Second week in there aren’t any more people in CT on anchor days than there used to be. Plus there are managers, directors, and VPs who have only been in a few times since I was forced back in September. “Dina’s we say, not as we do”
All this does is make us base level employees resentful. While it may help Cigna keep its CT tax breaks, it is a failure in every other way as it erodes employee morale further.
"CT we have to pay for food and coffee and to use the company gym."
You don't need to pay to use the gym unless you're a contractor....
“Where DEI when we need them?”
Oh…do you need to speak to the manager, Karen?
I am providing work effort commiserate with how we are being treated.
Cigna has not made any recent improvements in that area, so they must be ok with the current situation. As such, why would you care how much or little some co-worker works? They are not going to care about you either way.
Correction: you lack of work effort…
I guess reading is a challenge. There was a follow up comment. Not a “Rando” situation. It was direct impact to the OPs work, where a call out is warranted and justified. But again can’t fix stupid.
Why should anyone be ok with some rando attempting to correct or call out others?
As far as I'm aware, that person is not in my leadership chain and has no business concerning themself with my work effort.
Keep that boot firmly implanted in your mouth, and maybe you'll survive the next mini-layoff.
Where DEI when we need them? I suggest you look up what the definition of “Karen” means.
That’s the problem society today. Adults acting like kids. No one can be corrected or in this case justifiably called out without being labeled a “Karen”. Thanks for proving the poster right!
“Good thing the company has employees like me to continue to follow up and call out slackers you.”
I think this is what the kids nowadays call a “Karen”.
For sure. Another days pay for not only doing absolutely nothing, but also thwarting others from any potential productivity.
It truly doesn't get much better than this.
Enjoy the views from the office. lol
Now who’s laughing lmao.
“What you've just said is one of the most insanely id--tic things I have ever heard (read). At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now d-mber for having listened (read) to it.”
You have been appointed to speak for "many" when your own opinion means less than dirt? I needed a good laugh this morning.
Get that SLT boot back in your mouth!
They want us to collaborate but keep us so understaffed that there is no time for anything but work. Yes I will do what I’m told so I don’t lose my job, but I have lots to do and the people I NEED to collaborate with aren’t in my office. Which proves FOW isn’t about collaboration. To whomever is standing hub ready to collaborate and calling us weak, you are the weak one for mindlessly letting yourself be exploited and for not jumping in and getting more work done. I guarantee if you are waiting for collaborations, ask the people sitting around you if you can help their team. They’ would love to have the help but probably don’t have the time to train you up. But something tells me you don’t want to take on anything else. And I don’t blame you. Most of us are being squeezed for every last drop of productivity and have nothing left but frustration that Cigna won’t keep its promises to us
So comical!! Fire Marshall Bill in the house!!
Actually, I (and many) wouldn’t want you to be any of those roles because apparently any change that your boss/supervisor put upon you that you don’t like or agree with, you would fold like a cheap suit and shutdown. But go ahead, continue with that weak mindset.
Ugh. I am sure you are smarter than that. Surely you are able to understand that a similarity in one area doesn't imply similarities in others.
To clarify, I have been directed to spend three full days each week, to facilitate communication, collaboration, and culture. No one has, to my knowledge, touted this as a means to be more efficient and effective in day to day work tasks
I do as I'm ordered. Alas, so far it has been a poor environment to achieve those goals. So I wait. If and when these disaffected strangers, thrown together by chance, suddenly gain cohesion, I'll be ready to dive in and collaborate to high heaven.
In this way, and this way only, I am like a firefighter. Or if that's just too troublesome for your psyche, feel free to substitute hair stylist, chef, auto mechanic, or any other role that you are more comfortable with.
I’m sorry, you can’t seriously be comparing our cushy 9-5s to firefighting? The jobs where people enter burning buildings to save lives? FOW has some of y’all completely crazed
Thanks for the advice but nope.
Cigna had a choice.
I could do above-average work from home like I did for four years.
Or I could come into an office to collaborate, engage in spontaneous, cross-functional conversations, and culture building. Note that none of those have anything to do with processes or deliverables.
So, I dutifully trundle in three full days a week, ready to collaborate, communicate, and build culture. So far, there is no interest in that from the random strangers seated nearby. These things must be organic, and cannot be forced.
