Seeing multiple leads and SMEs leave with no back fills posted. 2 Directors in IT already leaving in the next week. Nothing posted so no competitive chance for a promotion for someone in their team. Implosion
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@dq Don't volunteer for squat. Do your job but make them attempt to assign stuff to you and then document the gaps in writing. This includes Managers and Directors. You will not be rewarded for "stepping up", "filling in", "going the extra mile", or being a "team player". The ELT is still hand-picking their favorites without any attempt at fair reviews or interviews. They will NEVER do anything about the toxic leadership across the Provider landscape or the disastrous decisions on contractors. Meanwhile they continue to string along the lies of hope and opportunity. Just keep collecting your paycheck, balance your time, report your time, document everything, and keep eyes open for other jobs.
@de agree with this. Even when work was stressful I always enjoyed most of my coworkers. Since VSP, I don’t even know my current coworkers. From a work only perspective I find them either lazy, rude, ignorant or all of the above. My leadership is awful. They’re aware of all of the systemic issues and personnel issues and yet nothing has improved. Mental health needs to be prioritized for employees at this point because anyone that used to care, no longer does because I think the mutual feeling across all departments is ‘defeated’. We’ve all tried. We’ve all stuck through Covid with forced vaccinations when we never had any in person contact with colleagues and years later we are barely the same employees we once were. I used to tell people how great CareFirst was, now I warn people to stay away from employment here. Question is…what can employees do?
It has definitely been impossible to move internally as well. I have been a long time loyal CF employee, but I have lost hope. Morale is low, teams are defensive about their work, and there is no longer collaboration. There are still some of us who show up and want to do what is right, but there are only so many bandages we can put on a flawed system until we bleed out. The problem will exist as long as we put all of our efforts into looking good on paper, without providing any measurable value. Leadership needs to eat a slice of humble pie, and take ownership of the decisions that have been made, perhaps take some pay cuts themselves so we can rehire and/or compensate existing employees who just want things to work as they are intended.
Not going to stop. Place is toxic. It’s too far gone to get good new employees or retain good ones. People were tired of the PC garbage for years then pensions stopped. PTO take net. I’ve applied to 2 positions I’m well qualified for and I’ve received HR responses weeks later on both saying “there was a technical problem and the position was filled before you applied. The job posting was left up in error” meanwhile it clearly said ‘posted 2 days’. I genuinely don’t think they are responsible hiring in some areas that are struggling. I’m just trying to jump ship to a different area before I quit with the rest of us under 55 but 20 years of service.
There have also been a few critical departures of high performers in Sales and even one Sales Director. There will probably be more competent departures across the enterprise as well.
Unfortunately they've been doing it for a good year or so now. It's only going to get worse.