- Sabbatical cut. Who cares when most are WFH. It has been a four year sabbatical for all WFH people .
- Elimination of fruits. Same as above. This impacts only folks coming to cafeteria.
- Free drinks - the coffee machines at RA1 are still there.
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Cut out my caffeine and you will see an impact.
When they start turning off every other row of lights in the offices, the landscaping water and start delaying payments to consumable suppliers like chemicals, gases, CMP pads, etc., things are then really getting bad. Start interviewing ASAP.
"Billy likes to keep the money on the field."
"Soda money?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pzV9GoSuys
Most exempts have unlimited time off, so what value does the sabbatical add for them? Non exempts actually benefit from this more.
Talk about yourself OP. I have a gaping hole where the free banana used to be.
I would say 100% physiological impact though - ACT was poorly executed but relatively quick - this is slow and poorly executed. As long as it’s ongoing it affects every employee and work effort with a cloud hanging over everything. Even a Elon Musk twitter debacle would be better than this. Look how other companies have executed on layoffs in the same time period.
I work from home most of the time and I work my *** off every day. So, stop the cr*p.
Wait until the toilets become coin-op. Then you will find out who is full of cr-p.
Wait until the layoffs begin and get back to me on the zero impact.
Cutting small things is good. It shows urgency. Old Intel didn't have any of these sh-t and the company was the king.
Now cut the DEI hires. You can't afford them.
Cut the employees doing WFH. They are doing little work anyway.
While the fruit/drink cuts do not seriously affect most employees, the fact that intel thinks this is something they need to do to save the company shows how desperate intel is.
No free soda.
Reminds me of the movie, "Money Ball".
Also reminds me of the days when there was a Compaq Computer, and they had free soda. Lots of half-drunk cans about. Charging even 25 cents fixed that.
An Intel referral is like a guarantee to NOT get the job. There is a world outside the intel's toxic wasteland and there is always a way around kissing A$$
I haven't done a referral in 4 years..
I wouldn't want to fall out with them for bringing the here.
Most are WFH? Yes, the factory magically runs itself. You make an excellent point though. The cuts mostly impact factory workers that are onsite. The fact that they're cutting costs so severely (fruit, ok, but no free soda? Really?) and eliminating senior techs that are the only fully trained Intel employees capable of working on the hundreds of tools they just installed, makes it seem like they're cutting costs to make it look profitable right before they split off the foundry and sell it
I still don't want to work here anymore. Gelsinger had total compensation of $16.86 million in 2023 but for the folks who do the work, "No more Bananas". Confidence in CEO: Zero. Wouldn't recommend to a friend on Glassdoor or Yelp.