Finished another week some how. State Farm is just a horrible excuse for an employer and represents all that is wrong with corporate America. For my first 15 years at State Farm I can honestly say I looked forward to going to work just about every single day. These last 10 years have been an absolute clown show. I thought it was bad but it is accelerating at an alarming rate. Everything they do sets you up to fail and ultimately sc--ws the customer over. I'm embarrassed most days to go into work. If we didn't have soo much money State Farm would be out of business within the decade. Please let it be known that 2026 will be the year of a huge exodus (voluntarily and involuntarily) for most people at State Farm. They are trying to get as many people to quit over stress leave. Horrible changes are coming at every turn from the pension, time off, health care benefits, return to work mandates and more unadulterated pressure. They are too cowardly to treat people appropriately and will just continue to destroy lives and careers. There is a special place in h-ll for these people making these decisions. Sold their souls to the devil. Run away as fast as you can, it gets worse!
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State Farm is really not even a legitimate business anymore. Scam! Insurance companies from P&C carriers to Health Care are run with no consequences because they have so much money and too much influence. I'm in U/W and I'm done in November as I was lucky enough to get the severance. I can absolutely guarantee you that I try to destroy SFs reputation and brand at every single opportunity. It's bad in U/W but what they have been doing to claims folks over the last decade is down right criminal and it is getting worse. JF keeps talking about the past and rolling out Ed for nostalgia but he was right there with MT destroying State Farm. He started the fire and burned down the house now he is blaming everyone and trying to act like he didn't help do it. This place is a soul ki-ling machine and its "woke" completely incompetent workforce will be the end of SF. If you can, get out, cancel your policies and spread the word to anyone you can. They try to bring down and destroy good people working hard so don't feel bad about sending back the same energy they put out! Sc--w that place!
@1t SF demise
I was a Section Manager in claims and left when they purged us. We were called into a meeting and Exec told us they had already selected who they wanted and the rest were getting severance. We had to option of take the reassignments or take severance. I was offered a spot but told them to go to he-l. I took my severance and ran. I have a much better life now. I knew it was going to get worse and it has. I still have friends that work at SF and they all say they messed up by not getting out and taking the money. My boss was a le----n, my VP and SVP were all black and I was made to hire nothing but black TMor some other check the box hire. Racism is real folks, just not what society tells you it is! Once you go woke you will go broke. Get out of that place. The chickens always and I man always come home to roost!
Oh try working here. I'm a Claim Specialist in Fire Stewardship and in our whole section there are only about 3 white males out of 60 people. The rest are basically just fat black females. I'm usually the only white employee when I get on the elevator and every time I go down to the lobby area, I will usually not see a white employee. Nothing against any people, they are just trying to work and pay bills, but this is statically impossible to exclude 30+% of the population in your hiring practices. This is not diversity when 80-90% of your employees are coming from one group. It's called exclusion and discrimination.
Agency here, leadership here is getting shown the door over the next few months. Big changes coming for agent's too! This company is coming apart at the seams. MT was the nail in the coffin and JF, CS and KC are all just clueless. Every time I call Auto or Fire claims I get some id--t that can barely use the English language and can tell do not have ounce of sense. Woke workforce, it's the death of any company.
The day State Farm goes out of business is the day that the world becomes a better place. They treat their policyholders just like they treat their employees. It is hilarious to see JF trying to role Ed out to save his and State Farm;s brand. MT and JF spent the last 13 years trying to destroy the old State Farm and now are trying to give the appearance of brining back the good ole days. Frankly, I hate that place. It's a mixture of narcissistic Exec mo--ns, ghetto and retail rejects combined with preferred pronouns, 2040 workforce.
State Farm is done. BlackBerry, Sears, Kmart, Lehman brothers, Enron, Circuit City...... We have a lot of money that will keep things floating for awhile but it is such a total sh-t show it will never recover. The cancer that MT spread is still infecting everything. The workforce that is not qualified or have the capacity to do the jobs combined with a whole leadership structure that is sitting on email waiting from some daily metric report to come out so they can fire off a threatening email about the "number" and having absolutely no clue what the people do, the job or if the number is even correct. They are worried about your. "behaviors" and accountability for thee and not for me. You know you are done when your last efforts are just to threaten everyone with their jobs. Its the tactics off d-mb, incompetent and talentless group of leaders that have infected State Farm. There is no cure for this....make you money and hang out if you can. This is not even a legitimate business anymore. Evil people! Stay away!
