It’s terrible to have to go to work every single week and feel a nervous pit in the bottom of your stomach. When you work so hard and get to a point in your career, you should feel safe and valued!
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OG=Optum Global. Your average US citizen doesn’t realize that their PHI is accessible all over the globe.
Has anyone heard about the on-site this week- I heard this was to prepare people managers how their teams will be shifted and restructured- have others heard?
What are OG nurses?
Registered nurses have been laid off and replaced by OG nurses
Where do we go? With offshoring, H1-B visa workers, there is little available left for the U.S. workforce.
If we have to change our field, our chance will be even worse. Because they can hire younger and cheaper with H1-B visa. Most of them have graduate degrees with no student loans.
I originally thought if I worked hard, contributed measurable and recognized value, was proactive for the needs of my colleagues, than more likely than not I could build a career at UHG. It appears that was an overly optimistic assessment. Recently, I've seen others (whom I respect) doing exactly those things as consistently high performing contributors unilaterally lose their job in the most recent wave.
If I'm not going to be able to reasonably earn and keep my place based on performance, then I need to proactively move on before my time is up and I'm forced out on their terms. Trust has been seriously harmed and I'm not going to allow them to control my financial health and overall state of security and peace of mind. Maslow's hierarchy has been destabilized and they've essentially invited me to leave. I'm going to create new options for myself before I become another likely layoff statistic and perhaps my exit can serve as a backfill elimination helping someone else keep their job.
I think there are a lot that take advantage of having a remote job and some truly do deserve to be rif’d! I hope they consider those resources the first on the list to go because it is exhausting working alongside that type!
Voicing my opinion. I have been with Optum for more than 15 years. The company has had its ups and downs. We are used to the ebbs and flows of working in corporate america. In the past 3 years, things have gone steadily down hill culturally. The only two departments in this company are accounting/finance and security/compliance, and we all work for both. cut costs and toe the line. There is no other purpose for anyone in this company to do or be anything else. Advice to newcomers, get all you can when you sign on. Every seat in this company leads to a dead end.
They can offshore any job. Even the one that require a human be present in a facility except where a license cannot be granted to perform the work or a contracr stipulates access restrictions. They just have the staff come on a temporary visa and rotate them through.
Hard work doesn’t matter. It’s who you know and whether you are in the inner circle or not.
What type of jobs can they send overseas?
That genius thought while you’re buying Advil from Optum Store will eventually land up in knee surgery. Nobel prize for Sire…
Healthcare 'used' to be one of the last safe bastions for corporate work but no more. The royal knight at the top himself is in cahoots with the WHO and the rest of the global cabal. Read the writing on the wall folks. His year-long hiatus to work on an inoculation that was not an actual vaccine, the shift to eliminate the U.S. workforce, allowing the constant kowtowing to the alphabet crowd and in fact encouraging it, abject and open reverse discrimination by hiring based on skin tone and not by talent and ability are all by design and intent. If you're still stuck in a pity party, wake up and get out. It's not going to get better.