Sarah is just a bad leader, this is a person that today talks about culture and tomorrow put a bully to lead a department and turns s blind eye on it because refuses to admit she screwed up. Get her mouth full about DEI but disappears black executives a few months into a job just created. Talks about collaboration and teamwork but seems to only listens to the gossip that comes from her " people officer" in a biased manner. Performance wise people have zero respect for what she thinks or say, mainly because her very little involvement with the operation and real problems of the organization, it is like yes, we know she is the CEO but we don't know the strategy, or what direction we are going , a lot of talking and posturing but not real work getting done,in earnings call a heavy verbose nonsensical and stupid answers about financial performance making reference to Pareto and a financial algorithms as if someone was asking questions about high frequency trading instead of healthcare. If it didn't make a lot sense she was the CEO pick, it makes less sense now she is the right one.
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The fish always rots from the head. Centene has turned into a paper tiger since Sarah is there, huge revenue, mediocre profitability, mediocre market cap
lol! I remember that scene. Something about a duck floating and wood floating so therefore the lady was a witch because she floated like wood.
Meh…grab your pitchforks! we demand a scapegoat!
Sir Bedivere: And what do you burn apart from witches?
Second Peasant: More witches!
First Peasant: Wood! Sir Bedivere: Wood!
Centene really needs a new CEO and revamping big part of the executive team, starting with the CPO who is a sack of sh-t and have been eroding culture of hard work and commitment and fostering one of fake culture, gossip and backstabbing, Centene at its core is getting rotten
Sarah is the classic imposter that says s lot of sh-t to sounds smart but says nothing, what a fraud for the health care system
Imposter leaders are weak and toxic, they need to wield power to offset for their own insecurities, it also has a ripple effect on the organizations they are part of. Sarah has turned out to be much worse than it was possibly imagined.
There was some unknown and a glimmer of hope about Sarah when she was given the CEO role, but she has been now almost two years in the Job, almost 4 in the company, is very depressing to see how bad things are starting to get almost every day, it is just not sustainable the level of instability and lack of organization and direction at all levels, and all of it starts at the top, they have got rid of great people that were working hard and running the extra miles and well connected with their employees,and sometimes you wonder if they let this person go, why even bother to work hard, it just feels very arbitrary and abusive, very hypocritical too because they keep saying we are this great employer but the reality and decision making is more like a power play and not based on what is good for the organization or what is fair. I know there always some degree of politics and conflict in any organization, but this organization feels very devious and has created a subtle but palpable regime of te---r where is not anymore about how can we work together and make the place better but more about how can I play this game better and survive but I couldn't care less about the company or anyone. Never been so disappointed about an organization like this one.
Responding to @drj+1pu3Gxcv
I don’t think it’s the “unemployed- burn the witch” mentality here.
Anyone whose worked in the company long enough, and has knowledge in the healthcare industry, regardless of level or position (bc frankly that shouldn’t matter) can clearly see that things aren’t running accordingly bc of the people in the roles that represent the company as a a whole AKA C-SUITES/ directors/managers etc.
Layoffs as unfortunate as they are, happen all the time, it is something that has unfortunately become common in this day and age. And people aren’t “attacking” Sarah London and her inner circle bc of the layoffs, if anything people are critiquing and calling out the BS due to the fact that a pattern of deception, malfunctions, malpractice, and toxicity as increased tremendously since she became CEO. For example- just in NYS alone we have lost a HUGE number of providers due to the simple fact- we do not pay. It’s always an excuse, and when payments are made it is a ridiculous and embarrassingly low amount. As a health management company, any one can see that the policies put in place are negatively affecting providers, members, and even us, the employees. We cannot accept the way things are currently functioning because if we do so, we are just conforming to more overwork, more layoffs, more lower wages, less benefits or benefits with a a twist. There are reasons why Sarah has been disliked and is just going to be getting more disliked as time goes on, and it’s not because of the layoffs. If C-Suite really wanted to make changes, if they really cared about their members, providers, employees- they would look internally- into policies, into the departments that cause most of the negative tractions to occur- which shouldn’t be so bad bc everything is traceable and find ways to reverse it. It is not hard, speaking from experience, it just takes time and sometimes $$ but if you truly cared about the success of a company you would do whatever it takes to save it.
Wondering what next week’s town hall is going to look like 🫣😞 *gets out my more bad news bingo card.
Centene is one the largest health payers
but also one of the most complex ones, they needed someone solid in the industry with an operational mindset, not a sales head talk ideator that makes no sense and that can't commit to anything. Sarah was just a really poor choice for Centene.
Oh look..it’s the “burn the witch” unemployed brigade.