Thread regarding Elevance Health (Anthem) layoffs

So true about off work hours and long holidays. A former company I worked for offshored all QA functions to “ease our workload”. It just made it worse as the workers were bused in everyday and had to leave to catch the bus home even if there was still work to finish. I would get sometime messages to “ kindly, do the needful”. And language barrier made my job harder not easier. Don’t care about my work life balance but treated offshore so much better than American workers. Yet Americans are the lazy ones!

I hear something in the background with offshore that sounds like goats or sheep. Or maybe it is those little monkeys that run around mimicking goat and sheep calls.

LMFAO @ honking noise. I like hearing roosters crowing on my calls with IT.

@ay your manager is probably psychotic, just ignore her/him.

The last department I worked in hired most with h1b. The director riffed all women 50 plus because our lives were too complicated and started making comments about us thinking about retirement. All because there were times we needed to take care of kids, parents or spouses who fell ill. Ironic that the director was in her late 50’s but never married or had children and rarely took vacation. All the h1b visa holders realized they were in indentured servitude. I got riffed but rehired I a new area where we aren’t treated like slaves.

Lunch break? Haven't had a lunch 'break' since starting here. Management purposely schedules meetings from noon to 1 pm ET to enforce the rule that there are no lunch breaks. You are expected to eat while continuing to work, if you can step away for 5 minutes to get food. Have worked countless days without anything to eat at all during the nine-to-ten-hour workday. Show Away on Teams and someone makes up an excuse to IM you to find out how long you have been gone and to force you back to the work laptop. Prison time looks better every day.

My manager often threatens me to find another job.

Sad commentary……..

you will do as told, or you can easily be replaced by better skilled H1b and offshore ones.

There is no more work life balance - you are constantly expected to do more with less, be thrilled you have a job and be happy to work early and late. If they really cared the simplest task would be not to schedule meetings during lunch but no - you don't need to eat.
The fact SHE makes 25 million dollars but we are always broke and cannot afford anything is outrageous. We are treated like indentured servants we should act like it.