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<blockquote data-quote="Shadowrider" data-source="post: 3820752" data-attributes="member: 3099"><p>I learned a long time ago that if you plan on making a career with Baker Hughes, you need to plan on moving.</p><p></p><p>They bought the company I worked for and move the plant to Houston. There was no real reason, we were in a central location and owned the real estate which was very nice. We had a bunch of quite large equipment (think CNC slant bed lathes with 100 HP motors and large CNC mills to match) that were difficult, slow and expensive to relocate. We did a lot of very unconventional machining (made steerable drilling tools for horizontal drilling) and had a trained workforce to do it. EVERYTHING was metric. Blueprints, programming, measuring tools, everything. There was just no compelling reason for the move from a manufacturing perspective. They did it anyway.</p><p></p><p>They made me a pretty damn decent offer to relocate with them to include selling my house and buying another in Houston for me. After seeing Houston I decided there wasn't a compelling reason for me to in Houston.</p><p> <img src="/images/smilies/new/talk_hand1.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":talk2hand:" title="Talk Hand :talk2hand:" data-shortname=":talk2hand:" /></p><p>Several of the longer term people (like myself) went with them. After their 1 year relocation agreement was up all but one left the company for other jobs. I loved that job and the people I worked with, I'm pretty sure we all did. We had a great thing going and I would probably still be there had they not packed it all up. The funny thing about it was that they were unable to sell that very nice OKC property for a very long time. Years...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shadowrider, post: 3820752, member: 3099"] I learned a long time ago that if you plan on making a career with Baker Hughes, you need to plan on moving. They bought the company I worked for and move the plant to Houston. There was no real reason, we were in a central location and owned the real estate which was very nice. We had a bunch of quite large equipment (think CNC slant bed lathes with 100 HP motors and large CNC mills to match) that were difficult, slow and expensive to relocate. We did a lot of very unconventional machining (made steerable drilling tools for horizontal drilling) and had a trained workforce to do it. EVERYTHING was metric. Blueprints, programming, measuring tools, everything. There was just no compelling reason for the move from a manufacturing perspective. They did it anyway. They made me a pretty damn decent offer to relocate with them to include selling my house and buying another in Houston for me. After seeing Houston I decided there wasn't a compelling reason for me to in Houston. :talk2hand: Several of the longer term people (like myself) went with them. After their 1 year relocation agreement was up all but one left the company for other jobs. I loved that job and the people I worked with, I'm pretty sure we all did. We had a great thing going and I would probably still be there had they not packed it all up. The funny thing about it was that they were unable to sell that very nice OKC property for a very long time. Years... [/QUOTE]
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