Originally Posted by
memebag
I get the feeling a bunch of people didn't do the ride at all. LaGrange was pretty empty compared to 2 years ago, even before the buses headed back to Houston. The big oil companies seemed to have smaller teams this year. I saw a bunch of empty or near empty tents.
No "seemed" about it! Half the oil industry has been laid off. We actually had a layoff on Thursday/Friday, the day before the ride - and lost 1 or 2 folks from the already tiny company team.
I think a lot of people, with either being already out of work, or the potential for being out of work at any moment, kept them from paying to register, and paying the $400 fundraising, or asking already out of work people to donate.
It was not a good year overall for raising money. Our company, though small, did not sponsor the team this year. And I think a lot of the big companies cut waaayy back.
So I'm not surprised there were a lot of empty tents.
I'm thinking of riding with Blue Line next year.