Premiers Wednesday October 14th- okay, the loathing started some time ago
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I sadly was one of those let go at Lost Cabin Gas Plant. I want to say up front that I hold no ill will towards anyone for my situation. It is what it is. I have had some time to reflect on this and I have concluded that I am glad it was me and not one of my friends with whom I have had the pleasure to work with since coming to the cabin in 2009. I could not sleep in good conscience saying to myself that I am glad I survived knowing that one of my friends was let go in my place. If you survived, remember that someone is gone so that you could stay, but don't remember it in sadness, but in heartfelt gratitude.
Since 1993 (22 years) until my layoff I have only worked in two locations, ConocoPhillips (now Phillips66) Alliance Refinery and the Lost Cabin Gas Plant. In that time I worked with the best and brightest people and it has been a pleasure to have known them all.
I do have one concern in this however, and as a Catholic clergyman, I hope the COP executives made the decision to forgo any bonus compensation that they will receive this year, using it instead to save people and their jobs before they let people go. To me this is a moral issue, when the company said that all options were indeed on the table before people were let go, I hope that this was one of the options they pursued. If it was not then my respect for the executive management will go down with the proverbial flush because their concern for people will ring hollow.
To those who remain at The Cabin and to those who were let go, I offer these words that were said to me by my father when I went into Marine Corps boot camp, "Character, he said, can only be refined in the crucible of adversity." "Son do not fear any adversity that comes your way or cower in its presence." "Stand tall and erect, trusting in the God who created you." "Always remain steadfast in who you are because of what I have taught you and you will emerge out the other side a bigger and better man than those who have never been tasted or cower before adversity."
We who have been let go now enter the Crucible of Adversity...the question each of us must ask ourselves is will we enter it with courage, standing tall and erect so that we may emerge out the other side bigger and better?
As for me, well I know the answer...So Good Bye and Good Luck to you all...I hope I see you again some day...Deacon Dave
HR will be putting the Schnitzel on it and telling quite a few to pack sand. Bout dang time.