Thread regarding Humana Inc. layoffs

Servants attitude? Are you kidding me?

I love the new theme of Humana, that we are to adopt a "Servant's Attitude". This cannot be serious. Who thinks of these things? Myself and my coworkers have given endless hours of underappreciated Loyalty and Dedication, not just to Humana but to our members. I know of not one person who I have worked with who has not gone over and beyond the call of duty with unkept promises because we are fortunate to have the top professionals working at Humana at Home. If there is one thing I can say, it is that Humana knows how to choose the Best of the Best.

But, I was taught as a child to go to school, work hard, get an education so that you do not have to work menial jobs. You will not be condemned to McDonalds and you will have more choices in life. Equally, our society is struggling still with racial inequality stemming from the abuse of black people in the years of US slavery. Humana now requests servitude. How dare you? You had bond-slaves Humana.... people who signed up out of their own free will and good and loving hearts who were willing to work hard and give you ALL of their loyalty and dedication. I serve one God and that is NOT Humana. How dare you insult my intelligence, my hard work, my dedication going over and beyond the call of duty for many years not just for your sake but for the sake of the elderly, the infirmed, the less fortunate out of a true attitude of caring. How dare you promote this idea of "servitude". Who do you think you are? You should be thoroughly and completely ashamed of yourself. Now, you are asking your workers to make bricks without mortar and there is NO more motivation. You beat your people down and they no longer are able to give you their best because they no longer believe in you or your vision.

You are greedy. You are uncaring. You are deceptive and you are out for a buck and don't care who you hurt along the way. Shame. Shame. Shame on you! How much unneeded suffering have you caused? I hope you go down hard and those that took the blood money and inflicted needless suffering physically and financially for the sake of an extra dollar. I hope your dollar brings you 10 times the misery. Where will you be when you get sick? You will be the victim of your own creation. All the dollars in the world will never bring you comfort when you or your loved one is diagnosed with cancer or a sudden stroke or some other misfortune comes upon you. All the dollars in the world cannot buy you health. When that day comes and you are not treated so well, remember the blood money you took from your members and employees.... you ought to be ashamed.

Yes. I'm mad. I am really mad. From "Thriving Together" to the "Perfect Experience" to an attitude of servitude? Don't you realize you already had that... but not because it was imposed, but rather because you had amazing people. I am not your servant. I am not your slave. I have never felt so humiliated as an educated professional in my life. I am not black, but if I was, I would be doubly insulted. Who in their right mind can promote this garbage. Humana, you need to check yourself before the lawyers do. You are WAY out of line. You have failed your Performance Review. You are FIRED!

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Post ID: @OP+QfjDhsC

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And yet another post turns into nurse bashing. Sigh.

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Post ID: @1sgl+QfjDhsC

Who cares who does what. I don't care I just want to keep my job

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Post ID: @1qeu+QfjDhsC

Are you kidding me with this post? I believe we have now jumped the shark!

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Post ID: @1ovt+QfjDhsC

No, please no more nurse bashing or “us vs them” division of the roles. Servants unite!

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Post ID: @1rad+QfjDhsC

I don't think anyone is laughing at the OPs anxiety, but come on y'all. This post is over the top! We have known all year our jobs were not safe. I am willing to bet the OP is a nurse as they seem to expect to be above these layoffs that the PHCs and CHEs have endured all year. It's like this odd sense of entitlement and now that they have been impacted too they feel betrayed. There was no betrayal when the PHCs got knocked about for 10 months. That was fine. We are lowly ranked in their books it seems.

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Post ID: @1qqg+QfjDhsC

Whoever laughs at someone else's trouble will be punished. ESV. Whoever is glad at calamity of others will not go unpunished. Whoever makes mockery of others’ misfortune insults their maker. Where is your compassion and empathy? You may be blessed to not endure what many of us are drowning in. But please don’t minimize our anxieties and angst.

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Post ID: @1bae+QfjDhsC

This post wins the absurdity medal! The craziest thing on here

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Post ID: @1wez+QfjDhsC

LOVE IT!!! KUDOS TO YOU BITTER BETTY...I'm right there w/ you! This too shall pass and the Lord has something better for all of us that have been impacted! There is absolutely nothing wrong w/ being mad, angry, disappointed, me...I think I'm also still in denial...it's been devastating...but we will get thru it together.

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Post ID: @vft+QfjDhsC

Well somebody got somebody's used Management book at the garage sale. I also have read between the lines and got the same attitude of you need to be a servant like me from the random communications from Humana. I also found this degrading and an insult. A recent former employee brought this to my attention. Well spoken poster. Do not insult my intelligence. And, if you are that much of a servant leader, why don't you come over here and do some of my job? My metrics are enough for 2 or 3 or maybe even 4 people that you recently laid off. Come help me out O Servant Leader. I also agree with the poster who says that this is a very poor time to be throwing around the servant or slavery or servitude idea as we already feel degraded. All in all, this is kind of amusing but at the same time, sad but true. Perhaps you should visit the local Barnes and Noble and find something a little more useful in the Management section and stay away from knock offs.

