retirement i hate more the corporate life

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Post ID: @7exk+1bX7ycUI

So, You don't want to show up and work, but you still want to get paid...... Interesting dilemma......

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Post ID: @2csw+1bX7ycUI

@1yht+1bX7ycUI

You are no Desk Cowboy! I am a true cowboy! 15 hour days? Unless you have slept at the office (just quick naps) you haven't truly worked. I mean it's nice to see Uncle Ted (my lifted Power Wagon) from time to time but work is what I truly crave. Chevron should only hire people that are dedicated and get the liberal trash who value other things out of here. Company first to be a true cowboy (and an ice cold beer to end the day).

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Post ID: @1vqy+1bX7ycUI

A year and a half of WFH really highlights the stupidity and inefficiency of the suburban commute model (for those suggesting moving to River Oaks, West U, or Montrose, living inside the 610 loop in Houston is the millennial dream, but only possible if your spouse has a high PSG job as well, and you have no kids. Then again, maybe it's a good idea they don't have any kids...) Besides, you can't do Agile daily micro-manage meetings remotely. Hey, we haven't had a comments here from The Woodlands crowd, with their ultra-long Woodlands Express commute!

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Post ID: @1zgl+1bX7ycUI

So because a few people are goofing off at work every now and then, that means you should be allowed to stay home and goof off at home and do your household chores instead of working?

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Post ID: @1uxz+1bX7ycUI

You just need to bow down to the company and do anything they want. You must comply! They want you to waste hours commuting, waste time up in the office talking to people on teams not in your office you have to do it. Eventually people will leave the company but management doesn't care.

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Post ID: @1lxv+1bX7ycUI

Don’t live in the burbs? Ok, live downtown and get carjacked, shot, burglarized, and robbed. No thanks. Houston is an absolute sh*thole of a city. It’s a shame there any any decent North America BUs anymore. Normally you just have to pick 2 off the menu: sweltering heat, ghettos, and/or traffic. Houston has all three!

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Post ID: @1zrh+1bX7ycUI

You are suppose to get a good education - commute to work as you cannot afford to live in west U - pay your student loans - pay the highest taxes - and make the man a boat load of money. This is our sound economic principle, that may not perfect, but based on the declaration of independence.

How dare you question that?

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Post ID: @1jjm+1bX7ycUI

I can't wait to be back among the world class *-kisses and time wasters who shoot the sh about their weekend all the way into Thursday, demand endless in person meetings and start every one of them with a 30 minute personal story about whatever Poppy, Piper or their other overprivileged kids do all day. Or better yet, holding forth on why they don't believe in COVID or some other Q banger theory. I live for those moments in my hour long commute through the rotten stench filled **ho-e known as Houston!

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Post ID: @1yty+1bX7ycUI

Wah, wah, wah. Grow a pair and deal with it. Nobody is preaching anything but you. You’re lucky to have a good job.

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Post ID: @1thj+1bX7ycUI

The worst thing about coming back to the office is face to face meetings. Now I'm back to pretending I'm listening and interested rather than mute, camera off and use my phone.

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Post ID: @1iwt+1bX7ycUI

It’s 4:11pm and I just finished boning your wife.

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Post ID: @1cum+1bX7ycUI

Wait another month and the talk will be "due to new variants we postpone coming to office until further notice". Beside it is not 5 day a week commute, 3 is managable although i eizh it was 2.

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Post ID: @nvj+1bX7ycUI

We won’t be going back to the office. We are closer to another lockdown then a move to offices.

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Post ID: @ubk+1bX7ycUI

How about you moving to River Oaks? It’s closer to the office and shorter commute. My real estate broker can work with you.

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Post ID: @uuw+1bX7ycUI

I dread the commute again. I already have a friend that is back in the office and is talking about the loitering and side chats going on again that didn't happen when working from home.

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Post ID: @qzs+1bX7ycUI

You should have bought in West University or Montrose. Too late to move?

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