SF was once a premier employer! We had awesome benefits including PSL, COLA, and performance cash/merit was excellent. We worked hard and played hard with many more good days than bad. If a member of leadership told you something you could pretty much trust it and SF was an employee centric organization. Fast forward to MT who turned it into a complete sleezy, h-ll hole and gutted everything right about SF while he was loading up his $24 million dollar bonuses in a truck out the back door. You know how useless you have to be to loose $27 billion dollars when the main products you sell are basically required and/or legally mandated by law in all 50 states. Incredible!!!
Useless hub locations, horrible pay, and SF now hires nothing but societal rejects from the fast food and retail/warehouse industry who are inflicted with every social ill/problem know to man. SF touts it only attracts the "best talent" but in reality SF is a employer of last choice with only a handful of good employees hanging on until retirement to keep it afloat. With all that said please put us out of our misery! Buy us out, severance packages, time credit towards pension.... just something! Break up with us, end the horrible marriage, take off the band aid, send us to the glue factory, red-headed step child....again just end the misery especially for those of us that have been here over 20-30 years. No more huddle points, or emails or Exec calls about lean, agile, World Class, Remarkable, change, coaching, playbooks, newsletters, action plans, dashboards, metrics, more with less, relentless, in a battle, EOM, LSW and blah blah blah......JF please prove to me that you have at least one ounce of decency, please please and pretty please with sugar on it. Write the check, make the call, do the right thing.....you do not want us and most of us do not want to be here! Everyone wins.... and you get a tax write off and don't have to call it a layoff!
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Solution would be to bring Musk and the DOGE and give the SF board and senior leadership an advance course in expense management and waste reduction
Talk to the paperclip guy who started all this BS.
Those wanting buyouts should have left years ago......
State Farm could reduce overall expenses by just reviewing span of control across leadership roles and overall org model. I know in the ET dept the span of control is very inconsistent (ex some leaders have >15 direct reports, while some less than 5 direct reports). We all can do better managing our policyholder and company $$$$
One very sick organization. Very ill.
@1rj. I don't believe that batsh*t for a second. More efforts to control the narrative.
@1jy…..”They” couldn’t care less. thelayoff.com has threads for thousands of different employers. You can say whatever you want if you keep it rational and civil. If you can’t it’s a YOU problem and not a THEM problem.
Now is time to eliminate the waste, fraud and abuse in management and executive and reward the workers that handle the day to day business. 6 digit checks do not come free nor on the backs of the minions. FAFO LEADERSHIP!
How can you tell who is telling the truth on this site? The truth speakers are the ones they want to silence or shut up.
Tipsy’s previous leadership still making Justine and Lindsey proud
Tons of SF IDOLATORS here.
HR- the COLA mentioned in the post was Cost of Living Adjustment for inflation. Every quarter or 6 months you got a raise if there was inflation. 4% inflation and you got a 4% raise, just to keep your buying power the same.
Well said HR. Clarity alas!
HR here....actually you do not know what you are talking about. COLA etc... was used to price jobs and determine salary ranges until around 2017. For example Dallas had a 10% higher pay differential due to cost of living versus Austin. Starting salaries were based on the cost of living in the perspective city/area and if you relocated you got a cost of living adjust for three years if warranted. SF did away with it and does not use cost of living anymore to adjust salaries and ranges and has openly stated we price jobs based on the job market in that area. So in plan terms, SF pays its employees the minimum it can pay someone to keep them from leaving for a comparable job. Has openly acknowledged that cost of living is now no longer a factor like it used to be when determine compensation, raises and salary ranges! Just want you to be informed correctly. Cheers!
What a stupid post. COLA was gone in the 1990s, no one does that anymore.
Don't need no help and thank you for buzzing off peanut. Sorry but I don't drink. Lol
@11v: I know who you are. You're that loser who blames his extensive life failures on boogymen fed to you by extreme right wing media. Grab your 19th Natty Lite of the day and return to watching The Five. This is my last comment to you. Good bye, and good luck getting help.
@11q. FAFO. I know who you are sn-t.
@11p: Wrong forum, Goober
I care less about SF. I'm thrilled the J6ers got pardoned!
As an Agent I can say if they order me to go back and work in my office I will consider retiring. I don’t think I can leave my beach front deck in Naples.
It's a private board so we can take away your freedom of speech and control what is said so we don't get hurt but it's ok to hurt you. FAFO....LOL!
All Federal Employees in DEI are bye bye! Same should be done with State Farm. They are worthless and provide no value to the customer both internal and external!
