Thread regarding State Farm Insurance layoffs

Underwriting will be obviously affected. The writing has been on the wall forbyears. Automation of underwriting process has been much needed and a goal for a decade or more. The company is just late to the party. In the past the hubris of the company was always designing in house everything. The vendor route is more efficient, plug and playable, and less costly. Indont know what goes on in systems but he most reliable software we have is something created in the 1980s - necho

Our office has also been remodeling and renovating its 20 year old building for a couple of years now including a new cafeteria, break rooms, and bathrooms. Now the cafeteria is being converted to "grab and go" this month -- this doesn't make sense. Why build a beautiful new kitchen just to close it? It seems they are getting the place ready for a new tenant or doing upgrades to help get out of our lease early (15 year signed in 2013). No one thinks they are doing this for the employees. We lose employees every week and they are not being replaced. We are all just waiting for the announcement that we will be closing. Morale is in the toilet. Leadership can't seem to figure out why we are losing billions. It's because the employees know the company doesn't care about them, so the favor is returned. All anyone cares about in claims is trying to get their unrealistic numbers/metrics that they post on the silly huddle boards so they don't get a bad review and land the late shift getting stuck working to 8pm. Just throw money at claims to make them go away faster. No time for negotiations or to argue about paying something we may not owe.....just pay it and move on! The metrics have removed any incentive to do good work. Just "get the click" for your number count, cut corners, kick the can and get out of the claim as fast as you can so you can get more numbers. Lots of cheating and working the system going on just to get the numbers. Seems like we are heading down the same path that Wells Fargo took....give employees impossible goals/numbers to meet and people will do what ever it takes to get them. The lean six sigma, a.k.a. EOM model has failed miserably. Our CEO thinks the solution is just to cut more costs to get us out of this mess. Too bad he sees the employees as a cost to be eliminated rather then as assets that are needed to take care of our customers.

@ Ann Margaret and pop carts hahahaha

Does this mean that Ann Margaret and pop carts won’t be coming?