Another morale booster at Woodcreek :)
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@c3 I wonder what happened? Oh yeah, feminists and beta male dorks.
Woodcreek Cafe is worse than dog food. Wouldn't eat it if it was free.
@vd They should be handing out gum mies to boost morale.
RTO is nothing more than an effort to humiliate people into quitting and a resource for making a paper trial for firing them.
Ok fine, it also ensures the company gets tax benefits for occupancy. But nothing else. It is purely a malicious financial decision.
Recall that we had the highest IPF bonus factors and productivity ratings ever quarter after quarter during the remote work era. Literally quarterly emails from every bit shot leader praising us about this. Therefore we can conclude that RTO is not about productivity issues.
Can't even get a cup for water... Nice .
@OP at least The Creek still has a cafe. STCH lost it’s cafe a few years ago when management wanted to improve the site for a visitor experience then cancelled that leaving an ugly construction graveyard outside and where the cafe once was. Millions down the cr-pper and an uglier site than when construction started. What geniuses we have running this company!
@ex Wasn't that way in the two Houston R&D centers, perhaps for obvious reasons (lots of flammables around).
i’ve posted this before in detail so i’ll give the short version
they cancelled lunch service on friday for a spell because it saves them 7000$ a year
the “cost savings” are an excuse to huniliate you into leaving. don’t believe bootlickers saying otherwise. anyway they reversed that after gretchen and her LT brought it up.
Which neighborhood did they ban soda in?
@e1
I’m a 30 year tentured Shell retiree, though older than you. Smoking in the offices in Houston? You bet. When I joined, every conference room table had at least one or two large, heavy glass ashtrays nested in wooden bases. By the end of meetings, the ashtrays would be mounded with cigarette butts. I didn’t smoke; it was awful sitting there with smoldering smokes everywhere. Clothes reeked like you’d been in a bar all night. Zoom meetings would have been a blessing.
And, I can attest there were a few department heads I knew who kept a bottle or two tucked away in their walnut credenzas.
@c3 Own offices? Yes. But typing your own stuff as been the norm since the early 1990s. Smoking in the office? Never allowed in my 32-year career. Drinking in the office? Also never allowed. Saw it a little in Europe. Not here.
Christopher's Revenge. Now he will never be mistaken for someone who works for a living.
@bv nope… you used to have your own offices, could smoke in them too, drink in the office after free lunch in the bar downstairs, have secretaries type everything for you
Just pack a diet soda with a PB&J sammy in your brown bag and enjoy lunch at your pre-reserved hot desk.
A variety of prepared hot meals used to be available daily (gratis) for Shell Centre staff but no more.
Ah…Doing even more with less.
Working at Shell ain’t what it used to be.
$1 fountain drink 3 RTO days 50 weeks = $150 bucks a year.
Are they replacing them with Heineken machines?