Thread regarding Humana Inc. layoffs

How to Lead People Who Treat Every Minor Inconvenience Like a Human Rights Violation

Good morning, team. 😊

First of all, I want to thank everyone for being here today, especially those of you who managed to arrive without turning a minor scheduling conflict into a full-blown emotional support emergency.

Truly inspiring.

Today, I want to talk about leadership. Specifically, how we lead a team of people who apparently believe that every task is unreasonable, every change is a personal attack, and every expectation is something that should have been discussed in a committee.

Because here’s the thing: leadership is not the art of making sure nobody is ever uncomfortable. It’s the art of getting things done while everyone involved develops the resilience to survive an email.

I know change is hard. I know accountability can feel uncomfortable. And I fully understand that sometimes, things don’t go exactly the way we wanted.

But at some point, we have to ask ourselves: are we facing a genuine obstacle, or are we simply experiencing the consequences of being asked to do our jobs?

Because those are two very different things.

Imagine if, instead of responding to every new responsibility with a 14-part explanation of why it’s inconvenient, we simply assessed the situation and figured out what needed to happen.

And imagine if we could receive constructive feedback without behaving like someone had just revoked our streaming subscriptions and canceled our three day weekend.

I am not asking anyone to be perfect. We all make mistakes. We all get frustrated. We all have days when the last thing we want to do is deal with another person’s nonsense.

The difference is that SOME people manage their frustration, while OTHERS apparently believe it is a team-building exercise to make sure everyone else experiences it with them.

And respectfully, we ARE going to GET TO WORK on that.

I realize that may be a difficult message to receive. Please take whatever time you need to process it. I’ll give you a moment.

Because I know that complaining is easy. Criticizing is easy. Name calling is easy. Let's stop confusing resistance with constant negativity.

Until then, I remain committed to supporting your growth.

Because apparently, we still have some growing to do.

Thank you. Let's get to work. 🙂


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Post ID: @OP+1m61ngfsr

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@ef totally. Humana seems to be paying people to come here and click on those likes AND leave nice comments, when we all know the truth... Humana s.u.c.k.s. (sux to work there, most managers are inept and s.u.c.k, and upper leadership doesn't care!)

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Post ID: @n2+1m61ngfsr

@OP - you are showcasing exactly why employees question the decisions you all make and the "guidance" you think you give. Absolutely delusional and laughable. Have you never learned how to truly lead? I'd say no based on this post. A true leader, a really good leader, works alongside their TEAM rather than harassing them for having critical thinking skills and more knowledge in their sleep than people like you have on your best day lol.

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Post ID: @kc+1m61ngfsr

Imagine being so tone deaf, so lacking in introspection, and so intellectually bankrupt that you mistake employees complaining about your personal and professional failures, your inept leadership, and your grandiose delusions of competency with issues related to an email. OP, you’re a clown 🤡 and without your fugazi title everyone would treat you with the contempt and disrespect you so rightly deserve and have earned.

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Post ID: @k8+1m61ngfsr

@ed Totally agree. It totally is a disgusting post.

Not sure if yesterday morning was some planned orchestrated bombardment of leaders on this site spewing their hate and contempt for employees.

If so, I hope they learn what NOT to do!

And if by chance it was just a single misguided leader, I hope they figure out whom that was and get them the much needed leadership classes they obviously need.

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Post ID: @ef+1m61ngfsr

@OP - what a disgusting post! This company's leadership is a joke!

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Post ID: @ed+1m61ngfsr

@a1 I am assuming you are speaking of me. I have never posted on Reddit nor have an account there.

But I am glad leaders like you post stuff like this because you are simply showcasing your true selves, your true nature, you lack of empathy and someday, unless Humana completely goes bankrupt, someday there will have to be a new set of higher leadership, more honorable, that will see things, as to its bully mean-spirited middle level leadership and realize they had better completely clean house as to those very bad leaders.

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Post ID: @ah+1m61ngfsr

@a4 Yeah, most leaders on Associate Directors and Directors are spineless little “yes” men that couldn’t properly lead a team out of an open door elevator.

I know what true leadership is, and trust me, what Humana has for Associate Directors and Directors is NOT IT.

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Post ID: @ac+1m61ngfsr

Artificially upvoting your own posts. Godspeed.

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Post ID: @ab+1m61ngfsr

Peak irony here!! Being this pressed because not everyone wants to join your corporate villain origin story. And oof calling everyone bootlickers doesn’t make you enlightened, Ken. It makes you exhausting and ignorant. Imagine calling people bootlickers WHILE throwing a tantrum because they don’t share your opinion. Not every disagreement is a TED Talk, not every coworker needs your manifesto, and not everyone who disagrees with you is brainwashed.

Touch grass, log off, and let your blood pressure come down pops. This isn’t that deep 😂

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Post ID: @a9+1m61ngfsr

Imagine if, instead of blindly applauding every half-baked policy management rolls out, we exercised an ounce of critical thinking and questioned whether these decisions were reasonable, consistent, or even remotely conducive to doing our jobs effectively.

Management has demonstrated a staggering lack of foresight, transparency, and basic consideration for employees. Expectations vary wildly across teams, policies are implemented without meaningful explanation, and employees are subjected to surveillance so excessive that even a single minute of inactivity is treated as a disciplinary concern.

But sure, the problem is employees asking questions, not the astonishing incompetence of the people making the decisions.

There’s a difference between being adaptable and being a spineless corporate bootlicker. If your idea of professionalism is unquestioningly accepting dysfunctional management practices, congratulations on having absolutely no standards.

Cope harder. Get a life outside of defending a corporation that wouldn’t hesitate to replace you tomorrow.

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Post ID: @a5+1m61ngfsr

I have to admit, I’m surprised that someone in a leadership position would choose to write something like this anonymously. I suppose leadership and accountability don’t always go hand in hand.

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Post ID: @a4+1m61ngfsr

@a2 what does any of that have to do with the post?

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Post ID: @a3+1m61ngfsr

@OP You can spin things how you want but many let go by Humana, people on many levels, and even persons still there, they all know the reality.

Humana needs to do much more than improve things, they need a complete leadership overhaul, desperately.

So, go ahead snd keep spinning your little lies to make the company appear normal and above reproach. Eventually, as you do more and more layoffs, displacing America citizens with non-American citizens, more people will see things for what they are and will also begin to speak out.

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Post ID: @a2+1m61ngfsr

Fire them and go watch their tears on Reddit (that's all where they are claiming their manager was a sociopath)

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Post ID: @a1+1m61ngfsr

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