If any of you have walked around Corp South lately, you will notice most of P and R buildings are empty. Half of other floors are empty. They reconfiguring other floors to spread out cubicles to take up floor space and make the floor appear fully occupied. Are they doing this to mask the large numbers of people who no longer work here? Do they think we don't notice?
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I resent the use of the term ghetto - referring to Corporate South. We all are trying to be the best employees we can be in these changing/challenging times. Please don’t degrade employees and or the building by that derogatory statement.
Here is some background on the naming of the buildings that I have heard over the years. The Corp South buildings are actually a carry over to the buildings at Corp which naturally came first. Corp has buildings A, B, C, D and E which we all know. Now the atrium is actually considered F building and if you ever walk in the basement hallways under the Atrium you will see on the doors that they start with the letter F. So then when Corp South was built they continued on with G, H, J, K, L, and M buildings. A few years later, 3 more buildings at Corp South were built and named N, P and R. So what happened to buildings I, O and Q? It was decided to skip those to avoid mailing issues as they could easily be mistaking for zeros and ones. All this was back when interoffice mail was a lot more popular than it is today.
Does anyone know if Dunwoody is at full capacity? What about Dallas?
To the last poster: I believe the buildings are named like that because upper management at State Farm has always suffered from dementia. I don't think a person can get promoted to the highest ranks until he fails a mental health check.
Speaking of Corporate South, does anyone understand the naming convention used for the Corporate South buildings?
The buildings are named after letters of the alphabet, but they aren’t in alphabetical order and randomly skip over some letters.
It’s very confusing and illogical, and I always wondered if there is an actual reason for this.
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@2mqo, they very well might close floors and spread out the work areas!
Coperate South is the ghetto of State Farm, I feel bad for our Underwriting partners.
Why would they waste the time and money to spread out cubes to make it look fuller? In the op centers, they just shut off the lights in the unoccupied spaces these days.
All of Underwriting is moving to P and R by March. Illinois Operation Center is going to be all claims. It was announced a week or so before Christmas.