* "New" CEO is cutting costs at the expense of good employees. The first thing Marc Boom did when he came in was lower pay, I kid you not. I have never heard of a GOOD company "lowering pay", but Marc Boom has done that. He has gone through and actually lowered the evening and overnight shift difference for some departments. He says its to "make it fair", which is the biggest cop-out ever. To make it fair, he supposedly gave people raises to compensate for it, but raises were given out in sporadic fashion, and many people were not given the proper raise to compensate, and others who didn't even work evening or days were given bigger raises. What a mess. What a way to bring up morale. Also, the old CEO gave out Kroger gift cards periodically to employees, and it was always such a nice surprise. It was more about the compassion behind the cards, not about the amount. The new CEO has never given a single extra bonus out, except the usual small ones they give to keep us on our toes. The new CEO Marc Boom does not seem compassionate, he seems like a cost cutting maniac. They continue to build new buildings, but they can't seem to keep decent staff (which is why they are always having hiring fairs for nurses).
*The pay is OK, but not up to par for a "best place to work". That is one of the reasons they no longer win best place to work - it started under Marc Boom - once he came in, we stopped winning best place to work. Compensation always says they are trying to make us "even" to other places, but it takes them years to give the raises to do it - and you would think if you want to be the best in the nation you would actually pay MORE not that same as other places. If you just want to "keep up" with other places, then you can't expect to be the best.
*Retirement is mediocre. They only match to 4%, and no pension. 6% should be the minimum.
*They make really unintelligent decisions sometimes. They raised parking rates in garages because they said too many employees were parking there. Well, there are a lot of employees with certain disabilities (especially employees with transplants) that cannot park in Smithlands, because the light rail is literally covered in urine and homeless people. Methodist does NOT offer contract parking for these employees, they leave them to their own devices, so they have to park there. Also, there are loads of construction people parking there. Your building a new building after all. Stop blaming employees, and actually do your research please.
*You have to jump through hoops to get health insurance. They make you take a yearly biometric, which I'm actually ok with. I hate it, but I understand it. However, even if your healthy, they make you take a class throughout the year to keep your rate low. It's ridiculous. If you have kids, and have to work a second job like me because Methodist doesn't pay enough, you don't have time to take a class. Especially if your working out already, you don't have time to jump through their hoops. It makes no sense. If your healthy, theres no reason to do a class. Its annoying, and no one else does this. They have one online class throughout the year, but if you miss a time, your screwed. I don't understand why they don't just leave the online classes up all year, so we can do it on our own time. We HAVE LIVES and FAMILIES and SECOND JOBS...we don't have time to go online checking to see if this class is up or not. Have some compassion for your employees.
