#reputation

Just watched Trump blowing smoke up MD's skirt saying MD creates a great product. All Trump Fund talk

Not a good look to clinicians, clients and internal staff. Paints the company in a negative light.

Looking back over the last year and a half: supposedly setting ourselves up for growth and durability (whatever that means), pulling back on travel, pulling back on new roles, eventually not refilling roles, teams are stressed and overworked, removing dollars for team meetings and culture building (formally culture was important), more and more town halls and Blue pulses - although those meetings and surveys were less and less substantive - saying for the most part nothing. Simply giving the appearance of communication but empty of anything real. Perpetual lack of funding and what is funded is only to minimum viable value, always behind and not addressing technical debt, Anxiety is high, RIF for tenured expensive people short term gain (although with a lot of experience navigating giant enterprise - long term very costly) and now sounds like possibility of early retirement options. For a supposedly giant healthy business it seems far from it. Putting aside the constant exec pay and exec bonus commentary, as a business did the Cigna purchase over-leverage HCSC or are there Convenants in the debt service for that purchase that require certain ratios or performance metrics that should of never been accepted? Should we all be looking for a job now?

Money compounds but character compounds faster - Buffet.

(Reputation, Trust by clients and employees.)

Who thinks Dell is America's greatest company?

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mdell_newsweek-americas-greatest-companies-2025-activity-7391601479037509632-SWLt?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAABWyZkBBjjl_sgcgalJESE5nRysw80KbVs

A recent report has highlighted troubling ethical concerns regarding Verilogue, a medical research firm owned by Publicis Groupe, focused on pharmaceutical marketing research. The report describes how Verilogue incentivized doctors to record real patient conversations, which were then used to optimize marketing strategies for pharmaceutical products, including opi--ds such as OxyContin.

Lawsuits associated with this practice allege that recorded conversations were used to overcome patient concerns and maximize dr-g sales, contributing to the opi--d epidemic and resulting public health crises. While Publicis and Verilogue maintain these recordings were obtained with patient consent and in regulatory compliance, the use of intimate physician-patient dialogue for commercial marketing exploitation raises significant privacy and ethical questions.

This is especially notable given Publicis' previous opi--d-related legal settlements, including a $350 million settlement linked to its broader role in opi--d marketing. The ongoing use of such research methods could further impact Publicis’ reputation and raises calls for ethical reform in medical marketing.

The situation underscores the tension between legal compliance and ethical responsibility in pharmaceutical advertising practices. Users posting here should note the serious implications for patient privacy and public health tied to these practices.

I have landed a new job after being laid off at Optum (so there is hope and rest assured there is life after Optum). As I meet new colleagues and mention my background the recurring theme is “I have a few buddies over there and all of them are desperately trying to jump ship” or similar. On the other side, I have had job seeking friends and even a recruiter I used in past reach out and say “I am looking at a posting there but I hear it’s just terrible” etc. it seems anecdotally that word has hit the street and if when this offshoring fails and they try to refill in US it might not even be possible to get anyone good.

Everyone internally knows it. Now the rest of the world is finding out as well: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/t-files-lawsuit-against-nad-162100639.html

“In the last four years, the National Advertising Division (NAD) has issued at least 16 decisions finding that T-Mobile's advertisements or other marketing claims were false, misleading and/or unsubstantiated.”

Honestly, it's so fake but whatever.

Just wanted to chime in as one of your corporate neighbors in Minneapolis. This is awful and we are thinking of all of you.

Curious if the comp package of your ceo and executive team will change—this is their mismanagement.

Hang in there, our team is disgusted enough to avoid lunch break target runs for awhile. I don’t think that I will ever spend as freely there again- thought they were good employers and corporate citizens.

Avaya told one of the largest customer bases in the world to "F-off", except for the 1500 elites. This screams "Invest in Avaya and we'll always have your back, except when it's advantageous for Avaya". So I'm sure after the mass exodus is complete, the customers will have had the final say.

Several C-levels called out by name on LinkedIN for bad customer service.
Not the first time.
WE know that they never cared about employees, even less than customers.
Difference is, you can't fire customers. But THEY can fire YOU and claim FRAUD.
Sooo, WHICH C-level will put his tool belt on, and fix this thing, because they know everything better than anyone else?
Oooor, ANSWER the PHONE (gasp) in a call center that has yet another WHINING customer on the phone?
Ooor, claim 'isolated incident' caused by disgruntled ex-employees?
Ooor, [Insert spin here].
Let the screaming (or laughs) begin..

