With the extensive damage to HOU150, expect to WFH all of summer, enjoy!
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Are we going back next week?
Whatever happened to just showing up and working your 9 hours? Is that so hard for people to do these days, considering how many of you played up your skills and level of supposed dedication to the prospective job on your resumes? If you don't like the schedule or hybrid which many places don't even have, go find someplace that has what you want. Easy Peasy.
FOFO Queen, I hope you realize that your schedule (minus some of the recent technology) is the same schedule that Chevron fakers have been using for at least 15 years! I bet now there's more "high-pots" in the 1500 cafe sipping Starbucks than there are in the office! Don't forget to throw in the van pool, its departure time is sacrosanct!
Boomers big mad.
Well, that’s it. TCEQ said don’t drive your vehicles to reduce dangerous ozone levels. Looks like wfh until climate change ends.
I'm sure fixing the office will be faster with Agile LOL
FOFO queen is legit funny. I want to go back to the office because attending the office is a task I can complete successfully each day and feel satisfied.
I also don't trust others to work from home because I don't do anything from home.
Management should absolutely trust @ajzl, the "FOFO queen" who plays around all day at the office to -police himself, stay busy and be on the "honor system" while at home supposedly working, lol. He must be such a hard and diligent worker to be able to point out, identify, list and project his actions on others. Everyone else should go in but him since he's so special.
Work from office = FOFO
07:00 - walk around office and distract the few colleagues that get 90% of the work done, try classics like, “did you sleep here last night?”
07:30 - go get first coffee of the morning, leave carafe empty for others
08:00 - look at calendar, no point in prepping for meetings, scroll CVX Faceb***, thumbs up Alfonso!, so proud of your team Carol!
09:00 - go for an hour-long coffee meeting downstairs once Alfonso and Carol finally arrive, traffic was crazy today!
10:00 - call in to meetings from unassigned workspace with camera off even though meeting participants are in the same building
11:30 - eat offsite lunch for 90 minutes
13:00 - attend after-lunch nap meeting scheduled with self
14:00 - reply to a couple of emails, be sure to hope it finds them well
15:00 - out the door, can’t miss that bus!
15:30 - while on bus, reject meeting request for tomorrow after lunch, schedule meeting with self during same time slot, show dedication by indicating online in teams
16:30 - indicate out of office in teams, work life balance is important
maybe you should quit playing with yourself, little boy, and come to the men's off campus site where you will "fit in" nicely
I have ED but when I'm in the office I get hard and have to burp the worm in the restrooms. I can't wait to go back.
OP has the right idea and folks should set their anchor on WFH for quite some time. Lots of quality work getting done from the home office.
I'm loosing money while I wfh. I didn't realize I coudl drink that much during working hours. Best part is I run into my boss and they buy me another round.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, Just like the rest of the layoff site gang, I love love love FOFH, I'm F-ing Off right now on my PC as my kiddos run around and I fiddle-fa-t around surfing and I collect a paycheck - Cha-Ching! I won't be doing this for long though I need to take the kids to the playground for a bit they are getting restless. But the hours will keep ticking off when I'm at the park and I will continue to get paid to F-Off as I FOFH and have a blast with the kids. Life is good!
We need clarity, especially so those with kids can plan. Since there’s no plan, and the building won’t be fixed any time soon, they should just WFH and be METATO.
FOFH is the absolute most awesome and is what everyone does when they say they are WFH to fake management out but everyone already knows, I'm just not afraid to admit it. It's simply wonderful to be paid to do nothing and F-off all day under the ruse of actually working. Then the icing on the cake is to double up on the sham and say "Hey I get WAAAAAAY more done and I'm WAAAAY more efficient at home. I love love love it! Free money subsidized by the losers who are not in on it and actually work, Like the ones who show up and can't get away with not working because they are in the office lol, losers.
I love working from home. My handicap has gone from 21 to 7.
WFH, for most, really means METATO (more efficient than at the office).
Building won’t be fixed any time soon, and there’s no good plan for it. WFH until end of 2024!
