Leadership thinks that the complaints on here are not valid and are the voices of a bunch of whiny millennials. Although some of that may be true, that is not a correct assessment for the majority. Employees are trying to get leaderships attention by calling out certain individuals, but yet that falls on deaf ears. The employees that live in fear for their job can’t chance going to HR or the senior leadership over the issues because we have seen or heard of others doing this and then being rewarded with a severance package during the next reorganization. So congratulations leadership you have established a culture of employees being fearful to speak up and have a different opinion. All you need to do now is hand out symbols for us bang around for when the next VP says Dance Monkey Dance. Most of us live in fear for our job every single day. How much more productive could people be if they weren’t in fear for their livelihood every time they woke up in the morning? Does leadership realize the stress that is being put on employees doesn’t stop when they leave work and is then carried home and affects the home life as well?
The truly sad part is when actually given the opportunity to answer honestly through an anonymous source, many employees still are not truthful because very few people actually believe any of those surveys are anonymous. So we tell you what we think you want to hear all in the hopes that our name will not appear on the next reorganization that some VP dreams up to try to earn a few brownie points. That way we can hear the speech about employees are this companies greatest assets and we can be asked to shoulder more with less just so we can have a job and make ends meet for our family.
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Well I know plenty of people who would take your job if you don't want it.
OMG. Reading this makes me wanna puke. Not all of us feel like this! CHK is still in serious trouble!. The stress is at EVERY level! Sorry you don’t want to hear it - but the last thing any manager wants to deal with under all the business pressures are people that “ want to be heard and coddled etc”. This worker ( and many others) will keep my head down - support my management and do the job I was hired to do - and not whine. I know I still have one if the best jobs and benefit package in OK.
I worked there for 7 months. That was by far all I could take. HR runs the company. Their fake smiles look like they have saucers wedged in their mouths. I had a run in with my VP (he has since gone) and knew I could not and would not want to continue working there. I am sure they would have shown me the door had I stayed until the next year's reviews, so I got out and am in a very successful consulting role for real companies. The management is a bunch of sore, vindictive losers. As the stock continues to sink, so do their retirement plans and they will take it all out on the workers.
There will be no buyout. RDL has lost the confidence of his employees, stakeholders, shareholders, and bankers. I hope he gets indicted.
Join one of the CHK cults! Culture Club Crazies or the Let’s Loonies! There you will find peace and happiness !
any update on the buyout?
I’m grinning and bearing it. Bring on more culture training ! lol
The comment below is spoken like a true leader. Overlook the main point and focus on what you want to hear. Talk down to people and treat them like id–ts. If your not a VP yet, stick around you will get your chance.
The post has very little to do with being afraid of a lay-off due to the down turn and our mountain of debt. There is complete incompetent leaders and the people being forced to work under neath then have no alternative but to either leave (which still doesn’t fix the problem) or grin and bear it.
The whole industry of oil and gas is shrinking. Not just CHK! If you don’t like or understand the non-security of working in a commodity business and the associated stress - LEAVE !!!!!!!!!!!! That’s why it’s considered whining.....you don’t get the business or the industry. Cash and profits are needed to keep employees. Chk isn’t making ANY!!!!!
I worked at Chesapeake but thankfully no longer. It was obvious that the executive management was incompetent. I for one found the culture and mood training sessions to be cultish and it made me extremely uncomfortable to be forced to take part in it. While most of the employees clearly understood their jobs and worked hard, there were so many of these programs (distractions) that were mandated by the CEO. The CEO is extremely good at filling his own bank account but otherwise it is a mystery as to how he has kept his job for 6 years.
Don’t drink the Kool-Aid. It’s more than clear that we are not going to make our numbers this quarter. Ask anyone in finance or accounting and you see the answer in their faces. Our revolver facility may be reduced as well.
I heard someone over lunch say that people don’t get let go because they voice their opinion that may be different. I would like to point out a certain sandmine superintendent that voiced his opinion during the cultural unfreezing session. Guess who is no longer here now! Enough said!
Due to poor leadership, and the disastrous effect of high oil prices from 2011-2015, many of us upstream players are stuck in a terrible position: the ability to maintain (or grow) production, or the ability to remain cash flow positive. The market is demanding both at the moment, and many companies have turned to divesting properties in order to raise cash quickly, at the expense of their revenue stream. And now we are struggling to attract investors. Shrinking revenue + losing investors = you don't need me to spell that out for you. I'm still amazed when I meet people at work who think things are headed in a good direction.
I love my job as well. I feel blessed to have landed a job that has some these great benefits and allows me to provide a good life for my family. However the current work environment that we are all in is not healthy at all. Employees from a few departments are stressed to breaking points due to many reasons. The employees from the IT group have little to no direction and love day in day out waiting for their jobs to be contracted out. The EHS department is at their breaking point with their new VP who should have never been given that job to begin with. From someone who interacts with these two groups along with Geology, RTC, Infrastructure, and a few others the message is clear. Employees are in fear of their jobs and are having a difficult time focusing on the tasks at hand. They don’t want to pour anymore of themselves into something that may be gone next week.
Look at comparable staffing metrics companies running 15-20 drilling rigs. CHK G&A and headcount are above peers. Not to mention the continued cash flow short fall from operations. Just being real.
I love my job.
I hate the stress of guessing when the next layoff will happen. At some point, we need to say, we're right-sized and no more continuous layoffs. People keep disappearing, and the layoffs never end. Please just finish laying off and stop dragging this on forever. Can we can make it one calendar year without a layoff?
#NoLayoffsIn2020
Isn't it funny how if management were held to their own standards, they'd be fired a hundred times over? I think all CHK employees should go on strike because without you, management is less than nothing.