Contractor (Former Employee), Oklahoma City – May 20, 2012
Chesapeake treats it's contractors like dirt.
Chesapeake make all sorts of lists about being a great place to work because they treat their full-time people well, but contractors are tissue paper to them. They blow their nose on you and throw you out when it's convenient.
As a contractor, you won't get an office, you won't get invited to the company – more... parties, you won't get a company calendar, you won't get access to the gym, you won't get any of the perks you see your colleagues getting.
More importantly, you'll be doing the full-time people's work. Everyone knows that the full-time people do nothing, and the contractors pick up the slack. Then, when times are bad, no contracts are renewed and you're out the door, while your full-time employee boss spends his time at the company gym, knowing his job is protected forever.
This is a company that is slowly destroying itself by abusing a category of the workforce that then goes full-time at their competitors. It's becoming axiomatic that no truly qualified person will go to Chesapeake who has spent time there as a contractor. Eventually, Chesapeake will run out of people to abuse.
Life is tough at Chesapeake as a contractor. Don't believe the hype about how great a place it is to work. Not for you. As a contractor, it's one of the worst places I've ever worked. – less