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Post ID: @kbl+QfjDhsC

Oh for Cry sakes....i'm so nauseated by the many brilliant, English/Lit brainiacs on here with their rebuttals to the original posting! Orig. poster you are spot on in your vibrant, passionate points! You speak for me and many of our peers! And I agree with you 100% that there is always a karma that inevitably catches up to those focused on the dirty dollar at other's expense. I need not say more, as you have spoken the truth that many of us bear. Re: the trivial "trollage" about the use of the word "Servitude" and it's relevance to an essay from the 70's!!??!!! Give me a break!!! This lingo is Humana's latest, lame attempt in propagandist verbiage....C'MON??? Really? They are so out of touch, (or basically do not care what message is being received). It's an extremely stressful and overwhelming environment at the moment. Perhaps utilizing "the servant leader" as their newest cheerleading "U rah, rah" was a bit imprudent, (being that many of us already feel like beat down servants on the verge of losing our rations next). Even if you took took this "U rah rah" in it's literal intent, it's completely disingenuous. There's no servitude in our leaders. Just greed. And to quote the wise poster before me, "It may not be the intent of the author to imply slavery but in the current atmosphere at Humana and the current state of being powerless 'Servitude' is not a concept to mess with."

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Post ID: @nhv+QfjDhsC

Language is everything.

the state of being a slave or completely subject to someone more powerful.

synonyms: slavery, enslavement, bondage, subjugation, subjection, domination; historicalserfdom

"born into a life of servitude"

It may not be the intent of the author to imply slavery but in the current atmosphere at Humana and the current state of being powerless 'Servitude' is not a concept to mess with.

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Post ID: @fjq+QfjDhsC

I am the poster. I am a Bitter Betty. I am mad. I am disappointed. I own that. However, as always, I care about the people I serve and would never burden a sick person with my own feelings of discouragement. I can paste that plastic smile on my face every day and, as the day goes on, being inspired by my members and coworkers, that plastic smile becomes more genuine as I not only assist my members but they inspire me as well. But for now. Yes. I am mad. I am hurt. I am disappointed with my employer. That is where I am and I will get over it. The one thing I have learned about life is, things don't stay the same forever. Thank you for listening to my catharsis. It is healing to my soul. And, I know there are others who are mad and disappointed too. How can you heal unless you own your feelings? It is okay to be angry and hurt and disappointed. It is what you do with that energy that makes you a better person. I intend to take these feelings and look for BETTER opportunities. Yes. I am a Bitter Betty for now. Thank you. I won't stay that way. I am master at proving them all wrong by succeeding.

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Post ID: @fkd+QfjDhsC

Definitely a gross interpretation of servitude OP.

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Post ID: @rwl+QfjDhsC

I beg to differ with you. This is a twisted contortion of Greenleaf's Servant Leader concept. Leaders first themselves serve and inspire others to serve through their leadership. They do not ask those under them to become servants. They inspire others through their own role model. Whatever this "servitude" distortion that has been conveyed, (during the most inappropriate time) is a gross misunderstanding of the concept of Servant Leadership.

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Post ID: @fpu+QfjDhsC

Lmao thanks for answering my question. I personally found this post to be ridiculous, but didn’t want to assume it was coming from a bitter Betty;)

There is nothing wrong with putting our members first and treating them with dignity- this post took any and all thoughts on the topic WAY out of proportion and in outer space lmao

Stop being so bitter if you can’t do what’s right for our members in the first place!

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Post ID: @cit+QfjDhsC

Most ridiculous post I have read in months!

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Post ID: @vfd+QfjDhsC

He is referring to a leadership book called, The Servant Leader, by Robert Greenleaf. He didn’t come up with that on his own and it has nothing to do with servitude in the way you are describing. It’s not a servant master belief. It’s more about leading from bottom up instead of top down. Read it or your rant shows you don’t have a clue about a book boat people read years ago.

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Post ID: @ulo+QfjDhsC

Cinderelly, Cinderelly, you can do it Cinderelly. Do the laundry. Do the dishes. Call your members. Meet you metrics. There is nothing much to it.

Cinderelly, Cinderelly, you can do it Cinderelly, make your meeting, skip your lunch break, get your work in, take the training.....Cinderelly!

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Post ID: @rnc+QfjDhsC

Did I miss an email or something? Lol where did you see we should be servants?

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Post ID: @ssg+QfjDhsC

I love your post.

Well written, and the message is 1000% on target.

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Post ID: @pfh+QfjDhsC

Can't argue with this... 100% right. Servitude, Servant and master a relationship that continues to hold America back... Seems the guys who think up the latest buzz words forgot about hundreds of years of slavery when they thunk this one up.

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Post ID: @fjm+QfjDhsC

Poster I respect your post because these are thoughts. I just want say things will be okay and this too shall pass.

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Post ID: @yvm+QfjDhsC

Wow . That was well said! You are right! When I first started working at Humana I felt sorry for the hospitals and clinical settings where these professionals left.I thought many times to myself wow what a loss for patients but a gain for the Humana members.

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Post ID: @jys+QfjDhsC

@QfjDhsC...EPIC RANT! And I agree with plenty of what you said!

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