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Return equipment?

I got laid off last week, like most of my team. I was 100% remote and don't have a hub or big office or anything (other than branch stores) anywhere near me. How do I return my equipment? None of the paperwork or emails I've received have said anything about it. I'd call my former boss, but she also got laid off! I don't have the contact info for her former boss, and who knows if he's still around since our entire hierarchy was restructured. I know if I just keep everything it can cause me to lose severance, but they gave me no guidance!


Sedgwick

Has anyone entered a temporary WFH request through Sedgwick? If so can you tell me how the process works? From what I was reading it says that Sedgwick will initiate a dialogue with you about the needs and ask information. It also said sometimes if it’s a first request, they may not need a doctors note. Is that correct? Tell me without details, of course what that conversation was like? thanks all.


SNF/HHA Utilization

I have never in my entire working life seen processes change at the pace they change in this department. The constant stream of updates, new procedures, and shifting expectations has reached a point where it feels impossible for anyone to keep up. There is only so much a person can absorb, remember, and reasonably be expected to apply at one time. At some point, it stops being about an employee’s ability to adapt and starts being about whether the volume and speed of change are even manageable for a human being.


Centene People Leaders and Senior Staff: Lost bid and VSP

For those familiar with Centene’s restructuring, especially employees from health plans that have already lost a contract or bid:

  • What happened to the health plan after it lost the bid?
  • Were employees transferred to other Centene plans or departments, or were they laid off?
  • How much notice did employees receive?
  • Did leadership discourage employees from taking the VSP? ( I believe they did this indirectly to fulfill the remaining of the contract)
  • Are VSP approvals based on staffing needs, performance, tenure, position, or another factor?
  • Are major SOP and productivity changes usually a warning sign of layoffs or department consolidation?

Equipment return

What does fidelity care about and not care about as far as giving back equipment? I’m hoping I can keep the monitors, docking station and webcam but obviously won’t steal them. According to the fid central site if equipment is older than they like we can keep it but it doesn’t specify. Anyone know?


Doctor said I need to stay at home for a few weeks to recover from a procedure

Should I apply for the short term disability? Is it job-protected? I’ve never received an ‘IM’ performance rating. How likely is it that I would fall into the category of being terminated without a severance package?

I have been getting along with my peers and manager well.


MST home dispatch tech use and abuse company assets

MST home dispatch tech use and abuse company assets. Driving 100K-200K bucket trucks to their home and back to their home garage everyday. Big V8 6.3 L engines use a lot of gas and insurance on top. Also, with MST high pay and only have .5 job per tech a day per tech how is that saving company money and liability.
There are rules to follow when joining home dispatch program. Following the rules helps save gas and time and wear and tear on a vehicle used to drive to work and to home. But MSTs abuse this program from driving to the garage every day and dispatching at the garage. Making a stop at the grocery store to grocery shop in the company vehicle before driving home. Not closing your last job at the job site and instead, drive home and being still dispatched on your work ticket and then closing the job when you arrive home. I follow the rules, and I do not want the home dispatch program to go away because of MSTs taking advantage of the abuse. Also, MST managers are favoring many MSTs and letting the home dispatch MSTs do what ever they want. STOP ABUSING THE HOME DISPATCH PROGRAM YOU MSTs. You know who you are...


Procedures here are the most cumbersome and ancient

This is my third bank. All are bad, but this one is the worst. I come across stuff that seems like a remnant from the previous century. With all that fancy management and hefty consultant fees, you'd think they would have streamlined some processes by now. AI would short-circuit trying to deal with this place.


Store Safety

I don’t want to post this but we’re not getting any answers at the store level. What is the protocol if ICE comes into a store? What do we do if customers get caught in the middle and get hurt? I have customers that ask me almost every day and I don’t know what to say to them.


Enjoy your new safety standard

The veep of corporate environment and his analyst are certified donkeys. Operations and maintenance now have one standard for safety while lab personnel have another. The double standard is bad enough but the actual standard is stupid as well. This will not improve safety and will only deter anyone from wanting to do more for safety. Mark my words, off shift, places that are rarely visited,they will follow this as much as people follow the no looking at your phone rule or the use hand rails rule. They should be fired immediately but they won't. Bilbo will probably give them all promotions saying they saved everyone. Stupid people making stupid rules.


MJ sent out an updated test vehicle usage policy. Anyone know what sparked this?

His email outlined some stricter usage of the internal test vehicles, including reiterating that non-Ford personnel can’t be in the vehicle if any of the software is unreleased.

Anybody hear of why he sent this out of nowhere? I’d imagine someone was misusing the vehicles in Dearborn but we haven’t been given any details. Did someone abuse it? Take their friends to a strip club? Get a DUI?


