Thread regarding UnitedHealth Group Inc. layoffs

How about corporate takes a pay cut instead? God forgive them taking a lower, tho disproportionate salary and some perks. Its always the worker bees that get squashed.
United's reputation is prety bad now. What they are doing is making it worse.

Post ID: @jq+1jmgs93nh Exactly. I know of a few managers that are in their 70s. It’s time to retire. The only bad part is training is not like it was 20+ years ago. If this company could just go back in time and slow down, reexamine things, and make some necessary changes. Everything is a rush. The days of starting at the bottom and working your way up were the good days. In the last 5 years I see people getting hired who have no claim experience, don’t understand adjustments. It starts from the bottom. And to top it off, I see people grades higher than me, with less time in the company, less knowledge, coming in and being hired at a higher grade level than me. That TRULY needs to be reexamined. I am not against DEI but I know that played a big part in roles I applied for and didn’t get the job.

I think the issue I see is, especially in the claims department, lots of people sit around in the same job for years. They don’t want to move up and make room for new hires, they’re at retirement age but don’t want to retire. They don’t want ANY change. Just sitting around taking up space for someone who could use it. If you’ve been at the company for 20+ years and are at retirement age, respectfully TAKE THE 6 months of severance and live your best life.

This does NOT cost them more money for most of the buy out! Ya think 7 weeks pay out is more than being stuck with 6 months unemployment? Think again

Reposting from another chat. … Based on the latest volunteer severance payout offer, you only get 1 month longer than internally published involun-told severance. If you are in the red states with low state’s weekly unemployment pay, you’re better off taking retirement severance. However if you are in higher benefit states like MN, CO, MA, IL ; you will lose money since 1 month of pay is far less than the 6 months of state unemployment benefits. For those in Minnesota don’t take the latest offer. Do the math, latest offer from UHG is designed so you lose out. Company not explaining this is how you’ll get one in the a-s on your way out of the revolving door. Good luck in your decision.

I agree. What irks me is the delivery of the whole thing, the cold attitude and being tight lipped about what follows.
I would much rather ha e them do this offer and let people leave willingly than be laid off and see them hiring a month later.
The more transparent and honest they are up front, showing us the dollar amount or headcount or percentage they need to reach, offering reassurance instead of giving us the gut feeling there's more.
And my word, leaving us to find everything out here or through the media is disgusting.
It personally makes me want to jump ship, due to the uncertainty amd the lack of INTEGRITY this place has shown over the past few months.

Me and multiple peers laid off by Optum last year and continuing into this year. Having this as an option is so much better than that. The chance for a buyout and more than the standard 2 weeks to land a new role.

I was laid off by Optum back in May. Would have loved the opportunity to have an option for people to have this choice becuase after the layoff several people retired/left the company to pursue other jobs, etc and it could all been avoided.

It’s water under the bridge now, but, if you’re going to do layoffs… I believe that giving people advance notice IS the right thing to do vs the secrecy they’ve historically done and just set up the 15 minute meeting day of and just give you the bad news. Sure, if not enough people take the offer it may still happen, but at this point at least people know it’s a possibility and can start making some preparations. Where many of us in the past had zero warning and were hit blindly and that’s really just awful.
Both equally awful. But, at least it’s slightly better.

Or…how about this tens of billions of dollars in profit for quarter…neither buy me out nor lay me off? Get out of my face and let me live my life and do my little job and feed my kids and keep a roof over my head?

But I understand what you mean, it is better to be given warning of your impending doom.

Just seriously bro, one of those tens of billions would provide each and every employee $2,272. Why am I expected to be happy about being warned before I’m shot. WHERE ARE ALL THESE PROFITS GOING

I agree. People might be upset about the anxiety, but they're feeling it now with some ways to plan..instead of being completely blind sided months from now when they would have to make the cuts with no warning. Theres no way around the shock and fear of looming cuts. You would be feeling it either way. and this way is much better.

also unpopular but it's true. it costs them more money to offer this instead of to just lay people off. I don't like the situation but I appreciate what they are doing.

Buyouts are a good thing when you are used to being downtrodden

I agree. I was laid off by Optum a few years ago and there was nothing like this offered. It was a call that said thanks for your service and good luck. It would have been nice to have a heads up what was coming and given an option. It worked out for me, I think I got lucky.