so HOU back 2/14…. Yes let’s go back when it’s in the thousands instead of November when it was in the hundreds. More fantastic logical CVX decision making
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Two years of not commuting.
That’s ~650 hr of my life that I hav e received back in that time. That didn’t include if there was a major accident and I had to sit on the freeway for hrs upon hrs for a wreck of flood or rain event or etc.
So I guess I am not extremely excited about going back. With that said I don’t have a lot of other options right now. Hopefully oil continues to rise and I can find a WFH permanent job. Can’t imagine I am the only one who feels this way.
RTW is the only sensible way to get rid of agile. People spend way too much time in day long agile meetings. Really hope that commuting to office will finally make Chevron managers realize time wastage in agile projects.
@1vgj Well, it seems new information has come to light over the last two years and we have proven we can do our jobs remotely. Just because field workers are jelly and Boomers can't figure out how to work unsupervised doesn't mean the rest of us can't adjust.
I shorely miss my Bus Buddies. My bussies!
Ah, return to work.
Back to the smelly metro bus (or soon to become known as the COVID mobile) that actually adds time to your commute because of all the stops on Smith and Louisiana streets but spares you having to white knuckle it in Houston traffic. Better upgrade your data plan so you can stream a whole season of “Friends” with the commute being roughly 3 hours of your day. And you get to sit elbow to elbow with fellow Chevroids. Masked up, of course. And don’t forget the sinking feeling you get when you just miss the bus and now have to wait another effing 15 minutes for the next one. And all the while that same amount of time spent commuting would have been 3 hours or just working from home or I don’t know, having a life.
So, yeah…for a knowledge worker, working in person makes much more sense and is way better. Doesn’t matter if people have been getting by just fine for the past two years.
@1nvg Us “office dwellers” spent a minimum of four years in college and paid thousands of dollars in school fees so that we wouldn’t have to go out in the field. That piece of paper framed on my wall gives me that option.
If you don’t like where your life choices led you, that’s not our problem. Don’t tell us what we need to do.
And you took your office job before rona knowing that you’d have a commute and have to physically report to the office. Well, time to do the job you signed up for. They already gave you M and F to work from home. What else do you want?
any insight on other US offices? Midland, Bakersfield?
Email is out. Fake news people, how ya feel now?
MW needs to not be a pu--y and take PollEV questions during his town hall
Granted, we’d only hear the canned “we need to get back in the office, we collaborate best in person blah blah blah” but would be nice to have the illusion of putting him on the spot. Feb 14, What a crock of sh-t
@1nvg We are doing our jobs. Record quarter could have told you that.
What do you care where we do our jobs from? Just because you chose to take a job in the field that doesn't allow you to work from home doesn't mean no one else can't do it.
It’s true. Check the “welcome back” page for Houston. No return for SR yet.
If they want to offset compensation increases maybe offer employees the chance to continue WFH with a 5% pay reduction. Those that can't manage their finances and live check to check, those that hate their families, those that have to kiss up to their supervisor in person and those that in general can't manage WFH can go in to the office like normal.
Better adjusted employees that have WFH the last two years and helped the company reach record cash flow / earnings can keep doing what they're doing.
We call that win / win.
I love how Chevron calls it “Return to Work” implying employees weren’t working at all from home. Return to office would be more appropriate.
I’ve gotten rona twice in the last year while working in the field for Chevron. Just like all of the office dwellers, I have kids, wife, and aging parents. Get back in the office and do your job.
And yes, I’m “vaxxed”…doesn’t make any difference after about 3 or 4 months.
I was independently in a meeting with someone from HR and they said rtw on 2/14 in Houston. Given these are independent I believe it. Get ready to go back virtual soon after but yeah that is it.
This should come as no surprise.
@OP Don’t worry, their nads will shrivel-up and they’ll roll it back a few more months.
If/when RTO does happen, it’ll be hybrid at most. After a month of hybrid everyone will end up WFH anyway, it just won’t be official company policy. The only people who will show up to the office will be the serial collaborators and that weird guy on here who massively downvotes all the comments he doesn’t like.
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@1ofq You haven't missed anything and your email isn't broken. Watch for a note tomorrow. Some managers have already tipped their teams off, it's more than speculation.
FFS kids under 5 will be able to be vaccinated in a few weeks. Going back before then would be a slap in the face to young families!
I haven't gotten any such announcement, at least as of the evening of 2/2. Is this official, or just (perhaps well informed) speculation?
Wouldn't doubt this is true but seems surprising considering Harris County is still Level 1 'Severe - Stay Home / Work Safe'
https://covid-harriscounty.hub.arcgis.com/
2/15 return to office for Houston… announcement coming Thursday.
Fact
I can't wait for the commentary here when it's announced tomorrow. Now it makes total sense why Mike decided he didn't want any anonymous questions for SETH.
It’s true unless they recind it next Thursday
Fake news,
2/14 is Monday, that will mever be the day for RTW, the firdt day would be Tuesday, so earliest they would ask would be 2/15, and that is still unlikely with still high transmition rates in Houston. My guess is March 1st.
They don't need to provide 2 weeks notice. Everybody should have made arrangements to be in the office since Jan 4th and keep those arrangements in place.
Where are you getting theses ”requirements” from?
Where are you hearing this? No official word of that yet as far as I know
Cannot be 2/14. They need to give at least 2 weeks notice. Would have heard by Monday. My guess is 3/1.
Liked "feel free to leave." Don't worry, working to achieve that already!
To @cgh+1f6jmdwV who posted
“Omicron poses no risk to a healthy adult. If you don't want to return to the office, feel free to leave”
Hysterical apparently you are in the office posting here on coy time. I mean surely you are one of the 10-15% who have made their voice heard by going back to the office? PMSL
So Houston has to go back but not San Ramon? I call BS on that. Does that mean that we are going to announce a headquarter move? Tesla did because of this same issue.
Omicron poses no risk to a healthy adult.
If you don't want to return to the office, feel free to leave.