We help save medical costs and the money saved goes back to improve benefits. The Government determine how much the company must pay out in medical claims. The only way humana improve profit is by increasing membership or reducing admin cost. You are an admin cost. If you were running this company you wouldn't want moaning people like you on the payroll. All these complains, why? I feel lucky I have my job, it pays and I work at home. Stop being so negative.
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I remember, last poster! My first coach was easy going, the opposite of a micromanager - sadly, the coach was let go in round one. :(
To the original poster, I know how boards work and if the CEO has the political pull and is creating profit for the stakeholders his request are approved. Obviously we are working for a company where the stakeholders and profit are placed above associates and members. Also, try to keep this site a place where all can share. I think we deal with enough lack of support in our day to day jobs.
"Why do you even think you are equal to the CEO or your compensation should be the same as theirs? "
I don't see anyone saying anything of the sort here. Yes, there are comments here on the CEO - worker pay gap, but nobody here is claiming that pay should be equal across the board.
You are lecturing others for not having "made it to the top," when it's questionable as to what "top" you yourself have made it to, in all of your infinite wisdom. I can't imagine you are on top of much, other than your own pile of BS.
Why do you even think you are equal to the CEO or your compensation should be the same as theirs? Have you done their job? Have their degrees? Experience? This is health care, folks, welcome to it. If you don't like how the top 5% do it, stop complaining and get to that level to impact a change. All your posts show your limited perspective, which may be why you haven't made it to the top
So, the CEO is operating within the law and cultural norms, but that does not mean that the system is not unjust and corrupt. More and more wealth and power are being distributed to the 1%. I would compare the CEO to a Feudal Lord, or a Slave Owner, or Medieval King. People accepted that it was their right to have all that wealth and power, but if you look with a critical eye, there is a corrupt system trampling the rights of others.
We need to go back to the 1970's when CEO's made 30 times the average worker, not 400 times the average worker. Or profit sharing.
Um, the CEO doesn't give himself a raise. He answers to the BOD. Please people, take some basic business courses
To the original poster, I would agree with what you are saying regarding profit but not when a CEO gives himself a raise of 3x as much and then lays offs over 800 associates. Please do your homework, this is not about politics, it's about leading with integrity.
it hasnt been about the members since MF got on board. it became about money. then that nurse director made it about the bare minimum to meet legal requirements. bad audit? lets put people who have never worked on case plans on case plans with no training. whatever. my job isnt about helping people it is about contacts. nobody cares about the quality only the quantity.
Funny, the quote was about critical thinking and your knee-jerk response was a doltish attempt to label the poster a liberal.
Looks like the lobotomy was a success, Chuckles!
The liberals are in the house with the George Carlin nonsense. I will be chuckling about that all day.
To the original poster. You are gullible. Put down the kool aid. You've clearly had to much
Thank you for the George Carlin post. I love it and agree 100%. To the original poster, keep living in your obedient bubble. In your case ignorance is bliss.
I like the positive post about getting back to what this job should be about, not the numbers or how much many we put back into Humana's greedy pockets.
I wish we would be treated as the professionals we are and allow us to do our job to help members. I can't do that when I'm rushed.
OK, here is a positive post. I can't tell too many details but I was on the phone for at least 45 minutes today with a new member. His cognition determined how I proceeded with my call. If I had rushed through the intro, the survey, and didn't bother to ask what was his most pressing concern, it would have been just a successful contact. After I hung up the phone, I knew that he got the TLC that he deserved. Did I make 9 successful calls today? No, but at least I left work feeling that I helped my members.
True, so true
They don't want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don't want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They're not interested in that. That doesn't help them
This most made me think of that George Carlin bit:
"The real owners are the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions....they want more for themselves and less for everybody else.
But I'll tell you what they don't want. They don't want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don't want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They're not interested in that. That doesn't help them. That's against their interests. They don't want people who are smart enough to sit around the kitchen table and figure out how badly they're getting f***ed by a system that threw them overboard 30 f---ing years ago.
You know what they want? Obedient workers - people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork but just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly sh****er jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it....."
I am happy to have a job. I am not happy to always be micromanaged to the microsecond with the constant wonder of if I'll still have a job tomorrow. Leadership insults our intelligence daily when they tell us they don't know anything new. So very frustrating.
Calling the same people over and over and administering the same surveys despite the members request not to is not caring about your members
Okay we got it. Why are you posting this comment again. Time to move on.