Can somebody please tell me why is mediocrity celebrated at Allstate? Why is it that the best people are forced to leave and those who should be put on a PIP are actually staying and being promoted? Why should any of us bother anymore to do anything but our bare minimum, if that's the case?
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“Lazyness. God forbid a manager dig into some operationals and past performance/track record of their employees. The numbers and demonstrated performance only matter until they don’t. I’ve seen nepotism and politics typically trump picking the person who deserves the job more often than not. I agree it’s a huge issue and not very motivating for the employees.”
goes for managers too. Some toxic incompetent types just keep hanging around despite horrible reputations acquired through consistent poor performance, blatant incompetence, poor survey scores, unprofessionalism, and lack of maturity. They sabotage, suppress, and abuse their people with little recompense. Some folks just never grow up and toddlers aren’t meant for management. Thanks to nepotism, current social forces, and culture of mediocrity the front line must tolerate the toxicity each day. Can’t teach adult brats to behave. too far gone like the company.
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It is a sign of the times. America is in the decline and so are American companies. The cultural decline is marked by glorification of mediocrity and condemnation of meritocracy. Within Allstate one must look no further than the strange decisions when choosing to promote vs suppress or terminate employees. Within a dysfunctional culture in decline, strength is viewed negatively. Weakness is viewed positively. Nothing is logically consistent. Allstate has been preaching equity as of late. Equal opportunity is fair. Equity while it sounds good on paper is rebranded communism and will make nobody happy. Few will truly prosper and many will fall into despair as we are already seeing. True progress is on a deathbed and decisions will continue becoming stranger and stranger until the final nail’s been hammered in. The dysfunction is permeating all areas of the company from the top layers down to the lower rungs of management. The frontline workers even despite all of their loyalty and hard work are but sacrificial lambs of the dysfunctional culture.
How vocal do you want someone who’s succeeding to be ? If they gloat they aren’t good people . If they don’t gloat they’re “mediocre “ and their success path isn’t clear so you label it with an assumption . Stop shaming people and focus on your own success vs tearing others down . There’s enough haters in the world
We are definitely the company that is okay with giving terrible customer service especially to our agents. We are hiring people that don’t care. Customer service and underwriters just telling agents anything to get off the phone. Who cares if it’s right or not. So sad.
It's the brown nosers and yes people that get promoted. God forbid an employee questions the way things have always been done to potentially make things better. They act like they want our input but they don't. Look at what happens when you answer honestly on the survey. Just nod your head, agree, sing the praises of your manager and the rest of corporate management and fall in line with the rest of the sheep. And if you kick butt in your job, what's your reward? Not a promotion, not a raise because everyone gets the same amount, you get more work.
Because in current times, mediocracy is celebrated. Social forces at work in the US are driving nearly all of private industry to convert from a meritocracy to mediocracy ("everyone's the same") equal outcomes. Naturally, the outcomes will settle at the lowest common denominator, in your words, at the "bare minimum".
This is what the protests and marches are about. Equality in everything, including business.
It’s not. Workplace politics s—.
Lazyness. God forbid a manager dig into some operationals and past performance/track record of their employees. The numbers and demonstrated performance only matter until they don’t. I’ve seen nepotism and politics typically trump picking the person who deserves the job more often than not. I agree it’s a huge issue and not very motivating for the employees.