Company asked me to move to Midland from Houston and like a good soldier I said yes. Now stuck paying my boom town priced mortgage without the cost of living adjustment. Any idea when the COLA will return for those of us paying expensive living costs and health insurance costs in Midland and Carlsbad?
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Wonder if it gets boring talking to yourself in the same thread.
Keep manually upvoting yourself lol - show the true skill of Midland
I propose that both your comments are true. They wrote a script AND they have no life lol
Haha someone has written a script to downvote. Either that or they have no life!
Wow that is unbelievable that the company moved people to Midland and then fired them shortly after. In what world does that make any sense? How c-appy would it be to be stuck with a house in an oil town right now that you bought at boom time prices? Funny how we talk about external benchmarking but no recognition was given in layoffs of how other companies were treating people better. The PIPs are especially egregious in this regard.
Depends which basin you are working. Delaware team is way over staffed.
Nothing to do - ‘after work’ other than go to Walmart.
@1ofo+18Fyajly Yeah and pay for it how? They cut the COLA.
https://www.trinitymidland.org/#/
For those concerned about education in Midland.
Bait & Switch - pure and simple. Come to midland/ Carlsbad- get laid off & move yourself back to a real city to find another job.
At least the other O&G companies (CVX) relocate you back to main office if laid off within 18months of a company sponsor transfer.
Do you remember the enticements thrown around in 1985 to get experienced people to move to LaBarge,Rocksprings,GreenRiver? It was initially thought to be a cushy assignment. Wife, kids and I went out there on a company paid house hunting trip. Of course they sent us in August and it was gorgeous. We couldn’t find any reasonable housing, so spent the rest of our company paid trip in tents at Yellowstone. Got back to Texas and told Operations Superintendent that there was no way we were moving up there. Good trip though. Of the Texans who did move up there, many of their kids got mixed up in d–gs. How does that happen in a lightly populated area?
@xex+18Fyajly Has +13 up votes at time of this post and says a friend has “ nothing to do...”.
@xjp+18Fyajly Has +13 up votes at time of this post and says and says “they overwork everything like dogs”
Which one is it? One can’t have nothing to do while they are being overworked. These contradictory posts with equal thumbs up lead me to believe that folks out there are the whiners that @xex+18Fyajly initially supposed them to be.
I was transferred to Midland 2017, right about the time that the 10% premium was offered. Was never called Cost of Living and at 35 YS I didn’t figure it would last. Low and behold, 6 months later they boosted it to a 20% premium. We did not change our lifestyle and socked the premium away. We owned our home, free and clear, back on gulf coast and it is still our pine box home, so we weren’t going to sell and buy in a community known for numerous booms and busts over last 100 years.
Company reduced then cancelled the premium, mostly because it was no longer needed to entice folks to move to Permian or stay there. Plenty of hungry folks out there are lining up to take my job when I leave, knowing that there’s no premium. I did warn many folks who transferred out that The Permian was multiple times worse than Kingsville, Harlingen, CC, Whitface and other boom and bust towns I worked in over the years. If you bought, you thought I was crazy...
@qgr+18Fyajly dislike that man.. totally no credibility and affected our co-workers livelihoods.. coward that went missing for months when the pandemic hits.. speaks a lot about DW
Anyone thought of starting your own business?
For the Houston people like myself it felt like midland ppl were a bunch of cry babies.
My view changed when I met my buddy who joined in midland office after school. He looked like a depressed reck. nothing to do over in Midland, morale is super low, office and perks s—. Layoffs wrecked what remaining pride was there working for a supermajor.
So yes I feel for you Permian people.
How many times are you going to post about the midland COLA? This is the 3rd one.
Might as well leave. When oil picks up the bonuses in other companies will be fat. Meanwhile old daddy Darren will be talking about how you’re at Exxon for a “career” 😂 while he gets an even fatter bonus for company performance. As if he drove the price up 😂
The god pod apparently thinks the cost of living is the same everywhere in Texas.
I’m headed to Concho or Chevron as soon as they start hiring again. I’ll be looking to bring as many of my teammates with me as well. Much better perks. Have you seen their office and gym? Better pay and benefits as well. We have the c-appiest office in all of Midland. No wonder everyone at HH office is fat and overweight. No onsite gym and they overwork everyone like dogs so no time to do it before or after work. Not like Houston campus with amazing gym. Was staying with EM thinking in a downturn it would be better but that is obviously a busted myth now that we’ve seen the tiger’s true colors.