Next item on grief and hr list: welcome to your neighborhood (all in the guise of collaboration). Cram us all together and take away our desk. Now personal items as you rent a desk daily, but hey we get a locker like school children. At this time, we know management reads this site so please provide your thoughts here
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Bill K told a forum of supervisors last month that we were not closing any buildings on Campus and that we were not moving to We3.
That man. I guess if he ain’t telling it like it is to all the “hotshots” then he’s lying between his teeth.
I like it. He’s unreadable. Strong poker face, Bill K, strong poker face.
"Mr. Roger's...I'm gonna kick yo' a-s in the butterfly garden of united way if you don't get out of my desk!!!"
So are we all going to take those 'First Day of .....Neighbor-hooding' photos
? Since we are being treated more like elementary school students!
Maybe whoever rents our extra space will be hiring…
This just screams that the whole Houston campus idea is a huge failure. I’m sure someone received a cl bump for coming up with it though.
Have any of you complainers stood up at a forum and asked "Why would you do something this stupid" ti management? Didn't think so.
Next step: 2 persons sharing a desk at same time, just like those school photos from 100 years ago.
Progress.
This will be the last straw for some good people.
And only good, employable, high performing people will quit over Hotdesking. Why? Because they know they are easily re-hirable, and probably at a better salary and culture.
Then who stays? The low performers and NREs, who either cannot find another job or are close to retirement anyway. But those NREs are pi---d too, and retire-in-place.
So something as stupid as Neighborhoods causes your good employees to quit, your poor employees to stay, and lots of people to mentally-disengage from work.
Good one. Sounds like it will be a real success. Glad we saved a little opex at the compromise of our future.
I too was We3 at Greenspoint and Hughes Landing and hated it. Such a stupid idea.
they could have saved billions just staying at greenspoint and maybe downtown
I had an assigned seat in grade school, so do my two kids…
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It’s very degrading. It’s so jacked up that I quit. It was like being back in grade school. It really shows what they think about the workers.
So we have out of control inflation. Mu---r rates higher than ever. Homeless rates off the charts. What was right is now wrong and what was wrong is now right!! Exxonmobil is right on target 💯! They are selling this as a positive and we all hate it. So congratulations EXXONMOBIL you are part of the "if everyone does stupid, abuse, disrespect, elite and sc-m rule than it must be right"!!! But it isn't right in any stretch of a rational humans reasoning. Guess Exxonmobil doesn't CARE AT ALL ABOUT ANY EMPLOYEES BECAUSE THEY TREAT EVERYONE LIKE STINKY $hit!! If you say it is right, you are wrong!!
Quit complaining, service lines have been living this for years.
Neighborhood... Aka faceless office droid.
Glad I took the farce of a PIL and didi’d. So much happier and as time past, shedding the toxic skin was so liberating. It’s ok to climb out of the pool relocate neighborhoods.
Are all the tax write-offs done? Is that what this means?
So now some of the businesses renting out space will have better paid employees doing work with a future? And their own desks and parking spots?
And we'll all be eating at the same Chik-Fil-A?
I, as a class, have to struggle with that.
WE3 is the new norm... It'll be implemented wherever feasible.
On Brussels for example, they packed all the remaining employees in one of the two buildings and lease out the emptied one.
If the campus is currently too big for our population… do a re-stack with assigned seats to free up floors to be sub-let to third parties or whatever…
But taking it further to squeeze it down more and removing assigned desks just feels like a money grab (at the expense of the employees).
I did We3 at Gunspoint and Hughes Landing…. I hated having others sit in my seat, their lunch in my keyboard, having to put all my $hit away every day, etc.
Restack with assigned seats… it will give the execs enough room for their personal bathrooms and some empty floors to lease out
How are supervision going to remember your name if you change office or desk?
I'm not in the States, but if I was forced to change to this I'd take it as a massive hit of disrespect. It shows the company doesn't value experience or expertise, and you're all fungible and amorphous. Great.
It is insulting, to say the least. I cannot imagine how anyone thinks it is a good idea. Guarantee any saved heat/electric was nullified by all the tag along expenses….so all that is left is employee alienation (Worldwide employee alienation.)
Tacit admission that building the campus was a monumentally d-mb decision.