Here is my proposal: Let's move the HQ to Denver. It's geographically between CA and TX and it's tax system is a mix of good things from CA and TX. Weather is pretty good with no extreme events, earthquakes are rare. Schools are good with plenty of talent and the real estate is still affordable. There is a ton of Oil & Gas companies in the state which is friendly to businesses and transplants.
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@3obg+1gWA2BRE Rip out the offices?
It’s cute that you think more than a handful of people will be relocated from SR to Houston. The vast majority will be let go way before relocation is given as an option
So the offices will be ripped out of both towers next month and cubes re-installed? We had cubes a decade ago.
@3gwp, Most work groups will have to go back to dedicated cubicles and some folks with have hot desks. This will only be temporary as management sorts through the laziest and least productive workers to lay them off. Then the space problem to accommodate 3,500 people goes away. So, it’s not so much a problem with the San Ramonians who arrive here, the problem becomes who are the Houstonians who will get laid off? My advise to those with a job in Houston is to remain relevant and improve your skills if you want to keep your job.
How does the office space situation in Houston actually stack up? There isn't room for 3500 more seats at the moment. Where will the San Ramonians sit? This means something will happen with WFH and hot desks or a restacking of the buildings to greatly increase capacity.
Lots of empty office space in Bakersfield!!! Hahaha
Houston is a sh**ho-e. Can't polish a tu-d.
The Park N ride is great. Eat, sleep, read, chat with a friend. A breeze. I just wish the lines were shorter sometimes I wait 30 minutes for a danger seat.
If you live near a park n ride in Katy the commute to downtown isn't really bad
We have always home schooled it is so much better for our kids.
Sorry folks, Houston is the only choice for the HQ, not Denver, not Santa Fe, not Tim Buc Tu….. just Houston. Now get back to work before home becomes YOUR permanent headquarters.
But the best schools in Houston are a 1/2 mile west of the office - Wharton, Vanguard, River Oaks, St Annes, St Johns, etc. Vanguard is ranked #40 in the entire country.
I don’t care which city it’s in, just put it on the outskirts within reach of some decent schools for ***sakes (e.g., XOM). The downtown HOU commute has prob collectively reduced the well-being and lifespan of the workforce by hundreds of years.
Yeah we get enough s__t from Eat S--t or Starve's mess.
The last thing Barrow needs is more Corporate Bull S--t.
I liked it when the BoD arrived at Barrow in all their Gulfstreams.
What about Barrow Island
10 years ago maybe, but too many WOKE CA folks have moved there, thus, becoming another foolish blue state....
I liked it when we had the Foodini at Chevron SR.
@1tuj, little do you know that Chevron is a sandwich shop that is hoping to become an energy company.
Chevron IS the industry at this point. Where we go vendors follow like jackals. New Mexico is perfect.
D-mb idea. The industry is slowly moving away from Denver, just as it did for Tulsa, OK City, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Lafayette, etc. etc. etc. As the industry shrinks, Houston is where you want to be.
South Santa Fe is dry and very affordible. Easy drive to Midland.
Sir we already have a Wendy’s in Denver
I think to keep the massive change going we should become a sandwich shop instead of energy company and move the HQ to New Jersey!
put it next door to the BP office in denver ha ha
Santa Fe is a great idea. The lower PSGs can live in Albuquerque if they prefer.
Colorado won’t be too bad. It’s a very woke State, like California, but I can give my stamp of approval if the HQ is located in downtown Aspen, nowhere else.
Nether Pocatello, Idaho nor Santa Fe, NM have the required infrastructure: neither a reasonable airport nor the net band width pipes. Sounds nice but non-starters. Denver would work, but oil infrastructure in Houston is simply too attractive a business case.
OP, you can't be serious, trying to brainwash us into thinking Colorado is "friendly" to oil and gas. It may as well be California. Hard pass, next.
How about Pocatello, Idaho? Or Santa Fe, NM?
And we could bust up a doob daily. I'm in!
Or we could just leave it in California