Bring back YI that was a total Sh-t show
Battered wife, PTSD, hybristophilia, and Stockholm syndrome are all very well known conditions and responses to trauma. You are correct so many people suffer from it in corporate America that most have no idea where it is coming from and why. They live in a nightmare that they can never wake up from and the pain, stress and emotional roller coaster becomes addictive as any na-----c. The politicians, elite, and the C suite class have all learned this and found a way to make a fortune and also keeping themselves away from the pheasants and "useless" working class. They are moral less, unethical, soulless evil people that have absolutely no regard for you or most any other living human being. They get joy and satisfaction over seeing other people suffer. Sadastic piles of sh-t! MT was the poster child for this and all the woke id--ts they have hired are just compounding the problem and the cancer he set is still spreading and slowing ki-ling the company.
Sh_t operations can't even keep a deputy sheriff who left SF to go back to be a cop. Wow! SF is a cluster! Sad state that needs an intervention!
Once employees understand they have battered wife syndrome, they will leave. The sad part is the id--ts can think thecan rehire and replace but once they get the reputation as a wife beater they will never get the quality they once had. It shows with the mo--ns they got running the show today. None of them are remotely close to what the company once had. Im sorry but once they don't honor labor, abuse substances, disrespect family, and disrespect each other, the end result is failure.
I'm going to try to hang on until the next EIP bonus and then bolt. I've had enough too. Place is a total and complete sh-t show. My TM shared in private they are looking for another job and told me to get out. Said it is going to continue to get worse and worse and they are trying to find any reason to make people quit or term them. I see the complete panic on her face every huddle or 1x1. The Ed videos are a complete joke and is not going save you JF. You/MT already destroyed what he built and it is never coming back. Our Execs live in a constant state of delusion and are trapped in their own clueless fantasy. I hate every day and just buying time at this point....run as fast as you can.
Just quit today! Had enough! Life is too short to tolerate this insane toxic work environment. I have no idea what I'm going to do but this place rots you from the inside out and destroys any self and dignity you have left. My metrics and "behaviors" were all on target. I just can't contribute to this any more as I watch them destroy other people, listen to "woke" check the box leaders preach things they don't do or have ever done. Our claim handling is almost criminal as the people hired do not have the skills and/or the training to do the job. We preach digital, technology but get in trouble when you have too many email in new mail or if we get 3 phone calls and miss 2 because we are on lunch and they want to write you up or coach you for not being available to the customer. The Executive are clueless and CM/SM are just so scared they are leading with constant fear and intimidation to the TMs. It is the great force out being experienced all across corporate America. Cut throat environment. God help them when the pendulum swings back the other way. Be brave, do not tolerate this anymore. State Farm is an evil place! If I can just save one person for messing up their life and coming to work here, I will consider it a success.
@w0 the very reason they write what they do and why the company is no longer #1. They are legends in their own mind. Realityou will come.
@gp we can read what happened to your mind
Love reading all the misery from the poor performers. They are getting what they deserve.
All the comments on this post are accurate. The micro-managing part is thru the roof. The manager I have talks to people crazy that it will trigger something that wasn't originally there to begin with. They are moving POC out of position (politic times we live in). The benefits are decent. Ever since the CEO switched, the company has been on the declined. They don't know what they are doing and implementing things way to late which is the reason Progressive is stepping on their necks! This is just the tip that the comments touch. It's a whole beast underneath. I would advise not to apply at this company unless you can handle everything mentioned.
If a person who never worked a day for State Farm read these comments, what would they think? SF needs to really look at these ccomments and do some self reflection. Leadership needs to lead without the politically correct BS!
SF has hit an all time low. I knew it was bad when I had to go to court and sit by judges. The judges non verbal was loud that they did not trust nor like SF. And NO it wasn't only me but many others in the company.
SF is no longer a career choice. It once was an employer who cared about people who cared about people manage risks. It's no longer about helping others. It's all about greed, me, myself, and I which is the opposite of what it sells. The work environment this creates is hostile with inevitable high turnover therefore creating a cookie cutterror substandard product no consumer wants. The numbers reflect such.
The reason SF is in the position it's in is because for too long the company had no other life besides its own world. Now that they have been forced to live in a world other than their own, they are lost in individuality resulting in chaos. The team is no longer a team.
@gc Swallowing the wrong pills will catch up to you, your health, and your mental well being. It's just a matter of time.
so weird...I LOVE THIS COMPANY
@eh spot on. The continuous problem at SF. Leadership sells and indoctrinate narratives to brainwash. They are only out for themselves.
I quit trying, just pay the claim any way I can and move on. It's not worth the hassle anymore. EOM is a joke and leadership thinks it can micro-manage its way to prosperity. Our whole business is stuck in an endless loop of stupid based on lies.. We keep doubling down on stupid doing the same things and wondering why it won't work. Definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. No accountability for agents or our upper leadership. Hire total cr-p, training is awful, stuck in horrible congested hub locations, low pay, and they keeping taking and taking.
Ohh there is the pension troll...at it again.
How about we just freeze the pension? That is an anchor that will weigh us down as Progressive moves to the top spot