Today is my last with the company after 11 years. I took the VSP but I decided i didnt want to wait till May of 2027. The money would be nice but its not end all be all. Im in a good place to do this. Wish you all the best whatever this company throws at you, it changes like every hour and the direction isnt looking good for all you hard working people who are sticking it out. Y'all take care.
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@12c I feel like I have been blackballed even though I was laid off after what’s going on here. I am trying to rest and enjoy hobbies while trying to find a job and have a contract lined up but I’m not into it at all.
@OP wow this is impressive and courageous to leave and not take that buy out but as someone that was hit with the lay off this round my hats off to you. I know they have staggered these dates for reasons of laying more off and I wish I could have found employment and walked away rather than be laid off after what’s it’s done to me mentally.
@12c thank you and best of luck to you in your semi retirement 😀
@120 Replace the leaders with AI.
@12c Ps. Destroy the reputation of these companies if I could, NOT physically destroy anything. After all, unlike these companies, I am not a law breaker.
@12b Good for you! I also quit, although with Humana about two years ago, as an Indian Director over there was making my life miserable and he was also making my Associate Director make my life miserable. I was offered the early retirement over there about 10 months prior to me quitting. But I turned it down. That is when the Indian Director and Associate Director began to make my life miserable. So, I just quit.
I did try to get work the first four months and had good interviews but nothing then ever came of them. So, I figured that I had been blackballed from the industry and just gave up. So, at least for now, I guess I am retired, or semi-retired. It has been nice to focus on hobbies, reading, and exercising. And no stress anymore. But I would have liked to have been setup financially better first. But I am sort of making it work.i do spend half of my days trying to give these health insurance companies grief the best I can. Kind of an additional hobby, you could say. I would destroy these companies if I could. I will probably continue for the rest of my life or once I hear my two bosses have been fired, which ever comes first.
Anyway, good luck to you!
I also left last Friday! I've been at centene for 10 years. I also took the VSP thinking that my separation date would be 9/4/26 but it turned out to be November 2027. I said f#ck it and retired instead on 9/25/26. I'm loving my first week of retirement!
@dm A good leader would do those things. Centene doesn't have a good leader.
That town hall a couple weeks ago would have been better if Copilot had written AND delivered it. Copilot would have been smart enough to at least fake an appropriate level of concern for employees, and to have presented ANY sort of plan to give the company reason to hope there's a strategy.
SL and her team have made it very clear, in words and deeds, that they are callous, disconnected, and unserious. She might as well have said "Let them eat cake." (Though I guess she kinda did, just about snow cones.).
@dm Nah, the leaders gotta go. Replace them with AI.
@d6 I disagree. No one should be replaced with AI. It’s a tool, use it as such. Leverage it to multiply your output and as an artificial team member. The whole replace with AI thing is mostly a gimmick from the AI companies.
A leader should have a clear vision for the future, and guide the organization making strategic and tactical decisions. A good leader will use their position to create a sound and resourceful work environment where people’s needs are met and they can do their job to the fullest, then profits will come. It’s prioritizing employees ultimately benefiting shareholders with profits through a good structure and competent people.
@OP Best wishes to you..I have 14 years and a May date also.. Actively job searching. This environment is toxic and hoping I can secure employment and walk away. I was once so proud to be part of this organization. So sad to see this all unfold.
@c0 That is precisely WHY leaders need to be replaced with AI. Because AI can make non-ego, non-emotional decisions for the good of the company.
The leaders are trying to convince the Board of Directors the workers (below leadership) needs to be replaced with AI. Well, of course they would; that is called self-preservation.
But really the leadership needs to be replaced with AI. THAT is the future!
@bp zero assessment of team member responsibilities, and functional impact.. zero allocation of resources to help teams transition. Zero strategy..
It seems they just throw ideas at the wall to see what sticks. No cause / effect analysis.. just egos vibe leading I guess
Good thing AI is the future of the company. Not quite sure how though.. Promising leadership!
@a3 yea. Staggered vsp and then still did a rif. Total bullsh-t lies I hate these people
The bait and switch indeed. They engendered a sense of fear in many of us saying, "if not enough people do the VSP, we're still going to lay people off in August". Then because so many people did it, now they're backfilling for positions and now hiring or at least posing as if they are. I'm honestly really pi---d because it makes me feel like I could have just stayed. Every day it's something new. It's a madhouse in SBHP.
Same i left last week and the grass is definitely greener and less stressful!
Congratulations and good luck. It was truly unethical the way they bait-and-switched people with VSP. Hope you're going somewhere with good leaders and a sense of decency.
Today is my last day too! 6 years! No VSP. New job. 👋🏻
the amount of talent leaving is insane!
When will we learn to double down on the people we know are good? Maybe in the next hour?
May 27’ , they did such a horrible job at planning all of this.. laughable