#policy

In Canada want to allow companies like Imperial Oil to port jobs to BTC and KLTC, then Canada needs to provide social safety net that will help us maintain our lifestyle.

So, basically, I am saying Canada needs to tax companies that are porting jobs outside the country and use those dollars for a better social safety net.

If you calculate the tax rate, it will be so high that no company will be willing to port jobs overseas anymore.

Readers to this website, asking your help to spread this message. We need to pass a Canadian law that ported jobs will have to be taxed by the hour.

I was hired as a fully remote employee, which makes sense since none of my colleagues live near me. After 1 year as a remote employee my manager informed me that I may need to begin coming into the office as a hybrid employee, but for what reason? Regardless, all of my meetings will be remote, so how does it matter where I work from?

Also, the company has not given any clarification on when the hybrid mode will begin, how many days will be required, and where I will be located?

As of now, I plan to ignore this requirement, as it seems entirely superflous, a waste of my time, and a waste of gas.

Wonder if severance packages will have considerations against "total compensation". Thats what we've been told for years as why we are paid less overall. Wonder if there is some legal angle that leverages this.

If you willingly leave HCSC and have unused PTO, will they pay that PTO out with your final check?

Our whole team is rto. Will the dress code be what it was when we were in the office pre covid? Many comments on here about the lack of janitors. How bad is it in the Minnetonka location? Are the restaurants still open?

It has been said time and time again that Return to Office is not mandated. Yet leadership has mentioned that there will be people walking around auditing who is present. Has Cisco gone full on micro managing?

Does anyone know if there is a new incentive plan for bankers? Premiers, RBs, and PBs?

Is Chase still better?

Check your Amplify for this week's Grinching. Who does that? What kind of leadership takes money from people at Christmas? Godda-n.

Just learned my co worker who was hired recently for cosmetics was told by our cosmetics manager to do anything to get credit apps and to NOT use the term “credit card” with customers and to say it’s a “rewards card.” Is this promoted at other stores?

My Director mentioned that there’s a leadership meeting on October 8th same day as the October Employee Meeting. Only Directors and above are included in the leadership meeting.

This is unfair to the Lead level. Leads are Leaders without direct reports (people management responsibilities), which is a testament that Leads and Directors have the same pay band including target bonus. As such, Lead should be invited to the Leadership Meeting.

Humble request to extend the invitation to all the Leads.

Must be in office 8+ hours with no exceptions. Hammers coming down. Charley and Flowers out for blood. This company is the pits

Employee survey results woke him up

They are hard earned for the ones that received them. It’s not much for non execs but enough to care about them.

What happens to RDUs if:

1. You decline mobility
2. Accept mobility but not selected for job
3. Accept mobility, receive bit decline offer for job

Does anyone have insight? Lots of communication out there on many topics but zero on this one. It makes me feel they are going to fu-k us on RSUs based on the silence this far.

For FGS have previous shutdowns affected teams?

Are these people having a laugh or what. They wait to tell you, on 1st October, about a new policy that supposedly applies this year to use up your vacation days at Christmas... ...and... even if client commitments mean that you can't do that, you'll be expected to do the equivalent of that within 60 days. All of this is supposedly for your well-being. I'm depressed already.

This'll be on top of the 0% pay rise. Luckily, short term illnesses have been shown to last as long as the number of days they need from you...

Is there a dress code here? I see flip flops , riped jeans, shorts, t-shirts..... I do remember before covid we were to have Polo's dress shirts and nice jeans. Closed tow shoes. Even my supervisor LL6 wears T-shirts..... But hay were all here.

Gotta be a play for the Trump plan to take over the PBM industry:

Use his office to squeeze pharma companies with threat of tariffs to get prices down
PBM reform that breaks up health insurers from owning PBMs
Launch his own new private wholesale channel for dr-g distribution that hoovers up all the business

Fun to see what happens with OptumRx! Will we be smart enough to sell off before this all goes down?

Some of my team lives in North Carolina, California, Florida… what happens to us? We’re really confused as it would not be feasible to move.

Now that we know we are getting Friday, January 2nd as a holiday, this might be a sign that we will be expected to come to the office 4 or all 5 days a week in 2026.

Then again, they might be doing it to take away another WFH day. It was either between January 2nd, Christmas Eve 2026 (Thursday), or giving us two floating holidays.

If they are making us come into the office more in 2026, then I could see why they would want to give off on Friday the 2nd.

I think the CEO will use the company’s poor performance as punishment to make us come in more.

Stay tuned….

What happens if I resign during the first week of Dec (just to be eligible for 401k match), then the year end performance review happens and my manager had already decided to give me 5 rating?

1. Will I be able to serve the 30 day notice period, get the match and leave in Jan first week
   or
2. Will HR say all 5 will be let go before 12/31 including those already resigned?

Upcoming company policy will dictate that SVP and above must be tied to, and regularly go into talent center offices. I.e Jacksonville, London etc. Policy is part of the Return to Office mandate company wide. If you own high end property in JAX now is the time to sell!

