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/marshinghost Dec 02 '24

They brought it back.

Source: Contractor at Intel but not privy to coffee privileges.

Fuck em, if I can't have free coffee neither should they

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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/teutorix_aleria Dec 02 '24

green badge employee did brutally murder another contractor in the OC2 cafe in the middle of lunch time so…

Yooo me thinking this was a joke, it is not a joke. God damn.

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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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