Thread regarding State Farm Insurance layoffs

Be young, a su-k up, with diversity boxes checked and you go right to managing a team where you wouldnt live a week doing the actual role, and then will need to prove yourself and become a micromanager, since your use is mostly a babysitter in the role, micromanaging will make you feel useful for your inflated salary for your low value role herding people who will quit in 6months anyway.

Make sure you tell that 45 year old what words to say on the phone next time! Gen Z boss and a mini whoooo!

Honestly a new hire is more likely to get into an upper leadership role than someone who has spent decades here earning cpcu, MBA, etc. So if I was young and saw who is getting ahead I’d be stoked. Experience and wisdom mean nothing. Educational attainment means nothing.

All state farm cares about is buying cheap labor for selling a product at the highest price. State Farm does not care about you! Then, took away pension, cost of living average and put you on a timecard. Sweat shop world.

Remember their whole MO is to keep you quiet, have no opinion, and control your life.

@d8 prestige and status of State Farm? What a bunch of BS! They lost that starting in 1990.

People choose insurance because they dont have any other option. Either between jobs and all they could find, all they could find, or rarely, because you choose that path, which is unlikely anymore thats more a legacy SF "family company" thing.

Issue is, whats the draw to STAYING and making a career out of it? Thats where the company falls flat.

Plenty of people join, just most choose to make the same or better money elsewhere, without some middle school TM hover mommying you as you work, telling you which words to use on the next call, telling you to go faster while increasing quality.

People would stick around due to stability, being decent pay, and well, SF would stick by its people, or it did at least. Stability is sorta gone since executives have made it clear, customer facing roles are costs to be eliminated, or reduced regardless of quality. We see this with the HUGE push to AI and Offshoring. Future doesnt look as stable. Theres zero care for the employee anymore, so conditions get rough.

Really all they are doing now is selling you an extremely complicated customer support job, where you are not supported at all, intensely monitored and scrutinized, and have to be abused by the customer and agency, and handle it well. All for mediocre pay, difficulty getting time off, and ever increasing needs, while positives are slowly phased out.

It su-ks. Theyve really taken away everything that made it appealing while concentrating things that were awful. End result is the company burns millions hiring, training, and rehiring people over and over and over.

Top it off they are now restricting hiring to hubs, vs using WFH as a benefit, as well as a cost saving.

Take back your Insurance.....you're jamming me! .............Tom Petty!

Just the prestige and status associated with the SF brand, I suppose.

Honestly there aren’t any reasons to work at State Farm anymore. Injury (especially D1) is one of the most toxic places you can go, the ‘office culture’ is terrible, the micromanagement is absolutely stupid.

I got cornered by my TM because I am applying for different departments because they want to know if I don’t want to work with them. Why would I admit that because I know they’ll just retaliate. Management at State Farm has become such a shell of what it used to be under Rust.

The reason why people keep going to State Farm is because State Farm pays more than Geico and some other companies for rep positions and people want that pay. It’s a bait and switch. They bring you in for the pay than drive you to health issues when you can’t manage their unrealistic expectations.

Why? Because they are destructive and like the NIKE model of doing business. SF is on the same road as NIKE. They are big time into WOKE sports.

Glad I am at the end. 4 years to go till full retirement. Place totally su-ks and they could care less about anyone. I would never advise anyone to work here, especially a younger person. You are treated sib human.