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PatrickforB

(15,459 posts)
12. Ah, ALLOW ME TO RETORT!!!!
Wed Apr 15, 2026, 02:53 PM
8 hrs ago

My daughter, and employee of a major national bank, is now REQUIRED to drive to and from the office three out of five days in a work week.

This after PROVING she could successfully work from home and be a high performer for FOUR YEARS.

But nope, some Wall Street greed lizards, and the bank's shareholder primacy CEO, have decreed that they don't want no happy employees who feel empowered. They would much rather have fearful employees who are cowed by management because it makes the morale of the billionaires and Wall Street financiers MUCH better, dontcha know!

So on the one hand we have this particular sociopathic greed head telling us to suck it up and drive less, while at the same time we have other sociopathic greed heads telling us they require 24 of 40 hours be butt time units in an office chair.

Silly workers!

Reminder: GENERAL STRIKE MAY 1. No buying, work or school.

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He wants people to use LESS of his product? underpants 9 hrs ago #1
Their profits will skyrocket, even if people do. SergeStorms 9 hrs ago #8
Energy is conserved. Turbineguy 9 hrs ago #2
Right after they forced everyone back to the office for that water cooler magic Blues Heron 9 hrs ago #3
We won't have much choice, will we, if we can't afford to buy gas? Ocelot II 9 hrs ago #4
Well, Chevron need not worry about me EVER using their product again... Moostache 9 hrs ago #5
Says people who have done everything in their power for decades to make everyone RockRaven 9 hrs ago #6
Well the best way to use less gas Farmer-Rick 8 hrs ago #13
I assume after this interview he phoned up his data center buddies... EarthFirst 9 hrs ago #7
Do Chevron executives have private jets? I'm guessing they do. Do they take these jets when they go to jls4561 9 hrs ago #9
Maybe they should champion FormerOstrich 8 hrs ago #10
has he "cut back" on his executive jet use ? Nigrum Cattus 8 hrs ago #11
Ah, ALLOW ME TO RETORT!!!! PatrickforB 8 hrs ago #12
Part of that was the commercial office space industry and the service providers around them were losing money ChicagoTeamster 5 hrs ago #18
I know. This is a central problem with this capitalist utopia that is America. Unless some PatrickforB 5 hrs ago #20
How about buy Citgo gas? multigraincracker 7 hrs ago #14
Within 5 years we will be driving cheap Chinese electric cars delisen 6 hrs ago #15
I Rebl2 6 hrs ago #16
It's not about prices, it's about the coming fuel shortages ChicagoTeamster 5 hrs ago #17
Or maybe we could just war less n/t BlueSpot 5 hrs ago #19
It may be slop but it's the thought that counts. A-Schwarzenegger 4 hrs ago #21
He knows damn well that isn't remotely possible in a country as stupidly over-dependent on cars as this one. Karasu 3 hrs ago #22
Hey thanks for telling me which pumps to not use Lithos 3 hrs ago #23
The old 70's trope that the crisis is all "the consumers" fault for not conserving. Fuck him n/t Cheezoholic 2 hrs ago #24
But Chevron will be okay...... Smilo 1 hr ago #25
Some similar suggestions to consider DBoon 55 min ago #26
Hey there, Andy. BadgerMom 45 min ago #27
Chevron can go to hell, we'll keep our EV vapor2 33 min ago #28
I get the feeling not a lot of people are out joyriding these days Skittles 7 min ago #29
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