It's a BUSINESS not a CHARITY. If businesses can't compete they go under and EVERYONE is out a job. That's is how life works and how economies work. Try to look up from your social media echo chamber and naive socialist leftism and face the reality of the world. There are many things that corporate America does well that made our country the best in the world and gave YOU the blessings you have today. There are also many things that need improvement but that's true with ALL human organizations. You want to see centralization of power and oppression of the worker, look at all the failed socialist economies. That's why companies have IDEALS to strive for. This layoff situation is difficult for all of us and I'm worried about my job too, but grow up. Life is filled with difficulty and be thankful for what you have today and make the best of it. As hard as this is there are many companies that don't do half of what Allstate is doing.
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Man o man this country needs a return to Christian roots. This is the stuff that happens when people abandon God. The greed of these corporate slime balls is just unthinkable and they will pay one way or another in this life or the next.
OP is one of TW or GS cronies. Any way you slice it, it’s about greed, never been about the customer. Tom,Glenn & the rest of the cronies, all scum bags! Allstate needs a new CEO, president of PPL etc.
Stop watching Fox News and figure out a plan for the company, TOM. You shouldn’t even be posting on here, this is for employees only (no CEOs allowed lol)
The community doesn’t matter. The American people don’t matter. All that maters is the executives bank accounts. Got it.
The June town hall started with Positive information About the great surveys and reopening plan for the offices. The last 15 minutes he drops the mic and says there is going to be layoffs and it’ll be in the thousands. The meeting ends. In the previous month’s town hall, he said there was not going to be any layoffs at this point.
The information as far as the layoffs should have been the entire meeting and it should have been a build up and given us more information. Or our leadership should have told us a heads up before the Townhall that this was an important meeting and possible layoffs just to brace us for it. There were people that did not attend the meeting because it was not required also some were on PTO. There was never an email or an update to the website regarding the layoffs. Now here we are almost 2 months later And the majority of us still do not have any information.
We just want a CEO that knows how to run a business
OP your right about other companies don’t do half of what Allstate does! Other insurance companies do NOT exploit third world country’s lack of labor laws! Other companies do not pay a CEO half of what Allstate pays Tom Wilson! Other companies do not do $1B in stock buy backs to add to leaders salaries then 30 days later have a town hall meeting and state $1B in lay offs! Other companies do not string employees around for over 60 days now with no update on RIFs or layoffs... need I say anymore!
Not to mention how it sounded like TW was clearly intoxicated on that 6/11 town hall.
That was just icing on the cake
I agree that this is a business and not a charity. I understand the lay offs. But the way this has been handled by supposed executives and professionals has been nothing short of stomach turning. Phrases like "exciting times", arrogant chuckles during town halls, racially insensitive approaches (the blacks, the browns), and the lack of transparency and empathy has just been sickening. If your inept CEO is going to come onto a town hall slurring out that thousands of employees are being laid off you don't make people wait weeks and months scared and full of fear for their livelihoods before communicating who is affected and what the plan is. This should have been clearly laid out within hours after the 6/11 announcement. We are approaching August and know very little more. All at the same time expect people to be just as motivated and productive. It really is incompetent leadership and is unacceptable. TW, GS, EB, and the other corporate hoods who have mishandled and grossly neglected this process are nothing more than soul less inept pieces of human garbage and are unfit to lead this company, period. Junior high school students could do a better job.
The issue isn't the lay offs by how this has been handled in such a shocking way that cannot be tolerated.
I agree 100% that it’s a business, and truthfully have no issue with the layoffs. No job is “secure”, which is something most people don’t get. In fact, often times as they say when one door closes, a bigger, better one opens.
The only big issue I have is the way the merger/layoffs have been handled. It’s been a constant circle of say one thing and then do another, and not providing clear answers about timelines, or what to expect going forward.
Let me get this straight. You posted this on “The Layoff” to chide people about being worried about... being laid off? If you weren’t concerned about what Allstate was doing and you’re just waiting around to find out what plans they have for you, then how’d you find this website to being with? You’d have to come looking for this place. So, kinda begs the question what your true purpose is. Personally, I think you’re full of sh!t. Further, anyone who rants about “socialism” is a mo–n, especially in this context.