They don’t care if your productive, what I heard today was executive leadership just looked at a persons length of time with the company and how much they made and based their cuts off that information. If you been here the longest and make decent money you were cut. Direct managers had no input as to who they would like to keep, to help maintain a department. UHC and Optum don’t give a damn about the employees or departments it’s all about the dollar.
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How about not giving million dollar bonuses to C level peeps. "We only had to let go of 250 people to cover your bonus and still make the stock owners happy"
Hey food for thought you are next!
Interesting that you would use that term, food for thought. As if, the only thing that should be carefully considered is that it might be harmful for people to share their common thoughts about a corporation. What you are seeing play out is trauma bonding.
I will give you something to actually consider, how about the things people are feeling, thinking, the anger, fear, anguish. This is real life and not everyone has extra to ride out a layoff. Extra mental health, extra financial, extra support, extra hustle. This pattern of creating instability, which has become the norm here, that is a sign of mismanagement and calling it what it truly is, that is the only thing that is happening here.
There is really only one constant at this place, it is your value. It does not decrease based on someone's inability to see your worth.
I love my job and Optum. This website is 100x more toxic than the company. Sometimes I think it's those who come here that are the toxicity they complain about. Food for thought.
😂😂😂😂. To the poster who said they treat us like we are cattle being chosen for the sla-ghter… hahaha. I just can’t!!! Really funny comment and sadly I agree. 🥸
We need media that will cover this layoff and shine light, seems there is no coverage of this big layoff. Not a single comment from the company and no accountability. Anyone has media connection?
Based on the people I know who was laid off, I disagree
It's a shame that they always pick the tenured employees to let go. We seem to have this constant problem of knowledge gap because there's just so much you learn here that you can only learn here. When a tenured employee leaves and they're replaced with a new employee, its turmoil for everyone they work with for a LONG time because it leaves people scrambling to pick up pieces. I don't mean this in a bad way at all. It's just the reality of our business. We should instead be investing in finding ways to keep tenured employees to keep that experience in the company. Why we just let people like that walk out the door when we have thousands of open REQs is mind blowing.
I'm a long tenured employee. My raises have mostly been pathetic. The company would do better laying off employees that make more money than me, which is probably people hired in the past few years.
That makes perfect sense. Take the person with the most experience off the team, who likely has the most knowledge to support whatever new scheme the C suite comes up with. Leave likely middle schoolers and toddlers to survive in the wild. That makes perfect sense. What they should be doing is investing in their employees not eliminating them. So much talent exists in this organization, just not being challenged and utilized. How sad that leadership is not able to step down from the ivory tower they live in to see that. It makes my heart hurt to think how many families are impacted every layoff.
The OP is wrong. RIF need to be balanced. If I take a highly compensated 50+ year old I need to balance that with low paid working in 20's. They are chosen at the executive/HR level. The managers are only notified hours before the employee. Like choosing cattle for sla-ghter. You get some sirloin and veal this way. Have an Optum day.
Optum offers low annual raises. The tenured employees are often the most underpaid.
Whatever helps you sleep at night. Tenure does not coincide with pay.
Based off who I know that was laid off…. I agree