Unlike most people here, none of us from my small and rather insular team want to leave Optum. We work normal hours, are compensated well for it, and our boss keeps telling us we're safe. He has no reason to be lying, at least none that I know. I can't lie and say I'm never worried, though, hence me being here in the first place.
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@ey And yet you are here on this board...LOL.
@b1 you are obviously a manager or someone earning more than the rest of us peons. Lesser skilled employees as you so elegantly put it. I wonder if you could do even half of what I do on a daily basis with my “lesser skills” I wish I could say two word here that would get my point across but I will keep it professional with my lesser skills set
Lesser skilled? Not true.
@OP Your boss means well, but having been a manager there myself, your manager is probably deceiving themselves.
In the USA 'at will employment' means there's no guarantee that tomorrow you won't be let go.
@ew No, most people who work just aren't chronically online over analyzing everything. The overwhelming majority of this company has survived through hundreds of layoffs but you and this site parade around acting like the world is collapsing every Thursday.
@b1 workers "happy with their roles" are foolish if not checking external sources for information.
I'm embarrassed but not surprised how many people are unaware of CVS, implications of the midterm elections or so much duplicity and increasing headcount growth in the UHG corporate level doing meaningful work that will replace teams across Optum including recent hires.
People not talking about dysfunction are SLT/ELT on contracts and the rest are Eloi ignoring reality.
Haha until a new VP comes in.
It’s always safe until it’s not anymore.
I agree with this! I love my team and my job. I don’t think health insurance for myself is that crazy either. I’m grateful for my pay and remote work. I try to remember the majority of people commenting are from teams who have been affected and I’m sorry there are so many teams out there with impacts
I feel the same way. I think I'm also in a very insulated and niche group because the vast majority of the layoffs I see tend to be lesser skilled work.
I do think there are pockets of Optum like ours. My manager and team are fantastic, we have tons of work, and my manager has also been adamant about not hearing anything on the layoff front.
Remember, people coming to layoff.com are going to be biased inherently. This place will always skew toward the negative. Workers happy with their roles tend to not lurk layoff boards.
If you aren’t RIF’d then be prepared to get relocated. The smaller teams are getting thrown everywhere.
He doesn't want to create panic and have you all jump ship before the layoffs happen (someone has to do the work in the meantime)