I wouldn't want to offend anyone, there are many excellent employees here. My colleagues are some of the best and most capable people.
However, how many are there with great authority who are almost indispensable at work?
There are almost no such people, because at SF we are all replaceable. The greatest expert can be replaced with an employee who is under-capacitated. Unfortunately, that's how it is.
Why turnover? Well said by previous poster. If employees are numbers and have no skin in the game, it's foolish to play leaving the brass all alone to fight their war.
I came from the "outside" IT world before my SF IT time. I do feel bad for the career SF people that know nowhere else work wise. You are right though. This is has happened to me about 4 timed in my 31+ IT career and 2x in my non IT work years. So it was shocking still but figured it would happen eventually. Sadly no one is immune. Other departments in the Regions outside of Corp have had this happen for years. It just never hit Corp till the last 5 years.
In the Military this was the same. There the "Upper Brass" had no idea what went on in the trenches too, We were just disposable tokens on a map to achieve an objective. CEO's and other Execs are no different, gathering around a game of Corporate Risk with those same tokens.
Don't get me wrong I got walking papers too, but have been down this road before... just been a while. Good luck too all. Especially those younger employees with kids, God be with you at this horrible time.
I work in a call center in corporate America and I am not insane. I’m well aware that I’m just a number, but there’s some comfort in that as well.
in each team almost 70% of the resources does nothing, but just talking like product owner, scrum masters, multiple business analyst aka technology analyst , tech manager with no technology knowledge and bunch of new hires who has joined with Java knowledge, but know nothing and teams run bcoz of 1 or 2 knowledgeable resources.Almost 50% of sf resources are dead weight.But again, the cut should be not onky at bottom levels, salary cut should be for cto, cfo, president and executives who gets in millions and they are the one deciding to outsource the work!
Duh. It’s not like there’s any single individual that State Farm would collapse without.
If ANY of us left, they’d still open the doors and logon tomorrow.
Dats right. We wuz da farmers in those cornfields in Illinois. We rising up. Kangz! Jake! You betta recognize.
You state the obvious because it's Corporate America. I'm working to free my chains and invest in my own business, now that's true freedom. I won't be judged on my performance review because a supervisor or manager either likes me or doesn't like me. The company is filled with Kool aid drinkers, a$$ kisses and etc. The list goes on.
shrug I dropped SF as an insurance company years ago due to how poorly it treats its claims handlers. Both are replacable IMO.
SF can fire all remaining 51k employees, and lose their policies and their family policies too for all I care. I can easly go to any of the other insurance companies, they really are all the same at this point.
Luckily im at a hub too so im constantly hounded by competitors, should I get "replaced here"
Also, im not sure many would care if they got let go here, its not that great of a place to work.
@1chw+1kKf7LfI I wouldn't be able to sleep at night knowing I was a part of or endorsed such a cluster f*k!
In 2015 we had roughly 71,000 employees.... at the end of 2021 we had 53,000.
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2017/05/04/450094.htm
https://insurancenewsnet.com/oarticle/state-farm-insurance-companies-issues-public-comment-to-dot
So what that we've hired 15,000 new employees... SF needed to hire more staff when we had 71,000 and we have grown another 6 millions policies. Plus the people they are hiring are id--ts! I saw a stat the other day that 62% of claims employees have been in role less than 1 year! That is by design! Most are only making the bare minimum with no pension! Can barely pay bills so no 401K match! Win SF!
Tipsord made a $20 million dollar bonus in 2020 and a record $24.5 million bonus in 2021! Laughing all the way to the bank and so will his great, great, great, very rich grand kids! MT has made over $100 million since he took over SF! Thief and criminal!
We just outsourced 1200 jobs! They got incentives and a 1 year contract! Easy way to avoid severance and lawsuits!...SF does not layoff employees...right! They are going to outsource more and more! As stated previously.... simple stuff will be automated, AI will take over some things, and if it can be sent to India..they will. Claims if f-cked, U/W will be automated, Agency is a joke, and we can't even get the most basic technology to work! Get ready for a he-l of a ride folks! Iceberg ahead!
🎶 To the left, to the left. Everything you own in a box to the left. Don’t you ever get to thinkin’ you’re irreplaceable 🎶
The hypocrisy has no bounds. Even by their own metrics, all those six digits or better should be first fat to get the axe.
Yea, sure. You hire models to be pretty. You hire engineers to be smart. You hire doctors to be precise.
But in today's DEI world and race to the bottom, models can be ugly. Engineers can be stupid. Doctors can be clumsy. Just pledge to be "inclusive"- of ugly models, stupid engineers, and clumsy doctors. By replacing the ones who are competent, of course.