Fines for discriminating against Americans.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/civil-rights-division-fines-tech-company-200000-discriminating-against-us-workers-part

Got another frustrating non-answer from the transition email (similar to my HR conversation), and my leadership has gone dark. Has anyone gotten any sign of a deadline here for getting your things back? I assume they're having the team admins facilitate, but have gotten no info whatsoever other than it's being "mailed" back. I have some things in my office that will be tough to ship...I suppose that's their problem, but I do want my things and to fully close out this bogus transaction!

Like, really? Everything I hear is so vague and general, there are no real details on that. I only associate that with more micromanagement but nothing more specific in terms of processes or so. Is this another fancy way of doing noise for appearances to pump stock price?

With a potential Michigan government shutdown approaching, state employees have not received clarity on temporary or permanent layoffs, unlike prior near shutdowns. Union leaders call for humane notice while leaders work toward a budget deal.

Rule changes on temporary layoffs under the Michigan Civil Service Commission reduce notice obligations for short duration furloughs, increasing uncertainty across agencies and public services.

URL: https://bridgemi.com/michigan-government/state-workers-left-in-dark-as-michigan-shut-down-layoffs-loom/

• Organizations and locations: State of Michigan - Lansing MI, University System references by unions, House and Senate leadership

I am in corp risk and my manager told me I am on the list of those not maintaining 8 hours in the office.

We are warned to maintain 8 hours otherwise it might be used in performance review.

This is becoming scary.

Yea that’s right folks, we are returning to the moon. Damn.

/s RTO was apparently a big honeypot here or at best an outright lie

Severance packages for laid off retail staff include lump sum hours of pay that vary by role, plus a health premium payment equal to three months of coverage. Some state specific vacation payouts apply, and employees have a set window to sign release agreements to receive severance.

at our next quarterly update from senior Leadership, many of us are very concerned and we would like updates for these areeas:
~$50-$100M underfunding of our db plan. What is the strategy for paying this off
~how much is the health care premiums going up & will the 401k match be cut. Any layoffs planned before X-Mas ?

• status on lawsuits and employees leaving company will be forced to sign non competes non disclosureas
  ------culture survay results
  ~company revenue-profits ytd
  ----what is the company Net Promotor Score and stack rank it compared with our competitors
  ~~when are we gonna improve our website. Very few changes in calculaotrs tools and educstion for yrs. Mobile app still lags

Mr Rich and Ms Favors, along with Kristine Janofskey, we'd like updates with all of this.

I've seen some folks reporting 3 weeks per year of tenure and for short-term employees numbers seems to be smaller. I also see that some are reporting that lawyers are advising them to sign. Just curious if we can consolidate what we know about severance for this round of cuts so we can have it here archived for future layoff rounds (I wish I asked this last time too)...

If anyone hasn’t noticed yet, leave allotments in workday now have a “approved bank” amount where it looks like it’s being propped for an accrued PTO type of situation. Rumor is that other benefit changes, such as our unlimited PTO and overall flexibility is going to change for the worse.

How does the hour tracking even work? In Minneapolis there’s a “site leader event” outside so does that mean if we attend then we need to stay longer since we are leaving the building ?? Or is it just based on your last active timestamp? This RTO tracking is becoming ridiculous. We are not children!

Increase of days? Same schedule?

How many hours is that exactly? 6,7,8,8.5? Are they trying to keep this vague on purpose?

Forced to give me 90 days warn
I got job starting week after warn ended
You built policy saying no 401K match or bonus due to effective dates. Lol
Now you get to eat my 30 weeks of severance

Your dirty policies failed. Nice try no cigar.

So far my manager has not set an 8 hour requirement . I am in the office 6 hours but who knows when that will change….

Are RTO just corporate offices they are looking at or any sales agency/clinic location?

Let's turn back the clock a bit. Around ten years ago Dell laid off a lot of long time employees. Employees who had worked for the company for 15 years or more. As you would expect after 15 years, these were very well paid employees across all skill workers.

Dell was still a growing company and could have offered other roles to these employees. However Dell let them go. Needing a wealth of new employees Dell turned to India and the new hires received the kind of lower wages that new employee (performing the same job) would get as opposed to a long time employee.

Now here we are in 2025. Those H1-B hires are now in their tenth year. Through annual raises they are now a bigger hit to OPEX. Now comes Trump's new H1-B policy. So now Dell gets to layoff veteran and costly H1-B and blame it on the new H1-B policy. But now they simply run the same gambit of laying of veteran employees for new lower paid replacement and look innocent free.

It's like in that movie The Sting. Never let your mark know they were stung.

The robotic and daily repetitive nature of pushing Centerwell Pharmacy enrollment and the talking points is abnormal. If I didn’t know better, I would think Blagg was AI. The only response is a blank face and talking points. Daily call back delays. But wait! Talking points! Emails every day -talking points. Meetings to repeat you guessed it talking points. All the talking points in the world will not fix that CW pharmacy su-ks A-S and no one wants to use it. Why not eliminate it and save that money instead of spouting some bs that it prevents hospitalizations. PDMRs prevent hospitalizations. Not inept mail order pharmacies.

They are not ready for 10/1