Work from home is awesome
To the id--ts saying that we were only out of the office for two weeks back in 2008 when Ike came thru. Back then much of our work couldn’t be done remotely as everything was on-prem and our network structure couldn’t handle it. Sixteen years later, thanks to improved technology like the cloud/Teams etc…we can. Covid was an excellent test case and we succeeded with flying colors.
Rather than going week by week, just tell folks to WFH thru September.
I’m sorry but many of us have better home office set-ups than at the office. We had a good 3 years to do so.
Still don’t understand the id--ts who still insist on working from their kitchen with their laptop webcam aimed up their nose.
Everyone in our team left town for the summer right after the storm. No plans to return any time soon. I am working from home in France. Boss is in Puerta Vallarta at his villa.
Let’s face it, demanding everyone be in the office is a reflection of insecure, untrusting management. The excuse is always, “we’re better together” and “collaboration happens in the office.”
How work gets done is changing, whether the antiquated managers like it or not. Good luck surviving AI.
The damage from this storm was way more than what Rita produced. Besides Rita was 2005, not 2009 so the building has aged almost 20 years since then.
Not sure of the real damage to 1500, but you can look back to Hurricane Rita (2009) when similar damage was done to the downtown buildings. Offices were closed for about two weeks, then those in unaffected floors (the majority) were brought back. Those with more extensive damage were relocated to other available office space, of which we have plenty right now. Don't set your anchor on WFH too quickly.
Them field and plant workers who chose the field they are in can't work from home so we all need to do it needlessly. I love the uneducated!
Wow, HR hard at work to manage the reaction counts on these comments. Someone really wants people in these excuses of an office building.
As posted quite clearly below WFH, for most, really means "FOFH (F-Off From Home)."
Those poor uneducated rig workers can't wfh 😔
Liked it much better when we had THP and Chevron Tower! That said, WFH preferred! Slackers will be slackers, anywhere! Good boss should be able to see productivity regardless of locale...
“Working” from home is the best! I can get way “more work” done from home. I make “work” my priority at home. “Work” is more enjoyable at home. I can’t really focus on work at work but I can really focus on “work” when I am at home. So there!
Quit your bellyaching. You’ll work where I tell you and when I tell you. In the office, at home on standby to return to office, in a cubicle, at a high table (love that one since it treats you like a little kid), behind glass walls, behind a wooden door, in the cafe. No one decides but me.
Quit whining or your next PDC will land you in Bakersfield.
There is a plan. They’ll fix it, which will take a undetermined amount of time, then you’ll come back. Just because you don’t know the plan doesn’t mean there isn’t one, weirdo. Since no one can see into the future, looks like you’re going to have to make decisions without all of the information. Oh noooooes!
After all the expense and resource drain associated with renovating CVX towers in the past, all of the wasted years of downtown commute and unnecessary stress in people’s lives, and now the latest inaccessibility and use of the towers for their intended purpose…one would think we might actually get serious about planning and building a modern campus with a series of buildings less prone to weather damage and in a convenient location near to good schools. I mean, look at the campus built in ABU…and you want to attract talent to these aging towers in downtown Houston? Pull your head out already.
For a company full of project managers, planners, cost engineers,etc, you want a plan? How horrible of you! I don’t care if I’m told to be in the office five days a week (which I personally prefer) or work from home (also doable but not my personal preference), I just need to figure out family stuff one way or the other.
It would cost millions to setup and lease another location. Not to mention the amount of time it would take to setup. What a waste of money just to have people come to an office. Foolish waste of money, regardless of how you feel about WFH.
People who can't handle kid's schedule, shouldn't have one.
What do you do before? No kids? Is this the first person on Earth to raise kids? Wow. Big first world problems here. How 'bout you poutin' guys get daddi gubmint to help raise your poor little kids, wahhhh wahhhh wahh!
All I really want is a decision. Give me a time table so I can plan getting kids to school and soon day camps. Don’t give me this day or week at a time BS.
Who cares? Whether you work or don't work, you choose your path to get laid off and then you can come back and complain on this board.