Thread regarding Cigna layoffs

@tb, if that's true they were really breaking some protocols there and I wonder how HR would have reacted to knowing that. I was sent an email that one or more unnamed people on my team would be receiving it and instructed that I was not permitted to ask anything about it during the decision period. If the employee(s) chose to come to me to discuss it, then it was OK to discuss with them. If anyone on my team had taken it, I would have received notification of who did after the decision period ended. Instead, I just got an email that said no one did, but it did not name names of who was offered.

That's seriously messed up what they did, I can only hope someone reported that violation to HR.

@h9 Interesting that Cigna/HR said you don't have to tell your manager if you accept VRP. There's at least one internal department where everyone was told that even if they receive the email offering VRP, they're not allowed to accept and they need to notify their manager asap. Seemed fishy and unfair.

@gz The talking out of it part is interesting to me. When I took the VRP last year I was told we don’t have to tell our managers. Supposedly that was so they wouldn’t try to talk us out of it. But, when you apply for another position internally you’re expected to inform your manager. I know that’s so they don’t get blindsided if the hiring manager reaches out to them but it still didn’t make much sense.

Leave! Get out! Don't look back!

Took VRP. They tried to talk me out of it. I don’t regret my decision one bit. The company is toxic. Everyone is out to save themselves. I don’t want or need to be a part of this. Good luck to you. You’ll find you made the best decision ever.

Take it and RUN for the exit - this company doesn’t care about you it’s all about the $$$

I would not look back just RUN

I did the same as you. I don’t regret leaving.