Thread regarding State Farm Insurance layoffs

Yup! Google has it right! They are deceitful liars caught with their pants down according to this article.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/google-location-tracking-employee-concerns-arizona-lawsuit

Google model. Surveillance Capitalism. China model

Google right up there with Twitter and FB. Look up project Veritas with FB whistle-blowers and algorithms they do not tell their users. China defined! Not USA! Google has it right? I don't think so Tim!

Be careful with the Google message. Google is definitely part of the cancel culture, in thick with China, very very non inclusive, and if you tend to be conservative slightly, you are out the door immediately! They are clones. Before anyone supports this post, don't Google the company! Actually, go to their campus and just watch! See how they are programmed to think and act. It is a stepford wives show.

Yup! Google has it right. Build a building and supply low income housing to their employees while getting state and local tax breaks from the state of Kalifornia and the city of San Jose while their employees are taxed up the yin yang! Sounds like a perfect socialism scam. Fits perfect with the China narrative.

Yep, if State Farm decided to give every associate a million dollars each this di-k would be on here complaining that it should have been two million. This is the result of a generation of participation trophies and no hurt feelings. The upside of taking a foot to the nuts is you realize how the “real world” operates.

OP, what exactly is google doing SF is not? The whining is truly hilarious. Listening to the mo--ns on this site is like a free show.

The one poster said SF waited “weeks and weeks to send their employees home.” Really now? Sf sent employees home on March 13th. The week before, the mayor of New York City was telling people it was safe to gather outside and to act normal. Which companies went full virtual before early March? Oh that’s right, none.

You’re complaining scour going back into the office - has State Farm told you a date you are going back into the office? No. So what are you complaining about?

Many of you would have more credibility when talking about agents’ value if you knew:
What agents do
How State Farm pays them to do it
How State Farm equips them to do it
What State Farm DOESN’T want them to do (so it doesn’t equip or pay them for it)
How much of the money they receive goes to paying staff, office space, advertising, and massive taxes
—Other than those minor points, most of you whining from the WFH office in mommy’s basement are spot on.

It’s clear none of you have clicked over to www.the layoff.com/google. Yep. Same freakin’ conversations over there. Actually, ALL the( /pick a company) sites are having the same conversations. It’s almost as though it isn’t 1985 anymore and the world has changed.

Take your face diaper off and get back to work.

Party is over. Time to get back into the buildings. No reason to be WFH still when the pandemic is winding down.

Go live in Santa Clara County the home of Google and see if you can afford a one bedroom apartment to rent on SF salary then tell me Google is right. Then, go into a Google building and observe. Yeah! Google has it right NOT! Don't wish for that lifestyle.

Agents are the glue holding this sht show together, and don’t you forget it snowflake. You think we are overpaid? By all means step right up and grab some of this easy money, there are lots of open agencies available, it does involve work however so you most likely would not be interested,

Enough already. Back in the building. Stop tryimg to convince us being home is a right. Work is work and ... if you so choose can get paid for working. Otherwise dont work and stay home.

Let's talk about pay and agents! Agents are overpaid. Once they have business they never serve it. Those of you who are insured by SF how often do you hear from agent or staff? Get paid? Yeah for what?

The difference between tech companies and SF is that tech companies need and want human workers, treat them accordingly, and it seems to work well for them.

SF on the other hand, is in a never ending crusade to shrink their human work force, and i would say most of the issues employees and customers are dealing with, are directly tied to that.

Not only are they shrinking their human capital, but putting customer facing positions on a six-sigma efficiency plan, meaning they want the bare essential minimum of workers facing customers, which means you going to the bathroom, or kid getting sick, is now a major deal, since staffing doesnt have appropriate backup staff to account for humans being human.

So yeah google plan works, ONLY when the company seeks to keep workers and keep them happy.

Its clear SF has been involved in attrition shrinkage of their workforce, so they dont seem to really care much if people leave, and act accordingly when dealing with workers (other than posting PR articles that say the opposite)

Until SF stops shrinking its human capital, and realizes its their most valuable asset, nothing will change. Caring about its human capital made SF #1, doing what competitors are doing, and moving to technology over people, will get us where everyone else is, which is not #1.

But theyll get it eventually. i hope.

Agents are, and always have been independent contractors. They are allowed to set their own schedule and hours, and most of them work a lot more hours for less pay than some of the tools that are internal. Don’t confuse job descriptions snowflake. You are an employee and thus have resigned yourself to being dictated to you. Deal with it.

Also keep management at their desk. That includes all up to VP and agents. The days of getting paid sitting at home with 9 million distractions don't deserve a paycheck. Work is work. Play is play and none are paid to play.

Performers will perform inside or outside. Bring them all in and keep the playing field level for all. Span of control.

Wrong again, last I knew, the employee does not get to set the terms of employment. Where was you assigned desk when you were hired? Also, name me a company that did not make a mistake in dealing with COVID, it was/is a learning experience for all involved. Maybe you should be self employed, perhaps a paper route or maybe Uber or such, then you could accurately say your boss is a mo--n.

@tyl+1aVad715 - You have to be one of the biggest shills I've seen on this site. The OP is concerned about being forced back into an office as opposed to working from home. If you can't understand that, it's not the OP's fault due to lack of clarity, it's your lack of reading comprehension.

I freely admit that when I went into the hospital for an extended stay due to Covid, SF treated me much better than I expected them to. That doesn't obviate the fact that SF executive leadership has made NUMEROUS mistakes over the past year and not everyone was treated the same.

SF's issue is (and has been for years) their inability to differentiate performers from non-performers. If we have people that are incapable of performing out of the office, force them back in. If they can't perform there, terminate their employment. Don't punish those that perform well because of those that don't. Executive has yet to learn this lesson and it affects all employees.

There is most certainly a choice Snowflake, go where your job is or go elsewhere for a job. What a crybaby.

Google is owned and operated by the CCP.

@tyl

no, they waited weeks and weeks to send employees home, they severely opposed work from home
they only did send people home after individuals came to work with covid, and they kept that quiet and kept denying then quietly sent everyone home that afternoon, not when individuals with covid positive came in but when word got out days later, meaning they would have kept quiet and kept us all in the building with contaminated areas without saying anything but they got caught.

they never used to clean common areas but they started the moment covid positive people were found out to be at the building after everyone else had been exposed for days... most people could tell they were trying to cover their as--s because they knew they f*cked up but kept denying it, he-l they deleted yammer posts by the people who were co workers to the positive case employees or the employee themselves.

so no , not flexibility , their hand was forced.

@tyl I would normally have to go to a bowling alley to meet someone of your mental capacity. State Farm had no choice in "allowing" employees to work from home. If they had a choice they would not have allowed it. Interesting that you know how "every other employee" was treated......

Stopped listening to @tyl when got to "State Farm  has been amazing to me and every other employee during covid". Either TM or HR troll and not worth paying attention to.

What an absolute incomprehensible post. Anyone know what the OP is actually asking for other than whining complete non sense? What message are you trying to deliver? I swear, the stupidest people in the human race post on the forum.

State Farm has been amazing to me and every other employee during covid. We got to take our equipment home and work continually home. They offered the FLEXIBILITY to any employee who WANTS to work in the office (other than closed ops centers) to go work in the office whenever they like, or just stay 100% virtual. Now we are going to get to stay virtual almost permanently with a little in office time. Honestly, what more could you ask for? You are so UNGRATEFUL!!! Please quit and leave your sorry attitude at the door!