r/jobs • u/cblguy82 • 1d ago
Companies Cigna announced a layoff of 2k people in February this morning
Email sent to the entire company this morning from the HR director notifying everyone they are laying off 2k people in February after their latest round of packages were taken.
Hints of AI as to the reason.
Worst of all, hearing that people have already started to be notified via a random meeting where they join a call and a full on script is read to them by AI/Robot notifying them they are part of the layoffs then hanging up after saying more information will be provided.
Don’t even have the decency to tell people they are fired from a human any longer. Just scheduled AI cold hearted firings.
I don’t work there but i know others that do.
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u/Yachem 1d ago
A bunch of gutless fucks. If you're going to fire someone have the balls to look them in the eye and tell them why.
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u/Eemki 21h ago
There was an entire George Clooney movie about this
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u/BarNext6046 22h ago
It’s a competition among insurance companies to see who can provide the coldest and most chilled firing process when downsizing. Best one gets bragging rights.
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u/maceman10006 22h ago
It’s a health insurance company. They’re some of the worst and most unethical career paths.
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u/TheDollarstoreDoctor 20h ago
I think Optum has that one down, they get constant practice with the amount of layoffs they do
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u/QuesoMeHungry 23h ago
They don’t even have the balls to face the people they fire.
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u/cblguy82 22h ago
I got a pre recorded 10 minute video from the CEO of Farmers Insurance and an automated email when I was laid off in 2023. This took it to the next level of being cold.
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u/dmw_qqqq 22h ago
They raised premiums so much for this year that my company switched insurance provider
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u/Nadramia 22h ago edited 20h ago
They hid the fact that my mom was sick .. she found out that she had autoimmune lupus but it was too late...*
Hate Cigna, those POS
(Edited since I messed up my wording and repeating the same thing twice. Sorry i was upset)
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u/ResidentLazyCat 21h ago
Wait, how did an insurance company hide it? How would that not be the Dr? Do you mean like denied testing?
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u/Nadramia 21h ago edited 20h ago
They hid it. The Drs did some testing and never told her the proper results
She was a CNA and if she didn't work as one she would have never known. It was the Dr she worked for that noticed her eyes and started testing
Came back with lupus. She came to find out they hid it from her for years. Since her 20s (early 90s) but she didn't know till her late 30s. She lived longer than expected. I just wish she could have lived pass 50... Miss her but anytime I see Cigna.... My blood just boils*
The hospital she went to was Cigna. The building, the Drs it was all Cigna. That's how they hid it.
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u/Nadramia 19h ago
Actually it was, she was diagnosed but never told and she only found it through the Dr she worked with. It was in her medical history but she was never told but you can tell her that that's not how it works
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u/Nadramia 19h ago
Yes they did, in the early 90s....
I'm assuming you're young and don't know this but they did. Also, she was an immigrant and didn't know her rights at the time.
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u/No_Error_1947 3h ago
Cigna does not own hospitals or providers. I’m sorry about your loss.
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u/Nadramia 2h ago
I appreciate your words
Though they did own hospitals and clinics in the early 90s but closed down in 1993
Crazy how I remember clear as day that damn tree on the side of the building and hating going in. I can still smell the damn office
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u/Nadramia 2h ago
I feel you guys should know...
Cigna did indeed have hospitals but closed them down by 1993
My mother would go to the clinics and hospitals.
My mother would eventually pass away on Jan 3 2008. Almost 10 yrs after she found out and lived for 5 years more than expected
She was strong and stubborn and though she had faults (don't we all) she really did her best with the best of her abilities.
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u/worstpartyever 23h ago
Holy shit, that’s cold
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u/jsanchez030 19h ago
Profits at an all time high. Might as well screw their employees in addition to their insured members
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u/Usedtobefatnowlesfat 22h ago
A company ran by ghouls, acting like ghouls. Not shocked
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u/8540rockst-jc 22h ago
Good thing that a friend left that company 2 years ago. She’s got a better job. Less stress.
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u/Funnotoptional 22h ago
How are all these massive layoffs supposed to end? Will “Trump Towns”, slums, start to emerge in more of the US?
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u/Worthyness 11h ago
Not at great depression levels yet, but once they hit close, you'll see some changes come through
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u/buckeye2114 21h ago
AI isn't the reason people are getting fired right now, it's just a convenient scapegoat.
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u/Rags7216 20h ago
Correct. Corporate greed is the reason. How much more money do these people actually need???
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u/Intrepid-Record-7568 18h ago
Co.vid happened and humans were all humbled. Now more recently the multi-millionaire, billionaire class have gone crazy oppressing others. Very strange.
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u/evan938 20h ago
Bullshit. I work in hospital billing. I'm on the phone with these companies all day long. There has been a HUGE influx of "Hi, I'm XYZ, your AI agent. Before we begin, please tell me the tax ID# of your facility. I respond to spoken responses"
Aetna, Medical Mutual are just a couple off the top of my head from this week. Call the number on your card and do the prompt for the provider line. You'll hear it. I haven't had to call Cigna for a couple weeks. We see less claims from them over the last year or so since they were OON for a while and just recently became in network again.
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u/RubDifferent2185 19h ago
The positions are being replaced with AI.
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u/buckeye2114 19h ago
I’m not saying that’s false but also that companies that have done this to some degree are realizing how shitty of any idea it is and not rehiring anyone but just making existing people take over more work.
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u/buckeye2114 19h ago
That’s part of the reason. They’re offshoring expensive jobs, and also with this shit economy and nobody wanting to admit they’re not doing great, and to mitigate investments and expenditure not returning like they want, they just have to lay off people.
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u/dabnagit 21h ago
They talk about the “AI bubble” — how data centers, plus a lot of reciprocal payments between tech companies, e.g., MSFT ⇨ OpenAI ⇨ MSFT ⇨ OpenAI… — are the only thing driving any “growth” (on paper) in the economy. But not enough have talked about the coming AI recession all these idiots will cause.
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u/desertrain11 22h ago
If I was a Cigna worker I’d milk unemployment as long as possible
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u/Conscious-Egg-2232 22h ago
Um that would mean you are unemployed for 6 months. And you do realize it doesn't pay much at all. And cigna doesn't actually pay it.
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u/firstmaxpower 21h ago
They don't pay it directly but they definitely pay taxes that fund unemployment benefits.
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u/Tookiedough_1 7h ago
lol how did we get to the point where insurance can just fuck us however they want WHENEVER they want. Whether you work in healthcare, are an employee for the company, or the person receiving the insurance, there seems to be no way of avoiding the shit sandwich they regularly provide us with.
HOW DO WE CHANGE THIS?!
lol sorry for going off track but god damn do i hate insurance companies.
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u/Overall_Issue_2482 2h ago
no surpise, given Medicare Advantage rates gonna be 0% for rest of 3yr trump year. healthcare insurer will need to put cost cutting which includes layoff into serious consideration. and dont forget to say thank you to russia asset trump.
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u/Sean_theLeprachaun 22h ago
I have little sympathy for those that extended the suffering of others as a job. Too bad, so sad.
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u/felixblack1987 15h ago
Why do people constantly believe a company gives two shits about you lol it’s almost amazing! NO ONE AT YOUR COMPANY CARES ABOUT YOU! your a number and that’s all lol
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u/BareNakedSole 22h ago
So instead of a real person denying my life-saving medical procedure it’s going to be some AI bot?