Everyone, please look up, read and reread state Farm mission statement, vision statement and shared values. If you have experienced being a member of "the State Farm Family," you will find all three are outright lies. How can a company layoff people, force them to move, uproot them from family, place them in a hostile work environment, and micromanage them and believe in their mission, vision and shared value statements? The family is totally dysfunctional. Also, when a business or its people loses sight of it's mission, vision and shared values, it is doomed to fail. Not only that but think about it. A machine will never be able to do those statements. Hypocrisy is not a good business practice.
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Mr Mague --- you are so right on target. Some needs to go into an office turn over a desk and give some of the executives some drill sergeant attitude. There's a few I'd love to have as a visitor inside my home so we could discuss how to make things better. However, they don't have the heuvos.
If you want to keep your sanity and remain healthy you won’t stay there long. Toxic work environment when I left and still is. Sad for the employees whom are having a hard time to get out. I left after 25 years and knew employees who were taken out on stretchers due to panic and stress attacks due to elevated blood pressure plus almost all employees gained weight due to the stresses and increased hours worked which included mandatory OT. No work life balance at in the claims department. They are putting more on employees as they want you to do more with less. That is why they have mandatory, yes mandatory, OT. No work life balance at all and god forbid if you need a day off will you every get it - maybe in 6 months. I would never recommend anyone working for the Farm as it has fallen from the graces of yesteryears. Sad to state all this but it is true state from a former employee of over 25 years.
Amen brother/sister..State Farm is full of feces....that’s why I left
Business is not successful on "business decisions" or "it's all about me" and "take care of yourself.". Business is successful when you understand the needs of all you come in contact with and show you really care. When a company moves in the opposite direction of the previous mentioned, it will NOT be able to retain its employees nor the customer. It's all about values. Values reflect outcome. Well said OP