According to just about everyone who works at Chesapeake Energy – or knows someone who knows someone who works for the natural gas giant – a substantial round of layoffs are expected today at the company’s Oklahoma City campus. Chesapeake apparently conducts layoffs on the Tuesdays of pay weeks, and with this being one of those pay weeks, just about every frackin’ employee is holding his or her breath.
To beat the head off a dead horse and then place it in a bed of a Hollywood movie mogul, these are just rumors. We don’t know if they’re true or not, but where there’s smoke in the Ogle Mole Network, there’s usually a natural gas flare burning bright.
Instead of dealing with sad and depressing stuff like people losing their jobs and facing financial insecurity, I thought it would be more fun to focus on the lifestyles of the rich and kind of famous. Back in August, just months before he would tell employees in a letter that he “fully recognizes the difficulty and stress associated with the transformation process,” Chesapeake CEO Doug Lawler purchased a 13,000 square-foot, $3.75-million mansion in Oak Tree.