Help us Save Lake Michigan

[Tinker 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

We don't have a BP up here anymore. They keep telling us tap water is better for us then the bottled water, they keep telling us the SMELL of the water is normal. I don't know, even having a shower makes me gag sometimes. I thought the Clean Water Act was actually getting somewhere.

Any ideas what we can do up here?

[Sister Fracas 5]

I thought BP already backed down...

Today, BP America announced that they will not increase dumping in our lake. They realized a good business decision is a good environmental decision."

"The people of Chicago and every person who spoke out against the dumping had their voices heard. We sent a message to BP that the pollution of one of our national treasures will not be tolerated," they said. "Together, we put pressure on a company to do what is right and they responded." Aug 23rd

Edited August 27, 2007 by Frances

[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.

Its an additional privilege, not something written into their contract of employment. They could stop doing it tomorrow if they wanted ...

That's true for a number of benefits that employers provide these days. That doesn't make them any less 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.

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 ...

That's true for a number of benefits that employers provide these days. That doesn't make them any less earned.

Well its really a question of perspective. My wife busts her a$$ working 11 hour days, yet a number of the people she works with do not. So arguably is she more or less deserving a free meal than those other guys? Yet they would all get it anyway.

Point is - 'entitlement' is everywhere. But it seems to be easier to use it as a criticism of the poor to suggest that their failures are somehow deserved, while 'hard working' or gravy train employees get a pass.

Edited August 27, 2007 by Number 6

[Tinker 0]

I thought BP already backed down...

Today, BP America announced that they will not increase dumping in our lake. They realized a good business decision is a good environmental decision."

"The people of Chicago and every person who spoke out against the dumping had their voices heard. We sent a message to BP that the pollution of one of our national treasures will not be tolerated," they said. "Together, we put pressure on a company to do what is right and they responded." Aug 23rd

Hmmm, not sure if that makes me feel any better.

[Ban Hammer 14,573]

I thought BP already backed down...

Today, BP America announced that they will not increase dumping in our lake. They realized a good business decision is a good environmental decision."

"The people of Chicago and every person who spoke out against the dumping had their voices heard. We sent a message to BP that the pollution of one of our national treasures will not be tolerated," they said. "Together, we put pressure on a company to do what is right and they responded." Aug 23rd

Hmmm, not sure if that makes me feel any better.

i.e. business as usual at bp - they'll just keep dumping the same amount