Thread regarding State Farm Insurance layoffs

Op again, I'll add onto the discussion but about 6 of us had lunch together during onboarding. We even had our doubts what was being told to us on a few occasions. Our doubts wound up being true. Heck I think the dead giveaway was our trainer who had a degree in training horses and made it known about daily.

Just an overall weird vibe and lots of empty promises. Kinda like religion or a cult tactics. Getting told it's a long term career, then sneaking in expendable nature.

I got let go a few years ago, but still one of the oddest environments I partook in. Crossed my mind again after seeing on social media the HQ closing. Glad I said no to Dallas and stuck with my intuition. The pay wasn't enough for me to move across the country for sub 40k a year.

eg+1ks6eytnq interesting I am OP btw. Seems to me you have to be extremely desperate, or ima psycho/sociopath in management to make something of yourself.

I personally wound up exchanging my Automotive knowledge and applying it into the trade. Feel much more respected in a hard to replace environment regardless if someone is having a bad day. To bad of a day you lose out on charging 150-200 an hour and a bay producing 0 dollars.

I know it's a small sample size but I'd say 12/17 are very talented people and gifts to a productive society. Just not sure how it's feasible turning and burning like that. I guess the policyholders pay for it.

In my experience with claims, usually before training is over you lose a few, then after 6 months about half your class will have left, after a year you and maybe another person or two. Ive been here 10 years and 100% my training class has left the company, and all but 2 people from my first ever team are still here though promoted and in another department like myself, and like myself was forced to move across the country to stay at my own cost.

So yeah. More than 2 years here and your a SF OG

OP, be careful here, most the post come from someone who doesn't work for the company and tries to spark engagement with wild responses, they basically post here all day to farm downvotes here, which is sad. Most people with the company stopped posting here about 10 years ago once management became fully aware good info was being posted here, and since then, not a single good thread or post with good info. Most is just over reaction click bait, of which is mostly bad info . So be very careful here and dont take any info as truth.

Yes, normally what happens is when they de-mutualize, they give themselves tons of stock options and make countless millions before being replaced by the shareholders/new board. Shed agent's, shed employees...basically fixing up an old car to sell it......it's too broken to fix so it would be my plan! Make millions and leave it to someone else to solve the problems. Churn and burn, pump and dump snake oil scam! These people are pure incompetent Bloomington white trash! Farney, come live in Atlanta or Dallas for a year or two and see how it goes for you!

@c7 Actually it would revert to stock holders not policy holders. There are only 2 reasons to de-mutualize-raise capital or create massive wealth for senior executives.

@av Why would executives and board of directors want to turn control over to stockholders?

I'm assuming you know that they don't get control of the company if it goes public, it would revert to the policyholders . They DID teach at least SOME of that in the socialist public school system, RIGHT?

Well, maybe not, they don't teach common sense anymore, do they comrade?

My guess is statefarm is going to go public as soon as the Agent population is low enough and all the other things they've done to stop bleeding money have taken effect and are stable enough.

what do you want to chat about? where do you work now ? this is a great forum to whine.