Monday, October 18, 2010

Resolved Question: Has anyone worked at Humana or any of those health insurance companies?

You can either love a job or hate a job at any insurance company. It depends upon many things. Check out their reputation as a company. Start by finding out their A. M. Best rating. If it is any "A" rated company, then it is financially strong. A "B+" rated company is also reasonably strong. The lower the rating gets, the less financially strong the company will be. If it is not strong, then it might not be the most stable company to work for. However, financial stability is not the only factor to consider. You will also want to know about the benefits package they have for the employees. Most insurance companies have good benefit packages.

Then consider this, with any company, how well you like it there is largely dependent upon how you like your job and how you get along with your co-workers. If you are in a job you don't like, you won't be happy. If you have co-workers your do not like, you won't be happy. Humana is a large company with offices in many states. No one person can tell you whether your will be happy there or not. They don't know you and, unless they are in the same department in the same office as you would be working in, they can't tell you what your co-workers are like.

I work for a property and casualty insurer. What I like is that we have a very good benefits package. We are financially strong (current A. M. Best rating is "A-", working toward "A" rating.) The management is concerned about the employees. The supervisors either deal equitably with their subordinates or find themselves out of a job. Most of my co-workers are pleasant (well, there have to be a few that aren't as nice sometimes). The company does its best to maintain a pleasant working environment. Well, I can think of a number of other things to say here. However, they are things that any good employer should be doing.

What didn't I like about where I work? I didn't like one supervisor. She was so difficult that she got her supervisor demoted back to his old position because he couldn't handle her. Her next supervisor was given the opportunity to resign because he couldn't handle her. Whenever she didn't get along with someone, it was always their fault because she was never wrong. When our department was combined with another department that did the same thing as we did except with different sized accounts, they put her in a different place in the company. When they decided to eliminate that part of the company, every one else in the department was offered a different position in the company but her. No one would interview her for another position because everyone figured out that she was the one causing all of the problems.

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