Thread regarding Cigna layoffs

Moving on

This is more of a venting post, but I’m confident someone on here can relate. When I began my role less than a year ago, the job wasn’t perfect but it was tolerable. As time went on, and more specifically, once the new year began, it’s almost as if everything became 10x worse than usual. I have a sneaky suspicion that morale will only get worse and the whole “drive to 25” nonsense means that employees will suffer. I was praying I would be laid off but it doesn’t seem like they are ready free us customer-facing workers quite yet. I thought I could stick it out but every day is a reminder that this job is bad for my mental health, physical health, and general well-being.

For those of us in CS roles, it really su-ks feeling abused from both the management end AND the customer end of this job. I feel like the biggest doofus on the planet for staying for so long given the all around poor treatment and the many lies I’ve been told throughout my time here.

I can’t wait for the day I can give my equipment back and wash my hands of the terrible experience that is working at Cigna Healthcare. It’s so liberating think about it. There are so many hard working folks I know within the company and it breaks my heart knowing how much better they deserve. Here’s to finding literally anything else in this awful job market.

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The employees are suffering because the upper management lack morals and integrity.
Due to their greed “DC and his colleagues” , this company is losing clients and as a result treating employees poorly and we are suffering as a result working in a toxic environment.
Shame on you and the world is watching, Cigna has a bad reputation!

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Post ID: @2xjx+1rJJf5MF

You are not alone. Many of us within the company are applying and looking to leave. We must do what’s best for us and our mental health.

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Post ID: @1tpg+1rJJf5MF

I’m also with EBH just like the other poster and seeking positions outside of the company because I cannot take it anymore. It’s ironic how much of a detriment this job has been for my mental health. Leadership does nothing to help us. My supervisor literally doesn’t even know the basic components of what our job entails. Team leads give us inaccurate answers 50% of the time when we ask for help.

It feels like EBH sets us up for failure. Morale is awful right now and it seems like everyone is feeling it but too scared to speak up. Praying I can find a job that isn’t customer facing, dealing with the public in this role has traumatized me.

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Post ID: @1isl+1rJJf5MF

Most CS jobs su-k. The main reason I went to college was to get a job I didn't have to deal with the general public. Most people are a--holes when they think they can get away with it. You should at least be able to get a job where your company is cool with you, though. Sorry you have to deal with it. >.<

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Post ID: @1ueh+1rJJf5MF

I know someone who asked to be in the next round of layoffs. That was October. He’s still here, but has been quiet quitting ever since. I hear it will be gone in the next round. Wish I had the ba--s and the finances to do the same.

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Post ID: @1cnc+1rJJf5MF

I worked at Cigna for a long time and left recently. The culture has changed drastically for the worse, especially in the last few years. The ELT and SLT is solely focused on the next merger, or acquisition. There used to be a sense that employees were valued and respected which no longer exists. It is really a shame how the company values have disintegrated.

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@huc+1rJJf5MF
I’m with EBH and have some upcoming PTO this week to be used for a string of interviews. If all goes well (and if HR doesn’t find out who I am via this post & terminates me in advance lol, don’t really care anymore anyway), I will not be giving notice. The second I receive word that another company wants to hire me, I will quit that day. This has been the worst 3 years of my life. I’m looking forward to the ability to sleep through the night again and finish the workday without a stress headache. BYE CIGNA!!!!! I will not miss you!

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Post ID: @lym+1rJJf5MF

I empathize with your situation. I’m not customer facing, but I’ve been in a similar role in the past and it could be brutal. I can’t imagine how much worse it would have been with toxic leadership.

That said, I started at Cigna around 6?years ago. The organization I was in wasn’t great but the pay was at the time. A few years later the toxic director and insane project I was on led me to move elsewhere in Cigna (the director got fired and almost everyone from that 60ish person org have left the company). I got very lucky to move into a role with a great leader and good director. If it wasn’t for them I would have left long ago.

Even then, I know it’s only a matter of time before something changes. The overall culture has gotten so gross. Cigna worked to have a reputation for being employee-centric, and seemed like ELT and SLT understood that your company is as only as strong as your employees. In the end they are only showing that the only people who matter to them are shareholders and the only thing that matters is squeezing every last penny of profits out of everything. We are in late stage capitalism and it is not sustainable.

Hang on and do what is right for you.

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Post ID: @qrp+1rJJf5MF

I’m growing increasingly disgruntled and frustrated too. I want to quit so bad and this may be the first time I don’t give two weeks notice in 20+ years of working. I know I’m easily replaceable (matter of fact, looks like all of us are) so it won’t make much impact, but it may be the only way to truly convey how much I hate the company besides telling my directly telling my supervisor to kick rocks. For those who left voluntarily or are planning to leave, are you planning on giving notice?

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Post ID: @huc+1rJJf5MF

I’m not customer facing but I relate to how you’re feeling. I have a few interviews lined up. Beyond ready to leave and never look back! Good luck on your job search.

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