Thread regarding Optum layoffs

Stop the layoff's Optum.

While I can dream that someone in Optum Leadership will read this, I can still dream, right?

Two of the five Cultural Values are Compassion and Integrity. When you lay off people in wave after wave after wave, you show zero compassion and your integrity is weak at best.

People are scared. People are afraid. People are anxious. And, in a pandemic, they have no idea how to feel anymore, as there is no stability.

I have been at Optum for many years. It used to be a well run organization. The place is in shambles and our most Senior Leaders fail to see it. It is in shambles as a result of the layoffs, letting the wrong people go and keeping the inept ones. I once was proud to work here, no more. It is no longer a matter of if any one of us gets laid off, its a matter of when.

Corporate and shareholder greed at the expense of the employee. So sad.

by StopTheLayoffs
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Comment! It's anonymous!

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Nothing will stop that profit train. Greed, hustling, and huckstering. Had 17 years there, don't believe anything they say. It's all BS, manipulation for profit.

by Anonymous
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Post ID: @omoo+17bcrPld

Once it was said that 20% of members result in 80% of medical costs for an insurer...the money is being made off the healthier members who can pay, not from the sick and infirm as a prior post mentioned. All health insurance companies follow this model or they wouldn't be viable. With a universal healthcare plan, less employees would be needed to manage a centralized system where most operations will be standardized and streamlined. Private insurers created a bunch of decent paying jobs in the past, but no longer. Globalization, automation and gig work have been taking over, and there is no stopping that train.

by Anonymous
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Post ID: @enln+17bcrPld

I don't make friends at work, I'm there to work not make friends. All I care about is doing the minimal necessary job and that I can keep paying my bills and have extra money at the end of the month. Your coworkers, boss, superviser, manager, owner– are not your friends.

by Anonymous
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Post ID: @8qrm+17bcrPld

psych ops/distractions. very common in the corporate enterprise

by Anonymous
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Post ID: @3chk+17bcrPld

There were many buy outs, "mergers" etc... It appears unstable and anything could happen in the name of for profits. Keep that resume updated and contacts close and prepare. be prepared esp on this sinking ship

by Anonymous
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Post ID: @2adw+17bcrPld

Was forced over to OPTUM beginning of 2020 and I agree, compassion and integrity are sorely lacking. In all the years with UHC and now OPTUM, this has been tops in lies and duplicity.

by TiredOfTheLies
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Post ID: @1uoe+17bcrPld

Say No to nepotism.
Bring back lead by example culture top down at all levels. Demonstrate +ve leadership by actions and deeds.
Hire for 'raise the bar' not age!

by Anonymous
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Post ID: @1vnj+17bcrPld

This is an excellent letter and I do hope leadership reads it. Yes some of the very best talent was forced out the door - at an absolutely terrible time to be out in a very bad job market and for no real reason. Well except greed

by Anonymous
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Post ID: @rtd+17bcrPld

the "DNA" of the US empire was getting money, and getting more money. Shareholders and Wall Street own the corporations and they in their US-ian hyper capitalistic creed, put profits over people. Think abt it: this corporation makes money off of the sick and the infirm. Think about that. They profit over people's illnesses. Disgusting.

by Anonymous
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