HPE Houston has been hit hard by layoffs - just venting.
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This is a layoff message board - not Politico or This Old House! Take that $#!t someplace else you f**king tw@ts!
Good to see other Libertarians on the board. Many of us are out there.
Excessive political ideology of ANY flavor is indicative of “mental illness” of some kind, MeThinks! (For the record, I am strongly of the libertarian perspective, so I am very-much-so used to having the vast majority of folks disagree with me). Make peace (or at least semi-peace) and move on, speak your mind and move on…
I highly recommend “The Righteous Mind, Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion”, by Jonathan Haidt… A way-cool book! It was written by a self-IDed liberal, but he pays due respects to conservatives. He paid scant attention to us poor neglected libertarians (and it was a bit negative at that), but I will lick my wounds and move on…
Haidt says that experimental (scientific) evidence shows that conservatives are significantly better at honestly and accurately assessing and IDing the perspectives of liberals, and vice versa is NOT true! Also, he says that the liberal perspective is less broad-based (considers fewer base “values”) that conservatives. He also says we should just bravely march on, in the face of sometimes-bitter accusations, and… TALK to each other! And LISTEN! (Way cool ideas, MeThinks).
Even as a libertarian, I can acknowledge that we are individuals deserving individual freedom (libertarian perspective), and are also member of our tribes (other perspective).
OK, y’all want this board to be HPE-related, not about politics, gotcha…
The Meggot and Her Minions? THEIR ideology is, “Whatever gets me MORE money and power!!!!” (But that makes them like 98% or more of all of our top-dawgs in corporate and government politics today, anyway).
What is also of interest is, in Houston, if you are a big business, you can build your buildings on raised foundations... But (generally) not when you are building private homes! My living room has to serve as emergency flooding-space, to help protect your living room! If one person suffers, all must suffer! I have read that in Florida, they have similar rules, and are looking towards changing them. As a Houston resident, I have NOT yet read of this ridiculous rule... No raised foundations for private homes... Being about to get changed. So even in "no zoning" Houston, government over-regulation stands in the way. For details, see http://reason.com/blog/2017/09/01/no-flooding-in-houston-was-not-caused-by#comment_6952715 and the comments under the article.
I've kept up with the climate debate, and there is NO consensus that hurricanes are getting any worse, and, if so, if it is because of climate change. Only some small number of experts think this way...
As a Houston resident and long-time Compaqer, HPer, I can speak to... Compaq built the buildings on raised foundations... But not far enough raised! There has been too much upstream development, w/o enough "amelioration" (building of retention ponds). Too much pumping of ground water has caused subsidence (ground level falls w/respect to sea level), and that hasn't helped much, either. All this is just the result of growing populations and development... More money, more smarts, and more tech will help, to reduce flooding! Drainage ditches, etc. But if you are a politician, you are typically focused more on buying votes (more pay and pensions for public employees, more bennies, more bread and circuses), and less on boring stuff like preparing for the next flood, which may take place after you are out of office. What can we do?!?!?
It's not black and white. More likely a combination of factors, including the monumental growth making the city more susceptible to flooding, lack of flood planning, climate change, end of El Nino, etc.
It is climate change indeed. Do not let let 45 turn you into a ignoramus. If you continue to hold your beliefs, you do not deserve a job in any company worth its name.
For the record, I am not the OP.
I figure Meg and her team would layoff everyone at the Houston site because after having 2 floods there and climate change, the risks and costs were too high to keep the site around.
I noticed the parking garages these past 2 days have been particularly empty
Marketing, engineering, product management, supply chain.
Name it. It's been on the list.
Any idea which groups?