Thread regarding Weatherford International Ltd. layoffs

Main points of the 8K Form submitted today

page 44 onward (Read carefully E) if you are an employee)

A) As of the Effective Date, the board of directors of the Reorganized Company (the “New Board”) will be composed of seven (7) directors, one of whom shall be Mark A. McCollum, the chief executive officer of the Company (the “CEO”), and six (6) of whom shall be designated by the Noteholder Committee, in consultation with the CEO. The Noteholder Committee shall agree to meet and interview upon reasonable notice any existing members of the Board of Directors who express interest in serving on the Board of Directors of the Reorganized Company

B) As soon as reasonably practicable after the Effective Date, the Reorganized Company will adopt a

management incentive plan, which management incentive plan shall reserve up to 5.0% of the New

Common Stock in the Reorganized Company on a fully diluted basis, and which shall be on the terms and conditions (including any and all awards granted thereunder) to be determined at the discretion of the New Board (including, without limitation, with respect to the participants, allocation, timing, and the form and structure of the options, warrants, and/or equity compensation

C) The Reorganized Company shall continue as a public reporting company under applicable U.S.

securities laws. The Reorganized Company shall continue to file annual, quarterly and current reports in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

D) All officers and other employees of the Company and its subsidiaries immediately prior to the Effective Date shall be retained in their existing positions following the Effective Date

E) The employment agreements and severance policies, and all employment and service provider,

compensation, bonus, retention, equity, benefit, pension and/or welfare plans and similar plans,

policies, programs, agreements and arrangements of the Company and its direct and indirect

subsidiaries and its affiliates applicable to the Company’s, any of its direct or indirect subsidiaries’, or its affiliates’ current or former officers, directors, members, partners, employees, service providers, or retirees (collectively, the “Employment Plans”), shall be maintained, continued in full force and effect and assumed by the Company (and assigned to the Reorganized Company, if necessary) and/or its direct or indirect subsidiaries and/or its affiliates pursuant to section 365(a) of the Bankruptcy Code, either by a separate motion filed with the Bankruptcy Court or pursuant to the terms of the Chapter 11 Plan. All claims arising from the Employment Plans shall be unimpaired. For the avoidance of doubt, the Consenting Noteholders are conducting diligence on, among other things, all arrangements providing for potential material payments (whether incentive, severance, change in control or other similar payments) to members of senior management (the “Executive Arrangements”) and the parties agree to work in good faith to address any amendments or other changes with respect thereto requested by the Consenting Noteholders. The parties further agree that the execution of the RSA does not constitute a change of control under any Executive Arrangement.

F) The Weatherford Entities shall maintain and continue in full force and effect all insurance policies

(and purchase any related tail policies providing for coverage for at least a six-year period after the

Effective Date) for directors’, managers’, and officers’ liability

G) The Chapter 11 Plan shall include customary releases (including third party releases) and exculpation

provisions, in each case, to the fullest extent permitted by law, for the benefit of the Weatherford

Entities, the Agents, the Indenture Trustee, the Noteholder Committee, the Consenting Noteholders,

the DIP Lenders, the Exit Lenders and the Weatherford Entities’ current and former officers and

directors and each of such preceding entities’ directors, officers, current and former shareholders

(regardless of whether such interests are held directly or indirectly), partners, managers, officers,

principals, members, employees, agents, affiliates, advisory board members, parents, subsidiaries,

predecessors, successors, heirs, executors and assignees, attorneys, financial advisors, investment

bankers, accountants, consultants, and other professionals or representatives, each solely in their

capacities as such, subject to a carveout for any act or omission that constitutes actual fraud, gross

negligence, or willful misconduct as determined by final order of a court of competent jurisdiction

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Post ID: @OP+Z28UgZ2

7 replies (most recent on top)

point G is equally perverted ... seeking release of responsiblities ...

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Post ID: @1grd+Z28UgZ2

It is the Weatherford way. Always reward incompetence.

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Post ID: @1tjf+Z28UgZ2

Did i read it right, the noteholder committee will be part of deciding who is on the board. Maybe the Durocs crew will be gone and we can try to build this thing better. #Make Wft Great Again!!!

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Post ID: @aus+Z28UgZ2

Oink, oink, squeal. Move along the trough please. As George Orwell wrote in Animal Farm. ..... “All animals are equal but some are more equal than others”.

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Post ID: @oig+Z28UgZ2

You gotta just LOVE Part B of the Plan. They are GOING to make SURE TOP MANAGEMENT gets THEIR 5% of the new stock thru a NEW Management Incentive Plan in the reorganized company. This is Beyond perverted. The same top management team that took them to Chapter 11. Again , it is The Second Thing they address in their communication letter.

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Post ID: @hea+Z28UgZ2

Come now, you didn’t expect the company to be bailed out by the lenders in cahoots with executives and for them all not to have their snouts in the trough?

In capitalism poorly run companies fail and make way for well run companies to take the good assets and liquidate the bad ones. This is corporatism of the first degree, where a poorly run company should have died years ago but was allowed to struggle on due to low interest rates and accompanying debt service payments.

Who was enriched by this? The execs at the top and the lenders creaming the interest payments. Who is being enriched in the new entity? The execs at the top and the lenders! Do you see how this works yet?

It’s an elite club at the top of the company and society and guess what - we’re not in it!

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Post ID: @amq+Z28UgZ2

How much more lipstick can they put on this pig? If you don't pay your mortgage you lose your house. If you do a do poorly at work you lose your job. If you lie, cheat & steal you'll go to jail. Do all of the above (sometimes more than once) and happen to have a teflon suit, the C suite at Weatherford can rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic, pay themselves the exec bonus' and collect the next paycheck with immunity. Just my two cents................

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