Thread regarding State Farm Insurance layoffs

Whether you quit or are fired your pension is what it is once you are old enough to begin collecting. If you are younger than 55 and cannot retire when you quit then you lose your retiree benefits like retiree medical and possible Medicare subsidy. Once you are vested you are vested. Check your benefits and right before you give notice. If they fire you you may get unemployment. I am not sure if you can when you quit. It is not a lot but it helps while you are looking. From scenario you give I think you are right that it was likely a matter of weeks before you were terminated. I doubt an appeal to HR or upper management or hotline would have helped. Sorry for what you are going through.

Good luck.

I was a T2/T3 injury claim specialist. Nearly all my claims had suits, T3 claims, or claims that needed quality investigation. I had calendars out of SOL, but I would usually get them within SLO within the week. Then on Monday, items would come in over the weekend and things would be out of SOL on Monday for myself and other team members. My TM would have a cow and ask the team how we can not have items out of SLO so he could have story to give to the SM. (I and another co-worker had three times the inventory of our teammates because we were the oldest members of the team). My TM came to me to discuss setting up an 'action plan' to discuss to how to get everything in SLO and NEVER get out of SLO again. He said that I was the worst performer on his team. (I know for a fact based on the KPIs put on the huddle board that i was not!). I asked what were the things that I did well. He said that there was only one thing that I did well, and that I made the best liability decisions. When he said this, I knew there was no point in doing an action plan because I knew I did plenty of things well. I knew that he was gunning for me. I decided I would put in my two week notice and that way I won't lose my pension benefits when it comes time to claim them.

They are targeting anyone in the 45-55 age group, 8 or more years employed is what I'm seeing. Bank is BAD right now and mortgage was always bad moral anyway. Very close ties between certain management and being a bobblehead, might keep a few there for severance. We'll see.

"So what they did was probably put him on an action plan. Don’t sign that garbage if they give you one. It’s their ace in the hole that says if you don’t improve your BS metrics in 4 weeks, you’re gone. That’s what I personally think happened."

LOL. Biggest myth at the Farm. Your signature is not required on a shield memo, EPR, Action plan or anything else. Once it is administered and you refuse to sign they will just note the same and work that much harder to get rid of you faster, with HRs blessing.

Be prepared to see a lot more of this. Tread lightly. An employee fired is one less severance package to budget for.

Doesn’t matter whether u sign the memo. Manager will document that you were provided a copy

There is not always an action plan. They just have you work everyone else’s time limit demands and Qs because they mismanaged staffing and then take you out because you had a few calendars and file notes that were old, or you asked for an extension on a demand to get more info.

Good luck.

Or he got points.

wait, what? How do you accrue points?

Are y'all on T2? All it takes is 21 points in 6 months.

So what they did was probably put him on an action plan. Don’t sign that garbage if they give you one. It’s their ace in the hole that says if you don’t improve your BS metrics in 4 weeks, you’re gone. That’s what I personally think happened.

Be prepared. I was shocked when I was terminated after 30 years. They can get rid of anyone. Not much you can do about it.

Claims. To be honest, I'm a bit wary to give any more details. Yesterday made me paranoid.

Need more context...what department? What job role?