#culture

If we all band together and collectively don’t follow the 8 hours in office, it’ll create so much extra work for mangers, hr, etc. The documented discussions, write ups, pips, involving HR.

They are already extremely tired of hearing and talking about RTO.

I’m not saying don’t go in at all or coffee badge. Get your 3/4 days in and stay 4-6 hours. But don’t do anymore. Show them that we are willing to go in and put our time in but not for 8 hours.

There is no uhg office in the city next to where I live. We have two optum medical clinics which are very small. I don’t even see a uhg/uhc building anywhere on maps. Is there a way internally or otherwise to look up an “office” and what that even is defined by? (I am not in MN or DC, but wondered how this looks in other states).

Its clear to see with how easy people are jumping to conclusions just how broken this company is. Constantly having to wonder will you be next. Dreading announcements, dreading town halls - its a slow, exhausting and emotional mental game. This company has lost the ability all together to value employees, make them feel appreciated for their contributions. There is no trust. Understand a corporation doesnt owe anyone loyalty but a hint of transparency would be nice. Instead of a message that promotes a long, fulfilling career that will provide you growth opportunity and purpose. As if the fact that the constant eroding of personnel doesnt impact us left both professionally and personally. We shoulder more work while inherting more risk our time will soon be up.

I'd say "hopefully HR is taking note"; except HR doesnt give a s#it about Canadian workers or Imperial Oil.

Sad what this company has become.

This current commercial running is so hilarious. It’s like Dell has anything to do with AI! Face it folks this is a hardware platform PC on antiquated Windows OS LOL😂

I truly think Headquarters should be moved to Richardson. As long as HQ is in Chicago, the “Chicago Way of Doing Things” will continue to prevail over our company culture. Talking a good game, but not really looking out for our members… giving in to political pressure over doing what’s right…. Looking good is more important than being good…

Our company has been in a downward spiral ever since PHH said we were ‘in it to win it’ in regards to the healthcare exchange after the Affordable Healthcare Act was passed. I appreciated her vision and that of Paula after her, but HCSC did not move quickly enough to modernize our systems, too many decision makers stifled and snuffed out true innovation. Projects and great ideas get stalled in committee to this day. We are wanting to grow grow grow, but we aren’t insightful enough to truly be ready for the growth. HCSC employees do our best but we can’t work round the clock, 365 days a year. Dedication cannot overcome lack of true leadership from the top.

I’m proud of every employee that has stayed the course. Our members deserve our best, and I see if from my fellow employees and our direct management every day.

I admit I'm old and not familiar with a lot of"slang" so I looked up 10 toes... here's what I found "slang for being fully loyal, and grounded in a belief, cause, or person". I could have sworn the message from Stinkeye was he didn't want loyalty (either given or expected) he wanted commitment? Am I missing something 😕

I left ATT in 2020 after 28 years. It wasn't my first choice at that time, but I had an existing side gig that quickly became a full-time job. I sold that business and officially retired from the workforce in June 2025. This led to several necessary interactions with ATT. Those interactions went fairly well. I have been out of pocket for 5 years, and there is a burning question, WHEN did ATT hire all of these whiners? Maybe the better questions are HOW and WHY? Are they unable to recognize obvious character flaws during their hiring and vetting? A common takeaway from the posts on this forum is a complete lack of personal responsibility for the position in which you find yourselves, and that you want someone else to fix it for you. I have a tip for you that you should have learned when you were 12 years old. The position in which you find yourself today is but a stepping stone to the position you could be in tomorrow. Prepare yourselves. Mama and daddy aren't going to make things all better.

It’s 535am where I am. I woke up in a good mood and a friend asked me about a work get together that is happening in Feb. I’m somewhat newer at the company. The gathering would require staying with co-workers in a winter cabin for 2-3 days. Having been burned, mistreated, abused, dumped on and sabotaged for so many years at Oracle, social situations for lengthy time, esp if alcohol is involved, it gives me anxiety. All of this comes from so many years at oracle around people I couldn’t trust or people who were just flat out terrible people to work with. Liars, frauds, fake. Do we have these at every company? Probably…..but man….it’s sad what a place like Oracle does to people for the rest of their lives. I realize more and more as I get older that it was the worst experience of my life and one I regret every day. I am so thankful I will never ever have to go back.

https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Wells-Fargo-E8876-RVW100239515.htm

Its time to stop the insanity!

It’s beyond frustrating to watch how remote employees — many of whom have dedicated years to this company — are being slowly frozen out. If leadership has already decided that remote workers outside a few select hubs have no future here, the right thing to do is be transparent and offer severance, not string people along with empty promises and blocked opportunities.

