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Or promote them all to be blue badges and end the caste system.

• Firerouge 6y ago
  The distinction between blue and green badges does sorta create very visibly labeled classes at Intel. (Disclosure, I worked a summer in Hillsboro as a green badge) It seems much more likely that mismanagement is the problem with Intel, not discontent/classism amongst contractors and the core staff. Though Intel could maybe cost save if they folded these subcontacted business units directly into it's staffing, it would probably further increase their management load, and might cost more by decreasing competitive bidding for work. This doesn't seem to be their core problem, but I'm interested in hearing why you think this is an important issue for Intel to change
  • selimthegrim 6y ago
    What pissed me off the most as a green badge was having to pay for the fruit (and the tea!) free to blue badges (which I hear they only limit to 1 now)
  • jagger27 6y ago
    I’m not an Intel employee or contractor, I’m only going off what I’ve heard from about contractors being treated poorly on campus as you described. More crucially, the red tape around information access severely limits contractor’s abilities to actually do their jobs. From what I understand, certain tasks require a their blue badge manager to sign off on and grant access, but the managers have giant dispersed teams to manage and are hard to get to.
    • Firerouge 6y ago
      That's interesting to hear, it definitely sounds like the system may be having unintended consequences on overall productivity. Bulk categorizing of employees could also be emblematic of management's inability to build a stable company culture. There doesn't seem to be a necessary reason to carry on the system as is, if access control can be dolled out sanely on project scale or a person by person basis.