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Most of you are doing it wrong.No need to do your work. Just join all the LinkedIn activities and get your picture taken. Always the same people there and they never get cut.

One more time-no need to do work. Just join all the useless events

Why we keep blaming H1B when things do not work the way we want it to be. H1B is HERE to stay like it or Not! Corporations will always follow the money, any company who can do it cheaper will follow the money. It is too late for the golden age...Let's leave H1B alone and move forward. Worry about your Family, Loves ones and put food on the table for once!

I was trying to click on Elevance Health because they, along with other of Centene’s competitors, seem to be going through almost exactly same challenges Centene is.

Well, I accidentally clicked on Emblem Health, instead of Elevance, and their last post thread entries were from 2016 and they were saying and complaining about the very exact same thing as us…about the offshoring to India and Philippines, about the CEO laying people off to raise stock price and to line executive’s pockets, etc., etc. etc. It was like looking in a mirror and we are talking back 10 years ago.

The last post entries on the Emblem Health Layoff site ended after 2016 so I can only think the company went under.

Anyway, scary stuff!

Is anyone else hearing whispers of five days a week next year?

In Corp Risk and a few people have mentioned hearing that rumor over the past few days.

My alert went off this morning. Good times for another executive. From publicly available information…

Chris Koster, Centene’s General Counsel:

2023: $4.84M
2024: $5.06M
2025: $6.51M

On August 18, 2026, Koster sold 47,603 Centene shares for roughly $3.11 million. $16.4M in three years. Cha-Ching sir! Here are the stock trades:

https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/insiders/koster-christopher-1108982

Not bad for the top lawyer at a company whose business is largely administering taxpayer-funded healthcare.

Koster went from county prosecutor → Missouri Senator → Missouri Attorney General → Centene executive.

So basically, decades in Missouri government followed by millions a year at one of the country’s largest Medicaid contractors.

At least someone figured out how to make Medicaid profitable. But sure, keep cutting the people doing the actual work. That ought to fix the margins. And congrats, Chris. Don’t spend it all in one place.

I just learned that the bank pays thousands of dollars to "win" the Most Ethical Companies award that we "win" every year and brag about everywhere even on our screen savers. All the companies that "win" pay Ethicsphere for the award. Is that ethical?

What changes are expected now that there's a new president of Corporates?

I worked as a contractor for couple years and fell in love with the culture back in 2010-2011. My contract got terminated couple years later but my manager was so supportive and inclusive that an attempt was made to convert me to full-timer but the contract did not allow that. Nevertheless, I kept in touch with a hope that someday it might work out. Couple years later, one fine morning, I saw a job opening (Linkedin) in that team and I applied. It took a month or two to go through bureaucracy but my manager was more than happy to recruit me having seen my technical skills and got the job. I did not negotiate at all and just accepted what was offered to me even though it was way below market rates. I was very happy and promised myself to retire from this place with a belief that a great job and mental peace is more important than tons of money. I even celebrated my success with a long vacation at Disney's along with my family.

I was so enthusiastic about my work that time was never a constraint when it came to work. I put in my sweat and blood into the job. People came and left around me, including most of my colleagues and managers, but I stuck around watching how Pearson culture fell from being a lovable people's company to corporate greed, nepotism and a disposable view of human capital. Then one fine afternoon, in Jan 2026, I was a victim of nepotism and laid off unceremoniously. And here I am still looking for a company that I loved so much, it now feels like a lost cause.

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The health-insurance industry is the largest barely-legal fraud in America.

The guy who started Centene was a money grubbing thug.

The people running the company now have Zero morals or integrity.

You make major profit by denying people “healthcare” and can’t even run the racket quietly without major lawsuits.

The only thing keeping the American people from putting the entire C-suite in jail is government cronyism.

Read the HO QA questions and the ELT answers and seems to me like they will now be masking ISPs and layoffs with a term titled Future Ways of Working… I am all for the future and the tech we can invest in but my issue is we are nowhere ready for all that and I feel still years away from what they are wanting to do.

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Taking away the last bits of any real joy we have around here but pretending like they are doubling the investment. This company has no culture left.

What has Gunjan done since making cries about inequality, racism, not having a seat at the table, and how the C suite is full of the good old boys club to get to where she is? Nothing but major cuts, more unqualified offshore hiring, bad business practices and decisions, achieved nothing meaningful, and worst performance then her previous predecessors. It is sad to watch the downfall of US Bank.

