Happy New Year everyone!
What exciting joys do you think 2025 will bring?
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Cash me outside in the parking lot. Refiners v Corpies.
Seconded, have worked in multiple refineries as well as HQ over my years. HQ is a lot easier gig.
Don't bad mouth the refineries...who do you think makes the cash for the company? Certainly not those sitting at their desks at day at corporate.
Refiners talk tough until they are told things they don’t want to hear and then wilt like flowers. Maybe the most sensitive group of employees at the company.
Nothing but unicorn cowboys for 2025. Giggem boys!
And we will continue the hunt for Sasquatch who holds the key to the whimsical 1 rating.
Unfortunately sasquatch was laid off too and rode into the sunset on the unicorn, happily now employed by Valero.
2025 will bring more workforce reduction, more outsourcing of job functions. Management will continue to spoon-feed the narrative of unicorns and fairy dust.
Our core values died when Garland left.
RLT doesn’t care about your soft skills. They want you to show up and get your sh-t done
Don’t give me what I want, give me what I need.
ELT
“We have ideas”.
“My idea is half baked, ludicrously expensive, has a terrible payout, and I have no grasp on the reality of what it would take to do all of these things and I get butthurt when I can’t sell my idea because it’s not reasonable and so I become a malcontent and decide that the reason I get a 3 is that I didn’t su-k up.”
Yeah, the only way to get a 1 or 2 is to su-k up to the RLT. Showing up and having good ideas has never been the way, it's all "soft skills".
Anyways, having sat through a f2f a couple weeks ago where Harbison gave a pep talk that consisted of him basically saying "nobody is setting expectations for you guys, if you feel any pressure, it's self imposed" I don't have high hopes for the ELT seeing the light.
I think you are delusional that you would get a 1. Especially because you showed up every day and offered good ideas? We have all done that. You think we woke up one day and thought hmmmm im gonna think negatively for now on. No, we have ideas. We had a positive outlook. We had a booming buisness. The board does not care. They tried to create a get rich quick scheme with Mckenzie. It blew up in their face. Even worse our faces. They wander off into the unknown with boat loads of cash. We are left with a hull of a buisness. This isn't my first rodeo. Corporate greed and selfishness strikes again. We can't all get a 1. We cant even all get 2s. Its smoke and mirrors. Eventually they will delete your job too. It's getting dangerous running these plants like this. Just sit in your office and hopefully no one gets hurt from this dangerous and irresponsible decisions that play out in a already inherently dangerous industry.
I’m looking forward to my 1 or 2 as i show up on site everyday, do my job, and offer helpful ideas instead of basking in the misery that is this board.
The sands of the hourglass gives us so many epic kitchen gossip topics. Thank you ELT. I aspire to be a great one.
I’m excitingly looking forward to more acquisitions. Such as the much anticipated purchase of K-Wye Petroleum lubricants. Business, especially EOY ratings will be so much pleasurable.
Honestly, 2025 will be tough. Refining outlook is pretty bleak. Chems margins remain very depressed. We have debt due that will take a lot of cash that we may not have. If the lawsuit on propel does not go our way then I think any share buybacks may be tough. I think $80 share price is not out of the possible range.
I expect a poor 2025 and 2026 VCIP.
Waiting to see who may call in the new year to keep me whole and entice me to leave.
Things will get better and P66 will regain its heritage and will once again be a great place to work!
Wait a minute! I’m getting ahead of myself, it’s early January not April fools day. Sorry about that!
I know it’s against the trend, but I have a very positive outlook as we start 2025.
I am cautiously optimistic that the LT has gotten all they can from the management studies, layoffs and bad decisions. I am hopeful that we will have support to do the wrk we need to do, and support of initiatives that save time and money and are employee generated. We have business friendly lawmakers coming in power, and we still have an amazing base of highly capable employees who can work to maximize our assets. I figure I have 11 years left to work - I want those to be meaningful, I want to make a difference every day. 2025 is my time to shine - I think it’s yours as well!
More ELT members and less actual workers
More c suite gaffes. Can’t wait.
More layoffs, more penny-pinching, more scandals...
Diminishing headcount and vcip.
Layoffs. Duh