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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“Steven Beaman and his wife Hayley Hollands decided it was time to live elsewhere.”
Don’t come here or any other red state. You would like us even less than tx and we’re not fond of you
Marxists leaving Texas and think that will destroy Texas.
Meanwhile, half of California, NJ and NY is moving there.
PS get out and stay out. Go to a big blue state like CA or NY
LEGAL immigrants (yes, they do exist!) with an aptitude for learning, may soon have a deep well of job opportunities, along with native born Americans who are not pushed to and fro by the whims of PC dictates. I suspect Big Oil will survive in America.
Really Texas’ power grid is teetering on collapse? I think you have confused TX with CA...
“Oil companies have spent millions to counter the frayed image of fossil fuels...”
LOL...in other news, beef ranchers have spent millions to counter the frayed image of meat, farmers have spent millions to counter the image of fertilizers, and Hollywood producers and stars have spent millions to counter the image of bad movies.
Just wait until Tennessee outlaws “gender affirming care” for minors. It will “make the liberals howl” to paraphrase General Sherman.
Biden shutting down drilling has no affect on jobs.
Steven Beaman donated to Andrew Yang (D) twice for a total of $751.00.
Well bless their hearts.
Reuters amLEFT WING REPORTING ORG.
Don’t believe anything you read in the left wing biased democrat media.
ANYTHING.
Notice his wife doesn’t have his last name and is a lawyer. That more than likely means she’s an extreme lefty who has his balls in her purse. Texas should say good riddance to both of them.
I’m afraid it is, because of wind power subsidies that a lot of well-connected people got rich from when the legislature passed them. That’s what happened last March. The moment something disrupted a natural gas pipeline, boom, catastrophe, because all that wind power is useless at that time of year. Same problems as CA.
Both are in potential trouble.
For this crap, there needs to be a more comprehensive term than “nonsensical BS”
They must need more transgender workers on the oils rigs.
More of this, please.
More lib exodus.
Democrat scum crave a butchered baby
Why would they want to ‘transform’ their workforce? Wasn’t the current workforce successfully making money for the company? Sounds like some ivy-league MBAs need to be fired, pronto. Especially in the HR department.
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