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Originally Posted by fingpilot
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LOL lets just say it's a publicly traded company with $20 billion in annual revenue.
I was told by one of senior VPs over dinner that the actual cost of this extravagant complex is actually lower than the 4 small buildings in San Antonio they used to work out of.
I told him that it kind of bothers me that they have almost 1000 corporate employees in such a nice building but we peons in the refineries are cutting people left and right and pinching pennies to survive, he actually apologized for that offered an explanation that sounded almost like excuses. Like he really needs to explain anything to a nobody like me. Prolly a career limiting move on my part but I'm already higher up in this company than I really wanted to be. Oh well.
I was there for a leadership seminar with leaders from all the refineries and corporate and after it was all over I was asked if I might be interested in participating as a facilitator at next year's seminar.
I said maybe. I've got allot of experience presenting to groups (gift of gab, good line of BS), it's fun but it's allot of work.
Oh, side note: Bill Klesse, the CEO, chaiman of the board, and president of Valero was in the SA airport this morning. I didn't bother him, he prolly doan remember me but one of our managers I was with who used to work with Klesse talked to him.
Klesse usually flies private jets but this was a personal trip so he was slumming with the commoners. Kinda cool that he has his own corporate jet complete with pilot at his beckon call but on personal trips he doesn't use it. Gotta respect that.
http://people.forbes.com/profile/william-r-klesse/83609