For the last couple of weeks there has been at least one armed security guard in the lobby in the Chicago building. He’s tall and wears regular clothes with a black jacket zipped halfway but if you pay attention you can see the outline of a we-pon on his hip. He always looks upset too which is hilarious because sir you’re the only one here packing.
The culture is in the dumps and leaders know it. But instead of listening to employees when we constantly give them the same feedback in these surveys they like to send and changing our leaders hide behind words that don’t mean anything. After the layoffs you feel like another shoe could drop whenever. People are smiling through it but you can tell they feel defeated. There’s something coming about our pto. I hear bits and pieces but something is about to happen with that.
If you work at HCSC you already know. If you don’t I won’t tell you not to take a job if you get an offer. The economy is bad and a job is a job. Just know what you’re getting yourself into by coming here. Almost none of what the recruiters say about this being a great place to work is true. I hear them every day lying to people and showing fake enthusiasm when they’re miserable themselves.
My leader is over talent and he runs talented people out of here on the regular. Recruiters have left. His admin left. The people who stay are scared to challenge him because he WILL send it up. And another leader who did challenge him got let go. Coincidence? It’s not just him though.
If anyone would listen I would tell the leaders to change the culture and stop always making these little snide comments about the office being empty. There’s a reason people don’t want to come in the office and it’s not all about money. Any mistake you make is about to be on the 10 o clock news because you’re going to get put on full blast on an email with a thousand people copied. The point isn’t to help you do your job better. They are super thirsty to make themselves look good while making you look bad.
If i really wanted to make these people look bad I could but they’d figure out who I am and I need my job. As soon as I find something better I’m out. If you all are reading this stop sending out surveys and holding town halls where you don’t say anything. Be a human being and stop treating us like we don’t matter but then always thanking us. Which is it?
And please get rid of the rent a cop. No one is trying to go to jail because of y’all.