[sabujp]

There's also this : https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/cyber-secur... , this hack caused by malware from 2021, caused huge portions of their employee base tied to optum and their change healthcare acquisitions to be unable to work for days (and it's still ongoing!). I guess their employees got a "vacation" out of it while everyone else waiting on prescriptions at CVS, etc got shafted. It literally took a huge portion of the US pharmacy network to go down for the US to realize what a big problem UNH is.

[bithead]

Former Optum/UHG employee, worked in automating things in IT. While I was there they went on a years long spree to get rid of everyone under 40. I finally got laid off and in my group of 153, 17 were under 40. I had automated most everything in my area,and although I meticulously documented everything, when you get the plug pulled like that you don't get time to do any hand off, so it hit things pretty hard. They did this for months (laying off people under 40). They gave me a large enough severance to cover a long time out of work, and the severance agreement stated if I sued for EIRSA I had to pay it back. I took it, but the entire thing painted a picture of management totally disconnected from the people putting code to programs.