Thread regarding State Farm Insurance layoffs

/this is still the site for sore losers and whiners/

Which are you?

/these threads are full of FAKE NEWS/

Most of it coming from you.

this is still the site for sore losers and whiners....these threads are full of FAKE NEWS

As if. I work with no one that would recommend this company as a place to work. They are offering $ to employees for referrals that work out. The management joke is "if there is someone you hate recommend them" because no one in there right mind would want this for someone they like. This company has done nothing but screw over its employees. From taking away benefits, retirement benefits, sick days, and raises s---, bonuses s---, can't get vacation days and closing g offices and moving those up on people. Absolutely no consideration of employees at all.

This post is stupid. The truth is they s--- and are horrible. This post makes me sick as ad services folks are out as of Oct 31. A lot of great folks will be leaving. When you post this s--- up c-ap remember those struggling and getting cut.

Clown is responding to his own OP again. And most likely is NOT a State Farm employee at all, but rather a person with a vested financial interest in this site.

Previous poster: You're making a lot of assumptions, not the least of which is that the changes being made are good for the company's bottom line.

This executive team hasn't made a good decision in about 10 years, so I'd say that's a stretch.

So let’s assume SF never started the process of change. Everyone who posted here would have remained happy in their safe little CSO or Op Ctr. How long do you think it would take for SF to become the next Sears? Change is necessary and if you failed to take care of or prepare yourself, you missed the boat. No one forced you to stay at SF. You had options.

I worked for SF for 47 years. The truth is they cut (or gave them job offers they knew they couldn’t take at their age) the seasoned, higher salaried employees. These people had a strong work ethic, good attitude and a lot of knowledge. Then they add insult to injury by saying they were bad employees. The ones I knew were excellent employees who never once took advantage of the company. If a real person wrote the original post, he should be ashamed of himself.

Whoever wrote this post must smell sht all the time because it's all over their nose. The company has gotten rid of non producers before all the lay off sht started.

The Farm had a similar deal with IBM 6 or 7 years ago. They were going to sign over our indentured servitude to them and let IBM make the needed cuts.

I remember this circulating around Corporate South at the time. I remembered thinking it would be both tragic (because of the lost jobs) and hilarious (watching the executives slowly realize how inept IBM really is, and how it's doubly problematic because now a hostile entity with its own interests owns systems).

Seriously, IBM is perhaps the most inept consulting firm I've ever worked with in my 20+ years in Information Technology. Their business model apparently keeps them in business, but every project they touch seems to turn to c-ap once it gets in the door.

"Look at what Verizon did today. Offering severance to 40k employees and transferred their IT shop to Indian Company Infosys."

The Farm had a similar deal with IBM 6 or 7 years ago. They were going to sign over our indentured servitude to them and let IBM make the needed cuts.

Big Ed wouldn't sign off on the final plan and it died on the vine.

I totally agree that staff reduction was needed but the way in which the reductions were done was ridiculous and follow tha same inefficient human bias pattern. Anyone who had the right pull stayed and increased their benefits and a lot of very good meritorious people with shorter tenure and more accomplishments but with no pull were let go.

Such culture is what will bring the Farm down. I am grateful to the farm for a lot of learning opportunities and am enjoying my more lucrative opportunities outside the Farm.

It speaks volumes if someone (HR, PA, troll, etc) comes to a site named THELAYOFF.COM to thank the CEO and promote working at this place. If you’re consideting a JOB at State Farm and end up here, that is all you need to know. Come one, come all, this place will take any warm body. Believe me, State Farm does NOT look good on the resume.

Thanks, Mom - love you too!

*Based on the past 10 years SF may have been better off with Infosys.

Not likely, unless Infosys was allowed to completely ignore the executives and their hair-brained, defective ideas.

I agree OP. Company has treated me very well over the years. No complaints

You do realize that we all know you're just responding to your own OP, right?

I agree OP. Company has treated me very well over the years. No complaints

Look at what Verizon did today. Offering severance to 40k employees and transferred their IT shop to Indian Company Infosys.

No dragged out Dept by Dept bloodletting. This SF transition would have worked better if the band aid was pulled once.

Based on the past 10 years SF may have been better off with Infosys.

"I can guarantee you these are the people who have milked the company for so long and now that they’re being held accountable, they don’t know what to do. They have no work ethic and they don’t like the fact that SF won’t tolerate it anymore."

OP - Really? You can guarantee this? You obviously don't know me or MANY of the others who busted their butts for the Company before being provided with an "unreasonable" job offer. If you still worked in claims, you would understand why many who still work at State Farm are so miserable. I still know many people in claims and every one of them feels the current expectations are unreasonable/unrealistic. If you're still happy working at State Farm, then you're in the right place. But please don't place a negative label on everyone who is unhappy. It makes you look ignorant and arrogant.

Clean up was needed. However,this a very botched attempt. Unfortunately, there isn't a plan B which is crazy. No way this would be happening in a public company where the c suite has shareholder accountability. Tipsord is not very smart.

Everyone with half a brain and more know that the company needs to get its cost per claim handling expenses down. Much of those costs are labor, but other expenses are office space (SF has built new offices in some of the most expensive real estate in Dallas, Atlanta, and Phoenix while shuttering much less expensive offices in many other major cities.

In claims, unrealistic expectations have been set up to encourage experienced claim handlers to leave the company as well as other ploys have been used to move employees out the door. Many left are ones who have learned to manipulate the metrics system by avoiding their customers and shifting work on to other claim handlers and agents staffs. There are still good people that remain, but the SF business ethics trained and long engrained in most of the posters here is soon to be lost.

For this message poster and those posting the last two responses you are either trolls or you are one of those perverted individuals who no liked to work with and you new peers still don't!

OP is right on target...we've kind of drained the swamp and life is good

Leadership decisions are handed off to consultants. Result is that the employed leaders lead by imementing consultant plans along with cat videos and memes. No leadership direction at all... just looking on to the next company also listening to the same consultants who'll need temporary executives to implement the same plan at another company.

For those of you reading the original post, please consider the source. He's a disgruntled employee who hates his fellow employees so much that he delights in the misery of their misfortune by posting troll comments and taunting people who have lost their jobs and had their lives uprooted by executives who haven't had a meaningful success in over a decade.

So, don't take this guy too seriously. He's not worth it.

The Original Post here is clearly troll fodder.

No one in their right mind would say such nice things about executives who are proven failures, except to rile people up.

Would the author kindly state your age, years of service, department experience, positions held, the offices you've worked in, the state's you've physically worked in, and the number of supervisor's you've worked for and or the number of employees you oversee?

We are way beyond attitude and working hard, its about BRAND DAMAGE beyond repair. We are so out of bounds in rates and service its like someone said said raise rates and act like a nothing happen> Nothing wrong with looking to the future but sometimes you have to look at short term goals. Not sure why we are hoarding so much CASH>

Thank you for jamming customers, If this is the plan in Florida you got everything right. Lost a homeowners policy today 60% cheaper same coverage and lower deductible. Auto customer added car 310% higher than the other three. Glad they have the correct and most effective leadership in place to handle this cluster F>.We are way beyond longtime employees at this point down here. It’s doesn’t matter about the past its now time and someone isn’t doing there job!

I feel for the claim reps I talk to one today she’s handling 400 Files. There will be no future revenues in Florida if we stay on this track.

My advice. Look at the facts stated here by people who have put their entire life into the company. Who wrote this cannot offer facts. More Kool aid

Blah! Blah! Blah! State Farm has gone to the dogs. It's a sh-- show! You must be blind, dumb and stupid.