Strange Tony,
Financial rapscallion majority ownership turned our nationally recognized hospice into a shell of its former self.
- Office headcount reductions of 50%
- Over-reliance on "new" (but unreliable and incapable) technology that wasted staff time
- Cutting the number of holidays and holiday pay
- Not giving raises for years
- Reducing office square footage (to meet C-suite spreadsheet expectations)
- Put in phone system that enabled calls to be overheard without worker knowledge
- Hospice office/clinical system robbed staff of fair reimbursement for miles driven
- Made nurses salaried, then overworked them horribly
- Reduced work to 30 hours for some positions - 25% pay cut
These very things are occurring in the federal government under Elon Musk. Musk's henchpeople are rapidly seeking headcount reductions, square foot eliminations and implementing crappy technology. It's not clear if Musk's henchpeople have multiple full time, well paying gigs (like many insiders in our Age of Sponsorship).
Financial rapscallions have no problem ordering physicians around, negatively impacting the practice of medicine with hard spreadsheet targets. This has been seen across multiple medical specialties.
The greed imposed on our hospice resulted in significant and immediate disintegration. Our census never returned to pre-rapscallion levels. I expect that very thing is happening across the federal government as Musk's team crapifies operations. Dang. it sure brings back bad memories.
Anonymous
Musk and Department of fellow Greedy Executives (DOGE) are doing what many workers experienced after a financial rapscallion buyout.
ReplyDelete--senior staff at OPM had to identify 30% of their workforce they could cut in the near term, with a floated goal of an eventual 70% reduction in staff
--every office agency must present proposals this week to cut 50% of their business expenses
Musk deputies arrived at the agency promising to wipe out 70 percent of its staff (Office of Personnel Management)
ReplyDelete...a young DOGE team member began screaming at senior developers and calling them “idiots.”
These folks have a future with financial rapscallions.
No training , no consistency, unrealistic expectations.
ReplyDeleteThat's from a Gentiva Palliative Care RN.
Efficiency is poor. Extensive documentation.
ReplyDeleteGentiva Hospice RN. Shows the crappy technology imposed by financial rapscallions is still around.
“Now the whole country gets the experience of what it’s like when private equity buys the place you work.”
ReplyDeletehttps://prospect.org/power/2025-02-06-private-equity-hatchet-man-leading-lost-boys-of-doge/
......DOGE’s presence in the building and were warned they could be monitoring internal emails and chats, according to a person familiar with the agency. Others were asked to fill out 200-character “justifications” for some employees.
ReplyDeletehttps://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/doge-accesses-energy-department-data-but-not-nuclear-secrets
20% of Cloud Software employees approve of CEO Tom Krause, who is doing double duty at DOGE. That's abysmal, but twice the 10% of Heartland Hospice employees who approve of their CEO (Gentiva closed on Heartland in November 2023)
ReplyDeleteGentiva Hospice RN said:
ReplyDeleteReaching benchmarks by getting patient admitted with no information and education and providing poor service
Heartland Hospice RN had this to say:
ReplyDeleteEver since Gentiva bought the company, things went downhill. People left in droves; I stayed far too long. I was hoping after 6 months, the wrinkles would be ironed out. Things actually became worse. There are now too many cooks in the kitchen, resources were changed or taken away that made it impossible to do our jobs. One hand does not know what the other is doing, and I saw many patients and families suffer because of it. Anything from medication and equipment being stalled days at a time, to actual danger to the patients. It's all about money since Gentiva bought the company. Management barely even knew our names even after 6 months, and no one was listening to us "peons" anymore. Even though I wasn't "on the clock," I was working all the time. Even evenings and weekends, because there wasn't enough time for documentation in a 40 hour week, not even a 45 hour week.