There are two types of leaders. The confident ones hire the best minds around them, people who'll challenge them and give honest advice. The insecure ones hire yes-men. The second kind is running this company straight into the ground, and they're getting rich doing it.

They can't take any constructive criticism without getting defensive, making excuses, and refusing accountability. In today's corporate world, errors get you fired so fast, but they seem to think mistakes are just part of the process. Good luck to them. They're going to need it.

Stop complaining all the time. This is corporate America. Nothing is given. Respect, pay, conditions, all of that you have to fight for or leave.

They want to hire a “confident attorney” to be the enemy of the employees. Yep, they aren’t kidding when they say they hate us. Instead of hiring for an “Employee Advocate”, they want another yes-man who will protect corrupt executives.

https://external-canoncareers.icims.com/jobs/34803/employment-counsel/job

I can't prove it but it's what I think. When Alex was brought on as CEO, everyone was like WTF this guy is at best an EVP at PayPal and definitely not CEO material. Enrique joined the board in 2021. When it came time to hire Alex, every board member was not on that search to hire him/her. It was only Ann Sarnoff, John Donahoe (then the chair), David Dorman, and Enrique. It ultimately did go to a full board vote but Enrique was on that initial candidate review team of four that narrowed downt he list. Eleven months after Alex started, Enrique becomes the board chair. With Donahoe, shareholders voted for him. With Lores, it was not done that way. He was appointed via a governance committee. About 1 1/2 years after Enrique becomes chair, Alex is sacked and Enrique is appointed.

Writing from me but data below from ai research and SEC public info discovery.
Alex Chriss (2023) vs. Enrique Lores (2026) equity when hired:

Regular RSUs: Chriss $16.75M | Lores $16.5M
Performance RSUs: Chriss $17M | Lores $16.5M
Make-whole RSUs: Chriss $10M | Lores $20M
2027 RSUs granted upfront: Chriss $0 | Lores $11M
Special stock-price award: Chriss $0 | Lores $25M

Total listed equity: Chriss $43.75M | Lores $89M - dan's comp was less than 30 million btw. Now you tell me how important WE are in this equation? We are not. I've never felt so disgusted with a company.

finally, one more question, why tf was Enrique's comp almost doubled over Alex Chriss? I also looked at his compensation at HP. our equity package was 4x that what he had at HP. something is OFF with all of this. this is what I am doing instead of working as I wait for the axe to come down. go to h*ll PayPal.

Today’s finance town hall introduced me to the phrase “trend warrior.”

Trend. Warrior. 🙄

Umm, this is an insurance company. Nobody is storming the beaches of Q3 armed with an Excel pivot table.

But sure. I’ll circle back, leverage some synergies, identify actionable insights, move the needle, and then mount my noble steed and ride forth into battle against unfavorable financial trends.

Or—and hear me out—we could just do our jobs and stop naming everything.

Sincerely,
Still working • Still skeptical • Still refusing to drink the corporate Kool-Aid.

The further we get past the pandemic, I wonder if anyone in the entire company has 2 brain cells to rub together.

Abby is a joke and promoted her biggest and loudest adversaries as direct reports. Like how hasn’t a corporate takeover not snuck under her nose? That alone is mind blowing

Polluting the world w its non environmental products Animals have broken down nervous systems near data centers. Stop the madness

So on today’s call, he said there are 18:000 people in operations.
We have 10,000 contractors at the new USBank India , and the plan is to turn all 10 ,000 India contractors to USBank employees.

He said we need to view USBank as an asset and that he was very excited to see our assets building in India. We need to embrace and need excited about the 20,000 space new headquarter in India.

So in summary, he is very excited to see 10,000 US based employees OFFShored to India.

Are these people clueless? They see profit by cutting expenses and get excited and think we should be excited to see our job gone or our co worker losing their jobs to India?

Did I miss anything else on calll today? I only listened to the Q and A, which was very rushed, of course

I’ve had a lot of time to think about Centene over the weekend. I’ve talked about most of this in pieces before, but when you put it all together, the picture doesn’t look good.

Well-run companies are building their own technology, automation and AI skills because those things will run the business in the future. UnitedHealthcare said on its July 16 earnings call that AI is already used across its administrative work and in nearly every provider and member interaction. It is even automating complex claims that once required people to review them. UnitedHealth is investing about $1.5 billion in AI and wants 80% of prior authorizations processed in real time by the end of 2027. Like them or not, they built much of that capability through Optum and they own it.

