Thread regarding State Farm Insurance layoffs

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I am a 19 year claims employee at SF. When the new model did not work we were told of another change. Then told we would handle weather and no weather claims again in addition to large losses. All that money spent and appear we are going backwards. We used to always hear the company wants to retain talent. Haven’t heard that one in years now as we are doing just the opposite. It’s not the right path but from way down here it appears the right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing at the executive level. There is a big difference in a 20 year employee handling your total house fire loss and a 3 month college graduate. We are hemorrhaging auto policies. We used to be able to make up for the difference in price by selling our first class service. Providing this kind of service has gotten to be impossible. Handling very large territories and absorbing the territories of others when they leave. It’s all sad. It doesn’t take a MBA from Harvard to know SF is not the place it was. I sure hope it gets turned around. We need many more skilled claims people. Right now we are showing them the door.

OP is @TjNAuoG-6qoz.

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Self-driving cars will shake up the industry far more than people realize. When cars drive themselves far better than people do, and claim volume plummets, there is no justification to charge the same premiums. Drastic cuts in premiums cuts revenue, followed by massive layoffs in claims, underwriting, etc because most claims are weather related or thefts. In Europe self-driving trucks are being successfully tested already, so this is closer than we may realize.

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Post ID: @9cxl+TsrV2VQ

State Farm cheats it's employees by using THE Metric system which should be used by ROBOTS.

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Post ID: @4zjv+TsrV2VQ

If company is instructing you not to record hours worked, this is huge labor law issues! And attorneys will jump all over it.

They showed recall the Noble case against State Farm,

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Post ID: @2ehc+TsrV2VQ

I’m in Fire Proximity so in the same boat as you. By not logging actual hours worked we essentially would be affirming the company has staffing, territories, and workload correct. We also would knowingly be submitting a false document (timesheat) to the company, which would call integrity into question in litigation. My numbers do justify the OT and I politely and professionally told my TM (who I respect and enjoy working for) that I will not work for free off the clock so that mgt looks good on a spreadsheet. His response was no one expected me to and to log all time worked and try to comp time IF possible. He did add everyone is under tremendous pressure to reduce costs and OT is on the radar.

I will add that I know adjusters that have worked for other companies. They paid no OT and gave their adjusters a much heavier workload. They all left, went independent, and haven’t been happier.

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Post ID: @2gfc+TsrV2VQ

@TsrV2VQ-2fcr - Former Proximity here. Last year I was told that this is no longer a 40 hour a week job, so I get what you are doing. However, how you are doing it is wrong. 1. Failure to properly record hours is a Code of Conduct issue. Period. Is it worth losing your job to hide the additional hours? 2. Failure to properly record hours and be paid for it is a state wage & hour issue. The company could get fined big time for this depending on where you live. The company getting fined would be great, but it would still get you fired. 3. Working extra hours and not claiming them just to do your job screws up the metrics so the bastards think that you can do your job in less time than it actually takes. God knows the metrics are screwed up enough.

If I were you, I would pull together an outline showing the workload that you have including new inspections, drive time, mail, phone calls etc. and sit down with your TM. My experience has been that if I could document the need for OT, and she could justify it to her SM, then it would be approved. If it isn't approved, at least they know that you are busy and your metrics will reflect that.

God I hate metrics.

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Post ID: @2mld+TsrV2VQ

Anybody else forced to work 40hrs a week and actually working 45-50 hrs a week. I'm told that I can't work more than 40 hrs a week because I don't have the closings, but need to work more than 40 just to keep up with the owned and large loss files. I put 40 hrs on the time card and keep my real hours on the calendar, just in case.

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Post ID: @2fcr+TsrV2VQ

I have been told about the contractor connection program by a couple of people and it sounds like there will be only a few people left out in the field when this happens.

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Post ID: @2mst+TsrV2VQ

Auto drive is a long way out for this change. Hell they couldn't even prepare for the online business. The name of the game for them is catch-up not get in front of.

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Post ID: @fwl+TsrV2VQ

Gearing up for self driving auto market. Won’t need auto adjusters

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