They’ve dismantled Tech Risk under the guise of org consolidation and pushed everything into the new Corporate Functions structure. Fine. But now, they’re openly saying they’ll only hire into this “new” org if you’re located in Minneapolis, Charlotte, or New York. Translation: if you’re not physically near a hub, your career progression stops here — and you can’t even apply for internal roles.

No options. No support. Just silence.

The message is loud and clear — and it’s incredibly disrespectful to the people who’ve been loyal through tough times, reorgs, and chaos. If you’re going to treat remote employees like they don’t exist, at least have the decency to let them go with dignity — not hang them out to dry while pretending everything’s business as usual.

Chevron is full of toxic people who are lazy and if you’re a hard worker and go against the grain you get fired. Toxic a-s employees and employer

Way to be tone deaf. Let’s discuss the idea of going on vacation to scuba dive, and then have two other executives join in, expressing their desire to dive or visit the exotic location mentioned. Do they think we can all afford not just the airfare but also the opportunity to scuba dive whenever we wish? Let’s pose more questions to highlight the class disparity between the WIM executives and us, the lower peon workers.
I am very pleased that my name was featured in the anniversary presentation. It genuinely makes me feel appreciated. Perhaps now I can attempt snorkeling in one of the Great Lakes.
Additionally, MM was hired solely because her last name resembles the same nationality as CT. She is not the brightest bulb, lots of corporate jargon and double speak.

Is anyone else exhausted by this charade?
How long does management think we’ll swallow the spin?
How long can they hide behind slogans, “initiatives,” and empty town halls before admitting what everyone already knows?

There is no grand plan.
There never was.

The lie runs through the veins of this place — not a glitch, but the system itself.
The lie is we-ponized: a tool to keep people quiet, compliant, expendable.
The lie isn’t covering cracks anymore — it is the foundation, and it’s already rotting through.

What we’re left with is a company lurching from crisis to crisis, too disorganized to lead, too arrogant to listen, and too malicious to care about the people keeping the lights on.

And the worst part?
They think we’ll keep buying it.

...it feels a little better to know that this company is also sh-----g in it's employees who've been around longer. I feel less picked on. Maybe we have been getting the HCSC experience all along.

Anyone else fed up with Lexmark belittling everything that Xerox has ever done, despite not exactly being a high performing company themselves. Every.single.meeting it is all about Lexmark/ they are great / we will do it the Lexmark way / Xerox you don’t know anything …. Where are the XErox SLT supporting “their staff” and ensuring there is some balance in the integration conversations. They have turned coats quicker than the blink of an eye. No moral compass. Faceless, feckless and weak.

A serious question: I'm not excited about joining HPE. Does anyone else have the same feeling?

what’s the latest with The Barn? We haven’t had a Barn post in a while, so thought we should check in. You good?

It seems that some people are using this forum to vent personal frustrations rather than to provide constructive feedback. Calling out individuals or departments in an attempt to damage reputations or careers is neither productive nor fair. If you have legitimate concerns about a leader or colleague, the appropriate channels are HR or Ethics & Compliance—not anonymous posts.

While I agree that some resources may not be performing at the level expected, it’s not accurate or fair to paint entire departments, such as IT, in a negative light. Many leaders are working under significant constraints—limited funding, strict policies, and the usual corporate red tape—that can make progress difficult. From my own interactions, I know at least one leader who is frequently criticized here genuinely cares about making improvements and increasing efficiency. It’s unfair for them to carry the blame alone.

That said, accountability is important at all levels. I’ve observed managers who don’t take their responsibilities seriously, ignore feedback, or fail to address concerns. This results in underperforming teams, outdated or conflicting policies, and unnecessary frustration. However, blaming leaders who are actively trying to make a difference only distracts from the real issues.

Before criticizing others, I encourage everyone to reflect on whether they themselves are meeting expectations and contributing fully. Constructive feedback and personal accountability will do far more to improve our workplace than anonymous negativity.

Sociopathy is Rewarded in Corporate Culture

The corporate world often values and rewards traits associated with sociopathy, such as ruthlessness, vision, and high focus on goals. Steve Jobs is often cited as a model of leadership where these qualities were admired. This focus on cutthroat tactics and maximizing quarterly profits means that when a toxic boss acts toxically, they may be rewarded, not reprimanded, for their "success."

The Toxic Paradox: Kiss Up, Kick Down

Toxic people have mastered the art of "kiss up, kick down":

Kiss Up: They expend all their effort su-king up to the boss and higher-ups, focusing on perception as the most important element of career success.

