I'm just wondering, I know for a fact I'm not the only one. I'm just curious if the number is as high as I assume or if people have a much higher threshold of how much they can take then I give them credit for.
I'm not asking who will quit, just who is considering it as a serious option. I know it's on the top of my list, I just don't dare leave until I have another job lined up. But I'm sure working on it.
I quit at age 54. 25+ years with the company. I was in Atlanta and being forced into the new model. I did not apply for any job as I was going to bide my time in ECIM for another year but that did not occur due to SF moving everyone to the new model. I had never had high blood pressure before but for the last 3 years with SF it was high. Also had other medical problems due to stress of this job. I spoke to TM’s about but nothing they could do and they all agreed with me that SF was going in wrong direction. Believe me I spoke with all of them in my area and knew exactly how I felt. They knew I was fed up with this company I spent majority of my life at. I told them I was I did respect the company anymore because of what they were doing to employees and customers. The last 3 years of employment I had to continually apologize to them because of the way they were being treated as they were not getting called back or were low balled on their claim. It was not the employees fault but managements (from up high - Exec/s office - rotten CEO). Tipsord is destroying SF and I tell every one I speak too to not work at SF nor buy insurance from them. Turn around times on claim handling is horrible. Experienced CRs have left via retirement or finding new jobs. What a shame! This company just does not care and if you do decide to work for them, I would bet that you will not stay there for more than 5 years. If you a smart, it will be less than that. Good luck to the newly employed. I would get my licenses, experience and move on to another company that will appreciate you.
I quit at age 54. 25+ years with the company. I was in Atlanta and being forced into the new model. I did not apply for any job as I was going to bide my time in ECIM for another year but that did not occur due to SF moving everyone to the new model. I had never had high blood pressure before but for the last 3 years with SF it was high. Also had other medical problems due to stress of this job. I spoke to TM’s about but nothing they could do and they all agreed with me that SF was going in wrong direction. Believe me I spoke with all of them in my area and knew exactly how I felt. They knew I was fed up with this company I spent majority of my life at. I told them I was I did respect the company anymore because of what they were doing to employees and customers. The last 3 years of employment I had to continually apologize to them because of the way they were being treated as they were not getting called back or were low balled on their claim. It was not the employees fault but managements (from up high - Exec/s office - rotten CEO Tipsord). Tipsord is destroying SF and I tell every one I speak too to not work at SF nor buy insurance from them. Turn around times on claim handling is horrible. Experienced CRs have left via retirement or finding new jobs. What a shame! This company just does not care and if you do decide to work for them, I would bet that you will not stay there for more than 5 years. If you a smart, it will be less than that. Good luck to the newly employed. I would get my licenses, experience and move on to another company that will appreciate you.
Sadly, CPCU doesn't mean sh-- when you're out on the street with hundreds of other people and have to look outside of The Farm.
Huge waste of time
Replying to poster who completed CPCU
I felt exactly the same way before I got the boot. All that work, other destinations, constant overtime only to be treated like a number.
Already quit, had enough stashed away to spend a month finding the right gig, which is not in the insurance industry. Our area is innundated with laid of people with insurance experience. Thankfully, I had other experience to fall back on and am starting a much better job.
Get OUT!
I finished my bachelor's while working for State Farm, which they paid for. I completed my CPCU, which SF paid for, and am underway with CLU/CHFC and for what? To be treated like a number, be told what hours to work, and how to do my job. I feel like other companies will gladly take the quality trained and tenured experienced people from SF in a heartbeat.
There are no development opportunities in claims left. Unless your goal is to be a glorified call center supervisor than by all means stay. Stabilization keeps good people stuck in awful roles. I’m young enough that leaving didn’t really do me any harm. The people I feel bad for are the ones with kids, mortgages etc. There is life after the farm... trust me. They used to care about who they hired and what not but now you’re just a number on a page.
I only worked there a year and quit. It is career suicide in my field to stay at SF, the company is too behind the times, and 'leadership' is just brainwashed.