RIF selection process

The criteria for every RIF is usually different. It starts out with getting a list using some generic criteria. They do this for legal reasons, so they can legally justify that the RIF applied to a group of people and someone was not being singled out or discriminated against. Examples of lists in the past, anyone who worked remote (pre-Covid), anyone who got less than a 3 on their review, any manager with less than 5 reports, or any director that is lower than 5 levels deep. As a manager, you need to be cautious about how you answer any surveys about your employees. For example, once they asked about employee roles and if a QA was a manual tester or automated tester. A couple months later all the manual testers were on the list.

Once the generic list is created, it is shared with managers to a certain level. Sometimes the immediate manager is informed of who is is on the list but sometimes they are not. The managers who get to see the list than have to fight to get someone off and that fight isn't easy. If they do manage to win, they often then need to supply a different name.

All in all, there is usually a financial target they are trying to hit and that can impact how the list is created as well. Products they want to disinvest in will have more people on the list than products that they think will be the next big thing.

I found this informative. OP: @aw+1kakcej6y


Can we stop having a gazillion useless meetings?

I thought managers were supposed to manage, and that all our bloated procedures supposedly served a purpose. Out of all the meetings we had lately, maybe one or two were actually useful, the rest were a complete waste of time. Most of us actually know how to do our jobs. But I guess some managers still need to justify their existence somehow.


Is there an official RTO document somewhere?

Like RTO policy & procedures? Somewhere where I can see rules. I see different people being treated differently, unfair at best, possibly illegal. I am not asking for this to be posted publicly just tell me where to look for internally as I've spent some time looking for it and I could not find it (and I dont want to go to HR or my mgr).


GCL dinosaurs

The Group Chapter Leads (GCL) role is proving to be counterproductive in our tech structure. Many GCLs, often promoted from non-engineering backgrounds like production support or testing, lack the essential experience in software architecture and delivery needed to lead technical teams effectively.

Instead of providing value, the role primarily adds bureaucracy. We should consider eliminating this redundant layer and consolidating its responsibilities under the Group Squad Leads (GSLs), who are better positioned to manage teams. Even Scrum Masters currently contribute more to team velocity and project success than GCLs do


Layoff Policies / Procedures / Docs

Anyone knows if we have any docs that govern layoffs? A policy or procedure doc? Guideliness? Somewhere? Something that outlines the rules (e.g., severance policy, cobra, placement help, resume building help, etc.) Do you maybe know where I can find the darn thing as internal searches are not returning anything. Copilot crashed when I asked even though I know I should not search for it as they are probably monitoring it.

Any tips would help.


Site closure displacement question

So our site is getting closed next week. How does the displacement go down? Do they send you an invite the day prior to come onsite the next day and drop off your laptop and badge? Since there’s hundreds of us in the site curious how this will go down or is it just a virtual phone call and then we ship our laptops back? We’ve heard leadership will be onsite so just not sure what the protocol is.


Leave by 2027

If you need a better job or are waiting to keep this one my advice as a manager is take advantage of all these perks they go on about giving to employees. Take all the d-mb linked in courses and have them on your profile, have the company help pay for certifications or college or CE courses and bulk up your resume and work your a-s off, by 2027 there’s going to be a major shift and US workers will be a skeleton crew unless the laws change: Employee relations are staring to hire overseas workers who can’t u destined English and HR is non existent. They will keep piling on more ludicrous procedures for QA across all departments and doc you over the most insignificant thing so when they do lay you off it’s because you’re performance was bad and you failed to maintain quality and productivity. Start looking for other jobs now. Re write your resume and good luck.


Sick of wellmed QA

I swear it’s like they are purposely trying to get the whole department of wellmed fired so the offshore employees have more work they change the SOPs and don’t update the leadership then flag us because we didn’t do one single step that we’ve never done before and doesn’t even involve HIPAA or verification then the whole department is stuck with low QA and we get chewed out by upper management.


Pension lump sum (commuted value) - can you only take it at the time you are laid off or can you take it at any time in the future?

Didn't see this clearly answered in the materials. Wondering if it is possible to keep it as is until a more ideal low rate environment, which would pump up the commuted value.


Upcoming Layoffs - What to Expect?

I am really worried that I will be laid off this year. I’m seeing all the signs of a company wide cut from TR and I’ve been here 25+ years. Performance has been good but they keep changing the standards and performance measurements. How do they usually do these things? What process can the unlucky expect?i


company is so behind because of burocracy everywhere.

they use big words for anything, but when it comes to actually do something which would help like using right tools for the job -- nope, not northstar or you have to fill 10 different forms each with 5+ folks to approve and 10+ questions with links more links and ... you just give up.

Seriously it feels like its some sitcom about state owned company where you have to "know" somebody or pay someone to actually be able to work.

My daily work is constant fight with people who bring 0 value and just create problems causing anyone with good will to quit ASAP..

Sadly 90% of devs does not have clue how real tools look like, 9% probably know, but they give up and sooner or later they quit.

1% is stupid enough like me are trying to work normally, but its just too frustrating... so I either turn into 9% zombies or quit when I can get same money elsewhere.