Thread regarding Chevron Corp. layoffs

I too have traveled extensively and I agree nobody can match Houston. I would put Houston's corn dogs, fried jalapenos or funnel cakes up against any city or any country any time.

@kuyq, the previous poster who said “on earth” is clearly exaggerating, but making a point. Houston is the 4th largest city in the Unites States by population. After Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005, many of the better Chefs abandoned the city and went to Los Angeles, New York and nearby Houston. Houston is a very diverse city and it’s restaurant are well known nationwide. Don’t take the “on earth” remarks too literally. I enjoy the restaurants in Houston a whole lot more than in New Orleans these days. I’m no “froggy in the well” either, as I travel extensively.

I would put the Houston restaurant selection up against any on earth. Please nominate a better city and we can compare. Choose a cuisine or price range if you like, doesn't matter.

@jyhs, When or if you move to Houston, you only need to pick the better suburbs outside of Harris County (like in Katy, The Woodlands, and in certain areas of Fort Bend County). You’ll get better schools than in New Orleans or the north shore. As far as Tex-Mex food, you’ll enjoy some fine places to eat Mexican, Chinese, Indian, and even South Louisiana food.

The Covington move is on hold until there is space in Houston. As you know the third Enron building is on hold until prices recover. So, you have several years of greasy food, corrupt politics and terrible schools ahead of you, at least.

There are also opportunities for Covington to move into dumb iron rentals. Low pay low tech is the way to survive the next few years.

-hgbq, the heliports, shore bases and other logistics can remain in south Louisiana with the personnel needed to run them. Everyone else in Covington are not needed there. The overhead is a burden. The essential folks in Covington should be moved to Houston to save big bucks. The rest of you are expendable and can be sent packing. That simple and logical.

There are no plans to move, period. This rumor comes from Houston, the same Houston folks who thought that GOM would be under D&C control. First of all, logistics such as shore bases, heliports, etc, are all located in Louisiana. All Emergency Responses are run from Louisiana, so why would Covington move, it would make more sense to move D&C to Covington. All the SME are already in Covington.

“There is no plan” of which he can tell you, that’s all. Don’t be so naive.

The only culture in Houston is in a Petri dish at MD Anderson.

8sdo, I live on the North Shore of the metro New Orleans area and I have also lived in Houston for over 2 decades and I can honestly say that what I have seen is 100% the opposite about repairs, flood mitigation ,etc. I suppose it depends on your experience and point of view. I would never go back to Houston to live long term although I understand there are plenty of good things about the big-city environment and culture that I have grown to love but I prefer the smaller-town feel, history and atmosphere if I had a choice.

I like to visit New Orleans, but I prefer to live in Houston. Actually, the suburbs outside of Houston proper. There’s a world of difference between the two. New Orleans and the general area are slow to change or to improve. Houston and the surrounding areas are always growing, modernizing and improving the quality of life. Things breakdown in New Orleans and it takes forever to get fixed or patched. In the Houston area, things break but get fixed quickly, not patched. Houston is a better place to live than New Orleans, hands down.

I left New Orleans for a few years in 2005 to work in Houston but moved back after I realized the hellhole of a third world that I had moved to, with no pumping or drainage system, as a previous poster sarcastically stated. It's hard to imagine a location any more third world and backwards than New Orleans, but LGBT/Diverse in a bad way/Cesspool Houston gets the prize!

Actually in Houston, there is no place for the flood waters to go except for right through the Buffalo Bayou and the middle of your living room! Dang!

2muf, Houston dos not "pump the water out quickly?" Remember what happened last year with Harvey? Actually there is no place for the water to go except right through Houston in Buffalo Bayou!

Well New Orleans was not so bad when I left there in 1999 to come to Houston. But I would not go back there for anything.

Also Houston is much safer from storms and flooding and such because they have such a robust infrastructure to pump the water out quickly if anything happens. This is all very important to layoffs.

GOM has some of the most productive employees in the industry. The Houston office could benefit by their presence there.

Maybe the Covington office will close and that’s that. Maybe no personnel will be transferred to Houston except a handful of the best employees. After all, why is having the Covington office so necessary? Isn’t Houston practically a stones throw away from our assets in the Gulf? In these times, it’s high time we start being honest with ourselves. There is no strategic advantage to maintaining two offices so close to each other just to serve the GOM. We all also know the Houston offices aren’t going anywhere, but staying in Houston.

I heard Covington is closing but no mention of anyone moving to Hiuston.

Does anyone really give a monkeys?

Should the Houston office close and all GOM operations relocate to Covington?

I started off in GOM and later got a job in Houston. Been here a long time. It’s so much better. Not going back to Crawfish Town ever again.

Shame. Its a disgraceful business unit filled with bigots and petty people who are always looking to attack others. A stain on the whole company - nobody wants to go back there after they get out.

This has been a rumor for years, doubtful. They have too many social and economic to pull that office. Chevron needs some kind of footprint in LA.