My commute to my assigned Oracle office is 81 miles each way. They are saying on the News now that the price of gas in California could climb to $15 a gallon due global politics and the largest oil refinery shutting down and leaving the state during the third quarter of this year.
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@e3 you may want to work on your reading comprehension
Anyone who drives 80 miles a day (that's 1600 miles a month!) to commute to work is a fool. Hope that helps, @OP.
@bw what everybody should have their eye on is private credit. Over $1.6 trillion in risky loans, blue owl, blackrock and the others have been limiting withdrawals, big banks aren't directly exposed to the risky loans but they made hundreds of billions in loans to the overextended private equity companies, and to top it off the PE companies are the ones who own openai, antrhropic, and xai. It's a house of cards waiting to come crashing down.
Wonder what a MAGA Boat Parade cost now ????
I used to go into the office when people were actually there... Since Covid and Zoom found that going to a nearly empty office to get on a Zoom with others made no sense, so stopped going. Was then classified as a remote employee so have been working really really remote for years and my sanity and productivity are higher than ever. =)
Everyone has their eye on oil and the market indexes - but the real story is surging bond yields.
@bn musk put an end to that with his fake “hyperloop”
The world is going to sh-t, but your situation is entirely irrelevant to Oracle layoffs
Can't you use the high speed rail?
The U.S. will soon be taking Cuba’s oil and minerals, so it’s going to be OK.
@a9 you bring up a good point. The primary excuse to bring everyone back into the office was for efficient collaboration and improved productivity. How many people have experienced an improvement in the ability to get work done better and faster by being in the office? I would bet that most people aren't seeing any benefit.
- No credible news source is predicting $15/gallon gas anytime soon.
- Current discussion is about moderate spikes—not extreme, runaway prices.
- Claims of $15 (like $25) are almost always viral rumors, speculation, or misinformation, not grounded forecasts.
@ay have you considered people may have families, elderly parents that need assistance, can’t afford a house closer, office moving after employed, was fully remote, etc.?
have you tried moving so that you dont have an each-way 81 mile commute you actual mo--n
@an America is literally a state of mind.
Trump has gas, you recently invaded venezuela too.
You Americans do things without thinking, then get panicked.
@a9 to clarify- speak with them on a f*cking zoom link abababahahs
They drag our happy as--s into the office for “collaboration”, yet it actually has to do with taxes and it being directly tied to building occupancy. NOBODY is talking about that. Those same people requiring us to be in office are always fully remote. And you have to commute and hour in to speak with them. What the actual fu-k 🤣
Why the he-l do you have an 81-mile commute?
trump must be to blame
Newscum (intentional misspelling) and other looney leftists are to blame for most of this.