You are right, with Concho purchase comes a major reorganization and it’s time to cut Bartlesville loose. Bartlesville has outlived it’s usefulness and is remote from company activities. If we need a second corporate center we will have plenty of office space in Midland to dual purpose people and facilities.
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Not to worry... there will be cuts in Bartlesville too!
I’ve worked in both places. The employees in Bartlesville are generally ignorant id–ts. You don’t keep an office because ‘there are good families there’ as someone posted. How is that good business?!
There are good families in other cities as well so should we support them too?! We should have gotten rid of Bartlesville years ago and the daily flights back and forth is an atrocious waste of money. But RL doesn’t have the balls to do it as he has some good friends in Bville. They have lied to him for YEARS about how much Bartlesville contributes and have hidden expenses from him. The friends that put him in power are probably dead and gone now. Bartlesville is a BURDEN - period. Cut them loose! Don’t even get me started on the fact that COP is currently building a brand new hanger at the airport. How many jobs will that extravagance cost? Unbelievable with oil at a low the last few years and RL wants a new hanger. How about another coffee bar and refresh too?! The shareholders will love that
Houston is about to be gutted from a high level very senior source.
Let us have the opportunity to get out of Bartlesville and transfer to an active area with no income tax. We would love to continue what we do where we can interact with many of our company’s functions. The offices in Midland and Odessa are also paid for so which does it make more sense to close?
Maybe because The Bartlesville Offices are paid for?
I am neutral either way but have always wondered about our attachment to Bartlesville. It looks to me that if we have office space and people in one of our most active locations in Texas where there is no income tax then it would have many advantages over Bartlesville.
OP is an id–t. Bartlesville will it go anywhere. I don’t work in Bartlesville but I know there is good work in finance and It there.
I've worked in Bartlesville for 16 years, making significant contributions year in and year out. I can't understand why so many people suggest we be cut loose. Maybe Houston employees should take a hard look in the mirror. Perhaps your high-paid jobs should be eliminated