Causby's $1 Million Bonus Arrives Just Before Labor Day

Strange Tony,

Kindred at Home President David Causby won the employment lottery this week.  He received a $1 million bonus simply for showing up to work on August 31st.   That's quite an attendance reward.  I know Kindred employees with years of perfect attendance awards.  Those come with a simple certificate.

The timing of Causby's $1 million bonus is ironic.  You recall the time when Labor Day once celebrated workers. I'll venture Causby's having quite a celebration with his lottery like paycheck

Labor Day 2017 arrived with no raises at our hospice site.  It coincides with having no voice.  Kindred stopped the PwC employee survey earlier this year.  It took two years for Kindred to adopt the Gentiva way of completely ignoring employees.  I suspect Mr. Causby drove that decision. 

In a way it's more honest not to ask.  In 2016 Kindred asked and completely ignored our feedback.  It was a different way of marginalizing the employee voice.  Kindred employs a Manager of Online Reputation to respond to employees attempting to be heard online. 

We’d love to learn more about your experience. We know your input is critical to any potential improvements we need to make. Please reach out to me at experience@kindred.com.  Or would you be willing to share about your experience via survey? It will only take two minutes and we take the results very seriously. http://www.questionpro.com

I imagine anyone emailing or taking the survey will be dealt with very seriously for tarnishing Kindred's image.

One employee wrote:

"Have not had a raise in 4 years. Not just me personally but all staff.  Economy is on an upturn, how about a raise."  

 Here's the response:

"We’re glad you have had a great experience with us. Our employees truly are at the center of our mission."

This directly reflects Kindred's institutional inability to hear and respond to employees.  

Consider the contrast:  An employee has not gotten a raise in four years and executive David Causby got $1 million for punching the clock on 8-31-17.  Something is way out of whack.  

Anonymous (at Kindred where "executive pay matters")