I look at the in-office days as if I am a firefighter. Ever prepared if the occasion presents itself, but essentially idle for long stretches otherwise.
Cigna has opted to squeeze us, to qualify for tax breaks that we don't benefit from, and have adopted a hard-line, adversarial, and inflexible stance. Fine, I will comply enough to stay under the radar, but I will seize any opportunity to slow down processes and waste resources as I go.
Taking the role of the corporate lick spittle seems a little perverse. They don't care about you and are preparing another round of layoffs next week. Good people and hard workers will have their lives damaged because billions in annual profits just aren't sufficient. But go ahead and lick that boot, I suppose.
Meaning if work that impacts my processes and deliverables are slowed or delayed due to lazy, ‘butthurt’ employees I will continue to follow up and raise it to their leaders. That how’s. Grow up people, be professional. If you don’t like it , post out.
Morale has never been worse. There are a handful more people in NJ on Tues and Wed, but on Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays most desks are empty. The company doesn't care one bit that they've demoralized those forced into an office after they've worked more than a decade remotely. They insist we must schlepp into an office where no other team member is colocated, just to get on webex calls with the rest of the team that all work from home. Nothing will improve or change unless word gets out via mass media and someone shares the ugly truth and runs with damaging information. Only a PR nightmare might help. But even that is doubtful, given the ruthlessness they've shown this past year. Putting lawyers in charge of HR showed us their position and intentions. These are not leaders interested in developing or valuing their employees. All that matters is that stock price. Full stop.
"Follow up" with what? "Call out" how?
Wow - this couldn't be truer:
“People don't want to come to work and just be lethargic and not inspired. But when they don't get their needs met, that can happen,” Jim Harter, Gallup’s chief scientist of workplace management and wellbeing, tells Fortune. “When they feel that the organization doesn't care as much about them, they're going to give less of an effort.”
Good thing the company has employees like me to continue to follow up and call out slackers you.
Yeah! Come on and join us. Plenty of room on the bandwagon
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/workers-not-alright-most-employees-120855771.html
Consider it an opportunity to rebalance the equation by slowing work down, getting into wasteful meetings, etc.
Free food is nice. But at CT we have to pay for food and coffee and to use the company gym. I’m waiting for them to make us pay to park in the garage. If you get free lunch, enjoy it. But recognize that it’s a nice perk that will probably be taken away at some point. Like the “perk” of working from home even when it was part of your job offer prior to the pandemic. If Cigna can claw it back to pad profit, it’s only a matter of time before they will. Be grateful for what you have, but don’t turn the other cheek when Cigna takes something from you or gives you less than what you were promised. This is business and our work is a transaction. The more they take the more that transactional equation gets unbalanced and not worth holding up your end.
Eh no need to be condescending, and check your privilege that food is something you don’t take for granted. if someone has to be in office free food is nice!
Imagine being an adult and not accepting obvious gratitude.
Imagine being an adult out of college and then getting giddy over free food.
My office has catered lunch from a different restaurant every anchor day.
It’s a great way to meet and get reacquainted with coworkers from different areas.
Not so much as a free tic-tac here but I don't want to participate in any superficial happy face events in the office anyway.
CT is giving out ice cream in a couple weeks. Nice to have but it won’t make me any happier being here when I was hired before the pandemic to WAH and get more done at home and don’t have to waste time and money and risk my life driving here. FOW is 100% epic fail
StL hasn't fully embraced the need to commute in on the shackle days as yet. Maybe as warnings and other repercussions start to happen, more folks will decide to come in.
"Also no one is getting pizza parties on anchor days…so very funny. LOL"
We've had food brought it for lunch for our anchor days too. I think it might be more common in smaller offices?
“ it's a little too soon to say that there aren't as many in on anchor days than there used to be...”
If there are large numbers of people not coming in on anchor days yet, HR has made it clear they will be written up and fired. I’d agree with OP that difference is negligible.
Only thing I see changing is people on Interim WAH finally getting assigned a desk.
But OP is right that this is a failure in what it is doing to morale.
Also no one is getting pizza parties on anchor days…so very funny. LOL
My office is full of people and everyone is having a great time. They even bring in pizza and cookies on the anchor days!
This is only the 4th anchor day, I think it's a little too soon to say that there aren't as many in on anchor days than there used to be...