Thread regarding State Farm Insurance layoffs

I was with State Farm for 24 years.

There was no path to advancement outside (or inside) of claims without being UNCONDITIONALLY MOBILE. People got tiny little promotions and had to move all the way across the country.

They are not ASKING MORE from their employees. They are treating the employees like robots. With metrics, word tracks and ridiculous micro management. Micro micro micro management. "Big Brother" monitors the mouse movements on your mouse. That's crazy.

I left before these closure announcements were made and ONE WEEK before the call center environment was instituted. I wasn't going to squander my education, my skillset, my experience and my CPCU designation answering calls and reading word tracks and getting "demerits" in a call center.

I have learned more in my new role at my new company in 6 months than I learned in the last 20 years of employment with BIG RED.

GJ Meherle is rolling over in his grave. THIS IS NOT WHAT HE WANTED. It can't be.

WHY HAVEN'T THEY UNIONIZED?? YET???

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Excellent post. Great question at the end. I'm told it's the most forbidden of words to use ("union,"), and even managers have told me that "evil unions" are the first thing they spin to young managers in training. People, sadly, in and out of SF, work against their best interests.

I'm pro union, but I don't want to initiate a debate about union pros and cons. I will say, though, that this new Future State is an epic failure, and your post is but one reason why that's so.

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