Boy do they rely on image and sweep their dirt under the carpet!
How many of you know SF has a house in DC to make contact with all politicians.
All Federal Employees ordered back in the office! Can't wait till SF orders the same. Good way to reduce expenses and pay for those birds and lower rates!
@rw: It's a private board so don't wrongly whine about freedom of speech. Be a man for once.
No freedom of speech here. Dictators!
Copied this from the Geico...layoff!! LOL Sound pretty familiar doesn't it!!!
Todd Combs has ruined what was once spectacular......
Here’s his resume at GEICO
Took away profit sharing
Eliminated nearly 50% of the associates ~48700 down to ~27000
Took away good healthcare to horrible healthcare
Eliminated all board members except N Pierce
Doubled executive pay for his external hires mostly Capital one plus the far left activist group including the former WH spokesman and Boeing Max mouthpiece
Provided an average 1% raise for employees while top executives received an average of 100% plus deferred bonuses
Took away all college scholarships for the now less than 27000 employees and their children
Eliminated sales bonus and Holiday gathering monies. Removed utensils from all lunch areas.
Mandated coaching app / memos and the elimination of the bottom 10% of performers
Hides from everyone and only emails about layoffs or lack of transparency while remaining hidden
Eliminated the code of conduct and the directive to operate with uncompromising integrity
Overalls built this nation. Suits take the credit. SF builds absolutely nothing yet takes the credit.
Yup! It is about to get really bad stupid. The execs have no idea the boomer generation they retired is not the same as the generation they have in there now. I am concerned it will get violent and hope it doesn't.
Oh just wait 2025 is going to be the undoing for a lot of people. These SF Execs are about to swing for the fences. See they think YOU are the problem, not their "well made" business plans. They lie and distribute constant propaganda to people who are too stupid or vested in SF to do anything about it or pushback. Lemmings ! They think you, the average employee, is just too stupid to realize what they are doing. When they call the wrong play, it is the players fault not the coaches or general managers/Execs! If you read the headlines everyone's company is scaling back 5-10% of their work force and saying the exact same thing, you have to do more with less and with less money. Corporate always calls it higher productivity! (really just for bigger Exec bonuses) LOL! SF deserves to become #2 then hopefully it becomes #3 very quickly! Wait till they have a few extra thousand Auto U/W employees, that need a job due to automation, to play with! Sh-t is about to get stupid!!!
Most just trying to get to retirement because of the pension or hoping for a severance check. As pointed out, if the economy does better and people start leaving in droves again, Execs always finds Jesus and pretend like they give a sh-t again! Also most companies are even worse than SF. Doesn't make SF any better....just not the worst house in the worst neighborhood!
It never ceases to amaze me how many people who claim to be utterly miserable in their job, nevertheless choose to stay in it. I realize there are financial considerations, but WTF ?????
Remember someone said: Economy up, Insurance down! Well! Don't you think they were right? Ever since that place started using the excuse "It's a business decision." I hope they cut the line between their a$$hole and their eyes so they don't have such a sheety outlook on life and start taking care of the workers.
I am almost a decade in. I don't know who is hiring these people but wtf. The amount of errors and pure stupidity is mind boggling. I'm just over it at this point. Especially after a mediocre rating and the workload of 5 people dumped on me.
“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”
― Eric Hoffer, The Temper of Our Time
Raises this year s-ck! 3.7% is the target for all levels 1-5. Most people will get a 3% raise with a level three rating if you are below or near the midpoint! On a positive notes State Farm has raised rates by 27% over the last two years so most agents got at least a $100k raise for doing absolutely except calling you and making you miserable! Cheers!
Do more with less su-kers! LMAO!
Remember the .com bo-m SF? Remember the turnover? Remember retention? With the Trump administration, get ready! Sh*t is about to hit the fan. Those with 20 to 30 years will be looking to retire and the youth does not have the stamina to keep the ship afloat. Good luck. To me, it's a LMAO.
I came to SF about two years ago from a competitor! These people have absolutely no clue what they are doing. I mean not a clue!!!! It's like a special education factory for employees and mindless leaders. The whole organization is in a delusional state of mind and thinks it is something it is not. EOM and the metrics they use are hilarious. I have never seen some many incompetent leaders or people put in LDAs that basically have the mental capacity of a high school kid. I'm trying to leave as quickly as possible. Like being in a bad dream you can't wake up from
A little long but sooo true! I agree, write the check, this place is totally soul and life su-king! I started in 2009 and only had a glimpse of the past but these last 15 years have felt like 100. I couldn't cash the severance check fast enough if they offered it!