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Dutchrudder

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  1. Yup, they are adding several hundred new employees in India this year, and several thousand more over the next 2-3 years. I think Chevron has around 46000 employees globally right now, so 20% total reduction is 9200 jobs lost (not all are in the US). But you have to add the ~600 jobs added in India that are masking some of it, and the reality is that it's closer to 10,000 layoffs in 2025 alone. A lot of that will come from San Ramon as they exit California, and give people the option to move to Houston to keep their jobs, but they expect a good portion of those folks to decline it and make an exit. I heard around 2000 of the layoffs will be in the Houston area, but that number also includes retirements too, which could be a substantial amount given the age of the workforce. When asked during a town hall if there would be any guarantee that there won't be more layoffs next year, the new CIO dismissed the question and wouldn't say anything reassuring against that idea. So there will likely be another round of re-org next year too as they add more people in India and remove their counterpart positions. Exxon and Shell moved a bunch of services to India a few years ago, and now Chevron and BP are following that path. Supposedly the lack cost savings from India is what's keeping Chevron from being higher rated than 3/4th in their Top 5 O&G benchmark analysis.
  2. Clips gonna Clip...
  3. The other thing I worry about in this series is how much the team is going to rely on Jalen Green. If he has one of his 5 game slumps again going like 3-14 and 8 points, we could be in for a rough ride. I hope he blossoms into an ice cold killer, but I doubt that happens.
  4. I seriously doubt they will let the Rockets defense treat Curry the way they did in the last meeting. I hope we get to see it, but I don't think it's going to happen. Curry and Jimmy will probably average 20+ free throws a game together, and the Rockets are going to have to find a way to overcome that. They can do it, but it's not gonna be a fair fight.
  5. Nah, we have at least 6-8 weeks before being gay is considered terrorism, so you should be good for now.
  6. If only we could play against lefty pitchers every game...
  7. Nice K by Hader to start off the 9th. 2 to go
  8. Seeing Niang be the best player on the Hawks makes me sad. Dude was great in Cleveland this past year, he could be a 6th man of the year candidate on a good team if he gets consistent play time. Trae just doesn't look good, certainly not a number 1 guy on a contender type. He can create some good shots for others, but he takes a lot of bad shots too. Not sure I would trust him to be smart and disciplined on a good team and defer to other guys in crunch time. Seems like a perfect trade target for the Kings, but they already have Lavine. Maybe Charlotte or Washington will make a play for him this off-season.
  9. Winning 1 game is still having to make it. It would also incentivize making the 6 or higher seed as you only have 1 chance to make it in from 7-10. I suggest having all 4 games on the same night to make it more entertaining, since half of these games aren't even close. It would be more like March Madness, which the NBA desperately needs. Part of the success of March Madness is the fact that if one game sucks, there are others that may be interesting. And all the games should be on national TV, even if it's ESPN2 for some games. They shoot themselves in the foot with this 1 televised game at a time bullshit they do all season.
  10. It's worse than that. Publicly announced a 30% reduction in San Ramon, and internally I know it's at least a 25% reduction in Houston. IT and other services are going to get hammered because they are planning to off shore a total of 9500 jobs to ENGINE in India. Stuff like legal, finance, tax, accounting, auditors, reservoir engineers and lots of IT services are already stood up over there. The total reduction is much more than 20% because they are adding a few thousand new Indian employees to the total, which hides some of the losses.
  11. And Trae Young. They didn't need a ball handler because they already had Fox, who was super impressive and on his way to becoming an all-NBA point guard! Traded away Haliburton too... Lol
  12. I like the idea of the play-in, but it needs to be 7-10 and 8-9, highest seed goes on to play #2, lowest vs #1 and get the first round going sooner. We don't need an 8 vs 9/10 game. The NBA playoffs take forever, and the time off between games is completely unnecessary. 1-2 days max is all it should be,
  13. So how long until someone in the administration broaches the idea of deporting judges to El Salvador? 1 week?
  14. Who could have predicted that getting Zach Lavine at 45 million a year was a bad move and won't make them a contender?
  15. Yeah, but, what if instead we put tariffs on England and made them pay us to sell us their tea??
  16. Going through the Warriors > Lakers > Nuggets on the way to the Finals will be epic.
  17. Ja with a pass off the glass to himself and the putback was nice. Grizzlies aren't quite dead yet, still a lot of game left.
  18. The Spurs own a bunch of their picks, so it's not really all that attractive to tank. Unless they want to send him to the Spurs for their picks back, which has become a bit of a theme with some teams lately in trade speculations.
  19. Well, the estimates are already in the 6-7 billion range for a new Vegas team, and Cuban just sold the Mavs for a value of 4-4.5 billion. Unless you want to argue that Cuban undervalued his team, and sold at a 33% discount, I don't think the Dallas NBA team is going to fetch as much as Vegas. Plus you would be dealing with the loss of the "Mavericks" team as it moves to another city, and potentially losing the team history/Dirks legacy/trophy with it.
  20. OKC was the team that lobbied for the "BEST STATS EVAR!!!" MVP when Russ won it for stat padding like a motherfucker on a 7 seed. So I think it's only fitting that their guy SGA loses it to a guy who isn't stat padding and had a much more impressive season that anything Russ has done. Jokic is the best player in the league, and has been for about 5 years now, and should have beaten Embiid that one year, but voters are dumb. He needs this one, since Luka on the Lakers is gonna start getting all that West Coast love and he's probably going to net a few thanks to all their media hype.
  21. I don't think the Mavs will move to Vegas. If you're an NBA owner, would you want to sell a new expansion team in Vegas for 6-7 billion split 30 ways, or one in Dallas for 4-5 billion? The Adelsons bought that team and already set the price for it. Moving it doesn't net new money for the league, unless they include a relocation fee of 2 billion, but I doubt that happens. The league will find some other billionaires to buy the expansion teams in Vegas and Seattle at a price of 6-8 billion each.
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