Has anyone considered going to the news medias, to blow the whistle on this company?
Or to inform board of nursing?
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Such a pleasure and great experience working with the Nurses at Cigna.
Though, when it's me and bunch of them in a meeting it's like they're speaking their own language. :)
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I want to say thank you and I support you and all the nurses. I am not a nurse, but I work closely with many of them here at Cigna. What Cigna is doing is disgusting. I too used to be proud to say who I work for, now I don't mention it. I continue to look for employment elsewhere, but no one is hiring remote and most require hybrid in office. As a parent of small children, being remote is the one and only thing keeping me here... but FOW has threaten that and eventually my name will be called to go into the office as I am still interim WFH.
I’m beginning to feel like the “drive to 25” is meant to be over the edge for a lot of us. There are so many changes happening that don’t seem to make a lot of sense. Maybe I’m just not seeing the bigger picture or rather the bigger dollar signs the company is gaining while negatively impacting so many roles across the org.
I agree with all of this. I am a nurse who has been with this company a very long time. I used to boast to my friends and colleagues of how proud I was to work for Cigna early in my career. I felt like this company really did the right thing for their employees and their customers (aka patients). Now that couldn’t be farther from the truth. It is a toxic work environment, and those at the top are benefiting wildly from sc--wing over the average employee that worked hard to make Cigna what it is today. 1 billion in profit and the lay off’s continue. Nurses being laid off and/or mistreated, overworked and micromanaged to the point of exhaustion. Most nurses that I know took a work at home position for the flexibility of being available for their families. Now we have been reduced from long time salary employees to hourly. Told that even though we have used our 1 hour lunch break (combined 30 minute lunch and two 15 minutes breaks) for the past 15+ years to pick out children up from school/ go to doctor’s appointments, that will no longer be allowed. We must use our 15 minute breaks and 30 minute lunch at the time they prescribe, even though the the way we receive work doesn’t change (ie: we don’t need to be here at certain times, the work is the same no matter what). It feels like they are most likely trying to force us out to avoid having to lay us off and/or preparing us to be managed by AI. Nurses need to stick together right now, and I wish I knew how to make that happen. They very tactfully and very purposefully keep us from being able to do this. They monitor all peer communications, all emails. You cannot say anything against the company or risk having a target on your back. It’s not right, any of this. The changes they are making are hurting the patients, and hurting the US economy. They send as many jobs as they can to India. I hope that patients/customers who are wondering about their subpar insurance and outrageous denials know that Cigna stabbed them in the back to allow a nurse from India who doesn’t speak English well, let alone speak it as a first language to make decisions about their healthcare and treatments. I hope that the general public knows that the huge tax break Cigna got in 2017 that reduced their tax rate to 21%, has indeed been something that they have not passed along to their US workers. They have thanked the United States by firing their nurses here, and hiring them from India. When our entire economy collapses and caves in on itself, let us all remember that it is because of companies like Cigna and situations like these. Cigna isn’t the only offender. Browse around at other health insurance companies on this site and see what they are up to. You will find similar posts to these.
Nurse managers are some of the pushiest, nastiest, and most ignorant internal interactions I've experienced to date. I sympathize with all the nurses have to deal with these days!
The case managers are treated with no respect, case managers have no voice.
I couldn’t agree more. SEVERAL nurses are looking to leave and applying elsewhere. There is no benefit to WAH when you’re glued to a computer and your mouse clicks are being calculated and watched. We have to use PTO to the very minute now for all appointments and time away. No thank you. With all the monitoring capabilities they have, they know who works and who doesn't. Don’t penalize all of us as a result of a select few. We have no say in any of this. We are told here’s the shifts, no other option. Several nurses use their lunch breaks/15min breaks to go get their children or drop them off to school. Now that’s not going to be possible for some and there is no budging. We can’t sign on early or stay over later. What happens when we are wrapped up in a big case and quitting time is 5:00 but we aren’t done? We have to be signed off by 5pm. Tell them sorry and you will pick up where you left off tomorrow? That’s hurting the customer. Such a shame what has become of this company. These requirements are so unrealistic. You better hope you don’t have to be in the bathroom longer than five minutes or the idle clock starts ticking. There are zero benefits to this.
Agree! 100%
They have taken away our salary.
Forced us to shorter lunch break at the time the choose, not when we chose.
They monitor our every move on the computer.
And they penalize us for rushing through our work, but double the work we get regularly. That is the real story of the lay offs for nurses. They are forcing us to quit.