When I started working at State Farm, the company’s net worth was maybe 50-60 billion. The little slip of paper attached to my most recent policy gives a current number, if I recall correctly, of about 156 billion.
That’s a lot of money.
Alternatively written:
156,000,000,000.
I challenge State Farm to voluntarily release 1 billion dollars, divided equally among all current employees with 5 or more years of service. At approximately 70,000 employees, that is about $14,285 each.
Why? Because we’ve stuck with you through thick and thin. Because as we are asked to do more with less, we can see company assets grow and grow to a very large amount, and mostly - because you can. 1 billion to SF is like loose change in the couch to the rest of us.
Just askin’.
Good people of State Farm, what do you say?