Too many people seem to be claiming this and frankly, I don't relate. I'm not sure where you used to work but this place is neither worse nor better than the rest. Just your run-of-the-mill company that tries to cut corners where it can when it comes to employee treatment, but it still offers decent pay and benefits for our efforts.
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Yes for me. Im hoping it turns into a career before im able to start looking externally. Im not expecting to be with the company longer term anymore, especially with the one size fits all job role planned.
Its morphing from a boring but stable and comfortable career working at SF in claims to a very unplesant job for very poor pay considering the stress and level of complexity to similiar paying jobs.
They cant keep their $35k/yr kids because you can get just that at any hub for a fraction of the effort, none of the BS games ect. I would say the CA role across the board competes with a waiter/waitress job in levels of unpleasantness, but the sever role you can make more.
Benefits are good but seem to be exceptional only with certain benefits you seldom use.
Whenever someone i know asks about the job and if they are hiring im pretty straight forward, and few want more details, those that have (all were over qualified and rockstars) didnt get the job when applying. Its like they want high turnover medicore people.
Im sure there are worse jobs out there, but for a notoriously boring industry, with few aspiring to be insurance handlers, why go through all this effort to make it unpleasant and low paying as well?
State Farm WAS the best company I had worked for up until 2014. From 2005 to 20014 it was a solid 8/10 overall. After 2014, it was not the worst but I would rate at a 4/10. Yes I have worked for worst companies that are rated below a 4 which is why I came to work for State Farm and it WAS a breath of fresh air. State Farm is now just barely tolerable, and I would not recommend this company to anyone I know.
Not the worst overall job I've ever had in my life, but definitely the worst when it comes to employee expectations. The unrealistic metrics and workload, getting time off, mandatory OT,
average benefits and below market pay, make State Farm a very stressful employer.
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in my experience SF is not the worst place , there was one where nepotism and favoritism was turned to 11, only favorites got promoted and raises, actual production meant nothing but if you were "nice" and Managers liked you because you kissed a-s then you would be employee of the month even with terrible numbers and bad works etic, management was incompetent since the company was failing their costs savings tactics were: fire people and dont replace them, one person was doing the job of 7 by the time i left, they had the points system of SF also when the implemented and announced it they retro actively went back 6 months and gave people points so they could fire them , then they made up false accusations and gave the entire floor write ups just to see who would accept guilt.. then they fired the ones that were stupid enough to sign the write up accepting guilt, they would make people come in even if you had PTO, they would interrogate you if you called out sick and even went as far as requiring doctors note also even if justified a sick day was 2 points and at 7 pts auto termination.
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then the other one where you were basically a slave, you arrived and found out you had mandatory OT that day no heads up, they even dimmed the windows tinted both ways so you could not tell if it was Day or Night, hold times where hours long calls in the thousands , it was really creepy, also they would sit behind you and constantly tell you to be faster 3 mins per call was considered too slow, training was utter garbage, turnover rate was insane.
SF is like the least worst one but in the past few years has been getting closer to #1 listed above, just because SF is the less bad choice it doesn't mean is not bad.
@2arc. You are wise to make the first step being sober of State Farm.
There’s always going to be somewhere worse, fact of the matter is my wife works from home also. So I get to hear her personals meetings with her manager. She is nothing but supportive of my wife and is super nice.
I had my wife listen to my 1x1 and her jaw dropped to the floor, and wants me to try moving on now. I hide it but it’s obvious we end our days with way different amounts of stress.
When I read someone say “it is the worst for benefits” I know immediately they have never worked anywhere else doing anything else.
I will admit tho, there are worse places which makes me feel sick for those workers.
They're no different than the rest. Promise you the moon and pull the carpet out from under you when you reach for it.
It’s the worst in terms of benefits and opportunities.
SF was a very good job. But, over the years, they have become the worst in many ways. When I went to night school, and talked to other friends going for advanced degrees THAT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THEIR CURRENT JOBS, many of their companies paid them for going to school and gave them free time off even tho these employees might leave after they graduate. I asked one friend that was going into teaching, and I said, "why is your company paying for all this, considering you very well may leave to be a teacher." He said, "to make sure their employees are happy" SF gave me nothing, even tho I would be using all my skills for my current job.
Used to be the best employer I had ever had...
SF is considerably better than most of the places I've worked I'd say. The economy is bad, American workers are expensive, and the entire insurance industry is cost cutting and laying off in a race to the bottom, because no one cares about customer service over price. I get it. State Farm is going to survive in one way or another, my job might not, but I'd better spend time brushing up my skills for if the axe drops.
I've actually worked at state farm, adm, cat, Illinois power, city governments and school districts , foster and Gallagher and a couple of external agencies.
The external agency was by far the best and I worked part of my time at SF as an external. I considered SF to be the 2nd best place I've worked at.
Taking into consideration benefits, atmosphere...SF is much better than most companies in central Illinois.
Government work would place high on retirement benefits and health care.
Hiring in to SF these days likely isn't as beneficial since the pension and retiree health care is now much worse.