Thread regarding Optum layoffs

Can anyone share what the severance policy covers?

Hey @kn, F3 here, looks like many more people agree with my view while only a couple agree with you. You need to understand two things, first of all your IT requests are taking a long time to deliver because the majority of them now go offshore to workers in a timezone on the other side of the world. My actions delivered the product within department guidelines simply matching what offshore delivery gives you. Second of all the application teams were staffed with incompetent project managers and architects that couldn’t or wouldn’t correctly define what was needed and took more than their allocated time on the project plan. They seemed to me to work shortened days and along with their inexperience estimating and planning projects probably impact you as much as offshoring! If you think laziness isn’t an issue throughout the organization then you are blind or an id--t OR you are one of the incompetent slackers I mentioned in my original post. So, if you don’t like your job anymore leave, worked for me!

@f3 Yao you’re exactly the example of the problem at this company for those of us attempting to get things done, but waiting on IT tickets for days on end while providers call and scream at us that things aren’t working. Cool, good for you for being a d*ickhhead and sc--wing us all over.

This is one of my all time fav OPs here, for this year. 😎

This is true. My last boss was horrendous. She shoveled way too much work.on us and eventually we just had to say no. But now, I'm getting promoted to take her place. I can promise you this, while I will delegate work I will absolutely work alongside my team. We need to go back to working managers.

Great post, so true! It worked for me, after so many years of being bypassed for promotion because I was an outsider, out of state FTT, and getting only 1% raises I took matters into my own hands. I was in IT so I took as long as possible to do any task and that resulted in 25-30hr work weeks effectively. I didn’t have any regrets as I watched less experienced a--kissers get promoted. Then I started saying no to weekend work or last minute urgent tasks because the internal client was a bunch of incompetent slackers who constantly dumped on my group. It wasn’t long before my laptop was bogged down by all the keylogger and monitoring sh-t they installed, so they were getting unhappy with me. I continued to quiet quit, took my laptop with me in the backyard or whatever and mindlessly read an email or hit a key to simulate activity while doing my own thing. In the end I felt the 30% reduction in hours spent working compensated me but didn’t make me love my job. The best solution is to leave and work for an employer who cares about people and develops their careers. Believe me, this Indian company is not the norm and outside of MN they are just a large corporation with a bad reputation for churn! So fu-k them, get even then leave, you’ll be so happy!!

This appears to be very true. If you report to a middle manager, his very job is dependent on having people below him. I'm irreplaceable to him simply because he will not be allowed to.

You always have Such positive, constructive and uplifting posts. A beam of sunshine

The boss and the minion are on my last nerve, they are paid to delegate and act busy. God forbid you make a mistake they will rip you apart but don’t remember the 200 good things that week that you have done - planning my exit soon and I will get the last laugh because they will have no one to order around at their disposal.

I love this lol