Kick Down: They sabotage co-workers, spread vicious gossip, withhold crucial information, or take credit for others' work.

Cognitive Dissonance: When higher-ups consider a toxic person their favorite, they will justify the person's poor performance to advance them. Management may even gaslight a good employee who raises concerns by shifting the blame onto them.

Toxic Work Environments are Enabled at the Top

Weak or ill-equipped leadership creates and enables the toxic environment:

Underinvestment in Training: Many companies underinvest in basic management or leadership training, leading to ineffective leaders.

Poor Modeling: When a toxic executive is at the top, their leadership style—characterized by unrealistic expectations, setting people up to fail, and openly berating people—trickles down and is modeled by other leaders, rapidly declining the work environment.

Insecure Leaders: Many people pursue leadership for validation, power, or to feel important, making them insecure leaders who may tolerate other toxic people.

Toxic people are the Bigger Problem (and Harder to Deal With)

In many cases, management knows a toxic person is a problem but doesn't fire them because they are the bigger liability.

The manager (e.g., "Ted") realizes the toxic person (e.g., "Carol") would "lose her sh-t, file complaints, and cause all sorts of headaches" if confronted. The manager may instead choose to reprimand the more agreeable, non-toxic employee who they know will try to "keep the peace."

1. Their Reputation Matters More Than Results

Ultimately, toxic people are experts at exploiting the idea that their reputation with the higher-ups matters way more than results. They become untouchable once they establish influence with executive leadership.

Most people try to either play dirty office politics or avoid them, but the third option is to learn how to play office politics using simple power moves to make yourself immune from their tactics. But how? Does any of this ring a bell for you?

All of us in-office employees have been standing around talking about this site. There are so many new users here this week, it's going to be the new employee water-cooler going forward.

Where do I begin? After reading all of these and talking to fellow employees who I have known for 20 years, I have lost faith that we are capable of being a company that cares about its employees and customers. I have been here long enough to know people in all departments so I have been talking to them to see if what is written here is true. Time after time they were able to show me proof of….well…everything. I cannot believe we have arrived here after all of the things we had gone through years ago. I thought we learned that doing things right and doing so by doing the right things for our employees and customers mattered. How can we keep secrets about mold and hackers instead of being honest and simply telling them what we are doing about it. Bad things happen. They do in every company but bad companies lie and try to manipulate the masses and their customers. Is that reallly who we want to be?

I have also gotten to know many leaders here and that includes the new security VP. Isn’t it clear that he doesn’t have the ethical and moral compass to lead one of the positions that require ethics the most. And I am not even bringing up the lack of experience. And you wonder why he isn’t getting things done fast enough and rather throws shade and excuses on others? Do not those articles and what he has already spoken about to many of us even trigger that he is not the right fit for our beloved company, or any other Fortune 500? He is already causing problems with his rethoric and loose lips and I know many of you talk about how you don’t like or trust him. A couple of you have done it when I am around. What else is left? There are over 3000 employees on one of the posts that are screaming for help as one poster so eloquently mentioned on her post. One section below has over 70 thousand hits. That seems to be more than any other company in layoffs.com so take a bow at the damage you are causing to our company name. Especially since you all know customers read these and so will the decision makers who will select the leadership once we merge. Yes we know about that too. His very existence has already caused division and spread rumors that are all turning out to be true and hurts US Foods deeply. For Pete’s sake ELT, do what you know is right. There was a time we knew what great looked like and made the difficult choices easily. Give our coworkers a voice again to report situations that may be dangerous or wrong. The fact that they aren’t able to do that should give you pause and at least 3 and a half thousand employees already have spoken up. Actually, my friends in HR said their own leaders up to the top know the verdict is already out. For Pete sake, put the needs of the employees first.

And these decisions to lie or deceive. Who are we kidding here. Have you forgotten how clear you used to see poor leaders trying to minimize harm and doing so by lying rather than confronting the issues. Be bold and ethical. When all of you weren’t in your current executive positions, do you remember how you felt when things were kept in silent and evasive or hidden actions would happen from your leaders or executives you really wanted to believe in? Do you really want to treat us as blind id--ts? We see and know it all because we are a large yet small company with friends in every department. The IT exec needs to tell the truth of what happened and how you are addressing it and care enough about our employees to tell them enough about the breach to let them know they should not be fearful. Let them know all is well and that all you are doing to try to prevent another attack. The password leaks are scary and we don’t know what that means. Some of us do because we have friends in IT security who tell us but most employees don’t. We understand it is difficult to prevent a hack and won’t lose faith when it happens. Some of the most secure and powerful companies and governments have been hacked. It is not surprising or scary but your lack of honesty and treating us like id--ts is. That same thing goes for the mold and the violence and threat incidents. Do I need to really tell our leaders that transparency brings trust and that harsh consequences for those types of bad employees, create safer work places?

