Close Bartlesville. Just cheap labor and hillbil--es there!
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@1y4 IMO - It was even worse way back when. I know because I was there.
But Gogo can’t get those spoke poke wheels for his Prius in b-ville. Plus the Mary Jane is much more affordable at the local p66 gas stations.
Houston went to kr-p when Gogo took office.
Car jackings on an average day in Houston: 2
Car jackings per year in Bartlesville: 0
Houston boasts a mu---r rate more than twice as high as Bartlesville
Houston average commute time: 30 minutes each way
Bartlesville average commute time: 7 minutes each way
@aj It was a Phillips heaven... if you worked there. If you grew up in the town, it was a nightmare. "Do you know who my Dad is?" was a common refrain. It was a good o'l boys system to the extreme, a working poor class built across the tracks to service the Oil economy. And then it all leaked away, to the point the high school is title 1, and the town is decaying.
ERI maybe a competitive advantage bc it’s made up of PHDs and technical SMEs.
But the rest of employees are not exactly the crème de la crème of our talent pool. We don’t attract the best talent and there’s no good reason to have that satellite office open. There’s no labor arbitrage when the labor is paid well for mediocre work.
Damn the hunger games are in swing. The bloated cushy Houston offices feel a little pressure and immediately, it's close Bartlesville. Just the business unit support that ERI offers pays for it's operational cost many times over every year! To close ERI would be extremely short sighted. Honestly, ERI is one of the only competitive advantages that PSX has left versus it's competitors. If you think outsourcing the work done at ERI is a good idea you've obviously never worked in an outsourcing lab. They don't care about the data they generate and they don't ask questions if something seems off they just send the report and bill for the work. Catalyst selection studies, forensic investigations of upsets, and analytical analysis are far more important than saving the few pennies it "saves" the company to close ERI. Bartlesville is our biggest competitive advantage as a company.
Close by attrition, its been happening for years!
It has been slowly happening for some time. It will continue. ERI will be the next chunk to be taken out and then will happen group by group until there is not enough scale to justify it. ERI is challenging to replicate but the others can be easily hired in Houston with the existing infrastructure. Will be out completely within 5 years is my opinion. The cost of facilities alone make the decision easy, even if the ELT can’t see it yet.
Oil & Gas will be its creator and destroyer.
Better cost of living is about the only positive argument I can make, aside from that everything else in Bartlesville su-ks. The demographics have shifted over the past 20 years. We have more and more discount/clearance stores. The city refuses to grow and makes it extremely difficult for new businesses to come in. Compare the growth Owasso has seen to Bartlesville, and they lost out big time.
Great place to raise a family was the slogan!😂
At one time Bartlesville was called Phillips heaven