Thread regarding State Farm Insurance layoffs

Maybe Fawad will take Tippy and all his cronies with him when he leaves in 18 mos, off to a new company to drop the hammer on all the depts that appear to be overstaffed!

I believe ECS took State Farm 10 + years to develop, and cost the company BIG BUCKS... it was a huge waste of time, money, resources. State Farm could have paid for software from a company that does this for a living, but they were to smart, and smug for their own good. When the finished product came out, it looked like a throw back from years ago when technology first started developing, IE Atari vs PlayStation 4. Stupid classes like FISH, phone Dr, classes on what not to say or do, such as s-xual harassment, when most of the time it was management from top to bottom level who needed the classes. Justifying their own jobs, for golden parachutes, and telling us in team meetings that they want to "get rid of the SLUGS" - nice way to refer to your employees, and that was from the BIG MOUTH of s section manager. Or spending time having fairs, such as Founders Day, where they would make fun of the competition, and waste time and money, or Halloween where one of the teams all the women dressed as prostitutes, or lets not forget classes where we were given team building tests that had physiological questions which were the same or similar questions for identifying ADHD. My favorite was the fair where lubricant and condoms were given out, this from a company worried about s-xual harassment. Management who did not know what the systems could do or not do, along with thinking they knew who did a great job and who was slacking. Waste your $$ State Farm, it wont be long. Phone monitoring by management, who would put totally wrong notes in regarding a phone call, and then refused to correct their mistakes as it would take too long. BTW demeaning people, monitoring their every move, including bathroom times, etc has cost this company a lot. Unfortunately they are now a BAD NEIGHBOR to customers for poor claims handling, and employees for treating them like dirt!

They see a future where we're more cost efficient and productive. It's a noble goal, one that should be addressed, but not in the way they're doing it. They just see cost right now, so they just go straight to the end game and cut employees.

The problem is that all these people they're cutting DO something. They DO things that the 'system'/culture created for them to do. Yeah, a lot of the stuff that people do aren't productive and, in my opinion, create more roadblocks and red tape than anything. I haven't seen very much addressing these hindrances to productivity, which should have been the first step.

The people that were doing actual work has to now do all of this non-productive work..and on top of that you have significant shuffling of teams that aren't going to be productive right away. They have this crazy thought that you can just plug a generic widget into a customized machine and it will just work without a hiccup. Just more stress for employees who have been pressed to mental exhaustion from worrying about their jobs for the last several months.

So yeah..they have a goal to reduce expenses this year and they're going to make it..because they have a bonus based on an horrible one dimensional metric. The typical short term thinking that plagues so many companies. This is par fo the course for publicly traded companies..but we're a mutual company and a benefit SHOULD be that we don't think quarter to quarter or year to year, but come up with a long term sustainable strategy that provides maximum benefit to the policy holders.

You seriously haven’t figured out there is no honesty in corporate America. It is about greed and executives lining their pockets. No one cares about the individual employees and what is happening to them. CDE was a billion dollar screw up and the leadership responsible are still making the decisions. Fawad was brought in as a hatchet man and he has been busy. He has no vested interest in the long term results. He will wreck this company and move on to the next.