I read this forum and it seems like everyone hates this place. But I don't. I'm not thrilled with the uncertainty, but I genuinely enjoy the work. I hope I can keep doing it. Is there anyone else out there who feels the same?
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@OP I love it honestly
20 years employee here. I enjoy my work, and my co-workers. I don't like our executive leadership, and the direction they go. However, I am paid well and I take advantage of every perk i'm eligible for. I am using them, as much as they use me. The grass might seem greener somewhere else, but having worked at small and large companies like J&J, P&G, and Kraft I can say with certainty that its pretty much the same everywhere. Except small companies that I worked for... and never will again. It was like working in a JR high, a toxic swamp. Sure this company reorgs way too often, but its been that way the entire time i've worked here. Take advantage of everything you can, I have several degrees i've let them pay for.
@g3 Well stated and I totally agree!!
@jn - I generally agree, but IMO the culture rot started more than a few years ago. I point to the period when "G-Mac" rose to power, near the end of the Joe Swedish years. Gloria's culture was very anti-WAH, and anti-employee in general. When Gail came onboard, she was of a like mind and the feedback loop between those two accelerated the culture rot. It's been a downhill slide for the past decade. Prior to that, this was a much better place to work.
If you had asked me 3+ years ago how I felt about working at Anthem/Elevance Health I would have a much different response that I have today.
As someone who’s been with the company for over 27 years I can confidently say that a shift, not only in culture but in general Associate respect, has occurred in the last few years. The fact that individuals who were full-time remote, with overall exceptional performance reviews year after year, for five or 10 years prior to Covid are now being forced back into the office for seemingly no reason is offensive. And yes, I realize this is a seemingly first world problem but that doesn’t change the impact, nor does it change the perception that it’s being done as a punitive measure despite performance evidence otherwise.
Basically all of this is to say this is not the same company that it was three or four years ago. And even though I am trying to hang on for the next six or seven years until my retirement age, I am for the first time unhappy with my job and the work.
I like my job very much and each day I have an opportunity to go to work...I am grateful. Sure there is some stress and uncertainty, but you will have that at any job and it is just a fact of life and part.of being alive. Each day I am grateful for what I have ...because I have a job.
I had a good enough job with funding before, then a person cried in a meeting, said "You know who you are" My manager treated me poorly since. and I no longer had consistent work.
The person later rose up and became a manager. I am on the verge of losing my job. And I'm still confused and have no idea what was said about me.
I talked to this person 4 times total, At least 3 of those was to transfer knowledge. Last one was to answer her question.
Enjoyed the work that was in the original job description. But didn’t like when another 1/2 time job doing off the books urgent manual cleanup of bad data was added (while senior management lied that things were functional and automated). The team couldn’t get rewarded or compensated for doing the extra work because they wouldn’t admit it was happening. Then the layoffs started because we were supposedly automated - so then didn’t enjoy doing the work of 2-3 people when jobs were eliminated. Hired fully remote and told I had to go into the office 1 day then three. That was 6 hours of commute time. Thankfully was able to leave the organization. If you are only doing the one job you were hired to do consider yourself lucky, but likely your organization hasn’t been targeted for re-org or automation yet. As soon as you hear references to efficiency or using AI to help you do your job know that the improvements are about improving the bottom line and your job and workload are about to change and not for the better.
@OP I also like it here! I stalk this page because I’m so scared of potential layofss
@ek so true. My Dad just paid $2200 for his hearing aids and he has Medicare Advantage plan. If the cover anything towards hearing aids it can’t be very much.
@cf what hearing aids are you talking about? The cheapest REAL hearing aids not off the shelf junk are thousands of dollars, dental work is thousands of dollars, eye glasses can be hundreds of dollars
Read the room and the previous posts on this site.
Yes. I enjoy my work, department, pay, etc
@c7 The costs of vision, dental, hearing are very minor expenses compared to if an aged person has a need for an expensive catastrophic claim needing to get approved and paid, such as cardiac, transplant, cancer, etc.
Cataract surgery is covered under medical so as far as vision goes, an average person sees an optometrist once every three years and the cost for an exam and glasses is on average $300. Dental, for $45 a month a person can get dental insurance on own. And most dentist offices have their own cheap discount plans that cover cleanings and xrays. Hearing, usually you may need to pay $300 to $400 for a set of hearing aids that may last you five or more years.
So, I ask you, is having a Medicare Advantage plan that offers dental, vision, and hearing worth it if you have an expensive catastrophic claim like cancer, transplant, cardiac, etc. that these large for profit health insurance corporations will most likely deny???
We hear about these denials all the time on the evening news. In some cases it is AI making the decision.
@bh so many people get extra help with the plans though, vision, dental and hearing are draws for the elderly because they should be included in healthcare in general but are not
I've been here for a long time for a reason. I've enjoyed my job, my teams, et cetera. I still do. I still enjoy the nuts and bolts of my job, and I've made genuinely good friends here, which spans from leaders to counterparts to peers to facilities and IT.
Unfortunately, being here for so long shows me how much it has changed at a corporate level, which is the crux of the issue for me.
@OP you must work offshore
I sincerely want for everyone to be gainfully employed but aside from that, I really want and think it would be best if all the large health insurance corporations that offer Medicare advantage would be done away with and things would just go back to Traditional (Original) Medicare with Supplemental plan.
I think corporations such as Elevance, United, Humana, Cigna, Centene, etc. have abused the system and are taking advantage of government funded, tax payer dollars.
@OP I truly hope you keep being able to do what you're doing and enjoying it as much as you can. I think many of us have been through countless layoffs, rebadging, offshoring, and re-orgs that continually changed our scope and put our work to someone else's hands that it's been a very different experience.
I like getting a paycheck every other Friday. Other than that, notta.....!!!!
Until someone also likes your work or ability, and wants for themselves.
Forced to train follows.
Parting your work next.
I like my work. Just my work. That's about it.
Sounds like that's you too.
You really think you are the silent majority? Funny how no one has responded to your post. I think that’s all you need to know.