Thread regarding State Farm Insurance layoffs

As State Farm retiree since 2015, I'm so broken hearted to see this happen to the greatest company I ever worked for. In a little over 20 years, the Farm has declined to the very bottom of the industry after being on top for all my career. I retired at 62 because I saw the writing on the wall; the Farm sent one of the biggest jerks and bully as our ETM. They had already managed to fire the best ETM and person I ever worked for. My heart hurts for my friends I had to leave still working for the jerk. They were all 55 or lower in age except one and couldn't retire. I never thought State Farm would ever be anything, but great. I still love them, still insured with them and grateful for my retirement check. I'll be praying for them.

@RXpcrmh-rcd : Proximity workers are going down from roughly 8000 to 5000 in the field. This includes Claims, SIU, L&D & Re-inspection. L&D and Re-inspection will have all workers within the hubs. SIU is going down approximately 50%. Proximity claims decisions were based on geography, not job performance. Someone well above local management picked territories and if there was one person living within that territory, they got the job. If no one lives in the territory, that job is posted. If multiple people are within a territory that has one job, those workers are impacted and will have to apply for their jobs. The loser keeps the job, the winner gets an involuntary severance.

For those of you working in the cube farms, this selection process should be very concerning. What criteria will they use when they come for your area? Since job performance is not a factor in deciding who stays and who goes, will they eliminate positions by row? By the last digit of your extension? Or perhaps some other nonsensical factor? What ever way it goes, Good Luck!

What was the announcement last week?

@RXpcrmh-uik : Nope - you can't request a severance. This is an either/or scenario. Either you were impacted and are going through the process, or you were not impacted and you will have a job moving forward. As noble as you are, the company will get at least a two-for out of this. They will get rid of at least one someone else if not more, and they will have you leave sooner or later but without a severance. In the mean time, the company will s--- the soul out of you as you try and do the work of the ones that are gone. Enjoy!

I'm a proximity worker in the age 55+ range. I was not affected by the nuke that was dropped last week. Does anyone know if I can request getting the package? If so I might be able to save a slot for one of my team that really needs to stay employed.

As a retired State Farm employee, this is appalling to me. I worked for SF for 30 years. It was a wonderful place to work, a family organization. They were all about their customers as well as employees. It angers me to see how they now treat their most valuable asset.....the employees..