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Light at the End of a SH*TTY Tunnel

6/18/2020

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​As of March, work dried up for me. LinkedIn has been a sad parade of posts: companies declaring "We're making hand sanitizer!" and people I actually like posting that they've been let go and/or retiring. Poor bastards. 

I hate LinkedIn.
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LinkedIn is a combination of the saccharine insincerity of HR, companies pleading to be noticed for their bullshit diversity/inclusion/safety initiatives, the worst people you've ever known posting about their mostly faux accomplishments* and senior managers smugly posting about that one time they gave a homeless dude $20 and "never stop seeing humanity in the world no matter how busy you are". ​

​*Off topic:
I once went to a professional development seminar led by a dude with a 
"PMHR in Human Resources Development, which is for those of you who don't know, basically what a PE is to engineers."
- Bullshit HR Guy with Bullshit Certification 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                 (The seminar sucked )
Anyways.

​Rig count has collapsed, driving around Midland yards I didn't even know were there are suddenly chocked full of rigs. 


The news has been full of sh*t stories about how the oil industry is in "terminal decline" and how the only reason WTI is in $30/bbl is
cause OPEC has been merciful.

I've been thinking about all of this quite alot - I've had time - and it is my livelihood. Is everything that bad?

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