Best perk at CHK. WFH. Some days, actually most days… I wake up and I leave my mouse moving and I do nothing all day. I used to work hard but I realized that not only was there no reward but actually observed and experienced first hand that it almost... — read more
Field Engagement
Hey office dwellers, keep your Friday non work ethic away from field operations, do you not understand that ya’ll are impeding production? What a joke, looked like ya’ll drove yourselves…
No trust in leadership
I am pretty sure that very few here really believe in our leadership. This is a big issue that negatively impacts work performance. What is unusual is that the leadership here does not see this as a problem that needs to be fixed, it's simply not... — read more
Question
So what trigger did you develop from working here. I will go first. I went from people pleasing to rapidly telling them to go fu-k themselves!
Cry babies
This page is a joke. If y’all hate your job so much go find another one. Does everyone really think getting on here and crying will do anything? It’s just a job and there are a lot of jobs at other companies right now. The grass may seem greener on... — read more
Words of Wisdom
I adapted to what CHK wanted me to be only to find out that I lost myself. Here’s my advice. Never and I mean never apologize for the way you talk, look, or just being yourself. CHK is as toxic as they come. If someone doesn’t like who you are. Fu-k... — read more
CFO is back to his bag of tricks
Our fearful leader who ran the finances so great that we went bankrupt, was recently telling wall street that CHK stock was undervalued. Today it is about $20 less than it was when he stated that. You can’t make this stuff up. He mismanaged the... — read more
Stealing Time
Stealing time is so easy with this company $$$$$
Here we go again
More layoffs in the works.
Target groups
Always smoke and mirrors here. Anyone to spill the beans on who were the target groups that got hit the hardest? Does anyone know how many were affected?
Promotions
Does anyone know when promotions are happening? This applies to people who work at CHK
I regret ever working here
I gained a little experience but missed out on many other things. I don't think I'm the only one? I blame myself for trusting the management. I don't want to go into details about how I was deceived here, but I advise everyone not to trust the... — read more
Corrupt leadership
I am really struggling how we had leadership that encouraged us to buy their stocks by telling us how we are doing great and it was just the analyst not understanding. Month after month they told us this knowing they were going to file bankruptcy... — read more
Financial Planning
Got something in the mail that Chesapeake is offering financial planning services for a fee of course for retirement and even showed my 401k balance. Is this a fu----g joke?? They took $2MM of my money when they filed bankruptcy and then laid me off... — read more
How many?
Any bets on how many departing as soon as bonus hit bank accounts? Which group will have largest exit?
Most Influentual?
When you fill out your own paperwork.
Houston?
So is Chesapeake moving to Houston or what? Saw a post a while back saying it was gonna happen. Haven’t heard a peep about it.
Chesapeake is 100% Liable
All oil wells are under tremendous pressure. When you drill into them or expose them to the earths surface they would erupt the oil on the ground. You stop this with mud and lots of it. The mud type and amount is determined by CHK engineers. They... — read more
At the end of the day it’s really not that funny is it?
My coworkers and I were laughing yesterday about how many of us were on anti-depressant and anxiety meds. What we realized is that we all started taking them after we started to work here. Where is the ownership on the company that created this... — read more
Many complain about the toxic atmosphere
I can only talk about my experience here so far and I really haven’t noticed that the atmosphere is anything particularly more toxic than in other companies I’ve worked for. On the other hand, it was only before I came here that I was warned that... — read more
When are bonuses being paid?
When are bonuses being paid and what's up with everyone being so tight lipped about the multiplier?
Fiery blasts in the Brazos Valley are linked to Chesapeake Energy
Published: Feb. 6, 2022 BURLESON COUNTY, Texas (KBTX) - There have been four major incidents in Burleson and Brazos Counties involving Chesapeake oil well sites since January 2020. ) A battery tank explosion Friday (Feb. 4, 2022) night shook homes... — read more
Doug is back
Continental Resources Inc on Tuesday named Doug Lawler, the former top boss of Chesapeake Energy Corp, as its chief operating officer and executive vice president from next month.
Why bother?
I always wonder about those who know what kind of company this is, where competencies and effort are not valued at all, but they still give 150% of themselves. Why all this effort if it won't be noticed and adequately rewarded? People burn... — read more
It would be hilarious if it weren’t true
Our GC manager is at it again. Screaming an yellin like he ran out of meds again. How is he stil running this place?
Drilling VP goner!
It’s. About. Time! This dude has been a cancer for a long time. Now if they continue on down the drilling chain and cut loose all the guys that he’s protected for years and years. If I were the STX OG Click, I would blow the dust off that ole resume... — read more
WFYD
What a joke that is.. let's people carry over there PTO now. Stay home check an email or 2 and call it 9 hours work. They should make people show the daily work you did from home to add up to 9 hours of work. But they only allow certain people to... — read more
Boondoggle afoot
If you want to see idiocy writ large, look at the document dump CHK did this morning on the SEC’s web page: SEC.gov | Company Search Page Josh Viets is our new COO. Another nobody from that intellectual powerhouse, the Colorado School of Mines... — read more
Is this déjà vu?
Word on the street is CHK is going to pay 2.4 billion for Chief Oil & Gas. CHK just exited bankruptcy, blaming high debt for their inability to avoid cheating their shareholders whose shares were cancelled. In less than a year, CHK has incurred a... — read more
Careful With Your Long Term Incentives
Just heard from the Powder River Basin that the employees will have to forfeit their long term incentives with the sale to Continental. 2021 LTI will not be paid out at all and will not receive any portion of the 2022 LTI. Reminds me of the South... — read more
Promotions?
Any promo deals going around in other departments?
Moving
Saw a post about company moving to Houston. Do you really think that will happen?
Running the HSE department
Please don’t tell me that the biggest joke of the them all Tim G is the head of safety. S—t good luck with that, he don’t know his a— from a ho-e in the ground. PS could have ran that department better then anyone out there. Let go Tim
Houston bound
Heard with new work structure and continued reduced staff they are looking at moving to Houston in 2nd qtr. will allow our management to find someone to buy campus and get rid of most of old staff baggage
Hey Nick, where's our Christmas bonus?
Record breaking profits since our debt was slashed. Considering how poor the raises were this year and our 401k's were slashed, it's the least you could do.
The new old CHK
Guess we are back to the old CHK of not reporting injuries and allowing small favors from contractors in the field!!