FUDueschel

Manuel, Do you know who is running the Chevron project? Is it a CBRE type company handling this? Thanks,

I'm a small guy so, to give them the benefit of the doubt, I said kick em rather than throw em.. Some of them have been getting fat in areas other than their checkbooks, and so I'm afraid I couldn't budge them by throwing them. Ha.

Well, to each is there own, and everyone has their own opinions. I won't go into enough detail that would cause me to start badmouthing individuals... at least not in this forum, publicly. But here is my thing with them. 1. I personally know/ have worked with almost all of them so i am not just someone who worked on projects and spoke to them on the phone. As people, and individuals most are decent enough. Notice I said most. 2. Most of them were upper level management folks from IP. Who do you think ran that company in the ground? While a lot of the blame on that should be placed on Martin, these upper level mangement folks should share the brunt of that responsibility. I am not sold on the fact that collectively together they have enough apptitude to actually manage a project.. Too many queens in that hive with NO real worker bees to carry them like they had at IP.. ( OK, so they did hire a few..) My biggest reason right now however is the fact that these guys are backed by a foreign company.. Profits are going overseas. not uncommon, but think of this scenario for a second. Banks are struggling.. Government gives banks billions of dollars. Economy is suffereing, and businesses are hurting. IP was in a cash crunch. After Wells/ Wachovia gets their bazillion dollars in govt. assistance decided to start cleaning up their portfolios.. They called in IP's loan, which ultimately caused them to fold. I'm not taking up for IP. I saw the writing on the wall long before I left there that they were in trouble.. My issue is with a bank who got govt money to help ailing businesses, yet shut down a staple in an industry to make their books look better.. THEN, the same bank turn around and give a bunch of work ( I'm sure spending the govt money) to a company that is backed by a foreign company, having the profits head outside the US. And to think I served my country so these idiots have the freedom to do such things. As I said in the beginning, to each is their own.. I simply do not trust these guys as far as I could drop kick them. That's my .02 worth.

This wouldn't happen to be the group that is now with Principle would it? If so, I would stay away from them.. very very far away. Or, is that the name of the company they are going by? Do you have any conatct names there and I can probably tell you something about who they are.