Thread regarding Chesapeake Energy Corp. layoffs

In 2013, the email came at exactly 10am but the conference rooms were all booked from 9 am to 12pm that day. It will take them a while to set everything up so they probably won't send the email out at 8am if they are booked from 8 to 11. Also, with flex time by 9 am, everyone should be to work. Once you get the email and "read" it, you were locked out of your computer. In our building in 2013, they brought you into the conference room, gave you the axe and told you the severance terms as a group and what to expect with the severance . . . such as you have 3 days to review it and return it signed, how the amounts are given as far as any cobra, info regarding stock grants/vesting, etc. Then, they told you to go back to your office (where you were locked out of your computer system) and gather up all the CHK items such as phone, laptop, etc. along with your personal items (purse, phone, etc.) and come back to a different conference room in the building. You had 5 minutes to do this . . . . When you came back to the new conference room, you had to stand in a very long line waiting your turn. I waited at least one hour. They were taking the people in the conference room a couple at a time to check in their items and provide them with their "personalized" severance packet and explanation. At this point for the two or three at a time that they brought into the conference room, it was one HR Rep per employee (or should I say ex-employee). Standing in the line waiting . . . was not the greatest. Although we knew it was coming, everyone was in a state of shock and felt like just one in a worthless herd of cattle lined up for the final slaughter. It was not a good time. You can laugh and joke all you want and think that it is stressful and emotional now, but it gets a little worse and humiliating before it gets any better. Back in 2013, other companies were hiring. Today, that is not so much the case. It is going to be tough out there and many thoughts and prayers are circling. For those "left behind", it is not the greatest either for quite a while, if ever. For those "left behind", you are in a state of shock and limbo too for a period and wondering when your time will come. At least the ones going now have had plenty of notice and time to get ready for it !!!