Centene is going the other way. It is pushing out thousands of people who understand its systems, data, business rules, and history. Then it is reportedly paying Cognizant between $500 million and $1 billion to use TriZetto for claims, billing, and customer service. At the same time, cut-rate SOW tech jobs are showing up for work that looks a lot like what former Centene employees were doing. The jobs didn’t disappear. They were moved somewhere cheaper, with less ownership and less accountability.

Centene’s Q2 filing says it expects to spend $355–$405 million on severance and contract exits, plus another $85–$115 million on outside companies helping with “enterprise optimization.” That doesn’t include the full reported Cognizant deal. This isn’t cutting costs as much as moving them from employees to vendors.

Here’s the scary part. Centene already has the highest ACA prior-authorization denial rate among major insurers at 25%. In Medicare Advantage, 93% of its appealed denials were overturned. Those numbers suggest the decisions already need work. Now Centene wants to automate more of them through a system run by someone else.

What happens when that system is wrong thousands of times? Who checks the rules? Who stops it? Who can reverse the decisions? Who inside Centene will know enough to push back when Cognizant says everything is working as designed?

UnitedHealthcare has publicly said doctors will still be involved when care is denied and that its call centers will never be fully automated. What has Centene promised? Who will make sure it happens after so many of the people who understand the work are gone?

A Cognizant TriZetto business also had a data breach affecting roughly 3.4 million people. It was not necessarily the same TriZetto platform Centene may use, but it is still a fair reason to ask hard questions about security and giving one vendor this much control.

The board and leadership changes add another piece. Lauren Tyler, who has experience in audit, investor relations, HR and private equity, joined the board in June. Paul Diaz, a healthcare private-equity leader and former CEO of Kindred and Myriad, joined in July. That same day, former WellCare CEO and Centene executive Ken Burdick left the board. Now Drew Asher is leaving the CFO job. Maybe none of this is connected. But add the buyouts, layoffs, new leadership structure, board changes, Cognizant deal, and replacement SOW jobs, and it sure looks connected.

Reporters and analysts have plenty to cover with earnings, membership and medical costs. But somebody should also be asking what the full Cognizant deal includes, how many Centene jobs are being replaced by vendor jobs, who will own the rules and data, what all of this will really cost, and how Centene gets out if TriZetto doesn’t work.

There are still missing pieces. If you’re seeing public SOW postings, job titles, rates, vendor names, work moving offshore or teams being replaced, share what you know. No names or confidential information. Just help fill in the picture.

• This isn’t simplification. Centene may be handing over its ability to run itself, one SOW at a time.*

Obviously internal group travel to these non-sales useless conferences still happening during layoff/travel freeze; saw these on linkedin today.

Does Mahoney or whoever the CFO is knows? Folks being gotten rid of should shoot them a message and copy paste the links

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7488698047141666817-nik8
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ebonytravis01_disabilityinclusion-advancingtogether-activity-7489794621032648704-cZEH

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Sam Mehta now president and CEO effective immediately with Kubasik being found inconsistent with l3h code of conduct

Company wide, just Boston?
Can anyone confirm or is this just heresay and rumors?
Of so, why even move forward with interesting internal applicants?
Doesn’t that just alienate loyal employees?
Personality, I think all the bad policies of outsourcing, visas, dei, etc is coming home to roost.
You get what you vote for and I don’t see this fixing anytime soon.
I think this is it for what we know and expect in corporate America.
We’re all just cogs in an 8 billion human machine.

Nike Innovation Leadership: World-Class Excellence in Strategic Seat-Warming

Please join me in recognizing the extraordinary contributions of certain Nike Innovation directors—the courageous executives who collect enormous salaries while bravely enduring back-to-back meetings about meetings.

Their impact is difficult to measure, primarily because there isn’t any.

These visionary leaders have perfected a revolutionary management model:

• Protect your title.
• Protect your salary.
• Protect your friends.
• Protect the appearance of importance.
• Under no circumstances protect, develop, or advocate for the employees doing the actual work.

When talented people ask for support, mentorship, career development, or basic accountability, leadership suddenly becomes powerless. But when someone posts an uncomfortable truth online? Incredible. Immediate alignment. Urgent conversations. Executive escalation. A flawless demonstration of speed, collaboration, and decisive action.

