All the real leaders are gone. The people in charge we have left only care about their own pay and bonuses. They don't give a fu-k about Anthem or its employees. I would leave but I don't want to give up on severance. Considering my pay and age, I'm certain that my name will be on the list within the next 12 months.
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When you count the number of new H1-B visa jobs for the company, make sure to aggregate all the company names because they're listed under multiple names, including Elevance Health, Anthem, Carelon, etc. in one list that ranked companies by numbers, they held the #1 and #4 spots under different company names. These are just the new applications for H1-Bs, not the total number hired or currently employed. If a candidate has H1-B status already, they would not need a new application but legal sponsorship.
@fshj+1qjsneY3. I had a similar experience of unaccountably my manager turned against me and started criticizing my every move. So stressful. After about 3 months of experiencing some truly bizarre moments of micromanagement, rudeness, and odd behavior from my manager I was RIF'd. Obviously losing a job is super difficult and I need the paycheck, but a part of me was relieved because my work life has become so miserable and I am glad to be out of a situation where everything I was doing second guessed for no obvious reason.
Agreed. Feel the same. Here's a red flag for me.... After years of working myself to death and having near-perfect peer and annual reviews, all of a sudden, my manager is being overly critical about everything I do. Wants to be CCd on every email I send. Wants me give reports about what I do. IMs me throughout the day asking me to do random things for them. Adding me to meetings to represent the team without any prep or info. They even started to "coach" me that I'm too chatty and friendly in meetings. I feel like they are pushing at me so they can say I'm a performance issue. Hoping I will make a mistake. I'm looking for another job. I just feel like I have a target. I'm older and have more experience than managers on my team. People come to me with questions. I probably make more than any contractor or college grad they could recruit. It's scary. Frustrating. They should celebrate and try to retain good, experienced people.
Being a hard working employee, never reporting off, giving 150% just doesn’t matter anymore!
Anthem has a lot of excess staff from government business hence why it does so many periodic reorgs. Anthem will implode only if operations people leave suddenly and in one massive swing. Or a competitor does serious disruption.
Wasn't that the intention the whole time? Implode the insurance industry from within and then force National Healthcare.
Some of us called it what it was a decade ago.
“ Nobody I know gives a cr-p about their jobs anymore. We are all just riding the wave until we get RIFd.”
I sadly agree but with the same sadness, cannot/will not go along.
For now, I get a paycheck and refuse to use the ‘this is above my pay grade’ line. I think culture is when you see what you value in others and those values reinforce themselves. I value work ethic, an honest day of work, and making some dent in the escalating cost and poorly coordinated care for our members. I do not fault others for reciprocating poor behaviors and I beat myself up for not being able to quite quit. Yes, we are pushing up hill against poor and inept leaders with enough back-biting to make the 9-5 a 24-7-365 su-ky place. But if no one cares, and this is a sinking ship (which I believe is more true than not), then we are all part of the problem.
Anthem's problem:
- Too many old people.
- Too many babysitter managers with no experience to offer.... very backwards
- Too much outsourcing to vendors. Nothing homebuilt. So no expertise acquired through experience
- Lousy corporate culture. Always short on details.
So how has Anthem done well enough? 1.Good and steady on non risky business.
- Bc Anthem is cheap, sometimes you can make big moves with that money
- Not enough employees have left so there are still good employees carrying company.
- Not enough attrition.
"The top 30 H-1B employers hired 34,000 new H-1B workers in 2022 and laid off at least 85,000 workers in 2022 and early 2023"
https://www.epi.org/blog/tech-and-outsourcing-companies-continue-to-exploit-the-h-1b-visa-program-at-a-time-of-mass-layoffs-the-top-30-h-1b-employers-hired-34000-new-h-1b-workers-in-2022-and-laid-off-at-least-85000-workers/
This company lost it’s soul decades ago … for those of us who were victims of previous RIF’s, we are just happily watching this company as it slowly self destruct.
https://www.myvisajobs.com/H1B-Visa/SearchLCA.aspx?ST=Certified&Y=2023&CI=1474046
659 H1B visas only in 2023
Agreed, waiting for the Feb 2024 hammer to fall as work moves offshore to Carelon, and semi-ready AI solutions for KM get turned on.
What’s left will be AI and offshore workers with minimal onshore support. Nobody I know gives a cr-p about their jobs anymore. We are all just riding the wave until we get RIFd. There is no corporate culture (I hate that term because in general it doesn’t exist ever), and there hasn’t been for a long time.
They are driving the ship into the ground.
Good luck all. Last day for me 10/30 rid.