Our CEO's son recently was promoted directly from manager to AVP. This is a brazen display of nepotism just in advance of an 8/31 QTD when hundreds more State Farmers will lose their jobs. You can question our CEO's competence, intelligence, and fidelity, but you certainly cannot question his chutzpah.
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It's not the company it use to be. Ruthless CEO who is there to take all he can get .
Totally agree. Nepotism has ruined this place.
There's two married couples in my dept now and the boss's son. Boss always told me my spouse couldn't work in the same department as me. Then, he said these people could because one is not the other's supervisor. My husband nor I would be each other's supervisor. So, what's the lie now? Not that my husband wants to work for SF. But even if I joked about it with boss, he immediately put the p--poo on it very seriously.
He also promoted his good for nothing son to a job he didn't have the qualifications for, nor the degree for. He put him at a desk, and said he was 'floating support'. Well, he never told anyone his new job class, name, or description. Alas, now, sh*theads don't realize we have LinkedIn where we can see all your incompetent son's lies. He stated his position was something we were never told he was and he likely never did the job at all. After 6 months, he finally quit because he got another job. He obviously was padding his resume with the help of good ol' dad, because he didn't want to admit he was 35 w/ a college degree in data entry and the mail room doing administrative stuff.
Nepotism will ruin this company though. We have several big shots' kids in my department. So, they will never ever get a real review of their work habits, etc. How is my boss going to tell his boss that his son he put in this department s---s? The sons and daughters will always get a glowing review and raise.
Too many Rusts was definitely a problem. I also fear having too many Tipsords.
Most reasonable people accept change as long as it is done in a well thought out manner and applied uniformly. When higher ups exempt themselves from radical change by clinging on to old traditions like nepotism it sends a terrible message to the rest of the organization. Change for thee, not for me.
And how many Rusts were there in the “good old days” everyone seems to long for? Perish the thought that nepotism was rampant from the very beginning!
But on this site, I can’t help but notice some real inconsistencies.
Surprise. People on the internet disagree with one another.
It’s a cult! From normal!
Also, you can throw in the decadent behavior, the affairs, the promotions due to promiscuity and that fact that the leadership attended second tier universities and attained their positions due to unethical behaviors; spells disaster! Scary! I guess that’s what happens when there is $100billion in the bank. Karma is a b--ch!
State Farm will never became a publicaly traded stock company: do you know why? Too many damn incompetent family members are promoted, coddled, and advanced because of their family member influence. The incompetence of thesr family members being promoted to positions of leadership is startling. And this goes to all insurance companies but especially SF. This will continue to hinder this company going forward for the company unknowingly is digging their own grave. It will be humorous to watch as this once honest, ethical company falls prey to its self destructive behavior. This company has become a joke and it will not be long till the competition seizes on this incompetence. Lord help these fools running this company for I’m afraid that we have another Sears, Lehman company situation in the making. These new leaders that are taking us (Sf) into the future are clueless and have not the intellect to right this ship. A complete example of incompetence and yes, arrogance. This company s---s and especially the leadership is doomed by its own incompetent accord. Shakespear couldn’t have written a better story than this. There is no vision , there is no leadership and there is no ethics. Just a failing business model as the company is being torn apart due to incompetence. Yes, complete and utter incompetence. What a joke. You would be a fool to work here.
Doesn’t the code of conduct require employees to be free conflict of interests?? How is this allowed? No one is going to say his son needs development or has reached his career max..... promote promote promote..... this company is truly in trouble because of all the like minded, identical work background friends he has promoted to the 12th floor. Manager to executive...... looks bad and IS awful.
@1mxw.....solid point. But on this site, I can’t help but notice some real inconsistencies. Like people complaining that we cannot run a $100B dollar company like a family hardware store....while simultaneously yearning for the days when this company was run like a family hardware store.
It’s not that tippy pushes his son up into these positions it’s the no backbone section and claim manager level people hoping to s--- up enough for one more bump promotion for themselves. I had a evp kid put into my unit and he basically came to work worthless every day but I was l ordered to give them a 3/3 rating. Was told I would need to call exec & tell them their kid was just average if I gave them anything less when they should have been given a 1 and kicked to the curb. I left not much after that
Mobility won’t be a problem in the future with only 4 locations!
I disagree that people were promoted based on tenure. Majority were promotef because they were mobile, not necessarily having the skillset or experiencr. And here we are
@1vdy - Good to see Public Affairs weigh in. I guarantee our CEO is acutely aware of his son's career progress. This is merely one step toward his eventual coronation as the next CEO. I agree promotion based on tenure is a loser, but so is promotion based on nepotism.
A few things here. I’m not sure that the CEO is all that concerned with who the new Finance AVP selections were. Also, there were multiple new AVPs that made the jump from manager to AVP, including (gasp) a young women. Lastly, the reason people were selected to make the jump was because they are the best we’ve got. Promotion based on tenure created the stale culture that currently exists, and those days are coming to an end.
@1wll - Do you think it's OK the CEO's son didn't even have to make a stop at Director? Or that we appear once again to be treating the CEO position like a monarchy instead of a meritocracy? This is a $100B company, not a family hardware store. Let the best person (even, gasp, a woman) emerge instead of letting the CEO keep it within the family. If anyone encounters SF Board members please wake them.
A healthy 25+% of new systems AVPs had less than 2 years of director experience. Even when directors it was a joke that several folks were on the fast track. Good for them.
Great choice and will be an amazing leader. Congrats to his promotion and congrats to our company.
Gross.
Isn't this how company got into trouble by not promoting the most talented employees? You can't continue to operate a company based on promoting based on the good ole boy mentality . They have done this for years and now continues on.
@1gz - You are correct, that is how it's always been at State Farm. What gets me is that our CEO presents himself as a great change agent. It is clear he wants the effects of change to be felt only by the little people.
The original thread had a better title.
The original affirmative action at play. No surprise to anyone who knows how the game has always been played. Grooming the next CEO.
I heard 2 or 3 got promoted from manager to AVP
Great choice and will be an amazing leader. Congrats to his promotion and congrats to our company.
There is also another VT rismg up ranks.