My advise to anyone would be to leave.
We are recruiting new hires out of Waffle House and Chik fil a. That is who will be working beside you reading a script until they get something they don't know how to handle, then they flip it to one of the dwindling number of long-term employees to solve. The Farm is dead. GET OUT NOW.
I left last fall without anything to go to. Best damn decision I ever made! Proximity fire with 29 years and I couldn't take it anymore. I honestly feel bad for a few of my friends because they had to pick up my work as the company didn't replace me, but they can always quit too!!! I encourage anyone who will listen to me to just quit. Life goes on after the Farm and it is sweet!
Every day, since I went live in the new claim model 4 years ago. Every survey I get that asks if I am actively looking or considering leaving the company I mark it "strongly agree".
I am 50 and been with company 29 years and have been miserable the last 3 years at least. I thought long and hard about taking their low ball severance. I decided to opt in and really don’t care if I get selected or not. Before the metrics garbage I was considered a high performing good employee as I know my job well and good at it. The metrics only consider numbers of units you put out with no concern for quality. I will continue to do quality work and when that is not good enough they can fire me. My name is more important than some stupid formula made up for factory work.
I am 50 and will be taking the voluntary severance 8/31. I know there is a better life out there for me! Also, per another site, I believe you can get unemployment even if you take voluntary severance. Life is way too short, don't spend another minute under such stress and unhappiness. Start your plan to exit, whatever it takes to get out! Be happy, be healthy, be successful! Trust me, I am not in a good financial state to be doing this, but I am planning and will be ok! Just making this decision has made me feel happier and more free than I have been in a very long time. My future is bright!!!!
Every day.
I am in ET in a maintain role and consider quitting everyday!!! My wife also works at SF (not in ET) with a better position and absolutely loves her job.
It's a challenge for us to support her career knowing we are putting my enjoyment, aspirations, etc on hold.
We are saving like MAD so when the opportunity presents itself we can walk away on our terms.
Metrics do indeed lie, so I hope you were being facetious. My manager provided false numbers for my metrics and when I proved it, upper management allowed the false numbers to stand. I had iron clad documentation that the numbers were off by 40% and it didn’t matter. HR is in on it too. The response is, “We see no basis in your claim”, and the accurate numbers were provided in clack and white. I even had someone unlock my drawers (previously to try and cause an security audit fail), and another time, my prep work for the following day had been removed (presumably to slow me down further...cost me 15 minutes to redo my prep). Agreed. They are trying to drive out the over 50 employees...very stressful and can cause health issues.
Already in process of locating another job. SF's competitors are highly interested in employing me so I feel a ton better knowing it is only a matter of time. I'm a 20+ year employee and can't take it anymore. When your health is affected, it's time to move on.
If you are 50 or over the goal is to get rid of you. That is why you are being given work you dont know how to do. Its happening to a lot of people. Do all you can to look for another job or be ready to. If you get involuntary you can file for unemployment. Theu want rid of all older or more highly paid people.
I'm 55 and will learn my fate in June. Hoping I don't get offered a position...and get some severence. Sick of all the stress and idiotic leadership.
I'm taking the voluntary severance, last day Aug. 31. If I elected to stay I could probably keep my job, but why? My reward would be even more work with no pay increase, no development opportunities, and no hope of promotion. It's been a good run but the increased stress would not be worth it. There may be some uneasy times and fear over what will come next but I'm comfortable with my decision to leave.
I'm 50 and not sure I can make it to 55. They are having me to do things I've never been trained to do and then they seem confused that my performance isn't meeting their expectations. And there's no time or budget for training. Apparently I need to just google anything I don't know. I was hoping I'd be offered a buyout, but it looks like they are going to just torture me until I quit.
Well you people are just foolish. Metrics don’t lie. These averages were created by people who have never done the job. They know how long it should take to do what. You need to hurry up and do more and do more better. There are burger flippers coming to take your job!
half of my office is considering quitting. some already have.