Help us Save Lake Michigan

[Disco 0]

For those who don't know we in Chicago are boycotting BP gas. No it's not about the cost of gas but the fact that a company that made $22 billion dollars last year can't seem to find the extra cash to protect our fragile lake.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/commentary/49...dits03a.article

Thanks for your help

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Having worked briefly at the BP headquarters in London - it might surprise some of the folks in the 'school dinner' thread that BP Employees get a free lunch every day.

[Ban Hammer 14,569]

i don't use bp anyways.

[mawilson 2,133]

I use BP almost exclusively. Maybe I shouldn't...

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

Having worked briefly at the BP headquarters in London - it might surprise some of the folks in the 'school dinner' thread that BP Employees get a free lunch every day.

How dare you work for a heathen company like that!

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Having worked briefly at the BP headquarters in London - it might surprise some of the folks in the 'school dinner' thread that BP Employees get a free lunch every day.

How dare you work for a heathen company like that!

How dare you fund someone else's free lunch.

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

Having worked briefly at the BP headquarters in London - it might surprise some of the folks in the 'school dinner' thread that BP Employees get a free lunch every day.

How dare you work for a heathen company like that!

How dare you fund someone else's free lunch.

Brilliant

Edited August 27, 2007 by CarolsMarc

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

It's possible they are dumping their unused lunches into the lake.

[peejay 327]

It's easy for me to boycott them because there are no BP gas stations in my local area.

However, they wouldn't be dumping in the lake if the government didn't let them do it. BP is just following the law and getting over because they can. No excuse, but that is it in a nutshell. Apparently they feel the bad publicity is worth the extra $$$. Or they could shut down the plant and ship operations to a country with less regard for the environment and ship the product back to the USA. Whatever makes a $$$.

[Reba 2]

So we should boycott the government!

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Having worked briefly at the BP headquarters in London - it might surprise some of the folks in the 'school dinner' thread that BP Employees get a free lunch every day.

On the surface and solely based on the statement you made it would appear that BP provides the lunch in return for the employees work in which case it wouldn't be free but earned.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Having worked briefly at the BP headquarters in London - it might surprise some of the folks in the 'school dinner' thread that BP Employees get a free lunch every day.

On the surface and solely based on the statement you made it would appear that BP provides the lunch in return for the employees work in which case it wouldn't be free but earned.

In theory sure. But when you people taking take 5 20-minute coffee breaks a day (which they charge back to the company as business expenses) and spend most of the rest of the day surfing the net - the question of what is a 'valuable employee' becomes rather a tricky question.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

It's easy for me to boycott them because there are no BP gas stations in my local area.

However, they wouldn't be dumping in the lake if the government didn't let them do it. BP is just following the law and getting over because they can. No excuse, but that is it in a nutshell. Apparently they feel the bad publicity is worth the extra $$$. Or they could shut down the plant and ship operations to a country with less regard for the environment and ship the product back to the USA. Whatever makes a $$$.

Refilling BP's Tank

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Having worked briefly at the BP headquarters in London - it might surprise some of the folks in the 'school dinner' thread that BP Employees get a free lunch every day.

On the surface and solely based on the statement you made it would appear that BP provides the lunch in return for the employees work in which case it wouldn't be free but earned.

In theory sure. But when you people taking take 5 20-minute coffee breaks a day (which they charge back to the company as business expenses) and spend most of the rest of the day surfing the net - the question of what is a 'valuable employee' becomes rather a tricky question.

If performance isn't properly managed at BP, that's one issue. What BP's policy of providing part of the compensation in form of a meal has to do with it, I honestly do not understand.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Having worked briefly at the BP headquarters in London - it might surprise some of the folks in the 'school dinner' thread that BP Employees get a free lunch every day.

On the surface and solely based on the statement you made it would appear that BP provides the lunch in return for the employees work in which case it wouldn't be free but earned.

In theory sure. But when you people taking take 5 20-minute coffee breaks a day (which they charge back to the company as business expenses) and spend most of the rest of the day surfing the net - the question of what is a 'valuable employee' becomes rather a tricky question.

If performance isn't properly managed at BP, that's one issue. What BP's policy of providing part of the compensation in form of a meal has to do with it, I honestly do not understand.

Its an additional privilege, not something written into their contract of employment. They could stop doing it tomorrow if they wanted (and may already have done so - I worked for them back in 2004), probably eliciting a huge outcry from the people who've grown dependent on it. But it still leaves unanswered the question of 'what is earned'. Merely because a person works there and earns by 'default' isn't all that different from the entitlement rhetoric in the other thread.

What that says to me is that its ok to make assumptions about the poor, but not about lazy workers in a corporate office.

Edited August 27, 2007 by Number 6