Thread regarding State Farm Insurance layoffs

Get Out While You Can

so much wrong and it just gets worse...

No work life balance

Nearly impossible to get time off, many departments have mandatory overtime (Oh, but we're not allowed to call it that, it's "non optional")

An atmosphere filled with nepotism, gossip and backstabbing

Bad managers are allowed to create an unbearable atmosphere for employees

Metrics are unobtainable if you want to do the job right and properly help the customer (or even avoid getting State Farm sued)

"Stabilization" means that good employees can't promote of of the crappy ILR and Express jobs and they hire from the outside for actual claims roles

With little or no notice they shut down entire departments and reassign those employees to roles regardless as to if they want to work in that role or location, so many demotions of good people

First all the field offices closed, now they are closing all the operations centers.

When an operations center closes, everyone in that building has to reapply for a job, even if it's the job they already have (which may be across the country)

50% of the secretaries are about to be laid off, those who will have jobs have to go where they are told even if it's across the country

Long time section managers are being reassigned (again sometimes across the country) or just let go, they have no choice/say in the matter

Some of the team managers think they are safe, but rumor is, they are next.

If you don't want to work in a hellhole (Phoenix, Dallas, Atlanta or Bloomington) you won't have a job in the next few years.

I don't know a single person who isn't scared/angry/stressed out or unhappy

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Yep, don’t be a boiling frog. Pull the cord and get off this wild ride at the next stop!

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Post ID: @2wjfd+RxpN6gq

I've been hearing people considering moving to Bloomington to continue to hold onto employment as a CS or CA. I really try not to say anything that would disparage their choice or consideration. At the same time though, knowing how things are and that they are only getting worse, it just does not seem wise to relocate there when that town is literally all SF. What happens when they continue ramping up the buffoonery and you've relocated yourself and your whole family to the middle of rural Illinois? Might as well have property of SF tattooed on your backside!

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He who panics first panics best, SO RUN ANALYST, GET SOME HELP

... old African proverb.

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Post ID: @gig+RxpN6gq

I agree 100% with OP and reply. When I heard about the frantic scurry for claims reps in my closing office applying for claim rep jobs in Phoenix I was shocked. These people are willing to move that far away just to be claim reps?! I also did think it was sad for people to move to these places and then have to constantly move around just to stay employed or to get promoted. If it's a job you REALLY want or really want to do I can understand but c'mon.

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Post ID: @dre+RxpN6gq

I know why people are angry. I think I've already mourned the death of this company. This place will take every single ounce of yourself you are willing to give. There were problems with the way things were run in the past (nepotism, lazy/incompetent managers/workers, FMLA abuse, etc.), but "the cure" has really ruined everything. Good employees are only willing to put up with so much before they just realize it really is not worth it. I've always thought anyone who thought nothing of just moving their whole family from state to state, to/from Bloomington several times, just to be a TM/SM/CM was kind of just sad. I realize now that those in charge now think anyone, even if they are just a Claim Associate, would be willing to move anywhere just to keep a job here. Their most experienced employees have already made a move and/or stood their ground. Even those that made a move (or two) to stay employed here are over it. It's not reasonable to continuously move and/or keep reapplying to stay on as a claim handler at an insurance company.

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