COP must restructure and lay people off if it wants to survive and I understand that. However, I'll never go to another Town Hall and waste my time by listening to someone who isn't telling us everything that he or she knows, at least in this industry. Although the layoffs in April, the current layoffs and the restructuring are necessary and although other companies might be handling such times with even more specious intentions, COP has fumbled this just as much it as it has fumbled everything else in the last few years. So, no matter what happens, I'm out. I'm leaving this industry altogether. I've done exceptional work and the only people that could displace me through high-grading didn't deserve their rating. Of course, all avenues and industries feature benefits and pitfalls, but only this industry suffers the extreme cyclicity that results from geopolitics, the whims of an emotional stock market and the CEO's monomaniacal focus on how the stock is doing. Will I find life to be better on the other side? Maybe, but probably not. I will be able to state that I wasn't afraid to try. So congratulations COP, through gross mismanagement, you ran off a high performer who refused to drink the Cool-Aide and I know (for a fact) that I'm not the only one. Houston sucks anyway.
p.s. I made this decision while watching a manager lie through his teeth
p.p.s. Without exploration, how does COP expect to survive when the Eagle Ford and Bakken have been drilled up?