Thread regarding Pioneer Natural Resources Co. layoffs

So sad to see that the House of Sheffield has fallen and the evil HarkoExxon is doing the taking. Gone, taken, or sold are the vast frac sand mines of Permiankis and the deeply buried petroleum the spice of modern life. An elder and much more learned Maud ’Dib will return to uplands of New Mexico on his sand worm. His story would make an epic movie of local company grown big, a visionary of 40 years in the hunt for petroleum, a larger-than-life character. Put Kevin Costner in a hard hat to play the lead role of the Mother Fracker. It could follow the story line from a humble family run oil company to a 60-billion-dollar behemoth oil company. Texas Monthly wrote an article that followed the life of the company and the key players. The link to the article: www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/scott-sheffield-pioneer-oilbust/. The plot would be juicy and much more adult content than JR Ewing Dallas of 30 years ago, oil can be dirty, deceitful, with intrigue. The story would open with the M&A of Parker & Parsley and Mesa Petroleum; pure testosterone on who had larger tools. The coupling beyond marriage relationships that occurred in the lobby bar in the LCO west tower in the 90s, folks getting tanked up and swimming with the Stangs out in the Williams Square. Ah, PNR's 11th COMMANDMENT Thou shall produce 1,000,000 BBLS a day of oil where the employees signed in blood. The 2019 RIFF or night of the “loss of the gray hairs” when 1,200 just disappeared overnight to pursue other interests, twenty-two VPs took a buzz haircut. The company became much younger overnight. The climb and the fall trying to be the number one employer in the Dallas Morning News annual contest, free lunches, onsite daycare for the little darlings, physician onsite if your tummy hurt or you were hung over, kiddy playgrounds, onsite Starbucks, and Fridays off, HOT DAMN. If you were good, you got one of those “I got my MBA from SMU” bumper stickers for your tricked out F-250 vehicle. It's a saga that could have spanned your career working with some awesome professionals, and then working with others that did nothing and still climbed upwards, no names here, but they were well armed. You knew when you were around them as your ears would pop and you could hear the vacuum being pulled. But now it is JUDGEMENT TIME for your career's future, get the resume out and be able to talk that oilfield lingo: Tight holes, 30-foot joints, monkey board, bottom hole assembly, kitchen rocks, good rocks, someone's rocks........... Don’t forget to turn out the lights.