I'm struggling here. Every week there's a new rumor about cuts, and just when I think I've got my role figured out, my manager changes what I'm supposed to be doing. I can't plan, I can't relax, and I can't tell if I'm doing well or about to get cut. How are the rest of you surviving this?
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Leave while it’s still your choice. No direction or guidance is an easy excuse for a manager to let you go for not being a self starter or whatever bs excuse they need to make up to meet the quota.
Saved and invested well. Im now deciding whether to keep working or just keep going till a layoff. Either way I am good but do think about it much more now because United just keeps getting worse.
I’m paying off debts, trying to save money and not financing anything and using my pto and do doctors appointments. The rest you can’t control all you can control is bracing yourself for potential loss of income and benefits.
logging in every thursday hoping i get a RIF meeting.
I think the big thing I've learned over the past year is radical acceptance. Here's what I've accepted:
SD is a dipsh-t. He's hired fellow dipsh-ts. And then, those dipsh-ts have hired even more dipsh-ts.
All those dipsh-ts ki-led Optum. There is nothing we at our level can do to help it. It's over.
But the good news is that the AI bubble will eventually burst. And when it does, all companies, including Optum, will hemorrhage jobs. I'm a fifteen-year veteran, so I'll have a nice severance when the time comes. And, by the time that severance runs out, hopefully, Corporate America will be in reconstruction mode. People who are skilled and knowledgeable will be valuable again, and some new company will pick me up to help rebuild it and I ride that out until retirement.
What does it mean for you? Don't dance when some dipsh-t shoots at your feet. Put in your 9-to-5, try to help them with their dipsh-ttery, but you're not a miracle worker.
Don't think about this place when you're not at your keyboard. Chill. Take walks. Remember that life is short and that you should have fun. The dipsh-ts are burning this joint down whether you stress about it or not.
Doing well thanks for asking
Im applying internally to a different role. The expectations and changes are not adding up for my pay grade. I am applying to go down or lateral with a job that is more clear with defined measures.