I lie awake at night next to my husband wondering when we will have leaders remember who they were when they were rising and who once said “I will be different when I have that job. I will lead my teams with dignity and honesty”. When and how did that change? But it’s not too late to listen to your heart and us employees and simply do what’s right and take the actions you need to take. We may be merging in the future and who do you think those holding the most stocks and power will want to retain as the new company’s leaders. The executives from one company that dont even get the trust or respect from their employees? Those that lie and deceive rather than speak up boldly and address how problems will be overcome? Those that make bigger profits the right way and with compassion for your employees? Is how you are acting the way you want to teach your children to be?

Please be who I know most of you to be and start to lead and take the necessary moves you need to make. I have seen the comments of lies, cheating to hire some employees, inequality in hiring for positions, taking people who had a proven poor past and were caught lying in articles and admitted to lying, handling work place violence poorly, badly managed safery incidents, etc etc etc. Read these articles and rather than do damage control and trying to find out who the 4000 employees are that are revealing everything, why not just fix the problems themselves . It is a noble idea and actions of true leaders. Your employees are reaching to you for help. Led them and win their trust and respect us again. It is all we are asking for from our executives and friends for which we cheered for to climb that ladder because we believed in them and a vision of true leadership. Be who we all hoped and believed you would be.

Who is really running things there? Why has neither HR or ethics and compliance team taken any action?

100% of the people I spoke to hate the new in office. It’s to get us to quit with zero severance. If you hate this policy then quit all your ERNs, don’t do any volunteer work or company wide events. Clock in, job, clock out. Don’t show for town halls. Let’s aim for zero participation and see if HR can push back on these ridiculous measures.

It’s been made clear that some of the pending and recent “promotions” have more to do with loyalty than skill, especially in areas like Data Management and Product. RED FLAG with layoffs coming, because people who question the approach often end up on the wrong lists (look at that orgs perimeter list alone). Best advice: DOCUMENT your work, keep your head down, and be ready in case decisions are made to protect someone’s inner circle instead of the SMEs or high performers, sadly in that org it’s clear your work or having any skills don’t matter.
*** Be prepared to prove it, save everything!

How do the 17,000 technology employees grow the company's bottom line?

Which has a better work environment?

https://www.reddit.com/r/developersIndia/s/IRDuqwVf86

It'd be weird to be quiet about this.

I’ve endured subtle and not-so-subtle racism in my years at HCSC. Microaggressions. Being talked over. Dismissed. Having to defend my competence, explain my presence, constantly prove myself. I got myself in grippy socks a couple of times due to the stress.

I reported things. I followed the “right channels.” I tried to hold people accountable, not because I wanted to be a revolutionary, but because I thought the company cared and I thought it would/could get better.

And now, as layoffs roll out, I find myself wondering: what was all that for? I fought to stay in a place that never really cared about me. Now I see people being walked out with no warning. And I could be next.

HCSC talks about values, but culture lives in how people treat each other, and how leadership responds when they don't. For many of us, the silence has BEEN loud.

I personally felt he demonstrated why our company is ranked # 567 out of 600 Companies for Employee Culture.
He said nothing new but did double down that in spite of reading the survey comments, nothing is going to change.
Let me repeat that… Nothing is going to change.
He symbolizes what is wrong with our once great company.
Bravado yet doesn’t know what he doesn’t know.

You would think if you were getting a $20+ million dollar compensation package to eventually fire most of Discover, that you’d have the courage to do it in person. Classy move Dan.

Doesn’t seem like the culture at Capone would be worthwhile to stay around for anyways. A culture powered by PIPs and toxic management sounds like it a top place to avoid, not one you should be interested in working at.

Every one pats each other on the back and then pretends like any of this matters. While the whole world is a sh*t show

Anyone notice in 1400 the sign saying "Inspiring the next generation of scientists, engineers and problem solvers" and think like everything else our leaders are tone deaf? Do they mean inspiring the next generation of Indian Engineers?

Heard that on Cisco beat. Just gross

I swear if one more ex-CVS Health exec starts working here, we should start doing flu shots in the course materials area.

Tell us you're filling the company with c-suite buddies instead of investing in the stores without telling us.

Who is voting for this cr-p?