So I saw the email today about an early Tropical Depression/Storm forming in the Gulf.....Fire and Auto Claims are just absolutely drowning in work/OT and can not keep employees as there is no one to hire. SF execs...you did not control the controllables! State Farm has over a 1000 open claims jobs and is bringing in more IA's each day to just stay afloat. It will be soooo funny if we have a couple of early Hurricane' s and storm season gets worse. It will absolutely sink SF and put a huge damper on their grand plans of running people off and not hiring. Someone will have to redo the spreadsheet and update the oleeee flow chart for sure! LOL! Wait until they have to start paying crazy wages just to get and Express or ILR associate in the door. Not to mention the folks that are going to leave because they do not want to drive to a stupid office 5 days a month. The chickens always come home to roost!
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@mxl+1bpR0KSM From my experience, first line leaders are advocates for the company, not the employee. If you go to your TM with an issue and resolution and they actually try to do something to impact positive change, then you are lucky. The TM's I've worked with talk to their employees like it's not their problem and just tell them to find another job if the employee isn't happy being surrounded by this never-ending chaos.
Long time fire proximity rep. I can't keep up with my workload without working overtime and I'm burned out on overtime. I'm not able to keep the promise. Retiring.
Because a LOT of HR calls were taken out of the TM's hand and left with the incompetents in HR. Now we use external vendors (Hello Korn Ferry...) to try and improve instead of listening to what 1st line leaders say. As far as claims go, this is just Yi doing the old CYA dance. Unfortunately, Tipsord can't see how incompetent (or maybe he does and doesn't care) Yi actually is.
Between losing WFH and the Plug & Play (because EVERYBODY'S skill set is the same) the trainers should have plenty of work for the next few years.
What good is all that money if you don't put it to work?
I don't see this as a bad thing. State Farm needs competition, I hope other insurance companies start poaching our talent with their WFH jobs. This will lead to raising wages and innovation in the work place to keep our people. Things will be tough for a bit with staffing, we are always so late in responding to staffing challenges.
And dont forget the mutual company netted nearly 2 billion between 2019 and 2020. There is panic daily due to not enough workers to do the job. According to the top man we gained a million policies by May of this year which means more work….