Apparently, deleting criticism is the only deliverable this leadership team can complete on schedule.

Imagine if they invested that same energy in developing employees, removing barriers, making decisions, or producing something more valuable than corporate theater and expensive calendar invitations.

But let’s be fair: warming a premium office chair all day while protecting a six-figure salary is demanding work. Sometimes you barely have enough energy left to say “people first” before doing absolutely nothing for those people.

Innovation isn’t dead. It’s just trapped in a meeting, waiting for approval from someone whose primary contribution is occupying a director-level seat.

Just delete it.™

For too long, they had layers on top of layers of reporting lines for the ‘CISO’ that made no sense. His title wasn’t even a CISO but a VP, that reports to a VP that reports to a VP. That made no sense. Now, hes the CISO of a company that will see his value.

RV gets a seat on the OpenAI board. Now a McKinsey exec gets a board seat at BNY. What’s next in this game of thrones?

We should never want to, nor stand for, living in a society where corporations such as Humana can simply do WHATEVER they want to do.

There are written laws for which they mist adhere to AND there are unwritten laws, which we often call morals, ethics, and goodwill, which these corporations should adhere to.

Humana is failing on both fronts of written and unwritten laws.

Time they either cease to exist as a corporation or please leave Louisville as your home base so that your stench of corruption will not rub off on other local corporations, communities, and our citizens.

Bad Visit yesterday . My store just had a horrible corporate visit. Focus areas were mainly STH and center core. Failing score card, store manager put on action plan final warning. Day after visit store manager is conspicuously absent from store.

A bunch of buddies who were politically selected walking around campus pretending they own the company in Belgrade and laughing and walking around all day protecting each other and posting pictures on LinkedIn where each sends a like to one another within 5 minutes. Typical drzavna frima behavior, where the general manager has yet to speak with his employees on the floor .. and not to mention the HR Director that has no clue what she is doing, because basically she is doing what she is told lol, but as everyone can see they cant raise food allowance for employees for 10 dollars in 10 years, but what they can do is post pictures how they are going out to diner with very important people ...

From Payments Dive:

Fiserv is seeking to dismiss the lawsuit filed last year for the shareholder class action lawsuit.

In other news:

I did not know that John Gibbons was not only added as a defendant in the revised filing but he is now Chief of Staff a the IRS. FU--ING FIGURES.

Extracts from an article originally published in Australian newspaper "The Age" on 13/08/2026:

Link to the original article:
https://www.theage.com.au/technology/telstra-boss-lands-11pc-pay-rise-in-year-of-1200-job-cuts-20260813-p60nvy.html

Telstra chief executive Vicki Brady says “ultimate accountability” for July’s national Triple Zero outage rests with her, after the company’s board stripped $607,000 from her short-term bonus.

Brady was speaking as the company delivered its annual results on Thursday, with Telstra’s net profit rising 2.7 per cent to $2.4 billion. Brady’s total pay rose 11 per cent, to $6.8 million, and the telco says the failure that cut off Triple Zero calls has cost it almost no customers.

“There were things within our control that triggered the outage,” Brady said on Thursday, describing the board’s reasoning.

“As CEO, ultimate accountability rests with me for the outage.”

Telstra directors cut her individual performance multiplier by 20 percentage points, leaving her a short-term bonus of $2.762 million. Then-group executive of global networks and technology Shailin Sehgal took the same reduction, and the rest of the senior executive team, including chief financial officer Michael Ackland, lost 10 points each, taking a further $1.29 million out of the bonus pool.

Brady said the external investigation was still running and the board could impose further consequences through FY27 pay once it reports

This masthead (The Age + other publications), first revealed the outage was caused by a server that had reached the end of its supported life almost a decade ago and was never replaced, despite newer devices costing less than $30,000.

In its full-year results on Thursday, Telstra revealed its direct workforce is now 4 per cent smaller, at 29,334, and the telco has signalled it will keep cutting as it simplifies the business. The job losses lifted its redundancy bill by $92 million to $206 million.

That cost-cutting helped drive a full-year result that has delivered shareholders a bigger dividend and a fresh $1 billion share buyback.

Nothing else. Just good old greed. When will they figure out that if you put profit above everything, you destroy the company? Then there's no profit for anybody.

They've known about it for a while. And they still set up layoffs. We're living at an age where record earnings don't provide any job security for employees. How messed up is that?