Does anyone else feel like targets identity crisis and pr image is as responsible for the decline in sales as anything else? The only thing that makes me think MAYBE there won’t be layoffs is because it really would make Target look sooooo much worse to fire people this close to the holidays and would further perpetuate that image of a company self sabotaging their image. I know they will try to spin it as streamlining and becoming more efficient but I think the public will see through that. The Minnesota nice will fade completely. Any thoughts?

https://www.forbes.com/lists/worlds-best-employers/

The bottom 5% out of 900 companies. How is that possible.

The company is widely hated by the public due to their bad cell service & customer care.

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/bank-america-sued-over-alleged-financial-ties-jeffrey-epstein-2025-10-15/

https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/10/15/jeffrey-epstein-victims-sue-bank-of-america-saying-it-aided-s-x-trafficking-of-teenage-girls/?lctg=24E3B4CF745EB41EC419542515&utm_email=24E3B4CF745EB41EC419542515&g2i_eui=4wUFh7eeWxH8kNFdi2TbXF10sOzDrOI%2foz3Wn%2bBD8fE%3d&g2i_source=newsletter&active=no&utm_source=listrak&utm_medium=email&utm_term=https%3a%2f%2fwww.nydailynews.com%2f2025%2f10%2f15%2fjeffrey-epstein-victims-sue-bank-of-america-saying-it-aided-s-x-trafficking-of-teenage-girls%2f&utm_campaign=trib-new_york_daily_news-breaking_news-nl&utm_content=%23Listrak%5cDateTimeStampNumeric%23

IBM landing at #8 is such a joke.

https://www.forbes.com/lists/worlds-best-employers/

What a joke ... the race to the bottom is over and AT&T won

https://www.wral.com/consumer/5onyourside/utility-boxes-repair-att-september-2025/

Long gone are the days when people dreamed of working at Intel. Now we can’t even attract mediocre employees, and the top talent is avoiding us in wide berths. I fear this kind of loss of reputation is irreparable and we’ll be feeling it for a long time to come.

You cannot make this up. See Arvind going by Arvid last Thursday with Jim Cramer. Amateur hour, dumpster fire, imposter syndrome going on at IBM for far too long. => https://www.cnbc.com/video/2025/09/04/ibm-ceo-arvid-krishna-sits-down-with-jim-cramer.html

Michael Mulvihill of Fox says that “Nielsen’s measurement of YouTube NFL game from last Friday will not be made available to other Nielsen clients.”

He calls it “a flagrant departure from Nielsen’s history of transparency and a slap in the face to long-standing clients.” Bottom line? “When it comes to streamers the rules simply don’t apply.”

And don't forget that NFL sent out a scathing notice telling the world that Nielsen is costing them millions of view and dollars.

CLIENTS ARE FURIOUS AT NIELSEN. I won't be surprised when they move to the competition and Nielsen goes the way of Kodak! I also won't shed a tear for Nielsen!

Just saw some short Fido ad on TV, wow it made it feel like you were joining the team at Walmart…raising the standard by lowering the bar.

You know what's funny? When items in a grocery store get recalled, people talk about it, they don't buy it again, avoid the brand like the plague. When Ford issues a recall notice, what the fu-k do people think?

Not a good look. Its getting a lot of bad mentions on social media. This is probably why they wanted employees to be social media "advocates". (Cue eye roll.)

You want regulators and Congress after you, DC? This is the way.

An acquaintance reached out about a job posting she saw at Medtronic. She asked me what I thought about this company. I made sure to tell her how my group just had several people laid off for no cause in May to help fund our VP's promotion to sr VP. This sr VP also chose to show us all photos from her daughter's multi-week European vacation right after she fired our colleagues and then dumped their work on the rest of us who are left behind. I don't think that acquaintance will be applying to work here after I told her what this company is really like as an employee. Guess actions have consequences. Keep destroying your reputation Medtronic.

No. 5 on PEOPLE's 100 Companies That Care in 2025 list. Because, why not?

https://people.com/100-companies-that-care-list-2025-11784812

What has happened to Enbridge? We used to be top ten but now we are 191? This should be a wake up call for evryone! https://www.forbes.com/lists/canada-best-employers/

Personally, I probably wouldn’t look for another job — I might just sell everything, buy an RV, start a YouTube channel, and travel across the country.