Things are really getting out of control lately. No matter how hard you work, no matter if you have earned and were promised a promotion, it's not going to happen because somebody who is related to or buddy with the right people will get that position. It keeps happening over and over again. The least productive people advance, the rest of us are saddled with more work. I know HR is a bust, but is there any other way to do something about this?
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I left State Farm in Bloomington for another large company. This was the biggest reason I left. It didn’t matter how much benefit I provided the company, nobody valued my work. While all organizations have some amount of who you know, healthy ones care about what you can do.
A very good signal I have that it was not my lack of skills: my new company hired me with a nice raise, promoted me in one year, and gave me long term stock incentives after two. Sure beats the old 2-2s.
Why not, works at SF and worked well for our Vice President... s-x is just another tool in the belt or weapon in the aresenal.
@dyp+19Qxe2ep Good point.
They hide. Call em out in the open. Tell em like it is. Keep everything. They're teaching you how to create a file. Create one on them.
Not bitter little one. Don’t care. Facts matter
Tons of dates. Don’t worry bout that- healthy as pie
Clearly big Egos rule at Farm and are galore.
Get off your high horse now sweets. Get to work!! Real work
Not bitter little one. Don’t care. Facts
Tons of dates. Don’t worry to it that crazy one Egos rule at Farm amd are galore. Get off your high horse now sweets
Wow! A lot of guys who couldn’t make the team and a lot of girls that never got a prom date on this site.
Sounds like you are still bitter from your high school days
I networked and know many people at Farm. Been around area whole life and most are ISU or IWU grads or local rural community so called “leaders” with big cushy country club lives and “careers” that act like hero’s and big business folks in the community.
Know many from high school. All have. If titles now. They are not as business savvy or obviously great but keep getting bigger bonus and promotions amd prestige.
I always saw through it and never took that approach to getting. Ahead at a company
Politics and who you are related to and country club with rule at Farm
Dont knock hawthhorne. More brain cells in the hood than in BloNo and the environs thrown in.
The most awful thing about working in B-N is running into sf people every-where-you-go. The women can’t go grocery shopping without getting all dressed up etc because heaven forbid if someone saw someone in sweatpants with no makeup. The town is so gossipy. Everyone’s concerned about who lives in Hawthorne hills. Underwriters used to look up other coworkers pap policies to see how much their diamond rings were insured for..
There was a review on Glassdoor that summed it up perfectly. I'll paraphrase it here:
State Farm is a large company headquartered in a small town. People are connected in and outside of work.
This review stuck with me. It showed that more important than your work performance is who you know and who you are friends with. If you live in Bloomington you will see all sorts of incompetent "leaders" at State Farm. What so many of them have in common is that they have a strong network of other State Farm "leaders" outside of work. They have cookouts together, their kids play for the same soccer team, they go to the same churches, etc. They help each other with promotions, finding new positions in another department, even protect each other from scrutiny or being fired. If you are in Bloomington and want to climb the ladder it is imperative that you network even in your free time.
As I worked my way through college and the first two years after getting hired for state farm in a service business, I learned a lot. The other business I worked for was a family owned service business. The owner of the company was very fair and trusted his employees. His son graduated from San Diego State as a CPA. His father let him run the business. I remember him saying the company was running on negative owner equity when about 1 million dollars in assets were paid for. I also remember him telling the employees he could train a monkey to do what they did when the employees had direct contact with the customers. Know what happened to that business? It no longer exists. The only difference between SF and that business is in name only. They think cheaper labor and cutting costs is the answer. My question: the answer for what end result?
Another reason why State Farm has lost its brand.
No truer words spoken. For years leadership has had the good old boy attitude, do as I say - not as I do - follow me to the top by my coat tails. Ugh , makes me sick every time I see a manager or
Director jump around to different departments
Every year or so , nothing sticks to these individuals, no accountability. Screw up - Move-’em
Up . Oh and let’s get them to where they can retire The State Farm way , handled with kids gloves .
The best way to rid the Nepotism is do mandatory surprise d–g testing and agree that all federal illegal d–gs that come up positive are grounds for immediate termination. Also agree like truckers if you blow over a .02 of alcohol you are immediately terminated. That would thin the herd very fast.
Cops and claims have the same spousal statistics. Does that answer your questions? Just look around you and pay attention; then ask yourself if you want to surround yourself with that group.
Little Tippy becoming an AVP in Finance has to be the biggest example of Nepotism. He is lazy, lacks people skills, and is not very bright. If he wasn't the CEO's son he wouldn't even be a manager.
Nepotism to say it lightly. I say inbred.
Keep your job. Take Prozac, Adderall, and others to fake you out to believe in their delusional reality.
HR and their “liaisons” are ridiculous
You can always try to be the drunkest, most inept person on your team. That will pretty much guarantee you a solid leadership position at State Farm. Trust me. I know from experience.
You can always do it the old fashioned way, sleep your way to the top.
The Tippy's are only making it worse with micromanaging taken to a whole different level.
@dyp+19Qxe2ep agreed! Well said!
State Farm was run by two generations of Mecherles, three generations of Rusts, and who knows how many generations of Tipsords as the CEO's son got a skip-level promotion to AVP. Nepotism is baked into State Farm's DNA. Some people make it through merit but who you know, or more importantly who you are related to, is the primary factor in determining one's ceiling at State Farm.
There are two things you can do about it: grudgingly accept it as many people do, or try another company where a greater emphasis is placed on merit.