Any word on whether Bartlesville will get shut down? What’s the word on the street?
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The buildings and terminal have no alternative uses. They are financial liabilities. Perhaps they could be donated and used as a rehab center or shelter for the unhoused but they have little intrinsic value if we are using them. Much like a depleted unprofitable well they should be shut in and abandoned.
That last comment was unnecessary.
The problem with the Bartlesville office has always been the backwards thinking hillbil--es working there. There’s nothing worse than when one of them speaks up in a meeting and we all have to pretend their opinion matters.
Cut 50% of staff. Donate B’ville assets to whoever will take them. Demolish if no takers. Shut down the shuttles and the Houston air terminal. Suspend development in resource plays. Freeze wages. Try to survive.
@k3+1jprm1kf4 This is terribly incorrect now. Most are cloud based PaaS for a long time now. No one buys their own actual hardware anymore unless there’s a use case that cannot tolerate cloud platform use.
Look. The reality is that people in bvl don’t come into the office at the same rate as people in midland, Houston, Alaska, etc. I can assure you the ELT is looking at those numbers and Bartlesville is way behind. Not a good look. Think about the groups in bvl… the vast majority can be outsourced easily and quickly to achieve immediate cost savings. Why pay employee salaries, benefits, etc when you can pay offshore people a fraction of the cost with no benefits??? Yes it’ll be painful for the company since we’ll outsource to unhelpful mo--ns. But that’s what it’ll take for us to WIN of course. We exist to bring value to our shareholders remember.
For those who think that being paid off is a reason for grace, go talk to your colleagues in Ponca City and see how they are enjoying their paid-for building.
Just because we own property and buildings doesn’t mean we can’t sell or lease them or write them off as a loss on taxes. We own ANO and ATO in Anchorage and have a management company mange the complex and ANO is leased out floor by floor to other companies. Face it Bartlesville is doomed over the next 2-3 years if that long.
Oh the perennial Bartlesville existence question - how original.........
I hear that argument often but is the building full and do we not pay property taxes, electricity, utilities, etc to keep it open?
The Bartlesville campus is fully paid off, so leaving wouldn’t make much financial sense.
No one's trashing Bartlesville. People are just questioning why we keep an office there when corporate is Houston. That could be due to a lack of understanding what functions are in Bartlesville, or it could also be a justified question, one I can't answer.
@1cy+1jprm1kf4 What’s with everyone’s weird obsession with trashing Bartlesville? Is it because it’s not full of corporate snobs? Did all of nxtgen testing not happen in Bartlesville? How is that inefficient?
If you want to lower the cost of labor based on the market the labor works from, let the employee chose to WFH (or any locale in US for that matter) for a 20% pay cut. Then put in strict measures to quantitatively measure the work output of those employees. If they breach their measures by taking too long of breaks or only working 7 hours a day, fire them. That can become a lot to manage, but it would be possible if you wanted to save labor costs.
Point being, we shouldn't keep B'ville in play to save on some labor cost. It breeds inefficiency in teams, managing those teams, and just not having the unity of all the people in one location.
Any ideas of how many people work from B'ville vs Houston?
P66 have designed the model for moving out of Bartlesville slowly enough to go under the radar of the state government.
I’d wager groups that directly support the BU - production/revenue accounting, division order etc.
Which groups will be relocated to Midland?
There are 3 or 4 groups in Bartlesville that are going to be relocated to Midland.
I doubt Bartlesville will be closed soon. We house all our servers there and it’s a tenth of a price to house them there than houston
Alaska will happen first. Sorry Houston, no more paid vacations to the last frontier.
BV is key to centralization, and elimination of duplication.
It’s time. It’s our time.
Won’t happen. Very cheap labor compared to other areas.
Why would they shut it down when they can take advantage of the Bville job market and hold everyone hostage.
I know nothing. But there are functions there that can't just be eliminated. So would they shut down and relocate employees? I don't know either way. I haven't heard any talk of shutting it down but I'm just a peon anyway.