State Farm has MANY job postings in all departments. WHY are they not offering these jobs to the people who they are letting go????
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I gather that zipcode is the modus operandi for the proximity re-org, but it's important to keep in mind that each department is going through it's own restructure. For example, in Systems it was based entirely on job title, department and location, and whether the person was remote or on-site, with a secondary consideration for skillset when it came to competing for other openings.
One of the big reasons is zip codes...the entire transition is based off a pointless assortment of zip codes so even if a person is maybe 10 miles from approved zip code they would not be eligible for job unless they moved family to that zip code. It is a complete travesty.
State Farm does not seem to care about experience, customer service, only numbers, numbers, numbers. Screw accuracy, so screw State Farm!
Because you are as useless as tits on a boar. If you were worth anything to them, you would not have been axed. Why must I state the obvious?
Well most of the people left in my office are tenured...an office they are planning on closing, gonna cost them a ton of severance. So now they are in the process of trying to thin the herd, things are gonna get ugly. Not looking forward to the next few months. They most certainly can replace us with less expensive people. Gotta cut costs somewhere......
It seems State Farm has made it clear the like to get rid of higher paid employees and bring in younger ones at less money, with less benefits, who are happy to work endless hours of overtime, and NOT have a life outside of the kool-aid in Guyana.
I’ll add to the previous comment, they are also roles that people were doing and doing well, that those people were told they weren’t wanted (age, FMLA, tenure, etc.), are sitting in cubes with QTDs, and all the spots were put out externally and internally to basically just rebuild an entire dept.
Since different departments are in different stages of the re-org, there are likely multiple scenarios in play:
1) Roles that have to be backfilled because more people took voluntary severance than expected.
2) Roles that have to be backfilled because the people who did those job previously were severed (for example, remote workers in Systems).
3) Normal roles that people within the organization are competing for because those roles are in the "grow" category
4) Roles for which the people being eliminated to not possess the required skill-set (java developer, for example).
Probably a few other examples as well.