VP's and Directors in all departments and divisions are shuffling and rearranging teams, designing new organizational structures. This creates chaos and team destructions. This is extremely unprofessional management behavior. Why is this happening across the board?
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This is how some leaders respond in attempts to create value. They reshuffle their teams. I've been at CVS for over a decade in a Sr Dir / Ex Dir role and have seen this happen many times. It's a response from senior leadership demands for improvement (cost savings). Let's reorganize the team, maybe RIF some people, and use this as the new structure and plan for the next year. Rinse and repeat next fall.
@5hin+1upNA9Ua, Your comments tell me that you have no idea what “woke” means. Lol.
There is no doubt the politics, backstabbing and toxicity seem to have gotten progressively worse this year. I am curious though…is the grass greener on the other side or are other companies better at hiding it? The more work they give us, the more stress levels rise and the worse the backstabbing and political bs gets.
Having worked at CVS for decades, I believe extremely "unprofessional management behavior" is a job requirement to be promoted to such positions of VP or Director. :D
Unprofessional management behavior has been fostered by CVS for many years. I've witnessed openly racist leaders run wild, open retaliation for anything at anytime and have even witnessed people be told to ki-l themselves in public forums....numerous times, so I wouldn't ever dream of any exec trying to exercise any bit of humility, anywhere.
Shuffling folks around Orgs frivolously just demonstrates the lack of vision and security these leaders have. Very few of these leaders are qualified for their jobs.
I do feel you though! I'd truly love to know the source of the scurrying around.
I feel the same changes you are all feeling. All folks under Tony Ambroize have been shuffled around for Q4 initiatives like I've never seen. Everyday, some person is making a comment on our call as to what each person does this now and where did he/she go?
The other thing I noticed is the DDAT Tech Talks call. We rarely talk about DDAT stuff any more. There are these people on this call (lets just call they/them Don And Ravin) that push Gender Inclusion and Gender Equity on every single call. Nothing varies from this script.
One time they put a blind person on the call that said the new design of the website was awesome. But it felt like this person's inclusion on the call was secondary to the Woke agenda that they were pushing through Gender Alt Text and Tamp-n talk.
Question - How much money is this costing the investors? I'd like to see the reactions of some high-end CVS stock holders and see if they see a path to revenue through this group. I feel as though when some analysis is done, people may want to hold some of those funds back for things that actually create revenue streams for CVS.
I have been on 4 teams, had 5 different mangers, and 4 different directors in the past few yrs.
All reviews are meets since the “leaders” don’t really know what you have done.
Teams no are just random people thrown together and given stories to complete.
It’s not an evironment where you can thrive easily
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4719798-cvs-health-industry-concerns-linger-despite-stock-price-drop
What they need to do is let go of the low hanging fruit and reward those that consistently perform year after year. There are too many teams with under performing managers or manager that add absolutely no value.
It’s honestly some weirdo sh-t. As soon as your team hits a productivity stride and you like each other and have gotten to know one another they rip away that efficiency and comfort for no reason. My team changes this year left me with a silent team who don’t talk or desire to do their fair share of work. Literally a money losing decision with the delays and production issues now caused by a lack of efficiency leadership introduced.
Executive directors are the worst. They just want people to quit. Funny thing is they will get rid of those useless kiss as--s soon after they work all the valuable people to their graves. We should all be documenting and looking for employment lawyers now!
I've never seen things this bad and they've gotten progressively worse under Karen's leadership. Can we all finally conclude that Karen has no business running this company?
Executive directors are toxic, their competitive culture with each other is toxic, and leaders pitting them against each other in the name of productivity is toxic. There is so much emphasis on putting your name out there, coming up with the next “quick win”, and sharing your work at the cost of doing things WELL and working on things that will make a bigger impact over the long term. I hate it here and the only reason I stay is bc the job market is sh-t.
Not gonna lie, the layoffs last year got rid of some a-holes in my org. It was great.
The executive directors are toxic
The company is a hot mess with no solid strategy or leadership. I am so glad I am no longer there. The first month after I started working there I wanted out. A very toxic environment and disgusting internal politics. It is not worth it.