express scripts anyway. tons of employees on my team just got scheduled for 15 minute meetings today and thursday all at different times, people starting to ask about it
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HR doesn't have the decency to attend and answer a few questions about what's next. Cold. they treat long time employees like they treat policy holders they deny treatment to.
Anybody heard anything so far?
@ep sounds like you could have been my direct manager back in October 2023. Thursday morning 1:1, scheduled for over a week on my calendar, script read, no HR, call over. Total blindside.
@a4 Can someone share on here if they have ever been laid off in the afternoon?
HR is only needed depending on the level of the person being JE’d. High Band 5 and up.
Most are just done by the manager.
Does your manager know if you’re getting laid off or are they in the dark too?
@em That is untrue. I have terminated someone due to a RIF without an HR member present. It was a morning of 1:1 and I read the script and sent information to her personal email.
You are a number on the spreadheet the HR person has to coordinate with others to ececute the tasks. They have to have an HR person there in the meeting, They have to coordinate with IT to cut your access. They have to have security walk you out if you are on site with a box. They will send you the box to send back your pc and equiptment if you are off site. The goal is to do it quick and fast, move onto the next person, with as little drama as possible.
They spent the week so far telling your managers who is getting cut, when, and sent them the script. It takes a few full days to do mass layoffs. Thursday and Friday wih a few straglers next week.
Cigna is shrinking to survive or to be brought out. Senior executives dont have the same worries the help has.
@OP For employees told today, what is the effective termination date?
Yes, mine happened on my normal 1:1 regularly scheduled
Would they use your regular 1 on 1 to lay you off? I don't see anyone else cc'ed for the 1 on 1.
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@OP Condolences. It makes no sense. Express Scripts is a profit engine. Why mess with it?
If there are alot of layoffs, the meeting times are scattered. There is a page with 1 or 2 paragraphs that they need to read from during that call. Their response to all your questions will be around the line of, this difficult decision was made due to ongoing changes that impacted all Cigna. Which is a lie because unprofessional and untrained so called leaders made the decisions based on how many times you challenged their strategies. My manager didn't even bother to pronounce my name right for that terminal call. They were very disrespectful and uneducated individual who is still there, getting paid and in line of promotion with 0 deliverables, only because of their nationality. That person has many complaints against them with HR and Ethics but no action has been done to resolve the situation for the hardworking employees.
@OP I always thought they happened first thing in the morning without any prior notice. Sounds very odd.
There are only so many HR people to go around.
Aren’t layoff meetings usually first thing in the morning?