Friday, August 29, 2025

The Financial Rapscallion Way


Strange Tony,

A former Director of Human Resources, Governance and Policy said the following on a Glassdoor review:

  • Abrupt mass layoffs without notice or transparency 
  • Severance packages offered and then rescinded without explanation 
  • WARN Act compliance appears to be ignored, affecting hundreds of employees 
  • Income not properly reported to unemployment systems, delaying benefits.
  • Poor internal communication and lack of support for terminated employees 
  • Senior leadership avoids accountability when legal or ethical concerns are raised 
  • High turnover in HR and leadership — toxic cycle of “fixers” brought in, then removed 
Advice to Management 

If you expect loyalty, transparency, and compassion from your employees, they deserve the same in return. Executing mass layoffs at a company that provides hospice care — without even the basic decency of notice or severance — is not just unethical, it's possibly illegal under the WARN Act. Stop hiding behind silence. The values you market to patients and families should extend to your own workforce. Review your compliance processes, honor your legal obligations, and do right by the people who helped carry your mission — even when it's no longer convenient.

Financial rapscallions continue to eviscerate hospice services.  It began under TPG/WCAS/Humana and continues under CDR/Humana.  Executives actually win by canning large numbers of employees given their significant equity stakes and absurd incentive compensation.  

Financial rapscallions are happy to pay 10.4% interest on their 2nd tier loans but loathe to pay staff fairly, much less commit to keeping them employed.  The first wave of crappy Curo Hospice technology caused serious harm to service quality with its assumption that software could replace people.  

I imagine AI is defecating all over the floors of various Gentiva Hospices and executives are nowhere to be seen for the cleanup.  It's their nature to make a mess and make workers wallow in it while they lounge in their offices counting cash.

Anonymous