Posted on 09/23/2022 1:17:03 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
DENVER/HOUSTON (Reuters) - As Texas officials moved to restrict abortion, promote Christianity in schools and the state's power grid teetered on collapse, oil worker Steven Beaman and his wife Hayley Hollands decided it was time to live elsewhere.
By April, Beaman had joined a communications firm in Colorado, leaving behind a more than decade-long career in oil and gas, and Hollands, an attorney, soon followed, forsaking the state over its increasingly strident politics and polarization.
"It is kind of the first time I've reckoned with the idea that I don't think I'm going to live in my home state ever again," said Hollands. She likened the climate contributing to the couple's decision to leave Texas to "death by a thousand paper cuts."
Oil companies have spent millions to counter the frayed image of fossil fuels and recruit a younger and more diverse workforce. But a flaring of political culture wars - around abortion, religion and LGBT+ rights - threaten to undo hiring and retention goals, according to interviews with more than two dozen workers and a national survey.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has acknowledged the state is losing workers, but does not regret the departures. "We have an exchange program going on,” Abbott said in August at a conservative political gathering. "We are getting California conservatives; we are sending them our liberals.”
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No honest industry should be caving to leftards in the first place by taking a census on how many penises, vaginas, black skin, brown skin, homosexuals, etc., are in their workforce. They need to find people who want to work there, have the skills, won’t be a pain in the ass to work with, and won’t be on a crusade to redefine the job, workplace, and industry. If they all turn out to be one-eyed lesbian Filipinas, so what? If they were hired with the right criteria that’s all that matters.
Gee is that all it took to get rid of them? GREAT!
Nobody in Texas wants these wussies.
Our grid is way better than California.
Nothing from Reuters will ever be the truth about Texas.
Goggle results are less useful than manure..
Reuters via USN is the more comprehensive term for “nonsensical BS”.
“Perryundum” is a left wing agenda driven research firm.The wire “Reuters” is a woke, left wing news aggregator. The publisher is also of that persuasion. I feel bad for these children they haven’t got enough life experience under there belt to know their ass from there elbow.
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out...
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