I see that a few teams were completely decimated. What are those who are still here supposed to do now? Double or triple their workload to get the work done? That's not realistic, even if that might be the exact thing the management is hoping will happen.
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Don't expect more than a 3 in your review this year. It won't how much dedication you have, you are a number in a stat sheet. If your manager doesn't jive with you that adds to the decision.
Just get in the infantry mindset embrace the su-k and move on after stripping anything of value from the casualties. Better them than you. Just corporate combat
I am in a department where there has been multiple waves of lay offs. Their jobs have been incorporated into ours. There's no pay raise, of course...
When they start asking you to document your process, be ready for your position to get outsourced.
In my experience- you will sit in a Teams meeting where the person will turn words into nouns and show
a PowerPoint that will provide a very thorough accounting of the leadership structure. Then the presentation gets fuzzy because they don’t really know what the RIFed did and they don’t know what you do. it will not mention about 70% of the stuff the RIFed did. Then you will have months of gradually finding out this person or that person is gone and then months later a person will pop up you thought was long gone. Like Optum Lazarus. Also you will never see the PowerPoint people again.
This is the Optum Way
keep calm and carry on cash the check
After your coworkers got fired today, continue going to meetings tomorrow pretending like nothing happened, and don't mention it.
It's like seeing a horrific car wreck complete with mutilated bodies and and just pretending like it never happened.
Anyone staying in place is going to be getting more work, and higher expectations, for the same pay.
3 options really:
- Stay in place and take it.
- Watch the internal job reqs for 1-2 gradesabove where you are and app spam anything you can tolerate. Moving up 1 grade is a minimum ~24% salary bump, beats the sh-t out of staying put for 1-4% on your annual if you are lucky.
- Leverage the "prestige" of having Optum/UHG on your CV and apply to other orgs. If you aren't totally worthless, your experience here is frequently worth a 40-50% bump moving to BCBS/similar or a regional outfit or provider network. We all know this place is a clown show, but Optum/UHG is frequently treated as a prestigious and desirable background by a TON of external hiring managers. Play that up and get paid.
Good luck, and don't stay where you aren't appreciated!
The nurses at Landmark have taken on at least 3 different roles that have been eliminated since the first layoffs in April ‘24, including many social work duties. PLUS, markets have closed and others combined so there’s more work from that as well. All for no increase in pay. Do more with less and don’t ask questions.
history 21 years at Intel left Dec31, 2016. There were many times in my 21 years that my team was wiped out and I was still standing. I can tell you a quote from one of my managers when I asked "why am I still here?" answer "you know how to do everything" SO the answer to your question is work harder for less money when the next cut in pay happens. then things will get better and managers will build there little empires, so it can all happen again!
That's what is happening. I guess we get the choice of doing the work of our peers and bosses that get fired, or we just leave--which I think at this point is the ultimate goal.
Having had 4 bosses in 2 years all get fired (another VP today), and seeing my teams divided in half and given twice the work to complete, I think I may need to take up my EAP "benefit" for PTSD.
It's just too much. I'd like to find another job--but being 56, that prob won't be happening, at least at anything more than half my current pay. This just all su-ks.
When the CHAs were axed we picked up their workload in central outreach…extra work and no extra pay…yay! I expect the same will happen again…get rid of a team and pile the work on someone else.