No more golf with the boss, but how about taking a golf club to a kitchen appliance? Baker is hoping that more will follow as economic challenges and firings continue. A group of 20 oilfield workers came in February to whack away their worries. Her clients include “a lot of people in the energy industry”, she said. New high-end apartment complexes built to appeal to now-departed expats are so empty they are offering perks such as rent-free months, Apple watches and cruises, according to the latest economic report from the Greater Houston Partnership, which anticipates the city’s unemployment rate will soon rise above the national level.īaker’s timing could hardly have been better: this is a city that needs to let off some steam. The city’s economy is far more diverse and resilient than during the oil bust of the 1980s, but Houston is nevertheless feeling the hit of the slump. About half of those were in Texas, the country’s leading oil producer – with many job losses in Houston, America’s energy capital. Persistently low oil and natural gas prices have led to the culling of about 120,000 energy industry positions across the US since the start of 2015, according to the Houston Chronicle. High-end apartment complexes are so empty they're offering perks such as rent-free months, Apple watches and cruises By the end of the year, the oil price had slumped and the job security of thousands of people in Houston offices and in fields across the country fell in tandem with prices at the pump. In the summer of 2014, there seemed no visible end to a boom that had the state’s politicians boasting of the “Texas miracle” of job creation. Tantrums (slogan: “Relaxation after devastation”) opened in December last year in an anonymous business park next to US 290, which, owing to interminable roadworks, can make a strong claim to be Houston’s most irritating freeway. I just saw it as a way to release that,” Baker said. “Traffic, job, your boss everybody gets pissed. The Break Room is planning to open in Minnesota, while as the owners of the family-run Smash Shack in Jacksonville, North Carolina, note, their business is conveniently located next to a place full of people with stressful careers: a huge military base. The Anger Room started in a Dallas strip mall in 2011 and is seeking to expand elsewhere in the country. The concept of recreational destruction grabbed media attention in the US amid the recession of 2008 when a now shuttered operation called Sarah’s Smash Shack opened in the unpromisingly mellow city of San Diego. Letting off some steam in the Tantrums LLC rage room.
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