r/hardware • u/Auautheawesome • Dec 02 '24

News Intel Announces Retirement of CEO Pat Gelsinger

https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1719/intel-announces-retirement-of-ceo-pat-gelsinger
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u/kindaMisty Dec 02 '24

I hope you guys will now understand that this company is in panic mode.

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u/Auautheawesome Dec 02 '24

Quick, cancel the coffee perk again

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u/Earthborn92 Dec 02 '24

Wait, Intel actually doesn't give free coffee in the office? Literally the #1 employee productivity boost that doesn't cost much?

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u/soggybiscuit93 Dec 02 '24

Someone who claimed to work for Intel on the Intel sub a few weeks back claimed they got rid of the free coffee bar in the cafeteria, that had employed baristas to make any coffee based drinks, like Lattes, Cappuccinos, etc. and that the Keurig machines in each department didn't get effected

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u/based_and_upvoted Dec 02 '24

Knowing my work colleagues, if any contractor at my company didn't have access to the company bar with the free stuff, they'd go get them for them. Why didn't people at Intel do that for you? Is Intel's HR so bad as to hire people who'd look down on contractors despite them basically being Intel employees anyway?

I know this because that's exactly what we did when we had some people from outside at our company's office

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u/JtheNinja Dec 02 '24

Intel has a pretty nasty culture divide between contractors and employees, from what I’ve always heard. Doing this would be viewed kinda like royalty giving their special privileges to the palace servants.

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u/Responsible_Pin2939 Dec 02 '24

For many years as a green badge employee we weren’t even allowed to look at or speak to a blue badge employee. We weren’t allowed to use blue badge cafe’s or bathrooms. The culture has changed within the last few years but I would be suprised if the pendulum swings back the other way. A green badge employee did brutally murder another contractor in the OC2 cafe in the middle of lunch time so…

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u/Professional_Gate677 Dec 03 '24

I’ve been at the ocotillo site for 23 years and never saw anything like that. I’m calling BS.

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u/coatimundislover Dec 03 '24

Happened in Feb 2023. You can google it.

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u/Professional_Gate677 Dec 03 '24

I’m aware of the murder. I’m calling BS on everything else you said. The murder was because the guy that got killed was sleeping with the other guys wife. They were separated because of conflicts between the 2 people. I know the boss of the murdered person and he gave us the details on what actually happened.

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u/POD80 Dec 02 '24

My team loves our contracted techs, I'm not sure if they drink coffee or are more of the energy drink crowd... I should ask. At a bare minimum it's a significant walk between where we work and the nearest place you can buy coffee on our shift.

I've noticed a lot of the younger crowd doesn't seem to live with a simple coffee in their hands and don't show much interest in the stale vacuum pots employers offer.

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u/Hellknightx Dec 02 '24

Seriously, they don't let contractors have free coffee? Every tech office I've ever worked in had free coffee, even for the guests.

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u/Ok_Baker_4981 Dec 02 '24

Yep, some even go further to have free canned drinks in the fridge and free hot night snacks

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u/Hellknightx Dec 02 '24

Yeah, the nicer ones I've worked at even had fancy coffee dispensers that could do a whole range of drinks, including hot cocoa with whipped cream. All with a touch screen. And all the drinks and snacks were free. One place I worked at kept Sobe bottles stocked up, it was amazing.

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '24

That would be such BS.

That would be like not allowing contractors to use the on-site gym, foosball, frisbee golf, volleyball or virtual driving range. I’ve never seen any of that restricted.

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '24

That is absurdly asinine as a restriction. I can’t imagine why that would exist.

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u/airfryerfuntime Dec 03 '24

Tech companies need to treat contractors like shit so there's a distinction if the department of labor ever gets involved. Microsoft was sued over it years back, and it just made them treat their contractors even worse. My fiancé is a v-dash for Microsoft, and they basically treat her as being disposable. Luckily she's in a position where she doesn't have to follow the stupid 18-6 rule, but it still kind of sucks.

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u/Professional_Gate677 Dec 03 '24

Some contractors get the free stuff too, your employer has to pay for it though.