Reinstating/reimplementing COLA (Cost Of Living Adjustment) would be a pretty nifty recruiting and retainment strategy right now.
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Hahahahaha, good one.
Did anybody if COLA was approved in Board meeting last week?
Well GM used to make cavaliers and other throw away based entry cars there and sold several hundred thousand a year. Now they have a sudo company making electric trucks so no derrrr they don't need 10,000 people when you go from 300,000 a year to 3,000 a year production. Also the J body production was stopped and replaced by the Cobalt which was a massive failure and most of the Cobalts production shipped to MEXICO in the early 2000's. I once toured medical school. Doesn't make me a doctor.
I expected more too. He said demand is so high they are shipping everything out as fast as they can get them off the line.
@2ghm+1fMTcSTo- not a lot of vehicles when you drive by if it's off I-80.
Nice story. I just toured the Lordstown plant in Ohio. They are in full production. They employ 500 workers. They use to employ 10,000 according to the local manager. You might want to actually visit-only a 7 hour drive from B’ton.
Only an engineer thinks that claim handling is the same as building a Buick. Frames don't break down on the phone and start screaming at you during assembly. Robots put a weld on a frame or support structure in the same place at the same time day after day. The frame doesn't stop and start on the line whenever it wants. It doesn't move where its at on the line. Its in the same place over and over again. Errors can just be tossed and melted down to recycle with no regard to how that frame feels about it or if it will continue to do business with you. Helping people put their lives back together isn't binary and it doesn't always take the happy path on your process map. Not to mention most of those UAW jobs have been moved to Canada and Mexico and not replaced by robots. Robots have been on assembly lines since the 80's.
Bold talk. Reminds me of the United Auto members said the same kind of things about “no damn robots can do my job.” Of course there were 1.8 million members in the 80’s and only 390,000 now…..
For those who say claims will be automated in a couple of years…. Keep in mind this company can’t even keep a CRM that’s hosted off site running correctly. They can’t make a phone system that doesn’t randomly log people off. They can’t even quickly integrate very manual claim tools for efficiency.
Claim handler jobs are going no where so the company better start treating them right. Talent is being poached.
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I'm almost certain you deserve an appreciation bonus, along with most others who post here.
I still remember when MT gave us all an "extra" $1,000 bonus in addition to the regular bonus, and gave us a big speech about how that was in appreciation for the employees actually stuck around after all the employee layoffs he did a few years back. Hey Michael, how about that extra bonus again but making it an extra $2,000 this time? And repeat it every year? Now we're talkin'..............
@szr-right up there with SF is going to implode and become #3 by 2012, 2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019,2020, 2021, 2022, 2023…and my favorite SF is going to unionize that one started in the 80’s, 90s, and now 20’s.
They take and will never give back. Remember the elite motto: It's all about me.
1988: Cars will fly by 2020 and everyone will have one.
2008: Cars will drive themselves and we won't need drivers and drivers won't need insurance by 2018.
2019: Claims will be completely automated and we won't need claim handlers in 3 years.
I hope the elites get HUGE bonuses.
How do you think the elites get bonuses?
No need. Almost all claim jobs will be automated in a few years.
They can make a cr**pload more money working on cars and their toolboxes have wheels on them to go to the dealership next door easily! Way back in the day, automotive technicians did aspire to work for SF, but that’s when you worked outside the office all day in a pool car writing estimates and taking pictures before Select Service and Service First in the late 90’s. But that job died a long time ago!
People from body shops and construction industry used to aspire to come to the farm. But that is no longer the case because, fortunately, reputation and words do get a role quickly of the current situation.
Slick Farm has to offer something more attractive to lure recruits to apply for a position in Claims and Estimatics because the $2000 hiring bonus isn't enough money for someone to get hired to work for this Big Clown Organization.