It's funny how ever since they announced that we were getting our salaries back to normal people have been quiet, just shows that despite all the real issues that kept being brought up on the way the company is ran from the bottom up, at the end of the day people just go back to being sheep for a little bit of money.
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If you are coming from The Woodlands to Greenway good luck at making it in 45 minutes and especially in the afternoon. I live in the back of The Woodlands and the trip home is usually around 1 1/2 hours if I drive myself and leave around 3:20pm. In the morning if I leave at 5:20am I can make it to Greenway at 6:10am or so. In the afternoon if you leave at 4:00pm it can take you 45 minutes just to get to 59 to 610 and then the toll road, or 59 through downtown to the toll road. Working from home has spoiled me now. I get a lot more done and can work those 2 1/2 hour to 3 hour commutes. Also, each time you get on the highway you are taking your own life in your hands. There are some crazy a– drivers on the road. When I car pool we have people cutting into the HVO right in front of us all the time. Wait till you are cruising down the HVO at 65-70, and someone from the left lane of the highway jumps in front of you from a dead stop. The safest way to get there is the bus. but that for sure will take an 1 1/2 plus on the way home, and now you will be sitting in a bus of possible sick people. In these times I will not step foot on the bus. I still would not move into the city or close to it. I use to think I would like it, but with the protest and all going on in the big cities I will make the drive. I took the job knowing the drive, so it is what it is.
Good cause clause, which allows LAPC staff to invoke CoC themselves if certain conditions are met (relocation, new job responsibilities/change in role etc.)
The one big concern for any LAPC still at Oxy is eventual relocation to Greenway. Most of the LAPC staff I know are comfortable in the Woodlands and relocation is a looming concern. It does not seem pragmatic for Oxy to keep three offices with this price environment, so relocation seems pretty likely at some point.
Now this is why many are hoping for remote work as a permanent option, that sounds better than a 45 minute commute 2x a day.
What’s the 1 clause?
That COC has been bad from the beginning.
It was not in anyone’s interest to acquire a company with so many strings attached on the employee side.
COC is not up in August. Only one clause expires in August 2020.
Good luck in August when the COCs are up 🤡🤑😂.
Putting yourselves through all of this to build up someone else's assets lmao.
Oxy people can even ruin websites about layoffs
LAPC here out in west Texas. I can only wish I was given my full amount back that was taken. Guess that was a kind gesture getting 5.11% back according to employee profile. Still missing the other 25% but whatever. Moral is pretty wrecked across the board and even if it does recover people are so burned out on Oxy I just don’t see that changing. Glad none of my 5 current emails work so I can check in 2 work! Lulz. However being the thinker I am I decided to move past it and have figured out other ways to generate multiple streams of income. Thankfully I only have to work for Oxy half the year!
/end rant
Oxy doesn’t communicate... truth!
Faith is about having some sort of guiding principles to make ethical choices and decisions.
I would put it this way, we agreed to work for a wage, and we stay because the bonus kept us around. The moment that 30% happened, i did not want to show up to work. Would rather get laid off to collect unemployment and look for a new job. Restoring pay definitely was the right move. I still see layoffs happening soon. You can sense it with stock movement and oil market. Oxy is waiting for the right moment to do another pay cut. It is what it is.
Seems like many still haven't figured out the rules of the game. It's about winning it all costs. Life, liberty and pursuit of happiness be damned.
For a minute there, I thought you were speaking in favor of the mobs, but that couldn't be true, right?
Such a smart and educated way of saying other people have what I want and I'm willing to do anything to get it. You're right that nothing ever seems to change that much.
The wealthy (top tenth of the 1%) have transformed the economy into a workforce of economic slaves. I always use to wonder what Mark Blyth meant in reference to the wealthy in New York and how they live on low lying land. What he meant was once the people figure out all the fraud in finance and corruption in government perpetuated by the top tenth of the one percent, they’ll literally form mobs of people to rip them to pieces. This actually happened during the Civil War when the wealthy bought their children out of the war and the poor grew tired of watching their family members die year after year until they took it upon themselves to drag the wealthy out of their homes and execute them in the streets. It sounds harsh and or brutal but the difference today is that we simply have more efficient ways of destroying each other and history always seems to repeat itself. 🤷♂️
I agree. I’m glad to have my salary back but I’m not giving oxy a pass for the BS they have put us all through. I plan to leave as soon as I can.
Our ability to put up with BS just rose 30%. We’re good
Pay restoration of a little or a lot is a moot point. The company still has the same issues of incompetence throughout its leadership, lack of due diligence in any recent moves or business decisions and a serious morale issues caused by distrust and lack of communication. I have seen McDonalds franchises communicate better with their employees vs this company. Unfortunately this has been VHs style. (Just trust me... and... you dont need to know)
We are going down the drain. Be it slow or fast, the company is slipping further away from greatness, if we ever were close in the first place. I know the LAPC folk still here think we are crazy but I can tell you we were better and I am ashamed of what we have become just prior to and after this merger. And yes, I will stick it out because I need the money but I am not proud to say I am LOXY.
Just my two cents.
"A little bit of money" for most of us was 30%. I call that a large amount of money where I am from.
Enjoy it when you have it. It doesn’t really change the larger issues Oxy has, which will come back to rear its ugly head. Just a matter of time.
What would you have us do? We are hired to do a job, and at my level all the complaining will just end up getting me replaced, and I need the job. We are not some type of political movement or union that can really change much. I think people just come here to vent, and that is good for us to have a place to vent. I am just happy to have my salary back and being able to work from home to avoid the virus. If anything else bothers me that much I will need to look for a job elsewhere.