The Layoffs
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Aetna here...we know Karen is to blame. But Aetna was not in any sort of downfall or failure. We were at the top of our game . Stock was in 3 digits. Yes we still had layoffs every year before Christmas but bertolini sold us out and then everything went to shiz.
All those people from cvs that did that and the legacy cvs board members are all gone! Can’t be said about the Aetna board members!
Ok then. If Aetna is a millstone around your neck then who is the brain trust that agreed to buy the vile pile of cr-p that it is? The geniuses of CVS. Same people that blame others for the troubles that belong to all of us now. Not a one of us should be pointing fingers.
If they should have never merged than Aetna leadership shouldn’t have agreed. Don’t blame cvs for being bigger and more successful and giving Aetna an offer to escape their failures and Aetna agreeing and saying yes!
No Aetna person is arguing that Karen is incompetent. She clearly is, regardless of what leadership positions she has had. The argument by Aetnites is that the two companies should never have merged.
I love the pro Aetna anti cvs sentiment of some posters. The “dime store” dr-g chain person has become a classic. But also, great amazing Aetnaphiles, it’s your leadership team that’s running CVSH these days. Karen is one of YOURS. Much of the ELT is legacy Aetna or brought in by Karen. As far as I can tell, Aetna was a bloated organization with leaders who saw fit to put Karen in a position to take up space as CEO after the merger.
I am so sorry to hear about your layoff. The irony of this is CVS has been posting an open position with national accounts on LinkedIn for days…
National Accounts colleague- so sorry.
Was 23 yrs with Aetna. Remote full time since 2017. National accounts. Let go today.
Is it remote till retirement, been 4 years in Software team , aetna to cvs
I like the pto, work life balance .
Parasitic WITCH company IT and the nepotism flowing straight from the new CTO will finish off the company
Below poster; I have thought the same thing. How could be purchased by CVS been a good idea??? One of the things that I really liked when I came to work there, was the longevity of all its employees. Now no one can feel secure and have that kind of tenure with KL in charged and/or being owned by CVS. What a nightmare.
Weird to think a fabled insurance company that was doing so well saw the best path forward as getting bought out.
Aetna leadership and board had a choice to be acquired… did they make the wrong one? Weird to think who runs cvs health now too…
I’m observing that the push is to make working conditions unbearable to reduce the need for layoffs. Evil incarnate.
All Middle Management gonna be out
Dime store pill pusher bought iconic insurance company with 170 year history
bloated teams of people, software engineers, testers remote for years and no work,
watching movies from 2019-2024 , aetna now cvs