I love small town America but I hate what a big company leaving does to small towns. State Farm is lying to you guys, they won't hesitate to leave if it saves them a dime, this is not Ed Rust's company anymore. Contact your mayor, the governor whoever and get them to start courting new businesses to Bloomington, offer tax incentives whatever, tell them they need more jobs in Bloomington asap. Get your local preachers praying, I don't care if you're Christian or not you all have to hear from God to avoid the financial devastation other towns have endured when big companies leave. Put your faith in God now, not in State Farm.
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Very true about leadership, they cannot make a good decision to save their souls. They talk about leaders with courage, find me one. Either they need VPs or Consultants (Which current ET VP is really a consultant, he'll be gone before the dusts settles.) They do not need both, save a lot of money by either ridding yourself of poor decision making VP's or use consultants, no need for both.
Illinois is the big problem. Started is about to go belly up😩
There was an article in the newspaper announcing State Farm is raising rates! They are cutting American jobs(the halls are FILLED with externals), raising rates and VPs are buying $700K homes, new luxury vehicles, and second homes. I would think with all these cost saving measures the rates would be lowered! What is going on State Farm!
I just want to ask what is wrong with you? You are fear mongering; spreading uncertainty to readers and then citing your imaginary friend for help. Problems require solutions, not blind faith. I applaud others for actually talking about tangible issues surrounding this.
America in general needs to wake up and leave their superstitions and beliefs out of the decision making process. A lack of questioning in one arena almost certainly bleeds to other arenas.
There was an article in the newspaper announcing State Farm is raising rates! They are cutting American jobs(the halls are FILLED with externals), raising rates and VPs are buying $700K homes, new luxury vehicles, and second homes. I would think with all these cost saving measures the rates would be lowered! What is going on State Farm!
They bring in a Ambulance chasing lawyer to fix out IT issues.. It’s great, they pick people that are so far removed from the work to come up with the new unicorn called IT transformation... They don’t bother to check facts, ask questions or even bother to look at details.. they creat a couple controlled cases called g20 that really delivers nothing and has no real challenges and call this a success story..
Unfortunately god won't help in this situation. This takes competent leadership which SF clearly lacks. Leadership talks about setting direction constantly, but when you ask them tough questions you get "I don't know" as an answer from first line, director, VP, etc. Communication does not go up, it only goes down which has led to some pretty poor decisions...amazingly poor decisions. Leadership is too afraid to speak up and actually drive ideas unless they are guaranteed to look good. They don't listen to all employees, ideas and issues get swept under the rug. It is astounding how clueless some of the management seems to be. Trust an idea person to forge a path, not a bean counter.
By the way I work at State farm, they are no longer a good neighbor!