Hi,
If I file for it and it is not successful, would they terminate me right away? Would it sour the relationship? How does that work?
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I reported poor practices to ethics committee; spoke openly about concerns regarding profound lack of fundamental system maintenance impacting client security. This fell through the cracks in lieu of “high dollar” projects that repeatedly failed, including claims impactful programs. What is happening at this company is astonishingly bad. No one in my department was even pulling logs from the source system; meanwhile, a new set of metrics rolled out that objectively overrides actual source system data. In other words, it deliberately conceals it. Metrics reported to shareholders etc are incorrect and I have 18 months of data to prove it. Nothing was done; zilch, none. Leadership are liars, the whole lot. If you work here still you are being exploited; I was for years on salaries pay fixing problems way above my pay grade, training folks with senior level titles and above who earned double what I did on processes I designed. The place is a house of cards.
With DOGE now making grabs at the whole shebang, what I suspected for a long time seems even more plausible: the massive breach that occurred, which left thousands of providers without a payments due for months (some still unpaid!) and compromised the personal information of everyone the insidious hands of UHG has touched (this is a GROSS HIPPAA violation btw, arguably the biggest but an every day occurrence - check into the portals you use and who manages your paperwork; their contracts don’t cover remote work situations AT ALL or untrained IT personnel who consistently must intervene to resolve recurrent system issues due to previously mentioned widespread gross negligence that is occurring in mg department and beyond) was not an accident. Spurious that? Yes. Below this company? Absolutely not.
My own experience tells me that if you speak to leadership about their unethical practices you’re about to be in a world of pain. Mentioning HIPAA or CAA or other violations that take place literally daily in this sh-t shack will land you with thinly guised threats and harassment quick. I was pulled off projects under the pretense that “I was overstressed” and it was “leaderships responsibility to ensure that I was in good psychological health.”
The never sang that tune when I was cleaning up their mess at 3 in the morning when system traffic was low enough to do it. When those orders came into direct conflict with the new metric madness, well, sh-t got real.
Look around: things are about to get a he-l of a lot worse. Anybody who has stake at the table is scared shitless shoring up their “assets.” Ask yourself what those are when the numbers are straight up confabulated.
I’m no authoritarian in principle, but even if I were, things are looking pretty grim now with the new Administration in ye old Oval Office now aren’t they?
Take my advice and pull out now. Your health may in fact require it.
Filing an IDR is like telling Uncle Sam "I dont have to pay taxes". You are going to lose. Badly. I have seen it twice in 10 years.
Disputing my evaluation from 2023 led to my change to a new department, 5 manager changes and eventually the elimination of my position. They will tell you no retaliation, but my experience has been different.
As a directxr, I filed a written complaint with our hr representative about harrassment I received by the vp in my area. It led to my RIF, no doubt. If you file a complaint against your manager, no matter what level - you might as well be looking for a new job.
Who actually completes Internal Dispute Review??? What if the direct manager files one against a higher/senior manager? Direct manger DID NOT agree on senior manager’s push to change rating from 3 to 2.