Finally, the company is moving in the right direction. You are getting close to the people behind the root cause of the majority of the company's issues, but those people have still not been dealt with. As with any disease, you can treat the symptoms and survive a little longer...but in time, the disease will destroy you. I applaud the latest moves as they are the right thing to do...it is just sad that it took this long. Will it take as long to FINALLY treat the disease and deal with the root causes ? This company's future depends on it because low oil prices and incompetence cannot exist in the same arena very long.
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My friend, you are part of the lemming crowd following the pied piper right off the cliff. If CCMP and ER had not shown up on the scene, Chaparral would have been defunct long ago.
My friend, you are part of the lemming crowd following the pied piper right off the cliff. If CCMP and ER had not come into the picture Chaparral would have already been defunct.
You guys are dumb asses. The company didn't start going down hill until CCMP and ER came on board.
Miller is incompetent and certainly not a leader in any sense of the word. He has the ability to suck the life out of Chaparral and has done so for years.
It's an insult to everyone in Operations that Miller is still there. Several laid off could do a better job.
Maybe he will clean up his house...if he is really in charge...its part of the ruse my friend.
ER has been given (or taken, choose whichever option you like) all the power, and has pushed MAF out of the way. If he wanted to get rid of Miller, he certainly could have.
If you do not know where you are going, any road will get you there...thus is the result of Chaparral's investment strategy...,i.e., no strategy, shoot from the hip,etc.
MAF hired Miller & Dahlberg...not ER. He has had to endure their incompetence. The company got it half right...now they have 1 more to eliminate.
If ER was competent, Miller and Dahlberg would have been gone a long time ago. Same for useless high flyers like RB. The only way to revive the company is to go back to the way it was built - MAF needs to retake the reins, make the decisions about operations and get rid of ER immediately!
The incompetence in all areas of management really started back in the early 2000's as they hired several VP's that were totally over their head and had no people skills what so ever but were put in that position by who they knew. It is really ashame because so many good people have been fired or quit over the last 15 years that could form a great Oil & Gas Company with these people and the talent they had. Good luck to everyone still there and hope success follows you.
I rest my case. ER is the best they have. They are out of dry powder. Turn out the lights, the parties over.
If anyone considers ER the only "competent" one at the top...that's not saying much.
ER is the only competent one left at the top... what a disaster.
So has Earl Reynolds gotten the axe yet? The engineering incompetence starts with the top engineer.
I am not sure ego has as much to do with it as the level of incompetence does. The curse of incompetence is those individuals who are incompetent rarely realize they are incompetent and therefore are powerless to do anything to improve. This is especially true when those individuals are in leadership positions. Arrogance accompanied by incompetence is a sure path to the poor house.
The engineers of this train wreck are very overpaid...Here's your sign
Do you mean enormously expensive decisions fueled more by ego than engineering expertise?
The engineers of this train wreck are very overpaid. Here's your sign...
Look no further than the engineers of this slow moving train wreck. Follow it to its logical conclusion...it is very obvious who needs to go. The question is how do they survive long enough to come up with a solution to their enormous financial problems. To start with, you stop doing the things that got you in a mess to begin with. Stop the engineers of the train wreck and it will be the beginning of a solution to these financial problems. Do not dig a deeper hole by empowering the remaining incompetent individuals who caused this mess.
So who is even left in upper management? Jim Miller apparently is, but he always seemed very overpaid.
So who are the people who should go, and how does this cure their enormous financial problems?
The real question is not if others in the corporate office are going too, but will the hard decisions be made to finally cure the disease...and that will most assuredly mean the right people in corporate SHOULD go.
Jeff Dahlberg and Dave Winchester are gone.
What is the disease you are speaking of Judge ? Is is poor judgment, incompetence, lack of leadership,etc?
Is it just those two execs or others in the corporate office going too?